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Wow, I read the forum at Avex Taiwan ... geez! TONS OF FLAMING! Haha, well, the way they talk about it is rather similar to how the Taiwan Government is (Okie okie, no offence meant but I think it's really similar to how they pass sarcastic remarks!)
To sum up some of the arguments by the fans who posted at the forums:
"You don't even understand Ayu at all, who are you to say that Ayu sucks?"
"Ayu is a foreign artiste, why should you support her? SHE is the pride of Taiwan!"
"No matter what you say, the number of SHE fans will ALWAYS outnumber the number of Ayu fans" (OVERGENERALISATION)
"Avex Taiwan helped you all get to know Ayu!"
"SHE has heard Ayumi's About you and all of them exclaimed "It's not similar at all!" "
(I think it's very much a false statement. Seriously ... anyone in the right frame of mind and with any degree of musical talent CAN detect similarities! If SHE can't even do that, I doubt they can be singers. [I'm not saying that SHE sucks or anything, I'm just saying that the credibility of the statement that was published (which is supposedly by SHE) is very doubtful and I don't think it's valid so you shouldn't trust it])
"Thanks to SHE, Ayu is even more well known now!"
"It's quite common for Taiwanese artistes to cover songs of other artistes"
And more sensible arguments:
"People should stop saying who's copying who. Afterall, even if there's someone you want to blame, it's the composer. People seem to have forgotten that it's the COMPOSER that determines how the song sounds like, NOT the artiste. So people should stop slamming each other, Ayu and SHE!"
Have fun reading the "arguments"! I don't think we should dwell too much on this though ... haha, if not it'll be like the "Anti-Jolin" rage again! (Oh yar, just for information, the key reason as to why Jolin is so alike Ayu in her styles is fundamentally because the designer that "redesigned" Jolin's image [Before that, Jolin even spotted a slight moustache!] happens to be one of the key designers for people such as Ayu as well. Moreover, Japan fashion influences are very predominant in Taiwan and people snap up Japanese magazines on fashion. There is also quite a substantial Japan-following in Taiwan so don't be too surprised next time if something similar pops up again!)
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