[NEWS] Eason Chan critcises Ayu of Lip-synching

[Surreal]

NOTE: Different media reports used different adjectives to describe what Eason said. The one published in the version I read said Eason 'criticised' Ayu. Judge for yourself.

Chinese news: (this is a summary)

Ayu lip-synched?? Eason slept till he snored.

A lot of big Hong Kong stars attended Ayumi's Hong Kong Asia tour stop last Saturday. However, one of them, Eason Chan, accused that Ayumi, the queen of Jpop, of lip-synching for almost 1/3 of the entire concert.

"The stage design and set-up is good, but she lip-synched for 1/3 of the concert. If we do that in HK, we will definitely get scolded," Eason said. He was quick to add that lipsynching is not a big problem.

Because of his busy schedule, he also fell asleep at the start of the concert, prompting his friend to jab him~ so that it won't look ugly to have someone sleeping in the front row.

The organiser of the concert insisted, "Ayumi did not lip-synch AT ALL. The sound system is specially flown in from Japan, so it might have been so fantastic that Eason got the wrong idea."

Singapore Chinese News



Singapore English Straits Times News (for Japanese news to make it on this paper means it's huge)

Originally Posted by ayuflareup!

As we know previously, EASON CHAN, one of the CASUAL singer of hk denounced ayu about her lip synching, I visited a number of unofficial AYU fans BBS in HK (including REAL AYU, AYUSKY, AYUCHINA), all the fans were extremely frustrated about Eason's act. THey even called and complained via the mass media network and looking forward to seeing EASON contrite apology.

http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/questi...=7007040805501
YAHOO ~

http://forum.atnext.com/index.cfm?ar...rticle=6982756
APPLEDAILY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kgC6y0A6o
CLIP showing how EASON criticising AYU about her lip-synching

All of these sources are complains from FANS. And all of them are saying EASON is too MEAN to AYU and waiting for eason to say sorry to AYU.

Originally Posted by Ayu_desu

here's one in canto about him sleeping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inekxjtbuqY&NR=1

he says that he knows that japanese concerts, esp ayu, have a huge production value to it and that he wouldn't waste an opportunity to watch it. but because he didn't sleep for a couple nights, he wasn't in the mood to watch the concert, which is why he dozed off during some parts of the concert. he adds that it wasn't her fault, but instead it was his own fault.

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

Here's what he actually said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30C6aIZNJ8o

Originally Posted by Ayumiko

Heres some more news regarding about ayu being accused of lipsynching:

-eason said ayu lipped 1/3 of the concert
-eason gave ayus performance 87 points
-eason said ayu lipped very well and lipsynching is not a big deal, a lot of Japanese dancing singers lipsynchs ( WTF)


-ayu fans want eason to apologize in public
-reader or reporter? yagomi said ayu did not lipsynch...infact in 2 songs she forgot some lyrics (I read somewhere one of the song was audience that she forgot some lyrics)

-3 member group:grasshopper, one of the member said: everyone, please dont think we lipsync, dont compare us to foreigners. We have real talent.
-蔡一智 (one of the member of grasshopper that have dancing background) who DID NOT attend ayus concert said: it is impossible to dance and sing for 30mins and not gasp for breath. He also said: When a singer performs live while singing and dancing, there should be a difference compared to the record cd. There has to be some sort of gasp for breath sound.

credits: http://www.jpopforum.net/forum-4-1.html

Grasshoppers stick their big noses in when they have nothing to do with it at all!

Originally Posted by babamon

不老神话草蜢举行签唱会 暗示滨崎步假唱

[04月09日香港讯]草蜢“Forever Grasshopper Collection”签唱会昨日(4月9日)举行，三子又唱又跳，并唱新歌《Forever》，阿智强调 他们没有对口型，似暗示陈奕迅爆日本天后滨崎步对口型的事，杰仔为了能有助事业迈向国际，故改名为木慧一杰 。杰仔透露早前卜卦，相士指他的名字应有个“木”字，故决定改名为“木慧一杰”，相士指这个名可助他蜚星国 际。

对于eason指滨崎步对口型一事，草蜢三子表示未看过滨崎步的演唱会，只是看到报道。阿智說：「大家不要 以為我們『咪嘴』，我們不似外國來的那些人，我們是真材實料！」谈及不少滨崎步的fans不满eason的 言论，致电报馆投诉闹Eason。阿智支持eason说：“报导指滨崎步唱歌时没有索气，以他们的经验来说 ，像他们练得这样辛苦，一定会索气的。

Basically they are telling everyone not to think that they lip-sync, as they are not like those foreigners as they are made of the real stuff.

And according to their experience, it's kinda impossible not to be gasping for air when u're dancing so much.

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My own thoughts:
I was there at the concert myself, and like many Ayu fans here, have watched countless LIVE performances, and spinned her RECORDED versions a hundred times - its really easy to tell when Ayu is using her live singing voice - and she was. However, her voice was really in a superb condition (though she struggled a lot on 'Secret') - and that might have led to confusions. Even I was shocked at her live singing quality.

Also, the video feed from the big screen seemed to lag at several short moments, so if Eason was watching the screen instead of Ayu herself, he might have mistook the situation too.

I also find it quite funny that he dared to say it so proudly because I can easily count with my fingers the number of famous HK stars that lip-synch on a regular basis. *roll eyes*

IMO Ayu definitely did not lip-synch at all. She was good, but not CD-quality good.

[Tasked]

if you listen to her taiwan-concert, and the pieces of HK-concert; you'll know that she is absolutely 100% NOT-lipsyncing...... it's not even a guess or an assumption.. it's just so obvious this time

[royle]

he just want to get some attention..
thats all

[babamon]

The lip-sync part could be just his own opinions, but i felt that the slping part is plain rude. Although u aren't an Ayu fan it's just plain rude to slp during concert. Even if u slp during the concert why told something like that to the media? Is it even necessary to let the whole world knows abt it? It ain't anything nice and he could actually say it so freely to the media.

[extepan]

eason chan is pathetic. he is ugly, and he can't sing.

and now he is making false accusations too.

Hahaha.
Okay then.
Thanks~

[dayumi]

I do not think that she is Lip-synching..

[AyuHamasaki01]

He's just jealous at her beautiful voice!!!

[catwoman]

he is an ugly and rude uncle and i don't understand how he could win best singer with that kind of voice.

[SKYia]

Of course she didn't but now we finally know why some ppl from the first rows were just sitting all the time and not having fun at all - maybe these were the other envious local stars like Eason Chan

[tinyppl]

For 1/3 of the songs? oO That sounds way too exaggerated. She rarely lipsynchs in Japan, why would she do it in her super rare Asia Tour? I might have believed a little if it's one or two songs but please, 1/3 of the songs is too absurb to believe.

And yes, it's rude the part about sleeping. He got front row seats, know how many fans would die for that? And he spoke so blantly about falling asleep in the live. Want to watch the concert and yet want to criticize. Duh.

Might as well give up his seat for someone else who will appreciate the live better.

[kiseki89]

I wonder how he can be so sure that ayu has so-called lip sync when he's asleep almost throughout the performance? I mean for one who 'slept till he snored' - i find it difficult to believe he will be attentive and alert enough to listen or see anything. Even with the jabbing, one can continue to return to slumber land - i mean we all use the snooze button right? And some of us are still late.
In addition, he seldom listens to ayu
'陳奕迅承認自己並不是濱崎步的歌迷，很少聽她的歌曲，只是想見識一下日本人演唱會的製作功力，才去看演唱會'
So i bet his attitude towards this concert is rather... I mean sleeping in another artiste's concert front row. Afterall he has mentioned that he just wants to see how a Japanese concert is like.
So even if he is 'reputated' to be '歌唱功力一流' [rather good with singing], I doubt he can compare since he has never been to a pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~ concert, especially one that brings in the best equipment, air flown from japan/
So yeah I finally know how rude one can be - like what babamon has said - telling the whole world he slept in the concert. It's just telling the whole world ayu's concerts are boring....


tinyppl : totally agree with you. He could have given me his seats.
Come to think of, he's like insulting all of us fans who went high and low to look for tickets.

[AyuGAME]

haha..what a big head people
what you have achieved so far to saying something like that...

[kinix]

he's so tired that he can even slp in de concert. How could he have concentrated in watching n seeing ayu lip-sync? and if he's so tired why he still go n watch? might as well go home n rest.
Don't know what the hell was his intention. Did alan tham send him lol

[Sim']

Ayu didn't lipsynchs her lives, rarely, she can uses instrumentals -so we can still hear her voice in the backsound like in the Ladie Night performance @ (miss)understood Tour-, but still she DOES sing during tours!
I don't remember seeing her lipsynching during tours, TV maybe, but NOT Tours v.v

Originally Posted by SKYia

Of course she didn't but now we finally know why some ppl from the first rows were just sitting all the time and not having fun at all - maybe these were the other envious local stars like Eason Chan

+1! Excellent reply, I exactly thought the same =)

[Cyria]

Originally Posted by Surreal

I was there at the concert myself, and like many Ayu fans here, have watched countless LIVE performances, and spinned her RECORDED versions a hundred times - its really easy to tell when Ayu is using her live singing voice - and she was. However, her voice was really in a superb condition (though she struggled a lot on 'Secret') - and that might have led to confusions. Even I was shocked at her live singing quality.

Good to hear that about her voice. I hope there will be some footage of this concert on the DVD (can't remember if one has been announced yet, but I'm guessing it's likely).

[evolution7931]

I used to like him but now I just think he's a complete and total ASS. Obviously he's just saying this about Ayumi out of jealousy. See those thousands of people cheering, Eason? They were cheering for Ayumi, not for you.

How dare he accuse her of lipsynching 1/3 of the show. I'm so happy that Ayu's tour organizer came to her defense because usually they don't.

Pfff. That idiot

[*Petit*]

Seriously O.o what's with all the really far-from-facts chinese articles, messages etc etc we're getting?

[evolution7931]

BAHA At least Ayu didn't fall off the stage and damage her groin like you, eh Eason?

"Eason was involved in an accident during his concert in Taiwan where he fell off the stage and injured his groin. Later in the hospital it was realized that his testicle had been severely damaged."

LOL Sorry, I had to XD

[Beauty4123]

i doubt ayumi lip-synched. this is one of those articles that's just out for the gossip and publicity things. but thanks for the article, anyway.