I heard that Ayu has never lip synch, is that true?

[PickleCookies]

Wouldn't have it any other way.

[walking proud]

Yes back on topic.

I think that some of you are being way too brutal on Ayu. She's up there dancing and giving it her best, how could she NOT lip synch once and awhile? If you take the time to compare it to the CD track then you will see that she rarely lip synchs. Unless you mean to tell me that she records the track before hand and lip synchs to that? I don't see why she would do that, it seems a lot of work. And for her crying, it sounds like she is and I think that from her lyrics changing so often that she has the right to cry and then be happy. If you're going to sing a sad song, then you can cry. But I don't understand why she cries to Who... all the time, because she sings it at almost EVERY concert.

And yes a lot of American artists DO lip synch but not all of them.

[elepop]

Originally Posted by bates

She's up there dancing and giving it her best, how could she NOT lip synch once and awhile?

Yup, i agree on that. Britney Spears lip synch all the time and i don't mind because she's always dancing like crazy. And it's not like Ayu-type of dance routine. It's not para-para. It's actually real dancing.

I don't mind artist lip synching as long as the have a proper reason. Like Hilary Duff? Sorry girl, but you don't even dance and your ALWAYS on a great and happy mood. Yet you lip synch?

Anyway, i'm glad Ayu lip synchs rarely. Once at each concert i believe.

[Ayusdream]

Originally Posted by bates

Yes back on topic.

I think that some of you are being way too brutal on Ayu. She's up there dancing and giving it her best, how could she NOT lip synch once and awhile? If you take the time to compare it to the CD track then you will see that she rarely lip synchs. Unless you mean to tell me that she records the track before hand and lip synchs to that? I don't see why she would do that, it seems a lot of work. And for her crying, it sounds like she is and I think that from her lyrics changing so often that she has the right to cry and then be happy. If you're going to sing a sad song, then you can cry. But I don't understand why she cries to Who... all the time, because she sings it at almost EVERY concert.

And yes a lot of American artists DO lip synch but not all of them.

who... is usually an ending in a concert, of course she cries at the end of the concert, i believe no one wants the concert to stop when u r in one

[kristen]

^brutal? What do you mean by that? @@;

bashing I guess o_o

I don't mind is artists lip synch once in a while, if they're jumping up and down and whatever, but what is just.. .. is that there are others who just stand there, they don't even have to move around, and they lip synch.

I'm not gonna hate on Ayu, but I don't really think she has the voice of an "angel." A lot of people don't even think she sounds so great even on her CDs. So I wouldn't really see the need for her to lip synch? Unless she's movign around, well yeah. But a lot of her performances are just her standing, waving her arms. o_o

[kristen]

Originally Posted by y2687

bashing I guess o_o

I don't mind is artists lip synch once in a while, if they're jumping up and down and whatever, but what is just.. .. is that there are others who just stand there, they don't even have to move around, and they lip synch.

I'm not gonna hate on Ayu, but I don't really think she has the voice of an "angel." A lot of people don't even think she sounds so great even on her CDs. So I wouldn't really see the need for her to lip synch? Unless she's movign around, well yeah. But a lot of her performances are just her standing, waving her arms. o_o

Totally agree!

I remember talking to someone at school about Ashlee's episode at SNL, and the girl was like: i dont see why so many people are hating on her, she said she was having a bad day.

In that situation, i would totally understand it if an artist lip synched. Or if they were having an off day vocally, or if they had a cold. Or.. if they did a lot of dancing ^^;

I just dont like ayu's performances.

[elepop]

Originally Posted by kristen

I just dont like ayu's performances.

You don't? Why that?

Me, i only dislike (not "hate") her Encores. WHY ALWAYS THE SAME SONGS?

[kristen]

Originally Posted by asongforXX

You don't? Why that?

Me, i only dislike (not "hate") her Encores. WHY ALWAYS THE SAME SONGS?

^^; i'm just never satisfied with them.

[JinHamasaki]

It's very hard to decide if she lip syncs on certain songs. There is equipment that can actually correct the pitch of someone's voice in a live setting (Hm...wonder what the Mixer guy exactly does). Then there are some songs Ayu can just nail.

I agree yvette, just standing there and lip syncing.....hmm that would majorly suck as a concert lol.

[walking proud]

By "brutal" i meant plain out bashing her. I can understand opinions are different but there is no need to bash her ^^;

[ImpactBreaker]

Britney came to Brazil to perform at Rock 'n Rio once and she lip synched everything...I think the people almost killed her on stage, because honestly, a huge event like Rock'n Rio and she does something like that when all other stars were performing live? People booed at her performance. And honestly they were right, they didn't pay for a ticket to listen to her CD being played. It doesn't matter if she dances, one can train to perform a good dance anda good live singing, it doesn't have to be perfect and be the exact same hard coreography from the clips, she could adapt both and deliver something at least honorable. Lip Synching on a TV show however is acceptable in my opinion since it's not like it is a big concert where people had to pay for the tickets or something but doing this in a real concert (nd specially doing 100% of it lip synching) is a little too much.

[Brittany]

Britney Spears is lazy. Plain and simple

[elepop]

To be honest, i prefer hearing her lip synch the whole time than listening to her actually singing. Or should i say breathing. You just can't dance like this and sing good in the same time.

[Surreal]

The fake tears part - if you doubt Ayu so much, why do you even bother listening to her lyrics. Unless you are just listening to the melody.

[LX Ayu]

Back from work and I read all the posts that passed by here

I don't hate Hamasaki for lip syncing, I just think it's more realistic that she does lip sync than saying she rarely does or never does. I just don't understand how peopel can just say "she rarely lip syncs" when (now that I've been proven wrong) she performs tons of the same concerts all over and people (mainly members in this forum) base what they see from 1 recording out of all the concerts she did.

And on top of all those concerts since they rae probably all the same, does she cry everytime she sings Who...? Same tears and say joy all at the same time? Maybe that's why there's only 1 recording that is sold to the public. You see she and her dancers do the same exact routine every concert. Tears and all I bet. There was once an old rock group that performed in LA and a friend of mine got a recording of the group and watched it before the group came to his city in Florida. At one point near the middle, the lead singer tripped over his mic wire and messed up his lyrics. Looked completely real, then at the live performance in Florida, same spot at the same time in the music he trips on the chord and the same scenario occurs. Does he manage to 'accidently' do this each concert? Just the same way as Hamasaki can shed her tears? I think SOMETIMES she cries for real but that's a rare case. Like when she's thanking her audience and so on, but not during songs.

Anywho, I'm sure if she doesn;t anything that can be considered "cute" people in this forum will jump on it and be like "WOW SHE SO PERFECT! ^^" or whenever she has dejideji or is in a magazine every other comment "cute" "kawaii desu ^.^" "she so pretty" Bleh... Hamasaki is so overrated most of the times. I just see her as another pop singer trying to make it big, succeeded, and is now falling downhill rapidly.

I'm sure when she sings HONEY live it'll be enhanced if not lip sync'd. The reason to that is because she can't produce nasal singing without enhancements unless she rolled around in a flower bed and got her nose stuffy, in which case we should see some snot flying.

As for you Surreal, I don't read her lyrcs, I just listen to the song and if it sounds good then I like it. I don't understand hardly any Japanese so I could careless if she was singing about killing Americans or something, if anything it would be funny. So yes I just listen to the melody of her songs just the same as I do with all the other Japanese singers I listen to. Maaya Sakamoto's song Tune the Rainbow, I liked that song a lot before I read the lyrics and come to find out the lyrics were just as powerful as listening to the song. Doesn't change the song to me though. It still holds same value as before I read the lyrics because I don't remember it all and don't know what line is what when she sings it, it just sounds good. Maybe that's why I like techno/trance so much because it doesn't matter what it consists of, as long as it sounds good.

[kotora]

I am sure She DID lip-synch, but long time ago(around 2000-2001).

[Brittany]

Yup, true. But does Ayu bounce around a lot during her concerts in Japan? I love how Japanese artists are so hard working to give their fans a good show

Her tears..? I feel they are real. Come on, it's hard to force tears and you look stupid when you force tears (I have before, someone wanted me to seriously cry on command) .. but there are moments when Ayu gets emotional when she sings a certain song and I don't expect her to cry everytime, when she does, it inflicts a lot of emotions in my heart

[isaac hiew]

I agree that singers shouldn't lip-sync. If they felt that's too tiring for them, they might as well cancel that performance and come back another day, recharged.

We paid with our own long-saved money, often in hundreds of dollars and you expect me to watch fake shows? I wouldn't do that!

PROUD TO BE AN AYUMI FAN! YOU SHOULD TOO!

[Ibitsu Kokoro]

Ayu doesn't lip sync. How can you tell? All her bad performances and mistakes.