Namie Amuro Copies Ayu in her new single?
 

日本)日本“唱銷天后”安室奈美惠28日將推出新歌《Break It》,單曲封面最近曝光,部份眼尖網民抓包,指構圖設計神似濱崎步11年前《Kanariya》的單曲封 面,製作團隊被批創意不足,似有“舊瓶裝新酒”之嫌。

安室捲入抄襲風波並非頭一遭,她去年11月推出的《過去<未來》專輯,封面以撕破自己的照片,傳達告別過去 的創作理念,被發現構圖創意疑似Copy自韓國流行雜誌封面,引起網民熱烈討論甚至有人痛批:“真是丟臉丟 到國外了,趕快換掉封面吧!”但她的專輯並未改版,粉絲依舊相挺,以56.6萬張稱霸2010上半年專輯榜 。

One of Japan's leading female singer, Namie Amuro will be hitting her upcoming single "Break It" on music stores' shelves on 28th July, which it was recently leaked onto the Internet where allegations by fans of copying Ayumi Hamasaki's 11-year-old Kanariya single drawn criticism towards the album cover designers' lack of creativity.

This is not the first time Amuro has faced such allegation, where her last album "Past<Future" has been revealed as getting the ideas from a popular Korean magazine.

"This has become such an international disgrace, for God's sake, change the covers!" One online forum member said.

However, sales has still ben going strong despite these attacks, as fans pushed the sales figure to around 566, 000 copies, marking it the best selling singles of upper 2010.

SOURCE: http://www.sinchew-i.com/node/162157?tid=7

Translated by isaac hiew

Translated on 2/AUG/2010

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lol she didn't copy cause she raised her legs higher than Ayu :laugh

Chinese sites must really be running out of news lately...I've had more fun when they thought Ayu had STDs lol

NAMIE! Did you hear that? You are not allowed to sit like that ever! Even if your design and concept and look are totally different you are plagiarizing da queen zzzzzzz Actually just dont sit at all cause she sat first....actually just dont exist because she's obviously more relavant and you'll copy her by existing. ><

Seriously....reporters need to start reporting.....the news maybe? And not this stupid BS. :trolleyes

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^and how ayu aborted 975894750734570973906790459 babies

However, sales has still ben going strong despite these attacks, as fans pushed the sales figure to around 566, 000 copies, marking it the best selling singles of upper 2010.


lol what? her single has sold 52K copies... or something like that. her album, on the other hand, has sold a lot.

*gasp* how dare namie copy ayumi's pose! ayumi is the only one in the entire world who could have a pose like that in a CD cover. anyone else that does it is just a total copy cat! :eviltongu

......:rolleyes really, lol.

that part of the article is taking about PAST>FUTURE, i think. since that's the album that copied a korean magazine :rolleyes lol.

Nahhh....Namie sold 500,000 copies yesterday. She got huge promotion from some Chinese magazine and like 1/24332th of China's population went and bought her single. Some sort of buy a CD, get a 10 pack of Coke Zero's campaign :rolleyes

it said best selling single, though. an article who can't even fact-check should be taken with a grain of salt.

Thank you for the translation and post :) interesting

Imo. I don't think she's copying at all. Like whatevs. This stuff happens all the time. Ayu copies namie. Namie copies ayu. They all copy x,y,z
:yes

Its a cute cover. Both are.

And lmao about the single sales. I was gonna say. I thought that was P<F sales :laugh like I thought "did that many people seriously buy her new single" Xd

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^ actually the original article said "best selling albums", so the translation was just a bit off~

I love both covers :D That pose is cool

You've got to be kidding me...:thud

XD, if she was going to copy something of Ayu's, at least pick something good.

Chinese news sites seem pretty desperate, srsly.

This is one of the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

LOL...what a pointless article...
that pose is not belong to ayu at all...and it's not belong to anyone...

OMG, such an international disgrace!

hey i hold no against of namie whatsoever, I seldom listen to her songs but seriously she is hot. Just some piece of fun short article after me going away for so long, and to prove that my translation skills have not gone rusty.

^lol I'd hope no one thought that u did (dislike namie or something) just because u posted this. How silly :laugh

Umm yeah she is. U would think moreso if u listened to more of her songs. Older songs...

Its interesting to see what kind of comparisons people make. Very creative people.

Yes! I knew it, this is just more proof of Namie ripping off Ayu's styles and career. I can't believe I didn't notice it before.

for God's sake, change the covers!

omg for a moment I thought I was looking at the same cover.

OMG NAMIE IS COPYING AYU!!
THEY ARE BOTH FEMALE!! OMG!! THIS IS A BIG NEWS!!! :)

jesus christ could your signature get any bigger

Namie is female? That's news to me.

And seriously, everyone, we get it. you enjoy sarcasm. it doesn't make your posts any less annoying.

this chinese article gives a flame though its true

totally lame. we all knew the news was downhill ever since Paris Hilton became the most talked about celebrity. Then it was Britney. I mean, if you have nothing better to report than the bowel movements of a blonde singer, don't report anything.

I think it's interesting that when Amuro is accused of copying Ayu (even the Korean magazine) it's joke worthy, but Ayu is still being accused of copying Amuro with her You were... / BALLAD and ALL FOR YOU cover.

They're both similar in concept.
Confined in small spaces, leg up, Ayu is covered in rhinestones while Amuro's corset has diamond shapes in it, etc.

While I don't think it's copied, there are similarities.

And the part about international crisis or whatever is way dramatic haha.

^ because our godess ayu can copy everyone and is not wrong

Can't believe Namie would do such a thing!!!!!!!!


I think is funny that they are not similar and people are trying to spot similarities
oh namie anti fans gtfo

That's just...ridiculous :no

Thanks for translating though! It gave me a good laugh :)

OMG! Are those people blind?

"This has become such an international disgrace, for God's sake, change the covers!"

LMAO that is soo epic xD wth

I dun think the covers are that bad that needs to be change. LOL.
It's pretty cool isn't it. I thought of Ayu's Kanariya cover when I saw it, but it doesn't really bother me though.

Well...imo both are ridiculous assumptions as most are...its not like anyone here is bashing namie as I think anyone can see the stupidity in saying they are just copies.
Whoever has the time to make these decisions that "x artist copies y artist"?
Especially knowing whoever is "victim" of having their stuff copied, some of their fans will go bashing the other artist

But its good that's not happeneing with this little situation here

And how many more people are going to use sarcasm in this thread?
The post could at least be balanced out with some thanks to isaac for translating instead of a bunch of "omg its sooooeffing similar etc"
But to each his own :)

I agree completely.

lol thats funny, i not once ever even thought of ayus single cover when i saw namies single cover. even as i was reading that i was like "...how...?" then i saw the pictures together and was like" ..ohhh...:rolleyes " haha

Wow.... never once did I think of Namie copying Ayu's kanariya. And I still don't think so. Yeah, there's a similar pose, but that happens a lot. No one owns that pose or any other pose.

& is it just me or does Namie's hand look deformed in that pic? I dunno if that's how it is on the actual cover or not?

omg ilu :heart

but :rolleyes :roflmao what entertainment

wow.... ok stupid accusation. And I'm sure other artists before that single had pieces where they sat similar to that for covers, MVs etc. Besides, it's not like she had copied the song or anything. Some people need to find better things to do with their time.

Those reporters need to find a real hobby...

Reading all these comments reminds me of the "The Simpsons Already Did It" episode of South Park, where they make this little point. "Everything's already been done.":P

.... do they seriously have nothing better to think about in China?

Oh wait a minute forgot for a second, I'm in a country where a woman can become famous, get her and her family a popular reality show, have a perfume line, and be on a cover of a magazine every week just for sleeping with a basketball player.

Sure its similar but this is ridiculous... lol

This was just funny XD

What garbage lol

Lmao, oh please.

Ayu invented raising your legs on a surface after all.

Haha. They lack of REAL news lately.

I can't believe I didn't notice it before.
It's probably the different setting and colours she uses to hide it all from us..
She's sitting the same way as ayu did way back before...

BUT HEY! I STILL LIKE HER!

Any artist with respect for themselves would copy another artist. I think the word that the press is looking for here, is "inspiration".

Also let's not forget that the media lives to create conflict.

Just because she sits a certain way, she's copying Ayu? That is ridiculous :roflmao

really?! This makes Ayu fans look bad too be so picky about this. Ayu's pose was NOT original either. Im sure the photographer that took that picture of 'kanariya' got his idea from someone else to :P

And I wouldn't call it inspiration either... It's a common pose

omg! namie is a total disgrace for raising her leg like the empress! :roflmao

thats really dumb. Its just a composition for gods sake. And Namie is in a sqaure. So HAH tabloid. HAH.

ROFLMAO. Seriously. :D

Well, it is pretty obvious that both of them actually bbatlsntly plagiarized XUXA's (a brazilian children entertainer and singer) second album cover released in 1987!!!

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...xa-Frontal.jpg

:yes

^O_o Oh God!!! >_<

Well, the covers ARE similar.... But certainly not copied. And even if it is, who cares really?

:roflmao They even copied the high ponytail!

one word: stupid.

the pause is a little different moreover Ayu is not the first one who use that kind of pose certainly.

Oh my god, I want to punt puppies across a football field now. Like omfg.

haha yeah, I hadn't noticed that hahah

LOL DEAD

and oh my god, that cover is so..... special.

lol as a kid back in the day that cover actually freaked me out with questions: how the hell does she mange to do this uncomfortable pose and still smile? Geez, Is that skirt really transparent and could she actually be naked thre? Are those letters actually drooling at the sight of her legs? Is this really supposed to be suitable for children? Her left ankle, is it broekn? What the hell are those earrings? Hr head looks freaky:eek LOL

LOL I never even thought of Kanariya....

Lol feels like they either photoshopped the head on or the leg :laugh