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Old 28th December 2008, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by alternarist View Post
so the story goes.

i was watching ayu's TV version of ASIA TOUR 2008. as any ayu fan would behave, i went totally crazy over ayu's Marionette performance and then suddenly i thought.. it seems possible for ayu to be lip-syncing for this song.

I AM NOT SURE IF AYU DID LIP-SYNCHED FOR THIS SONG OR NOT.

So i did a test.. i will follow ayu's actions from the chorus onwards (as it's not that "flowy") and see if i could sing out the same thing as ayu.

i did the same action as ayu for the first 2 beats when ayu was jerking up and sings "BOKU" of the 1st chorus.. it was impossible for me to even sing the first 2 syllables of the chorus. i tried to continue and it's really hard for me to sing as smooth as her (not even talking about hitting the right pitch).

So i thought it could be that ayu really lip-synched for this song. i duno.. it's just a simple test and i failed. probably u guys can try at home and see if u can do it .. haha..

DISCLAIMER: just in case any arguments/debates/quarrels start here over ayu lip-synching, i am not responsible for it..
Actually this has been analyzed to death for months on this forum. Me and basically only one other person had been saying for a long time that it is physically impossible for her to be singing that song live. Even when I saw it live, I thought immediately that it was probably lip synced. Plus all of the performances of it that we have bootlegs of sound exactly the same. (as do a few other songs from the concert.)

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Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker View Post

fitness? I can dance a littlçe and even do a few spins and sing normally. I don't have complex dancing skills, but neither does ayu. Of course I understand that in a concert you actually work a lot more, but then, I'm sure ayu is way fitter than I am LOL Plus, I do notice her vocals get worse when she has a medley of fast songs linked together and she has too walk too much and jump around like the evolution+SURREAL combos.
That should make it obvious to you then that it's lip synched. She can barely walk and sing at the same time without her voice jumping around like crazy these days. How is she going to dance and sing at the same time and have it come out smoothly?

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Originally Posted by waterballoon View Post
The thing is, in the lives of Mirrorcle World, Ayu actually jumps around in the "wow wow yeah yeah" parts... and so far, from what I can hear, it sounds okay, and not shaky at all. But I doubt any live of Mirrorcle World was lip-synched!
lol, Mirrorcle World has never sounded anywhere close to smooth, least of all at the wow wow yeah yeah parts. People need to do what Melrose said and actually compare the audio bootlegs from the tour. The tv version the audio has been tweaked to sound better (although to me it still sounds pretty much the same as the other Marrionette's just with higher quality audio.)

Please excuse my rudeness here, but it's frustrating because a lot of people in this thread seem to like having their heads stuck in the sand...

Last edited by SunshineSlayer; 28th December 2008 at 12:17 AM.
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