[Translation] Namie Amuro Copies Ayu in her new single?

[isaac hiew]

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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[pommy48]

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

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

[Polyrhythm]

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.

[prussian blue]

^
^and how ayu aborted 975894750734570973906790459 babies

[do it again]

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.

[Beauty4123]

*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!

...... really, lol.

Originally Posted by cutieismylife

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.

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

[Polyrhythm]

Originally Posted by cutieismylife

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.

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

[do it again]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

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

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

[primavera♥]

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


Its a cute cover. Both are.

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

[pommy48]

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

[visionfactory]

I love both covers That pose is cool

[Lady~Deviance]

You've got to be kidding me...

[RyRyMini]

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

Chinese news sites seem pretty desperate, srsly.

[Queen Bee]

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

[AyuGAME]

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

[love in music]

OMG, such an international disgrace!

[isaac hiew]

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.

[primavera♥]

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

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.

[Kingdom]

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!

[emi♡]

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