An amateur way to find out if ayu lip-syncs

[waterballoon]

I think it has already been pretty obvious right now that Ayu is not one who does the standard kind of lip-synching. If there's anything, she would use strong backing vocals to cover up for whatever problems she might encounter (while doing choreography etc). I mean if I were Ayu, I would find it so funny, hilarious and annoying and hypocritical that if I'm lip-synching; my back up singers are still singing their harmonies and chords...

Of course, before encountering this incident, I've always thought that lip-synching just means mouthing to the CD recording, and not singing at all. But at least now I know that "lip-synching" can also refer to singing to a loud backing track etc.

Basically, it's just hypocritical to be breathing heavily, sounding horribly out of tune in a recorded, ready-to-be lip-synched track, and getting your chorus singers to sing while you are actually just lip-synch. Don't give me all that crap about how this business is always "fake" and 'superficial'. I've heard of singers who lip-synch, and they certainly don't do what Ayu has done. They don't even show signs of breathing, and they sound PERFECT, since it's a lip-synch.