About Ayumi lip-synching

[sora2522]

^ well, she did manage to get it together, but if you listen carefully, after the mistake, she messed up a whole lot and was offtune compared to the vocals she was singing with

[truehappiness]

Wow. X3

She always does that sometimes.. I mean, she did it with HEAVEN at CDL.. mixing up watashi no naka de / toki wo koete.. :O

It's a problem, I guess. :p Or.. not. ;p

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Once again, that is a case of Avex editing the DVD, not Ayu lip synching.

ya, maybe

but doesn't it suck? geez, it looked really unnatural

[norain]

Just me, being late, but for Audience one, I think that it's just that because she didn't have backup singers, her backup singers always sing. But since this is her 6 years ago also, she sang with her own voice/sorta reduced vocals...I guess that could be lipping

[truehappiness]

Well, she'd sound funky if there weren't any backing vocals.. and since now she has her own team of backups, she doesn't need the backup vocal tape. :O

[immel]

Originally Posted by ayu_ready?

mmm, I've never noticed in AT06 "Happy ENDING", really
clear work

but what about "ANGEL'S SONG" in AT04?
Ayumi is jumping-jumping, dancing-dancing
but there are no sounds of hard-breathing or smth like that
I think that's not a real sung one

There's microphones that don't pick up the sound of your breath, just like there's microphones that reduces unwanted noise or the sound of the blowing wind.

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Also take into the fact that live concerts do not sound like DVDs, you are always going to have moments where Ayu's voice is not coming through enough, the mic will briefly cut out or the level will go down etc etc, throughout the concert, yet I have never once heard a vocal track playing in the background.

Very important fact indeed.

[Chibi_Venus]

I don't understand where people are getting the HAPPY ENDING stuff. In the CD version she takes a breath before singing the last line of the song. In AT05, I don't hear a breath. Am I just being TOO observant?

[immel]

^No you aren't, great discovery, I will think of it when I watch the DVD again.

Thanks.

[Hachimitsu]

As people have said before in this topic, it's probably just one line. When the dancer is carried away and Ayu acts shocked, she sings a line which has an echo. People say this line was lipsynched, because it's too hard for her to act and sing at the same time like that, and also because she would have had to remove the echo.

This is an interesting topic, I never knew she used a backing tape during tv performances. I'm glad she doesn't do it anymore, though. But I am really convinced she is lip synching Theme of A-nation (or at least a part of it), because the movement of her lips and the sound just don't add up.

[PickleCookies]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

and since now she has her own team of backups, she doesn't need the backup vocal tape. :O

Which is 100x worse.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Lieke

As people have said before in this topic, it's probably just one line. When the dancer is carried away and Ayu acts shocked, she sings a line which has an echo. People say this line was lipsynched, because it's too hard for her to act and sing at the same time like that, and also because she would have had to remove the echo.

This is an interesting topic, I never knew she used a backing tape during tv performances. I'm glad she doesn't do it anymore, though. But I am really convinced she is lip synching Theme of A-nation (or at least a part of it), because the movement of her lips and the sound just don't add up.

Isn't it only for that one instance? :/

I mean SunshineSlayer did see Ayu in concert and she was singing live.. :/

Man, that avatar with the 'omg ayu crap' makes me want to hurl. x.x

[immel]

Originally Posted by Lieke

I'm glad she doesn't do it anymore, though.

We can't be sure of that, hehe, but it seems she isn't. She didn't do it often back then, maybe she does it now and then today aswell?

I don't think she does though.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ayu_ready?

ya, maybe

but doesn't it suck? geez, it looked really unnatural

It's a for sure thing. I had read a review a long time ago of someone who went to the concert and said that she was out of breath durring Angel's Song. So when it came time to release the DVD, Avex, simply removed the audio track and put in a new one.

[truehappiness]

They went to the last performance? Hm...

Oh well. XD I still <3 Ayu.. even if she does get all breathy when she dances ;p

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by immel

There's microphones that don't pick up the sound of your breath, just like there's microphones that reduces unwanted noise or the sound of the blowing wind.

I dunno, but during "oursleves" when she tried dancing a little bit I can hear her clearly tired and breathless and it sounds not so good as "ANGEL'S SONG", anyway...

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

It's a for sure thing. I had read a review a long time ago of someone who went to the concert and said that she was out of breath durring Angel's Song. So when it came time to release the DVD, Avex, simply removed the audio track and put in a new one.

hehe, sly Avex..?

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Oh well. XD I still <3 Ayu.. even if she does get all breathy when she dances ;p

sure! everybody does

[Chibi_Venus]

I actually give her credit for not lip-synching during some songs like Real me. I've tried dancing and singing that song at the same time, and it's no slice of apple pie.

I don't know if anyone mentioned it, and this probably doesn't make a big difference, but I've seen some performances (well, only one) where you could tell she was lip-synching. If you watch the end of her "I am..." performance at Arena Tour 2002, you can tell she's lip-synching the last lines. I'm not trying to say I'm the greatest "Ayu observer", but I'm just putting it out there. I guess they just wanted to keep the "computerized" voice at the end of the song.

[immel]

^They often keep those "computerized" voices, during arena tour 2005 and 2006 she didn't pretend to mimic to those parts though. I didn't check the performance you mentioned so I can't know exactly what you mean, but remember that in this thread it was discussed a lot about that we cannot judge if she is lip synching by looking at the DVD, because the DVDs can be edited.

[perfectdeath]

OMG that seasons performances was full on lip synched!
i didnt think i would see the day that she would lip synch a performance...

i know! maybe someone just dubbed the video over. i actually have boa's dakishimeru video at kouhaku 20052-2006 which has had the sound dubbed over. i know this because i have the normal version as well.
!!! one more thing, there was no appluase at the end of the performance! so thats even more of a chance that the video has just been dubbed over

[immel]

^If Ayumi lip-synching is something that make you feel uncomfortable, understand that it is not something uncommong among artists. Well, in Japan it is, in Europe it's more common to lip-synch than to sing live.

My guess is that there was probably some reason to her synching that performance, soare throath, a cold. The reason I guess like this is because it is so very uncommon for her to lip-synch and there's always the possibility it actually is a new track put straigth over the original. Maybe she performed it live on the show, but it was replaced by the audio track later on TV?

Or she simply did lip-synch, one single time.

[nodoka]

I think that every music star lip-synchs sometimes but ayumi doesn't do it a lot. When she does though, it is fairly obvious...