Ueto Aya

jinzoaya wrote:
Unlike Hong Kong, lipsyncing is a big 'sin' and 'shame' in Japan's entertainment industry. Unless with very special reason, no artist is allowed to do so. I attended aya's live tour last summer, and found that she could really sing well in front of her fans, as good as what she did in CDs.

well in japan lipsyncing is not that big of a deal anymore..
Boa , Morning Musume do it regularly...just to name a few

and the prestigious Kouhaku ...many artists have lipsynced from
Seiko Matsuda to Ayumi Hamasaki

and trust me ...i have watched over 100,000 live performances and i know a lipsync when i see it ....and Aya did so on hey hey hey

i feel so left out of the conversations going on since i have yet to hear the album and yet to see the heyx3 though i've dled it.

but from reading the posts, to me its fine if Aya lipsyncs if she really needs to. Like if she is starting to lose her voice do to a cold or something :sweat: :puppydog:

If she is all healthy and lipsyncs, I would be very sad :shamefulcry:

K.T.Tran wrote:i feel so left out of the conversations going on since i have yet to hear the album and yet to see the heyx3 though i've dled it.

but from reading the posts, to me its fine if Aya lipsyncs if she really needs to. Like if she is starting to lose her voice do to a cold or something :sweat: :puppydog:

If she is all healthy and lipsyncs, I would be very sad :shamefulcry:

yes i agree...its fine with me also

its nothing against her

the song is very hard to sing ...and her voice would have to be in very good shape to sing it

even my hiro had to lipsync many times a hard chorus from her song treasure ...it doesnt bother me

heres Aya's new CM news 2006.03.06 with teen golfer Michelle Wie

its 34 MB

YSI link
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=029TRG2HIC8NL12SCJUD61ZKF8



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her voice in the CM News seems a bit...............i dont' know.........sounds like she caught a cold or something......her voice a bit dry??? I can't even describe it :sweat:
Was this after she came back from Torino??

Michelle Wie and Aya? Wtf? LOL, but of course, Aya and Michelle Wie are best mates - totally feasible ^^ This is quite surreal.

Damn, Michelle is tall though. 6ft is it? She towers over Aya.
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I didn't know Michelle could speak Japanese! Aya speaks a sentence of English though :) I presume this was filmed in Hawaii?

Thanks for this hiroayu! :bow:

@K.T. Tran: Her latest diary entry mentioned something about not feeling well :(

Phinn wrote:Michelle Wie and Aya? Wtf? LOL, but of course, Aya and Michelle Wie are best mates - totally feasible ^^ This is quite surreal.

Damn, Michelle is tall though. 6ft is it? She towers over Aya.
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I didn't know Michelle could speak Japanese! Aya speaks a sentence of English though :) I presume this was filmed in Hawaii?

Thanks for this hiroayu! :bow:

@K.T. Tran: Her latest diary entry mentioned something about not feeling well :(

Yea she looked very tall :shocked:
It looks like a fun CM and looks like they had a very fun time filming it :woot: :woot: :dancing: :dancing:

Thanks for the news Phinn senpai. I hope Aya gets better soon :fingerscrossed: :puppydog:


*Edit* @Freefall:I'll try to get those scans done for you soon if you still need them. So sorry for making you wait so long :shamefulcry:

@Phinn - Phinn-san, you were asking what others think of the egao no mama de performance right? Here's what I think.

lip-synch
One entry found for lip-synch.
Main Entry: lip-synch
Variant(s): or lip-sync /'lip-"si[ng]k/
Function: verb
transitive senses : to pretend to sing or say in synchronization with recorded sound
intransitive senses : to lip-synch something

-this is the definition of lip-synch I read in merriam-webter online dictionary. :mrgreen:

I just watched the video and I'd have to agree with you. I'm pretty sure it wasn't lip-synched, though it might sound like it. But I watched it carefully and observed a couple of things that lead me to my conclusion... Gomen if some of what I observed are rather unusual or technical. I just want to tell everyone what I think.

1. In the first 28 seconds of the video, if you watch her neck carefully, ( I know it's strange to say this, so please bear with me. :beaten:) you would noticea vein appearing on aya's left part of her neck. Veins like that only become that visible if voice is being produced, especially when you strain your voice too hard, like when you shout. It wouldn't normally appear if the person wan't talking (...or singing for that matter).

2. Starting from 46 seconds of the video, this is where she starts singing the first stanza of the song... Notice that there seems to be two Aya voices that you can hear. A stronger voice, and a secondary voice, which is somewhat llike an echo. (Phinn-san was this the audio-video synch issue you were talking about?) Anyway, this was most probably caused by the acoustics of the hall she was performing in and the feedback coming from the speakers around the hall (Although we can't see the speakers, they're obviously there. :mrgreen:) Let's think of it this way... Aya is singing right? So her voice is directly recieved by the microphone and then sent to the audio console, but at the same time, it's being emitted by the speakers in the hall. So the mic not only receives the sound of aya's voice, but also the sound emitted by the speakers, hence, the seemingly echoing sound. I hope it isn't cofusing. :headscratch: At any rate, as far as I know, this "echoing effect" so to speak, wouldn't occur if Aya lip-synched during her performance. :chatter:

Well, that's just my take on that. It's up to you guys to decide for yourselves. You guys can :tolerance: me if you don't agree with my explanation. :)

Thanks w3bhead for pointing some things out. When i do get the time to watch the performance, I'll be looking out for these details :mrgreen:

on lipsyncing ...there are times when they actually do sing ....but the microphone is turned off


so of course you will see veins if this was the case....but maybe they turned her actual voice down to 20%
....which is almost the same thing as lipsyncing

this is my last post regarding this.....and we should all just let it be

hiroayu wrote:on lipsyncing ...there are times when they actually do sing ....but the microphone is turned off


so of course you will see veins if this was the case....but maybe they turned her actual voice down to 20%
....which is almots the same thing as lipsyncing

this is my last post regarding this.....and we should all just let it be

honto ne? i thought they don't sing at all when they lipsyncing...especially if they have a cold and cannot sing because of their voice.... :headscratch:

K.T.Tran wrote:

*Edit* @Freefall:I'll try to get those scans done for you soon if you still need them. So sorry for making you wait so long :shamefulcry:

No problem, thanks :woot:

aya pix that i finally scanned in from a j-idol mag, more to follow laters
:woot: enjoy

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qilver wrote:aya pix that i finally scanned in from a j-idol mag, more to follow laters
:woot: enjoy

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Very nice. CanLt wait to see more :woot:

here's more aya pix. :thumbsup:

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qilver wrote:here's more aya pix. :thumbsup:

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Wow, these 2 are super cute :shocked:

I bought a copy of Junon #4 2006 with a very cool article about AyaLs new hairstyle. Here are some scans. Awesome pics if you ask me :smitten:
Could someone perhaps translate the text, please?
Gomen about the pics size :hehe:

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Nice pix. Thanks :)

Great pics Freefall and qilver, thank you! :thumbsup: :bow:

I love that 'Hair Data' box in the last pic showing the length of Aya's hair at each point on her head :hehe:

qilver wrote:here's more aya pix. :thumbsup:

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GAEEH ... whuahoooo :woot: that pic is SOO awsome, thanks :bow: !! where is it from, what magazine & which date? uberly sweet, i luv it :victory:



@freefall: cool, you scaned them already? those are the ones you bought in berlin, rite? can't wait for the scans of the special issue as well *hahaaa* :bonk:

cheers,
genji.