Ayumi Hamasaki Deaf In Left Ear

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Ayumi Hamasaki Deaf In Left Ear

Postby Mulboyne » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:41 pm

[floatl]Image[/floatl]Xinhua: Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki deaf in left ear
Japanese pop icon Ayumi Hamasaki wrote on her fan club website on Friday that she would continue singing despite losing her hearing in her left ear. Hamasaki said an ear examination last year confirmed her hearing loss. "Despite this news, I still wish to be a singer," she wrote. Hamasaki started to lose the hearing in her left ear in the summer of 2000 when momentary deafness forced her to cancel several concerts, according to a media report. The singer will start her second concert tour of Asia in April to mark the tenth anniversary of her singing career. The tour includes 19 concerts around Japan. The venues in other Asian countries have not yet been announced.
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Postby Catoneinutica » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:32 pm

Coincidentally enough, Oliver Sacks, in his latest, Musicophilia, discusses how devastating the loss of stereo hearing can be for music lovers. They describe the music they once loved so much as sounding like Ayumi Hamasaki after the loss.

The good news is that over time, though, they seem to develop compensatory neural connections that help override this "Ayumi" effect.
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Postby amdg » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:37 pm

I guess the good news is that if she does go totally deaf, at least she will be able to remain in the music business where she started off, as a talented composer.
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Postby Catoneinutica » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:28 pm

amdg wrote:I guess the good news is that if she does go totally deaf, at least she will be able to remain in the music business where she started off, as a talented composer.


Well, yeah, I was kinda wondering: if people who lose their hearing in one ear describe music as sounding like shiat - ie, like Ayumi - was does Ayumi hear when she loses the hearing in one ear? Some kind of infinite-Ayumi-feedback loop?
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Postby amdg » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:36 pm

Catoneinutica wrote:Well, yeah, I was kinda wondering: if people who lose their hearing in one ear describe music as sounding like shiat - ie, like Ayumi - was does Ayumi hear when she loses the hearing in one ear? Some kind of infinite-Ayumi-feedback loop?


No it works backwards for her, since she started out hearing music as shit, when she lost her one ear it just became better.
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Postby Catoneinutica » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:42 pm

amdg wrote:No it works backwards for her, since she started out hearing music as shit, when she lost her one ear it just became better.


Sooo...by that logic, her aesthetic sense will get better if she loses her vision.

Get that girl into a Skinner-ian sensory-isolation chamber STAT!
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Postby Mulboyne » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:50 am

Oddly, this news appeared in English before it appeared in Japanese. It is being discussed on 2ch but their only source is the Xinhua news article above. In turn Xinhua say their source is crienet.com. I haven't yet seen a link to the fan club site where she has apparently written this comment. Sankei carries an article but they are also relying on the Xinhua report.
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Postby Charles » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:02 am

Hey, I don't care if she can sing, or if she's deaf. Any girl who wears a punky short skirt with multiple zippers for easy access and a Buzzcocks patch on the crotch is just fine with me. Even the trucker's hat doesn't spoil it.

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Postby American Oyaji » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:32 am

Ummm. Who hacked Charles' account?
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Postby Greji » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:27 am

American Oyaji wrote:Ummm. Who hacked Charles' account?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
You just mad 'cause he got to it before you could get your stuff in!
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Postby American Oyaji » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:41 pm

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Postby Mulboyne » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:54 pm

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Postby ttjereth » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:06 pm


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Postby xenomorph42 » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:05 pm

What`s the big deal? The woman was tone deaf to begin with anyway.:p
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Postby American Oyaji » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:09 pm

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Postby GomiGirl » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:17 pm

GomiBrother is really sad for Hamazaki. They used to work together in the old days at Sun Music when he was a producer and she was a model.
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Postby ttjereth » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:55 pm


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Postby hundefar » Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:04 pm

ttjereth wrote:You can have a voice so deep you sound like the guy who does promos for action movies and still end up sounding feminine because of certain words and ways of phrasing things.

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I am totally convinced that he is gay now, and that his comments about homosexual lifestyle originates from him being in the closet.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:06 am

GomiGirl wrote:GomiBrother is really sad for Hamazaki. They used to work together in the old days at Sun Music when he was a producer and she was a model.

I used to listen to Hamasaki Ayumi when she was still underground.:cool:
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Postby American Oyaji » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:03 am

hundefar wrote:I am totally convinced that he is gay now, and that his comments about homosexual lifestyle originates from him being in the closet.


Would you like to be the forceful object of my merciless affections?

Before you answer, I'm 6'9" in my bare feet and I weight 300lbs.

I thought not.
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Postby Greji » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:16 am

American Oyaji wrote:Would you like to be the forceful object of my merciless affections?

Before you answer, I'm 6'9" in my bare feet and I weight 300lbs.

I thought not.


Careful around me though. If I get tired of goats, I might consider trying a brother in the closet! You know the old navy saying, "Any port in a storm"!
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Postby hundefar » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:52 pm

American Oyaji wrote:Would you like to be the forceful object of my merciless affections?

Before you answer, I'm 6'9" in my bare feet and I weight 300lbs.

I thought not.


You are making me hard.
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Postby American Oyaji » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:27 am

hundefar wrote:You are making me hard.


I've got a straight razor that can fix that problem permanently.
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Postby hundefar » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:40 am

American Oyaji wrote:I've got a straight razor that can fix that problem permanently.


You can do what you like to me, as long as you keep speaking like a girl :p
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Postby Jack » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:04 am

Alright, back on track. Hamasaki is getting prettier with age.
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Postby Tsuru » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:15 am

"Getting prettier" implies she is already in possession of a certain amount of prettytude, so no.
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Postby dimwit » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:55 am

Tsuru wrote:"Getting prettier" implies she is already in possession of a certain amount of prettytude, so no.


Pretty means more plastic surgery doesn't it?
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Postby Greji » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:21 am

Jack wrote:Alright, back on track. Hamasaki is getting prettier with age.


I'd rather have AO in the closet!
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Postby Catoneinutica » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:37 pm

dimwit wrote:Pretty means more plastic surgery doesn't it?


I think it was fg that had a thread a few years back (can't be arsed to find it now) showing pics from a Korean site that had pix of J-talento before they achieved big-time stardom, and the pic of the un-cosmetically-altered Ayumi showed a woman who was pretty damn plain, indeed well below the (fairly high) J-average. And her surgical overhaul has just made her look freakish, IMO. Glad she doesn't seem to have sparked a plastic surgery trend in Japan.
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Postby ttjereth » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:38 pm

Catoneinutica wrote:I think it was fg that had a thread a few years back (can't be arsed to find it now) showing pics from a Korean site that had pix of J-talento before they achieved big-time stardom, and the pic of the un-cosmetically-altered Ayumi showed a woman who was pretty damn plain, indeed well below the (fairly high) J-average. And her surgical overhaul has just made her look freakish, IMO. Glad she doesn't seem to have sparked a plastic surgery trend in Japan.

"Old" Hamasaki...

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