she'd be downloading her albums like "oh didn't have this yet"

^ LOL :D

I actually hope she never read what people write about her here.

I can see this happening LOL

yeah, when I attended her concerts in 2014 the Japanese people sitting around me were actually cheering a lot for Timmy when he showed up. It made me happy to see that :)

Asian can be very racist in Asia.
They can be racist to Asian too. I am not impressed how hard working he is in Japan.

I would love if she sang About You

I also hope there's a crazy oiran memoirs of a geisha moment lol

Cherry blossoms and snow...

Then Ayu dramatically falling over. A rainy day/BALLAD-ish moment.

I want to listen to SAKURA live... It's the first time I'm going to an ayu concert and I want this song so bad....

Anyway, I think I'll be really happy just to see her live, so the tracklist won't be any problem, XD.

BUT! If she sings About you, Mirrorcle World, SURREAL and SAKURA, I'll be more than pleased with the tracklist.

It kinda sucks that she seems to forget about her songs so fast. I mean, I kinda understand it form my personal artist site: If I draw a picture I kinda dislike it after I've finished it. But music takes more to complete, yet she seems to treta it the same.

ediT: with a back catalouge like hers it can get messy very easy if you want to please the crowed, but she should give her own work more credit and theme her tours around her latest album with classics as addition and not the other way around.

^ I agree. She has so many gems in her discography that I wish she could perform some of them live. I understand that she might not like them very much, but maybe that's because she has always been so fast to release new music so many songs are easily forgotten because probably she had no strong ties to them in the first place.

and I'd also love to see SAKURA live. It's one of the only tracks from LOVE again that I still listen to sometimes (alongside Wake me up and Bye-bye darling).

It is really simple. Namie shows that it works to ditch most of your classics. And her tours a fucking titled after the album, so it just should be the theme...it is there to promote it.

^I agree. Of course she should also perform some of her classics but there should be mainly new songs. I'm excited what the upcoming tour will be like, if she doesn't release an album before.

It wasn't until 2011 that she stopped having concerts named after her albums (and still, HLS was Party Queen tour and PSC was Colours tour, get over it), and even so we have official recordings of most of A One and Colours tracks between the arena tours, a-nations and cdls. Her only records that were neglected on live performances are GUILTY and LOVE again, both also notoriously failed and were released on anniversary years.

I'm glad she didn't release the new album yet... This may mean she won't axe new songs to sing classics on the tour of the year she is focusing on her classics.

^she never did perform a full album on a tour which I think is quite sad. Liar and Guilty are just examples. The CDL should be used for what she does in the Tours, not the other way around. PSC was pretty close and as such pretty cool (and so was HLS)

^ She did. ARENA TOUR 2009

^oh you are right!

How did GUILTY notoriously fail? XD

Probably the no.2 spot to Kobukuro's 2nd week.

Songs I don't think she will perform ever or again even after I die:

no more words

Wishing
GUILTY
It was
Liar
criminal
ever free (not playing the song but she performs!)
SAKURA

Perhaps it is good she is not going to perform some old songs because her current voices is not able to sing some of her old songs..

Watch 2001 Tour when she performed M and A BEST LIVE when she performs M..

I always felt like "darker", more intense songs such as GUILTY, Criminal, ever free, and Liar might just be too intense and personal to sing live.

I feel like if she ever did sing ANY of the above mentioned songs that she should sing ALL of them together. They might actually be quite thematic that way...

...and automatically change any of her concerts into being pretty intense.

Even though, tbh, I always felt that Reminds Me is one of the most intimately tragic songs she's written and she sang that live so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.