| truehappiness |
21st September 2008 06:22 PM |
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Some additional stuff to add to the previous report...
Setlist (note, I'm not familiar with anything on Guilty, so that made it a little tough at times)
01) VIDEO : Ayu's space pirate ship lands
02) Talkin 2 Myself
03) A Song For xx
04) VIDEO : Dancers intro to a modified Step You instrumental [arg, she didn't sing step you]
05) Depend on You
06) Fly High
07) VIDEO : Ayu escapes from prison to what sounded to me like Is This Love
08) ?
09) ?
10) My Name is Woman
11) VIDEO : Ayu places dolls of the male dancers onto a toy carousel
12) Marionette
13) VIDEO : Conclusion to previous video where the roles reverse and Ayu is a doll
14) VIDEO : Soloing dude run up a golden staircase only for the staircase to fall apart and him to fall down. And then dance on stage. I don't know, this section made me laugh a bit.
15) HANABI (completely ruined by the stupid "plotline" if you can call it that)
16) End Roll
17) Tasking (?)
18) Surreal~evolution~Surreal
19) VIDEO : Pt. 2 of the opening video
20) Mirrorcle World
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21) VIDEO : The Ayu "A" imitates famous comedians, messages to HK fans, etc
22) MC I
23) Dearest
24) Voyage
25) MC II
26) Zin teaches a dance
27) Independent
28) Boys & Girls
29) My All
Notes to add on:
This was my first Ayu concert, so...keep that in mind.
1) I'm not sure why the guards were making them sit down because EVERYONE was standing in my section. People were a little dead, and I was the only one with a glowstick, so that was kind of awkward.
2) Song for xx was easily the best song of the night, mostly because she was focusing on singing rather than acting like she was for the rest of it. I really wish they would drop all the plotlines and just have her singing, because it didn't get really really good until the encore.
3) Depend on You sounded HORRIBLE because she was basically parodying the way she used to sing, and had this really horrible nasal voice that sounded annoying more than anything...and DoY is one of my favorite songs, too...
4) My name is woman was hot.
5) I was yelling at the top of my lungs when the first music box notes for Hanabi started, but it was killed by the "plot" for that section where her boyfriend dies trying to run up a staircase to hug her and she just starts crying. Oh wait, no, he doesn't die because he just starts DANCING. And while I wanted her to focus on controlling the notes, all she was doing was looking at him longingly and "crying". Ugh.
6) End Roll. Awesome. I mean, she really couldn't hit the notes at all, but it was awesome to hear a song from LOVEppears.
7) Best set of the night goes to the Ayu ship that she comes flying in on at the end. Holy crap. It was amazing, and I can't believe they only used it for one song.
8) keikeiaznqueen talks about how the stadium was all together on the cheering for Ayu pre-encore...um...it was more like the audience tried ayu chanting about 5 times and each time it lasted for about 30 seconds and then died. It was really pathetic because no one was getting into it.
9) Language barrier made things TOUGH. The pre-encore video had the "A" imitating Ikko, Kojima Yoshi, and I can't remember who the third was was, it was like "Ok, all together!" and then it would flash their catchphrases, but no one got it so I was yelling all alone. And then I stopped.
10) MC was hilarious because Ayu kept messing up. The first MC went like this:
Ayu : *talktalktalktalktalktalktalk* Ok, and now I'm going to turn it over to our teamleader YOCCHAN!!! EVERYONE TOGETHER! 1....2....3....YOCCHAN!!!
Yocchan : ...erm...aha...hi everyone! Ayu...why don't you sing something? Something that will grab the audience by the heart *grabbing motion that also looks like a reversal motion*
Ayu : ...me? Sing something?
Yocchan : Yeah. You. Sing something. That will grab the audience by the heart. *reverse motion*
Ayu : ...what?
*They walk over to each other have a little conference. Ayu bursts out laughing and falls down*
Ayu : *recovers* Ahaha...ummmm.....my bad. I'm supposed to be singing right now. OK! The next song is DEAREST!
And then the second MC comes around...
Ayu : Um...so....ok, I know we did this already but bear with me. Now I'm going to turn it over to our team leader Yocchan! Again! Ok! Everyone, 1.....2......3.......YOCCHAN!!!
Yocchan : ...-_-
11) When Zin was teaching, him and Ayu kept getting into arguments about stuff, and it seemed really tense from the way they were talking. By this point I think they'd figured out that no one in the stadium understood Japanese, so they were saying all this stuff in Japanese that was like "Wow...I really don't think people are getting it" and stuff like that. It was pretty funny and awkward at the same time. And she was like "Erm...yeah! So...please remember that. If you can."
12) Ayu forgot the words halfway through independent and had to ask for help.
13) Boys & Girls was awkward cause no one was singing along cause no one could read the lyrics on the screen.
14) When the song for Zin's dance came up, Ayu burst out laughing.
15) When Ayu was introducing her dancers and band, everyone was cheering and then when she bowed deeply and said "Ayu deshita" NO ONE CHEERED. I think it's cause she said it quickly, so to non Japanese speaker it just sounded like random talking.
16) Her voice was absolutely off pitch for a lot of it and my ears were ringing by the end, but it was a great show and all aural pain was alleviated by the fact that she's an amazing performer and it was a lot of fun.
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Report from a user at JPM named ricekid. It was his first Ayu concert, so I dunno if he knew what he was going to get.. |
