^yeah and I love how she screamed after that!!

her vocals are very strong. Jesus, I couldn't imagine progress will be so epic at stage!

I also think that this is her best kouhaku since moment and jewel...

maybe this is why she cut some songs from yesterday CDL...

God dammit, I feel like if she performed progress at MSSL, Best Artist and so it would be this epic too... Jesus, it's such a big miss!!!

I loved Rule at Kouhaku. Fierce and sexy.

Best dress change ever! Didn't expect the dancers to come out like that :D And good vocals and the beginning too ^o^

^ me too!
i didn't expect that those are dancers!
COOL idea!
love her hairstyle as well.

Hope 2012 Ayu will do more Tv performance than 2011....

They're so many good songs that she can perform on TV.....

I liked the performance, but something did sound a little off during the second part of the second.
Also, the dancers coming from the dress... lol, so predicable.
But I thought she said she wouldn't preform Progress because she didn't want to cut the song... did that change somewhere???

That was on TV aka MUSIC STATION and such. She had the full intro at Kouhaku.

She didn't want to cut lyrics. She had no problem to throw off the guitar bridge.

I'm downloading it at jpsuki right now, only 5 minutes left!!!

I dun think JEWEL was that good... I rather think it was one of her more subtle kouhaku performances.

Anywayz, watched the HD, i didn't expect the dancers would come out from her "dress". Although the key was lower, I think the performance is great :D.

Finally red won!

did they?!?!
omg i'm so freakin' happy!!!! RED TEAM go!!!

Did anyone see Ayu had four backing singers at Kouhaku? Princess, Timmy and two other girls I think?

oh gonna check again :P

I think she is sick because her complexion isn't really good... she looks pink at the end!
And she has gained weight~ it's good.

I think we are hearing two different performances, because I don't think it was that good.
They just put the volume up on her vocals so we can hear them clearly.
She is still horribly offkey... :(

It sounds like she has no energy... she has to sleep!
That's part of the reason she can't give the best performances.
She never sleeps! D:

... is it that bad?? I can hear some offkeys but it's not that bad.. but oh well I dunno Japanese so maybe you can hear more than I do, since you are Japanese :). And yeah I saw her face quite pink during the second half. Overall I still think it's a really good performance :).

@ExodusUK: where is peco then? I'm sure the lady beside princess wasn't peco at all..

It was really epic and touching, forever the queen of jpop

Actually I think it might be a man, so two male and two female backing vocalists lol
http://i.imgur.com/2rrJP.png

No excuse for thin and flat vocals now :p