And here i am with my first post ^^'
Whats your opinion?

At first i thought, it will never be good, 'cause so many people was disappointed...

But now i think okay, it was not her best cdl but definitely amazing.....party queen is sooo awesome....

Really like MOON and November!! Trauma is so short by the way.

I don't mind cutting AUDIENCE lol, this, UNITE! and independent are my everyone's evolution and Boys & Girls (which I love and don't want her to stop).

Thanks everyone! I can't wait to hear Party queen!!! I was begging for another Sparkle like song!!! :D:D:D

That show was amazing, completely amazing. I'm so glad I watched it and could see in the new year with Ayu. :luv2

I thought the props/set were great, and I loved how it was set up to have the different characters in the "HOTEL".

My favourites were do it again, MOON, NEVER EVER, sending mail, RAINBOW (I CRIED!!!), NOVEMBER (SO MUCH CRYING, SO BEAUTIFUL, OMFG), Ladies Night, Party Queen (sekai wa kira kira!! <3), Love Song and how beautiful you are. :love

Now I need to buy lots and lots of concert goods... :innocent

^yeah...i am SO glad i watched it too! it was freaking amazing!!!! i guess it was extra amazing because its the first time i've ever been able to watch Ayu LIVE. i cried during RAINBOW like a little baby, hahaha!

I took this on my phone so excuse the quality... I think it was just after the countdown. or just before. idk.

I'm so relieved to hear it was a good CDL guys!!

I love all of the outfits, the only thing I don't like is the Love song performance wig. :)

uploading my footage of Party queen and how beautiful you are now :)
19 mins more for Party queen.

just gotta say that show was soo good. Watching it being performed live..ok i streamed.. was just so amazing :)
sure it felt kinda strip down in terms of props..i only remember the bed and doors...but Ayu's vocals just won me over. very very well controlled :)

put aside Shuya ( but he's not over acting this time) November is so beautiful, i loved when the water splashed like at AT 05

I thought the water was much better than AT05 and AT06, it didn't look as...stiff. I think the round shape and the "control"-thingy they did with their hands greatly helped.

Same for me!! My dad let me use his laptop and got me a cable so I can hook it up to my 68" flatscreen TV, so it was really, like, super duper amazing!! I turned the lights off, had my AT06 uchiwa with me and had the volume up really high and watch it all on my big comfy couch. I didn't think I'd cry at all, but when RAINBOW and the countdown came on, I started crying, thinking how happy I was to see in the new year with Ayu (I'm one hour behind Japan, so when the countdown played it was pretty much the start of my new year :heart). Then November came on and I cried even more!!!!!

I took some pics of November with my camera, and recorded all of 'how beautiful you are' on video, extremely low quality. Might upload it in a little bit if no one else does.

Does anyone else want to slide down one of those beds... it looked fun.
I'm checking through my pictures, but the others are kinda blurry.

the concert was totally amazing...especially november&party queen...i love this song...although it is not a typical ayu-song....

how beautiful you are sounds good and party queen is funky

Just downloaded the rips because I couldn´t watch the stream (our net was so crappy the last 2 days <.<) and I must say I really like the 2 new songs^^
Party Queen is a nice upbeat song and how beautiful you are is yeah so beautiful ^_^ Altough I am a bit tired of Ayu´s ballads, this one really is catching me.

Party queen is AMAZING!!
how beautiful you are is so... beautiful!!

the two new songs are great!!!!!
can't wait for upcoming new album

How beautiful you are is good! i really like it!

wahaha me want! :P Ayu looked hot everytime she did it :lech

some screencaps



and do it again video
http://vkontakte.ru/video1358601_161664925

how to view the video?

omg thank you so much for this :luv2
it's such an awesome opening for a concert! and she sang it really well

Thanks so much :love

Thanks for the opening performance :)

I uploaded sending mail to the downloads section, filmed off screen so it's not perfect but the quality is pretty similar to the do it again clip, maybe a bit better even.

Did anyone do anything "special" for the UStream performance? I made myself a spider (vanilla ice cream and coke) in my AT09 mug, had my AT06 uchiwa and watched it on my 68" TV. :D

@ Earth Maiden WOW!!!!
Whole new Ayu experience <3 <3

o wow thats super clear on TV!!!

I bought a box of my favorite chocolates and made a salad...my stuff pales in comparison haha

OMGG
the opening do it again is SUPERB.
i think this CDL has the best stage design. love it a lot.

Someone made a cake for the concert, haha~

I used my dad's laptop and he got me a cable that lets you view the laptop screen on the TV, I didn't even know I could do that. :thud My daddy's awesome.

But the quality was great, a little bit pixelated occasionally but it was just like I was watching one of my DVDs.

Here's a few pics I took of the screen if anyone wants to see:

^Haha sorry Maro! :P

Judging from the screencaps (thanks for posting! :)) this CDL looks great to me!
I only read the rather negative reviews of people who attended yesterday, so I am rather surprised.

Happy New Year everyone! I totally wanted to watch this but couldn't because my computer short-circuited T_T Does anyone know how many viewers streamed this in total?

1,765 In Crowd

^ you can join the crowd without paying it, so maybe it was more or maybe it was less.. joining the crowd is similar to FB's "like"

The crowd =/= everyone who was watching.

The total viewers for all three shows across CDL10-11, POWER OF MUSIC, and CDL11-12 is 43,171. Quite a few people were repeats through each show because the unique viewer count is only 12,544. I think they also counted when CDL10-11 had the first two songs free.

Ok can I just rant a little, I've always liked Ayu, have all her concert dvds and seen her concerts live between 2005 right up to Rock and Roll Circus 7 days final. but I gotta say this and wondering if anyone is of the same opinion.

Ayu what happened..seriously its the worst CDL i think i've ever seen from her in my opinion of course (before people go ape lol) feel she needs to get back to her roots ditch this entourage of too many back up dancers, backing singers, ditch the ribbon acrobatics and hoop from every concert she does and revamp her costume dept..(sometimes she gets it right other times its just so silly) what happened to her being a fashion icon lol!

I've totally felt over the past few years shes just lost her way or her direction and its getting tired, boring, predictable and not current. I thought she almost saved herself with the Love Songs album as it was the first time I listend to an album of hers over and over again. The circle stage came into play which made it fresh from last year's countdown as well. But now this show?! Girl just rewinded back to blah!

Ayu REVAMP yourself in a 2012 way please.. however if party queen and that koda kumi you are so beautiful attempt is what is coming from the new ablum im so not excited.

Oh and dont even get me started on that timmy person .. what is he all about lol I thought finally we dont have that Peco grandma high kicking and wailing in the background but now we have this English guy.. it seems like Ayu just hires who her new best pal is and says lets just make you a back up singer so we can hang out and stuff lol! Its ok you don't need to be able to sing lol!

does anyone agree on any level.. im just curious and please dont hate me cos i've spoke my mind I know some people love EVERYTHING she does and thats cool :)

Agreed on the above... but i haven't watched the show yet

Just saying but she seems to have replaced her costume designer for 11-ish years (Akira Noda) with the guy in charge of DOSQA some time last year.

MOON IS EPIC <3 ...

gwijai very respectable your opinion :) I'm agree with you!

Glad you agreed.. I just want Ayu to be back to the powerhouse she used to be.. I'm guessing she's abit fed up with it all now and can't be bothered being fresh, she's got married maybe time to hang up the mic for a few years start a family etc.

You should watch it just to see how tragic it is.. expect a bad rendition of TRF's happenin here that gets sung twice, recycled clown costumes, a strange English guy disguised as a back up singer who has no reason to be there, a mix match of dancers and costumes, no direction and Ayu sitting down alot.

The second time she performed 'Happening Here' she was only singing the chorus one time, if I'm right. I love your description about Timmy though :P.

Are you talking about this guy? http://www.dosqa.com/collection.html

LOL oh really just the chorus.. still terrible choice of cover for her to do.. it just does not suit her. Seriously Timmy just made the whole concert even more terrible, let's replace PECO but still make him wear PECO's costumes! LOL!!!

I loved Timmy's outfit. It wasn't too drag but just...fun.

I have a question, is it okay to post some screenshots from Ustream onto my personal blog? I am writing a post on CDL, and wanna post the Ustream screenshots.

^why not?