She looks fantastic, and a headlining act :love

aghh..i love that they use latest photo

Seems like it's getting closer to her trip in Singapore...but she's still in LA, right? (Or did she just came back from Japan recently?)

Ayu replied on Twitter and confirmed that the set-list will change for Singapore show!!!

Omg that is awesome news!! Please perform all the classics!! :luv2

https://scontent-a-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/...6d&oe=54B670F9

https://www.facebook.com/avex.singap...113771/?type=1

^ Finally some promotions. I grabbed an a-nation brochure at MasterCard Theatre LOL :D

Yeah but the organisers are missing out the whole '1 more group will be coming' for the event since the banners have already been printed +_+

Ayu, m-flo and Wagakki Band! I'm so jealous! I keep my fingers crossed that you guys are able to see Acid Black Cherry too!!! o(^-^)o

ohhh.. i actually hope she won't change the setlist..
but i hope the new setlist will more awesome..

Artist tends to perform their older songs when performing overseas as they're afraid that foreigners might be more aware of their hit songs. So I'm guessing SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL and Boys & Girls might be in the set list!
Kinda strange that I actually miss the medley when it's gone lol

I Still have 2 Cat A tickets with me! anybody wants them pls PM me!

xinmsn is giving away 5 pairs of tickets (each ticket worth $138) to a-nation Singapore

http://xin.msn.com/en-sg/entertainme...ore/ar-BB77x10

Man can't they used a more recent photo of her ? Seeing that they used her promo pic for RAINBOW is just really ... lame ?

GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE & Stella Seah have been added to the performers lineup for a-nation Singapore

http://a-nation.net/singapore/

There goes ur hope of acid black cherry =.=

not sure if the additional artist will help the sales =.=....

Most probably the sales will increase now as GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE is quite big

I'm surprised they're coming since just like Sonar Pocket , both artistes performed at a-nation Taiwan

I don't know there might be a chance that Acid Black Cherry might still come since there's an 'and more' sign being listed on a-nation Singapore's website xD

i too have 2 cat A tickets! do let me know if anyone wants them! ><

avex Singapore just uploaded this clip on their Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=316184248564355

They saved the best for last xD & I'm still hoping the 'and more' portion will mean that more artistes will be announced at the last very minute ?

The concert is drawing near and I'm getting excited! I had a dream last night that they sold a lot of ayu merchandises on the venue lol

still got some premium/vip, cat a and cat b tickets to let go at good prices :)

Set-list of today's broadcast:
＜浜崎あゆみ＞
「STEP you」
「XOXO」
「BLUE BIRD」
「Love song」
「You & Me」
「July 1st」

I can handle that they cut the rest of the songs, but cutting Fairyland is sad.

Why no Lelio ? :((

STEP you + XOXO + BLUE BIRD + Love song + You & Me + July 1st

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27...E3%81%BF_music

whoever 2030 teamayu is, he/she is awesome for posting all these ayu videos on youtube and dailymotion

Wow her voice was really good throughout the show and this time Step You is live and I think XOXO too I'm glad !! Love song was fantastic it's sad we can't see Fairyland performance ...

STEP you with the new remix -- new taste
XOXO is so amazing ... It seems the real live
BLUE BIRD and Love song is super cool <3
You & Me, the dance , the DJ mix, love love
July 1st
Her voice is so good and she is so pretty. However it 's a bit disappointing because of lacking of fairyland and Lelio performances

hope we can get DL links soon

thanx a lot for the video link :)

Step You was awesome, this is what I call refreshing without remixing the whole song.

ps: I'm so happy Timmy got rid of his pink hair, this little detail made him at least acceptable again

I love this year's performance!!!!
Love song I like the most~~~feel touched

Why did fairyland get cut? That's what I was looking forward to the most!

Her voice is amazing of Love song !
Great performance, I'm really surprised by XOXO ! =)

Love song is epic!
She seriously nailed it.
And she looks fabolous.
Overall great live.

But I don`t feel her in sexual performances. She shines with Blue Bird, Love song, You & Me and July 1st, it feels so natural coming from her. With STEP you and XOXO I still have the feeling it`s not her.
And the a-nation stage isn`t small, but just Ayu is able to top that with her dancers, it's crowded. Sorry, I`ll probably never get used to that. xD

BLUE BIRD + Love song = EPIC.

She sounded pretty good
BLUE BIRD and Love Song were the best performances

just watched .ts version...her vocal is superb...the best since long time ago...spot on and very stable...powerful...

she killed it in Love song..omg..my ultimate ayu song and it was so beautiful and emotional :D

I love the slight remix to STEP you and XOXO is really fun. Ayu is having fun! BLUE BIRD was sweet

The opening was a bit underwhelming, don't really like the new arrangement for step you.... the interludes kinda dull...
but Love song just kinda rox with the extended acapella! Time for a rockier version too!

I hoped for Leilo, so far I think I like BLUE BIRD and Love song was the best
and God she sounded good

So nice... looking forward to see her performing more songs in SG... Big dress please :D

And VERY EDITED... :no

I don't understand how you can all be glad for the vocals when you can't actually judge them. Are people always forgetting we can no longer hear her real vocals on TV anymore (they don't broadcast unedited lives and she is not promoting)? She sounds perfect yes. Thanks autotune! you can hear it throughout the concert and I hate it.

She didn't sound good in the TV reports if I remember.

^
pff we heard 5 sec of July 1st who is basically identical of what we heard in the "so edited" version ... and TV reports in my opinion are hardly flattering for any singer the sound and the quality are always bad !
I do not close my eyes on the fact that her voice may be edited but come on ! I don't heard so much of autotune.

yall are so annoying with this voice shit.

I was at the final two dates of A BEST LIVE and she sounded superb. people try to tell me what I head when they weren't even there. I know it was 2013's concert but it's the same drama all the time. give it a rest!

A bad sound quality doesn't make you going off key and so on.
I think you're being really naive here.
It sounds as edited as her DVDs. (just compare).
I already compared several unedited tv lives and edited DVD lives, the difference is the same. You can clearly hear it, what is corrected and so on. It's really interesting imo.
Ayu never sang like that.
But if you don't hear the sound correction so much I understand why you don't agree with me. Her voice is overprocessed "nowadays", she looks like she is lipsynching the whole thing.

You're the only one making dramas and being annoying. I'm just discussing politely on a forum you know.

well the discussion is overdone and lame.

If I had to complain whenever I read a lame and overdone discussion... I would have written 45000 posts!

At least we're talking about ayu and a real "issue"...

And to be clear I'm not saying she sounded bad the whole thing and criticizing her freely. I only heard like 10 sec of real live I can base my opinion on.
I'm just bored when I read comments about her voice when it's clearly edited and you can't actually know if she was good or not.

I was one of the few people to praise her voice on the TV report of Cdl 2013-2014... (Yet you can hear the editing in the final product if you compare).

...i'm glad you're smart enough to have the word issue in quotation marks.

Uh...You don't have anything interesting to say do you?

Yet not being able to hear a singer's real voice is something frustrating imo (no TV lives, edited broadcastings). If it's not your case, glad for you.

I just can't deal with the bitching. If it's that serious for you, go to a concert.

I had only skimmed through it earlier, but ESPECIALLY now after watching her performance in full...if you think this is edited that much, maybe you should check out CDL 13-14...? :/ I this this is spectacular.

And I'm the one "bitching", really.:rolleyes

I knew you would say, "so go to a concert". It's not a serious matter for me, as I just said I'm not into ayu that much anymore. It's just another thing which is sad with her. So I won't bother that much.

I'm not sure I understand what you say about CDL 13-14.
Her performances have been quite edited since the 10th anniversary or so? But the autotune is heavier nowadays. On every live.

If you think THIS--


sounds like it has the same editing as the current a-nation performance just aired on TV, I think you might be deaf? (not you, specifically, but anyone)

Sometimes she is off key, but so is everyone when singing... and quite frankly computers ruin the way we THINK people should sound. When people want 'perfect' they mean they want computers... rarely if at all can people sing the way a computer makes the voice sound 'perfect'

i still got some Cat A & B tickets to let go below cost price. pm me if your keen. thank you:)

omg lmao

From Ayu's twitter ^-^ nice:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz3vJ44IEAE0mwg.jpg

THANK YOU for this comment! I feel the same way. I can't enjoy her live releases since a-nation 2013 and A Best Live. I don't know what the heck happened to AVEX staff but they changed editing technology. I guess they switched from using Melodyne to using auto-tune. Now Ayu sounds like robot all the time. If you watch Asahi Dream Live you'll hear that old editing software was used and Ayu sounds like human! But all the rest live releases are real nightmare. I'm on verge of making a petition to stop this auto-tune abuse. The last live DVD I CAN enjoy is CDL 2012-2013.
What an attitude, so much disrespect as always. I was at 4 A Best lives and yes, she sounded good. It's not what we are discussing. It's overediting.

I was there, at the actual live. This performance is EDITED THE HELL OUT. She sounded VERY good singing this song, they didn't have to overdo pitch-correction.
And you know what? I still remember what you said when I shared POM instrumentals.
I bought Tell all instrumental but my desire to share it was instantly killed.

Somehow, I'll survive. That comment wasn't a personal attack on you, but my attack on how I feel about the PoM arrangements! LOL to this day I can't watch that concert.

Both lives are heavily edited, the end.
I don't know how you can nitpick comparing the processing level of two heavily edited lives while you're going crazy when I just say "You can't judge the vocals/you can hear heavy editing throughout the show".
This is going anywhere, really.

However I will try to answer you, WE WISH sounds more polished, but it can be due to the back track which is kinda loud, adding to the overall smoothness. So no big difference imo.

What a relief someone who actually read my posts! ;) Glad you understood my point. At some point I thought my English was quite awful...
I'm not saying she was bad the whole show, I only heard like 10 sec. She doesn't need that much editing anymore IMO (at least I hope...), and that may explain why she sounds like a robot. She may be singing good enough, it's not perfect but it doesn't' require so much processing like in 2008.

And to me it is also very distracting. I'm already distracted by all the "drama" acting, all the dancers, now I'm also distracted by her voice! She sounds so perfect all the time, I feel less emotion through her voice, its seems so easy for her to sing without any effort. It's really weird. Those are one of the things that keep me from being excited by new lives.

good posts on the voice editing part.

Ayu's going for voice training and rehearsals now. Is it possible she's already in SG?! Or she could still have her rehearsals in Japan..

To be honest, i think that her voice in TV version is really edited.

I watched the a-nation live and when she sing xoxo especially "girls just wanna have fun" it's a little bit hurt my ears.

Only 2 more days, but there are still no news of any goods sales here. I'm thinking there might not be any goods sold here at all

I am so excited for a-nation on Saturday!!!

No expectations, I just wanna see her and hear her live. Right now, I just don't care anymore if it's autotuned or edited or what. Many artists nowadays do that (besides, ayu's vocals aren't superb even from the start of her career) and cmon, show some love!

TA update: Ayu should be arriving in Singapore tomorrow!

what makes u say that?

ayumi is already in Singapore

http://instagram.com/p/uNJBa2Sv2R

oh wow
dream come true!
hope she enjoy her stay and will back soon

I find it odd that avex didn't reveal anything on her flight details while others such as Amuse is very liberated to reveal , like recently when Mizuki Nana came + a lot of people welcomed Nana at the airport

Ah well I just wonder where ayumi's staying , MBS perhaps ? xD

I'm a stewardess.. I hope I know which flight she's taking

It would be so cool if she sings My Way together with m-flo. I'm sure her rap live would sound funny and cute XD

Ayu is here!
 

Ayu has arrived Singapore! Is anyone here heading to the hotel and waiting to see her too? Pls let me know!

Is anyone going to the hotel later to wait to see her? I'm going so let me know!

people still waited for her at the airport :D so happy she is here!
yes she is staying at MBS

No fanfare or press at the airport?

credit : behwatch

SO COOL! and she is with her hubby!

Yes I hated when they started editing her voice in such a way too. It's too "smoothed" over and like blended. It removes life and sounds so strange.

just saw that vid, i guess she arrived around 4am?

time flies,in 2002 they were so much chaos for her at the airport ^^

Any idea when will she leave sg??

https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408/sta...50597427748864

Hopefully news media like Xinmsn will write something about this

^
the one she replied too is Kinix right? lucky him! Ayu is always lovely to her fans. I want a news report, any possible on SG tv news report maybe?

Maybe ? It's really bizarre that a-nation Singapore is barely mentioned if not promoted here considering that it's going to take place tomorrow

I didn't see any mention of it in today's papers either +_+

Photos from the a-nation press conference earlier on



Love her outfit :love + so true on what Xinmsn Chinese wrote about her

===

https://twitter.com/thenewpaper/stat...08238833643520

OMG she looks sooooo beautiful!!!

Sorry for out of topic.
Im selling my premium seat C28 center just 3rd row from stage. Very good seat.
Email me aren_ind@yahoo.com if anyone interest.
Thanks before.

Her outfit's gorgeous *O*

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0IUL7kCAAA5bnA.jpg

https://twitter.com/xinmsn_ch/status/523002721247309825

Translation from that tweet xinmsn Chinese wrote - ayumi said that during the press conference , her biggest regret was not finishing her high school graduation . She hopes that students will take education seriously + enjoy school life unlike what she went through

Xinmsn Chinese also wrote that to expect an interview with ayumi in due time that will be uploaded on their website

===

https://twitter.com/ST_LifeTweets/st...00055544819712

she looks beautiful but I'm not a fan of her dress

Am waiting patiently for Ayu now!

I like seeing all of these articles and interview reports for Ayu. Makes me feel like she is more relevant in the public eye. Though the dress is a bit unusual for my tastes, she looks great in it.

13 photos taken from this afternoon's press conference

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3&l=16fe0f24c5

https://www.facebook.com/WattentionS...38534382876155

I went down to MBS this afternoon and hoped to see Ayu.. I saw a lot of fans at there too.. but she was busy and didn't come out. Not sure if they managed to meet her after I left..

Is it just me or 'wax sculpture' is the first thing that comes to my mind when i saw those photos? :no :no :no

She looks like a new born baby, she's that beautiful honey.

Her face and outfit reminds me of the D-Snap event (2006.08.23) O.O

She looks more than ready to put out another studio album. I wonder, why she's not all over the Japanese media right now; there's so much power, aura and uniqueness exuding from these pictures.

I'm feeling her more and more again, not that I ever lost interest in her. It all started with "Terminal". She's obviously about to do great things.

was there till 1am last night but she didn't come out sadly >< guess she was busy
and she does look amazing at the press conference!!!

CANT WAIT TO SEE HER LATER!!
I foresee Feel the love, Lelio, XOXO, Merry-go-round being sung tonight amongst others. Hopefully she will have fairyland, BLUE BIRD, Love song again :D and You & Me is definitely gonna be there

at what time the show starts?

Doors open at 3pm , the show will start at 5pm

Most probably she will be the closing act

is there someone who can upload\share the whole video of her press conference please? Thanx in advance !

fancams pleaseeee omg i hope we can have footage of her performane :((

you can always check the other thread ,http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120812

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120816

She sang a song for xx and memorial address. back to back. Brb dying.