about a song is born

she didn't include this song in the dvd AT05...

ouch...but it keeps many people safe

I honestly don't get why people are so stressed over this flu. At the minute the death toll is way less than normal flu. XD
It's actually relatively harmless compared to how many people die a month from influenza. Even doctors have said that.
Yes, it may come back stronger, but that's why scientists are working diligently. If people are diligent then this flu isn't even that serious. Sheesh. :P

But I agree with avex, cancel the Osaka tours for now. :)

Because it has killed many Mexicans. And how can it kill less? They're the same thing.
flu = influenza. Just that this particular strand is bad.

Diseases have more than one strain, but they're in the same class. Like the common cold with +200 different viruses and counting.

I'm glad they're taking precaution, this is quite serious for people who do not have access to adequate healthcare.
I wonder how disappointed Ayu is, she even works then she had surgery. @_@~ I bet she's like pfff this is nothing! BRING ON the FLU!!!

I realise that it's killed many Mexicans. But the regular influenza kills far more many people a month than this strain has killed in a month.

^That's what I mean.

And I realise flu and influenza are the same. Haha. ;)

Because the regular one has +100 strains vs a few strains for this one. I don't think it's fair to compare them right? For such a small number, it's killing alot. That's why people are afraid of it, especially in areas such as japan where it's tightly pack~

Perhaps. But I still think people should just be diligent and not run around like headless chickens. :P
But maybe that's cuz it isn't bad here. I don't know.

What is Japan's health system like anyway? Is it similar to America's or the UK's?

Universal Health Care, first come first serve basis I think. I'm taking a Japanese class and we're learning about illness atm. So...

I think it's just the density of people.

Actually, as the flu passes from person to person, this particular virus combination will get weaker and weaker until it decides to mutate. Along with a mix of other reasons, this is why the flu has killed more people in Mexico than it has anywhere else.

Such sad news though, about the cancelling of shows. I wonder what the people with tickets will do. :( It would suck if my concert got cancelled.

Refunds or something. No one knows for sure.

How many people is that though? 12-15k?

hope the "new flu" don't spread asap
so less people got infected

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sorrie if it has been posted already but so far i havent seen it up yet here

CREDITS TO CHOCOHOLIC_LABO

Thank you!!!!

Love her new look for the "encore" *________________*

Saw them earlier on yahoo, I ahte this hairthings... she wore them before in 05 or 06.
I want her to wear a hat again in encore o.o

She's so adorable in the encore! Thanks!

so cute encore outfit!!! thanks for the pics :love

i like the black/pink shirt.
best encore look ever imo

Oooh thx for the new pics! Love the new encore outfit! ^^

Oh yeah. She did it for one stop. Same goes for RAINBOW during AT03-04!




There's a few things some people will probably never know about her concerts..

thank you Pchan1896 :luv2
i love you ♥

Quick FYI, there are a ton of photos in the first post to look at~ so.. enjoy if you haven't looked at all of them yet!

she's such a cutie! i love that black on her

ur welcom u guys/gals. i absolutely love the black tee on her (now i want one T-T lol) plus i think her hair is so cute like that ^^

I love for my dear video!!!! it's so good!
thanks for all the uploads

Omfg.
If I wasn't gay, I would totally have the hots for her new encore image. ;O

omg lol. i just noticed her hairband has dice on it. :laugh that's cute

あみn to that!

Bring bacc those beautiful bangs woman! Haha I hate those hair things too but at least it doesnt have the pigtails like Ayu usually has when she wears them. i'm sure she'll have the bangs for the final concert though.

This encore outfit is a winner!! ayu looks so good =O

i love her encore look
i'm still hoping that she will change her NEXT LEVEL dress

aaaawwww her "New Look" for the encore is so cute >_<
thank you~~

I like that encore shirt! I'm starting to come around to the logo too :D

the new encore look is absolutely adorable!!!! <3

Ahhh how exciting! rollin' is my favorite song off of NEW LEVEL....can't wait to see the full concert when it comes to DVD :)

And gosh, those photos. This woman just doesn't age, does she?! In some of the encore pictures, I could've sworn I was looking at ~MY STORY~ Ayu or (miss)understood Ayu. What's with some of the outfits being recycled versions of Countdown Live outfits though?

I'm guessing there wasn't enough time.

It seems as though PCDL might've taken more money to produce than we thought, so some of the costumes are being carried over. I mean after all, PCDL had the most costumes out of any PCDL (or AT possibly) that we've seen..

oh, I didn'y know about rainbow.. thanks

and her new encore look is very cute )

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I think it means that next week they will start selling tickets for the 2 different dates in Osaka?

(I'm not sure it's that though).

same here! very sexy!

im so glad so many things have been changing since the start!!! i wonder if they left surprises for the last day in..october?

/signed

the new one is the best encore look EVER!

because of the new encore look, i got the black tee cuz of it tehe but i wonder why some tees have the sparkly stuff and some dont(like the white tee i got) ????hmm... but the blk tee i just won has sparkly stuff

^truehappiness: Where can i check about these information? I want to see the setlist of all individual leg of all ayu's tours

Just the outfits makes this tour a must-have!

All the videos are great, except of.. Rule -.-'

I love the new encore look!

She looks really young and cute and that makes it super sexy! Lol.

Is her hair kinda red now? I'm colorblind so sometimes my colors blend or look weird.

...she looks like she's wearing the same thing from PCDL... Did you take that pic? lol

But wasnt that matter discussed alot after the PCDL if it was her mom or not..? Or did I miss something?

is that really Ayu's Mom?

That woman doesn't look like Ayu's mother @_@ even though i don't really remember, i watched some television show, when they showed some old woman's picture and Ayu replied "That's my mom." This woman looks sooo younger :D

Money, baby :P

yeah i have to agree that she looks like Ayu in some parts :)
specially the eyes and the eye brows~
and she was kind of pointing out to the camera~

...I'm sort of confused why we're talking about this in the AT09 thread if the pic is from PCDL ^^;

^ Yeah it doesn't make sense, whether it is her mum or not it's not important. That's a PCDL issue, not an AT09 one. :P

lol I guess the issue hasn't been cleared up lol

@Maemi: actually the picture they showed wasn't of an old woman...at least not the most recent one.

That's why everyone on the show was like "omg your mom looks so young".

I like her shirt (I think I'm gonna buy one), but her jeans not that much, they don't do her any favour.
Her hair looks bad, too.
I like the pigtail more, this outfit isn't really good.
Saying that, I'm curious which one will be recorded for the DVD.

^ Oh my God. I love her jeans and her hair is nice too I think. :D

So, anyone going soon? Haha.

Four second video of NEXT LEVEL:


I like the setup, vocal will probably be better in October.



People buying stuff.

Ah yeah well she was just yelling a bit xD Prolly cuz she was tired and sweaty xD

Cool, I'll watch the new videos. ^^

well... there's a lot of noise because of the camera and it's super short, it makes more difficults to listen to ayu...

XD It toke me a few seconds to see where ayu is in the video xD

every day I find this stage more and more amazing!!


thanks!

Her new encore look is SO adorable. I love it.

I think it's one of her best encore looks :D

We really can't judge any vocals from cellphone recordings, her voice just sound different and low quality with some ffff. lol

People here should try record music from loudspeakers into their cellphones and hear how horrible it sounds. (if they will to judge vocals from those cell clips) =D

I will judge it only when we get the TV version or news footage. ^^

I love the stages of this concert.. all are impressive, the lighting, the staging.. :luv2
I want to see this tour now!! :mischief
thanks for the vids ^^

Yeah well her voice sounds no good at all but from that recording I wont say anything actually. Its a bit unfair of all the reasons ayumisrael pointed out.

Yeah, ENCORE outfit looks very cute. ^_~

she sounds so off in that NEXT LEVEL clip, honestly, a bad recording wouldn't make someone sound that off, so it's kind of annoying when people make that excuse.

I only hear an "onaji" from that 4 seconds... I can't even pass ANY comment LOL O_o

It's the end of the main concert, plus it could've been from when she was sick.

Whatever the case is, we're not gonna see that probably in the final live on DVD, so meh. No use really picking at it.

this

or she just had bad vocals. we all know she doesn't have to be sick or tired to have bad vocals. but it's not even the full performance, so hopefully that's the worst area of her vocals from that performance and she'll sing better in other shows.

How can you judge anything from a 4 second clip.... O_O...? I played it and before I could pay attention, it was over LOL.

^ Exactly. People are quick to insult it seems.

1. Short clip
2. Bad quality clip
3. Unofficial

We can't know for sure unless we see it ourselves or from an official source. :)

^ I remember the last time we had a short EnergizE clip and there was all this "lip syncing conspiracy theory". Yeah, I'd say ayumisreal is right, let's not judge too much just based on a 4 secs clip :)

Well, I'd say it's not much to worry about, since when people watch the shows, I don't think they really give a hoot about vocals.. it's just an ~experience~ to see her do the songs live. -bright eyes-

But whatever, really. People are way too quick to judge nowadays and it's depressing, haha.

^ I agree with the "Let's not judge from 4secs", however, EnergizE reaaaally sounds like it's not live. The audio comes out completely different. Quick edit: Eventhough that too is only a few seconds...

i would actually prefer ayu to lipsynce nowadays :shrug people should lay off, who cares if she did lip sync, if they're not complaining about that it's about how bad she sounds live :roflmao

I believe EnergizE was from the opening day? Anyways, I still think it's a bunch of garbage when it comes to ~playback~ but let's not get into that.

This NEXT LEVEL one was from about a month ago.

It's lame imo how people complain about bad vocals and then when she lips a song or two they freak out too. Can we just not be a-holes about Ayu's lives? They're entertaining, and that's all that matters imo.. oi.

oh so with the stairs on the screen and ayu on the chair in mid air, it'll look like ayu's on the top of the stairs.

I had bad first impression of this tour...but after watching the clips, the tour does look better now...if only ayu will change some of her outfits...that would be perfect. I am really really hoping she will change them for october. Please ayu change the white hideous dress and the sparkle outfit...you already wore something like that for in the corner and evolution!

That's so true :yes And I also agree with Koumori about Ayu being born to perform!

That's why I love ayu's lives the most =D
They bring the good shivers and make so much a good feeling I want to get up and sing with her too, or just peacefully sing the ballads which get beautiful performances and vocals perfomances.

I also agree with truehappiness. ^^

So now that Ayu sucks at singing...we can all make the excuse that, because she's Ayu and her epic factor is high...her live vocals no longer matter :)

I bet Ayu could release a pile of dog crap as an album and people would still say it sounded totally awesome.


So anyway...the videos are nice...of course her vocals are off...the bad quality and four seconds doesn't really throw you off key...besides, it's the end of the performance...I'd bet my life and the lives of everyone I love that she's not on pitch...but it doesn't really matter...because it's just something I kind of expect now...

I'm just happy that the stage looks nice...and yeah...that's she's entertaining.

@juicy: I'd prefer her to lipsynch too...then at least she could make everything more entertaining...like she could dance or act around or something more...more than she already does...I mean, she could like...really take it to the next level I guess lol

I quite honestly couldn't care less whether or not she does to be honest. :shrug

I mean if it's songs like EnergizE, ANGEL'S SONG etc. who really cares? I think considering her hearing and her status, she can lip sync every now and then if she feels like it. I mean obviously she still sings live because people still complain about how bad she sounds lol.

Of course not :rolleyes

btw have we ever had a poll about whether or not people care if she lip syncs?

that would be interesting...not like, if you think she does, but if you mind.

FYI, I thought she sounded fine when I saw her on the 10th of May. Only Sparkle sounded bad, imo.

It would be interesting to see the results, you should set it up ;)

I think the poll would be interesting as well. Cool if someone makes it. ;)

^Yeah, I'm on the sing live side of things.

mi|kshake~

o God... I can't even listen the music xD how can someone judge if she is singing bad...?? and I know she doesn't sing well sometimes, but we don't have to say it so quickly in this conditions....

There are still people who actually went there and said her vocals were good.
I personally wouldn't care for any tour she did if her vocals would've bagged me.
(And I wouldn't care for her much either tbh).

Her vocals after all are what drew me to her before I even knew anything about her or actually cared for her existence :P

I do wish the TV version (and the DVD date) to be with the shaped-up vocals (ayu's best).
If they won't it will be rather dissapointing.

Thank you for the info. :)

Ha, as fans, there are too many things that are too subjective... like vocals, etc. What sounds good to me, may be lipped/playback to you. Similarly, the vice-versa holds true. And even to an extent where a performance may sound good to me, might just be total crap to you.

There are few people who can sing live perfectly... and Ayu is definitely not one of them lol. I already said this a long time ago; it appears she wants to focus more on the aesthetics and 'entertainment' side of her tours nowadays. Like you know, give the audience a very beautiful visual effect?

I can't hear anything from that 4 sec clip of NEXT LEVEL, but if someone else can, and said it's bad, then it's not like I can do anything to stop him/her from saying that. Vocals, ARE, an extremely subjective thing imo.

@emiko: Lol, dog crap is subjective too (wtf, I know)... but I doubt she would even want to release such music. I wouldn't say we have any excuse now to say her live vocals don't matter anymore... but she's not the group of people who can sing live perfectly... so I'm not expecting studio quality or like "whoa" quality (if I do, then hmm...). Obviously I don't expect her to sing like my friend who's off-tune in every note, but I can live with a few off-tune notes lol.

Really quickly, because I'll make a full report later - After going to the Hokkaido show on Saturday, I have to say this in one of her most impressive concerts yet.

She sang everything live, at least at my show, (which was easy to know because she kept making mistakes with lyrics/dropping syllables - she actually forgot an entire line of everywhere nowhere). One thing to note about Energize was that it was quieter than the other songs because she was using her "cute" voice (rather well actually), but I know it was live because she was out of breath by the end. Despite the minor mistakes, her voice was awesome for most of the concert, with the one really clear exception being My All. I was extremely impressed that she didn't scream Boys & Girls like she usually does.

Actually, I was so impressed with the stage and her performance that I'm trying to find a way to see one of the last Tokyo concerts in October! While Ayu may be hit or miss vocally within a song, overall, her singing is better than I've seen on the past few DVD releases (again, based on my show)