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^I forget it on purpose

I'm not a fan of THE GIFT but if you ask me I completely forgot about Story and Anything for you's existence, on purpose as well lol

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Originally Posted by Evan Odinson (Post 3308868)

I'm not a fan of THE GIFT but if you ask me I completely forgot about Story and Anything for you's existence, on purpose as well lol

it's always interesting to hear what people think about different songs and how they could be so polarising.

to me Story is something that sounds like it came out of her 2004 MY STORY heyday; I love how 'classic' and inoffensive this ballad is.

Anything for You, on the other hand, sounds to me like a CLEAR ripoff of the easily-superior Walk, so it irks me to no end. this is one of the very few tracks I always always always skip.

as for The GIFT, it just sounds half-baked to me. like a song not even finished being written. it's definitely not a gift, but I'm indifferent to this one.

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I just realised that this was off-topic for the thread. sorry.

^ the last 10+ posts were off topic. That’s my fault, I’m sorry too! :)

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Originally Posted by njanjayrp (Post 3308789)

Join TA.

Also she mentions that the CDL will be very different than the tour that follows and that she has had some wild ideas...

Loveppears Again Tour

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Originally Posted by kotora (Post 3308883)

Loveppears Again Tour

Actually I’d love if the CDL was titled COUNTDOWN LIVE 2019-2020 A LOVEppears and that it’s actually a tribute to the album with some improved performances taken from the Concert Tout 2000. The set-list would just be the whole album, plus she can throw in something else into the encore. Perhaps do the Main Radio Edit of kanariya, the HAL’s Mix of Fly High and put new spins onto some of the songs just to shake things up...

I think it depends from who decided to rerelease Loveppears. I highly doubt it was ayu. I think it was avex and ayu herself not intetested in this and not going to do something album related for CDL.
Her wild ideas may came from watching water show in Las Vegas.

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Originally Posted by Aderianu (Post 3308890)

You are most likely on point. I do hope it’s on the same level as CdM and that she simply does something that makes it more memorable than the past 2 CDLs.

Something tells me that Ayu didn't have much of a say in the Loveppears re-issue unfortunately. If you go to her Instagram, there is a single mention that I can find either in her posts or highlights, making the idea of a CDL tribute less likely.

I still have hope the CDL will have a Loveppears tribute section though or theme. If I had to make my own setlist, it'd be:

1. Kanariya (think JTB CDL intro)
2. WHATEVER
3. And Then
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4. Interlude
5. appears
6. Love ~ Destiny
7. TO BE
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8. immature
9. monochrome
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10. Introduction / Fly High
11. too late
12. Trauma
13. Boys & Girls

And an encore section with the typical faves and Who...

The TA post got translated into English. First time in a long time!

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Recently I’ve been going back and watching all the Countdown Lives from the beginning. With the room dark so I can concentrate, I lose track of sunset and sunrise... basically I’m jet-lagged. Lol
I keep stopping, rewinding and taking notes at certain points, meaning progress is slow. Honestly, it amazes me how many times we’ve seen the New Year in together...

So some parts are now a lot clearer than after Google Translating the post. She seems to be really analyzing the past CDLs and the post further says she has many new ideas and that she keeps changing the setlist.

Must be surreal for her to watch all of these concerts with herself.

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Originally Posted by njanjayrp (Post 3308912)

The TA post got translated into English. First time in a long time!

So some parts are now a lot clearer than after Google Translating the post. She seems to be really analyzing the past CDLs and the post further says she has many new ideas and that she keeps changing the setlist.

Yeah, it's definitely clearer with the official translation. That must totally be trippy for her to watch all those lol. I wonder if she'll try something similar to CDL 2006-2007 again, redoing previous performances, which is kinda what we thought she was going to do for 21st anniversary. But it's so interesting to get some insight into her process for this time around, plus she's building it up to be a very special CDL, with lots of new ideas, and I hope it comes off with her intended vision. Plus the tour will be totally different. I really hope both the CDL and Tour will be awesome and exciting!

It makes me really look forward to it. But also I don't want to get my hopes up.

I do need a performance of P.S II.

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Originally Posted by Aderianu (Post 3308890)

I'm pretty sure Ayu had a something to do with it. I mean she participated in making that book, which focuses heavily on the Loveappears era.

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Originally Posted by metropass (Post 3308943)

I do need a performance of P.S II.

Yes please, I have always loved that song. The remaster makes it sound FANTASTIC.

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Originally Posted by njanjayrp (Post 3308912)

This post is really exciting... I wonder what her thoughts were while rewatching all of the old CDLs. It must have been really weird :laugh
Here's hoping it gave her more creative energy for this year.

So far ayu performed 150 different song at CDL shows

Boys & Girls - 18
evolution - 17
Trauma - 12
Humming 7/4 - 10
Fly high - 9
SURREAL - 9
AUDIENCE - 8
UNITE! - 8
flower garden - 7
independent - 6

Spoiler:

thanks to Boys & Girls and Trauma, songs from LOVEppears were used more often

LOVEppears - 52
I am… - 50
Duty - 33
RAINBOW - 32
MY STORY - 26
(miss)understood - 21
GUILTY - 20
Memorial address - 17
Secret - 17
Love songs - 16
single - 12 (here are Mirrorcle World, Happening Here, Winter diary etc)
LOVE again - 11
A ONE - 10
A Song for ×× - 10
Colours - 9
NEXT LEVEL - 8
Rock'n'Roll Circus - 4
Party Queen - 3
FIVE - 2
M(A)DE IN JAPAN - 2
TROUBLE - 2
sixxxxxx - 1

^ Thanks for this! Very interesting! Personally I would love to see her sing Trauma and Humming 7/4 again

I'm definitely in agreement that PSII would be a great surprise, especially since we already got Kanariya and I think we have live recordings of all the other Loveppears tracks (except maybe love refrain?). I kind of want to see monochrome again. I just rewatched Concert Tour 2000 Vol 1 and I really liked her performance of monochrome~immature.