Ayu - Anything Goes Thread -X-
 

Another one!

I love me some cheesy concert closer classics.

Well depends on what you mean by recent. RnRC and PoM are my favorite concerts period and I feel they are recent. But if you want more recent, I really liked Premium Showcase, mostly because of the glorious Terminal~Connected section.

I really like nearly all of her concerts from 2009 onward. Absolute standouts though are RnRC 7days Special and PREMIUM SHOWCASE.

The number on the thread made me remember a time I dreamt ayu had announced a single titled "X", and when I woke up I thought it was true cause I could totally see that as a title for a song of hers. It could be an epic rock, I can almost feel it hahaha

Alright ayu enough. No more circus. No more las vegas. No more show girl. No more clowns. No more. Please move onto something else. Don't ever make another album or concert circus or las vegas themed ever again. It's exhausted.

Yeah, she's gone to Vegas a few too many times. She should explore space again or something... or go mega fantasy.

She needs to go to Atlantis
Also how come I've paid Angel dust? Mess. I'm in love with it!

I almost forgot what an amazing ballad crossroad is.

Agree, she should do another thing or find inspirations in other artists / artworks.

I think PREMIUM SHOWCASE is one of her best concerts ever. I've been watching the old ones and falling in love for her even more (DOME TOUR 2001 :heart)

a-nation 2005 was flaaaaawless. Her vocals, body, hair, and setlist were all on point.

RnRC tour is my favourite; I love circus theme, but yeah, I agree it's overused.

What about a terror theme? Not terror like SAW, but something dark that intrigues the audience (marionette and ourselves would be near to the line I'm talking about). With special arrangements of all tracks, a lot of rock songs, ballads turned into something darker, including old, underrated and never-performed-before songs in the setlist, dancers dressed as ayu trying to confuse us, a big and creepy scenery, a lot of mirrors on stage creating a labyrinth for some song (don't look back, maybe?), a recreation of a mysterious forest, etc. There would be a lot of symbolism, MVs along the whole show, and definitely, nothing similar to the old "oh you love me / oh you leave me / oh come back to me shuya / oh, you disappeared" formula.

Ayu would have dark hair (maybe a wig with a REALLY long hair? like creating a river of hair or something like that xD), and would wear new and amazing costumes, following the line of these references:

In one song she would be singing alone in the catwalk without moving her body, expressing everything only through her face. Like, she's SO terrified that she can't move, and in the end there's an unexpected twist that make us going crazy xD

Also, it would follow a story through the whole tour, being every date a chapter (but they would be also conclusive; I mean, if a person goes to a 1 single date, he may not follow the whole storyline, but is able to enjoy and understand that single chapter as well). The DVD would contain EVERY one of these chapters, and a special photobook featuring the firsts sketches of the idea, the search of the costumes, random things, and a small diary written by ayu explaining how the idea for the tour was born, and how it evolved until taking its final form. Ok, I better stop xD

PS: Btw, I love how she looks here ♥

^ I love what you did there, but the tickets would cost like a trip to the moon. lol I've been wanting a really dark atmospheric tour from her for ages now. But she goes with usual stuff.

...I hate to move away from the topic of Ayu's tours but



LOL I CANNOT

HAL why are you working on this mess and not working with Ayu instead

^HAL did that!? The music sounds pleasant but his voice is just OMG I think can do better lol...srsly wth did he think that he has singing ability

^^^Oooh love the mood board and the terror idea! it's all scary and gorgeous!
Some of her songs can convey a terror themed tour in a great way :yes

With the whole circus thing, I'm just disappointed that not only she use it twice (or thrice?) but she didn't do it the justice a circus themed show should've been. It has clowns and flying dancers and such but it's not circus, the only proper circus I would say is Duty for CDL 14-15 now that's a circus. I mean she could develop the elements of circus like Britney did on her tour not just put one circus-y session and the rest will follow.

I personally would want a musical inspired concert, after listening to MY STORY classical, the musical approach can be interpret into Musical Drama. I know she do sessions of Rimeo Juliet type of thing, but with Musical thematic she can build story and song acts surrounding it, creating climax and such.

I also would love a stripped down performance with rare unperformed songs in small venues, she doesn't have to go abroad, just make sure she released the DVD/BR ;)

I think HAL is only like one guy now and might not really do that much nowadays?

http://www.hal2000.jp/

Toshiharu Umesaki is the only remaining member of HAL as we knew them. I wonder if he has an issue with Ayu.

The team that used to do Ayu's stuff isn't really around anymore as HAL. (Atsushi Sato, Yuta Nakano, Mayuko Maruyama. Takehito Shimizu)

So... Someone finds a video with Ayu being interviewd by Yuming and people spend their times with Maro instead?

edit: OMFG AYU LOOKS STARSTRUCKED! I need a duet! ;-;

It's in my top 10 tbh
When I went through my 'no more ayu at all ever' phase, I still played crossroad (and lelio...)

What wait where? Ayu interviewd by Yuming?! ♡