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Old 12th April 2009, 08:10 PM
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Well, I don't wish to take any stands or be a stan, but I just gotta say this.

In any live performance/concert, the only reason why you're up on stage singing is because you want to SHOW OFF something to the audience. Your hard work, your efforts, what have you.
Actually for many artists, it is because they want to make a ton of money. That is certainly the record companies reason for doing tours otherwise there would be no point for them to exist for the companies. I'm not saying Ayu feels that way, but there are indeed several artists that do it for the money and not for the audience.

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But I can feel that with AT 09, she looks like she's going back to the simple style of Concert Tour 2000. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's really simple now. In return, we actually get comments that her vocals were "okay" (not bad for me considering all the factors).
I'm all for that. One of my favorite concerts is actually the TA 03 tour. I really don't care much about a lot of flash and what not. But it seems that this tour is primarily the dancers tour and that I don't really like. Also, at least from what I have read so far, the more simple style this time around didn't actually translate into something that was better/high quality.