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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
I don't think she has lost her touch, she still has her stage presence. But she has lost/is losing her voice. Also, creatively she has been pretty stagnant I feel. I really don't like it when people say things along the lines of "she's been around so long, there is nothing more she can do." Watch a Matsutoya Yumi concert or even a Johnny's concert and then say there is nothing more she can do. Or even just throw all the concert theatrics aside and do a stripped down show of just Ayu and the band because even that would be something different and mostly welcomed imo.
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Not to be mean, but so far I've seen 2 NEWS concerts which I can't even tell apart, besides the fact they sang different songs and the clips I saw from KAT-TUN concerts were terrible - the only thing they shared were REALLY ugly, kitsch costumes and JE dancers, not to mention that in each of those bands only 2-3 people have good vocal skills (and the others are there to create hype) while the rest sound pathetic and choke to death when left to do their solos (Nishikido Ryo can't possibly handle code and ordinary), so let's not even get into that.
When left without all the noise and heavy instruments in teddy bear, she actually sang really good, so yeah she just needs REAL TRAINING. You can't force creativity on someone, she might be out of fresh ideas. Of course she is going to do the same Because of you performance! - she hasn't done it in years and there is nothing wrong with it. Could you think of a new performance for evolution every time she performs it? Hardly.
As emiko said, I don't like Ku for the same reasons I like Ayu and I could hardly say I like Amuro (even though I like her music), so yeah those two pretty much have nothing to do with this, they have their own issues.
As for the change in Ayu's voice, imo the STEP you/is this LOVE? TV lives were the very first "signal" of her voice getting worse, even though those performances were mostly murdered by Peco.