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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx
you really don't watch her latest 4-5 ATs and CDLs??
really? wow!
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You can count me in as well. I used to download her concerts, but after Best of CDL, I stopped watching them.
I dun really know if budget is the main key for recylcing costumes and stage set up. I mean... Look at A Museum, I dun think the production budget was that high, but that concert was one of her best concerts. Her stadium tour is another example. I really prefer her focus on singing (and of course beautiful outfits) then doing dramas with Shuya and other dancers on the stages (not that I hate them). Right now her formula of AT is kinda like:
Ayu x
(deja vu) glamorous outfits x
big stages x
dancers x
band
= GLAMOROUS production
How often do we see ayu alone on stage in recent tours (except her encore part)? Almost 90% of the tour time we see a pre-film on the big screen followed by ayu + her dancers acting on the stage. Her dancers are part of Ayu, and without them ayu seems can't perform herself on stage.
Let's say in A Museum, ayu could sing and swing alone in Dearest, and she was the major focus in M (while the dancers were hidden in her white cloth). She didn't act a lot, rather she concentrated on singing. The tour was about AYU. Right now everything is the opposite. She blends with her dancers and bands. It's like she's only part of the tour. While she disappears for a few mins, the show can still carry on by the dancers acting like clowns on the stage. For about every few seconds, the camera will shift to her dancers (esp Shuya) instead of ayu. I really know she loves her team so much, but it's so unhealthy to keep on doing that. As like in order to see ayu, you must also force to see Shuya/Maro/whatever + her band + Peco & Princess.
And about the stage.... Sometimes you dun need a huge budget in order to get new creativity. I really think back then there were specialists giving more inputs on how the stages should be set (with ayu's influence). I kinda suspect the recent tours' stage set up are created by ayu heavily, as we see the set up are kinda same. Of course two years ago she added a cake, last year she added a ship, and probly next year she'll put a spaceship.