I have such mixed feelings about the DVD for this concert. Overall, the energy level was amazing, I love the new machinery and how they utilized it on stage, I enjoyed watching the dancers perform the choreography for the new songs...DJ Hello Kitty and m-flo were both gr9 (VERBAL, I love you, but omfg that outfit needs to go) and it really seemed like Ayu was into it. If I had been there, I think it would have been one of my favorite concert experiences! At some points it felt to me like what AT09 should have been like. There was so much they could have done with a tour for NEXT LEVEL and to this day I still think it fell flat.
But whoever was in charge of the audio editing for this DVD needs to contemplate a change of career--and fast. The disconnect between the ~version of Ayu's vocals that comes out of the speaker and how she's moving her lips is seriously distracting. In some cases I suspect it's because she's lip synching...she has this habit of way-overexaggerating her mouth movements when she does that, and I've noticed that the more time progresses, the worse it gets. You used to have a hard time being able to tell which tracks were lip-synched and which ones were live...I find it quite easy to tell nowadays, which is kind of annoying. Her 'acting' antics have gotten a bit over the top, and so has her lip-synching technique. From this concert, FtL in particular comes to mind.
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Originally Posted by kotora
If haters believe they can do better jobs, make a proposal to avex and edit for ayu.
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This is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I'm not a professional sound editor, I make no claim to be, but if I'm NOT a pro and I can hear that there's a profound difference between how her voice *should* sound coming out of the speakers and how it DOES sound--processed to hell and back--then you know there's a problem.
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Originally Posted by Zeke.
I am baffled how anyone can miss the change in her vocal editing. As someone put it, it's as if they are "introducing new Android Ayu!"
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I agree 100%. Though I will say that wasn't present in all the songs--but it wasn't really until Love song that I felt like I was hearing Ayu's real voice...and it was beautiful! She was on key and it sounded more like HER than any of the performances before it. (I realize that all of her vocals from the DVD have undergone some form of post-processing, but to get almost halfway through the concert before you see something that constitutes a performance that has 'the whole package' is just sad.) I was sobbing my eyes out at the Love song performance. It's all the more frustrating because, hearing her vocals on that song, it doesn't sound like there was the need to edit her vocals as much as they did for the (majority of the) rest of the concert. This isn't CDL01-02 we're talking about here.
part of Me and Curtain call were both stunningly beautiful as well.
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Originally Posted by LONJJONG
I didn't know that CDL 13-14 was released as digital live album before o.O
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Trollvex compiled the album versions of all the songs in the order of the setlist for CDL and released it as a """digital live album""". (nooooooope)
Other random CDL related thoughts:
-Yocchan's short hair and clown shoes age him about two decades. Bring back long-haired Yocchan plz.
-Who do I have to sleep with to get Timmy off stage and never have to see/hear him again? "Love is All" was truly painful.
-I am glad, however, that Yoshi finally got a partner for her aerial work. It was great seeing something new from her other than the tissue dance...that routine was super impressive!
-Love song killed me, brought me back to life, cremated me, and scattered my ashes to the wind.
-Bold & Delicious arrangement = LIFE. It reminds me of the PoM arrangement a bit (but I can't speak as to how much since I haven't seen it in a while) but the ending with Ayu was super cute.
-It must suck to be that new backup vocalist and be relegated to the position of Third [Vocal] Wheel. But damn, that girl's got a set of pipes, and I honestly think her voice works better with Ayu's than either Timmy or Princess' voices. That being said...Princess, girl, you look like a wannabe lolita cosplayer that got lost in JoAnn Fabrics. And you sound like you're trying to be the next Peco. Please, for the love of god, just stop.
-Lico and her smooching Ayu on the cheek/dancing all up on Enrique was giving me so much life omfg. You better work, bitch.