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Originally Posted by maxikot
Previous thread is full so here I'm starting a new one and i wanted to share something. Recently I showed to 2 close people of mine clips from Premium Showcase meaning "Whatever", "Connected" and "Angel (with Adagio for A). Earlier in the past 2 years together we managed to watch quite a number of Ayu's concerts cause i know that they always found sth entertaining and nice. Generally the most favourite concerts of them are Power of Music, Arena 2010, Arena 2005, Premium Countdown - those more or less. But after showing mentioned videos from this year's live i heard quite harsh comments like:
- whatever: "What a horrible arrangement" to which i replied that it's original one, then i was presented original file and i don't find it that different to say that suddenly it's horrible. And it was complained that it was missing original intro. I obviously would much more prefer original intro rather than "feel the love" but again, i don't find it as sth wow bad. Generally the whole performance was yuck cause of bad arrangement
- angel: "The song is boring, i learned its lyrics during first minutes, 2 lines of text, very plain, heard much better songs of her". Well personally i agree, also because angel was extended for the performance. I commented that this performance is more to be visually appealing cause she trained and did nicely those basic moves in the air. To that i was told that: "It's not a circus but music concert", "It's birtney - it's circus", "I'm not impressed".
- generally also they described her current status as being in the void when it comes to music production, i heard that Ayumi can create very nice and original songs like "Will" for instance and things that are shockingly bad. Really, he used such expression and i won't hide that i felt kind of bad after that. I mean, really...shockingly bad... Also not appreciating how hard she worked and it was really pleasing for me visually what she did before and during "Angel". I don't love the song too, but in my opinion she really nailed the performance...
Guys tell me, am i blind that maybe Ayu is really in really stupid shape now. I enjoy what she does and i agree that her current style is not sth i would find interesting if somebody introduced her to me now but I like her and for me she's been not only a performer/singer but simply i read her as a positive person. Maybe i was also felt slightly bad for no reason. After all each of us have right to criticise anything we don't like.
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You're not blind, I love ayu and what she does as well and imo the premium showcase was stunning. She was stunning, and I've made some of my friends watching it and they LOVED it, especially connected/terminal. I guess it's a problem of different tastes but don't let other people dictate your taste in music or in performances etc. you love her, keep doing so. I do!
(about the arrangement, see, I prefer when she does a new one or a different one from the original, while you and your friends may prefer the original. It's all about tastes, really ;D)