Anyone else HATE CDL 06-07?

[vivboulevard]

What happened with this years CDL? Ayu's vocals were pretty bad, the costumes were TERRIBLE (but I understand most were old rehashed ones) and the stage and lighting and dancing just looked dead, empty and boring... Worst of all it just looked really cheap, tacky, dated and embarassing... For instance the scenes of them wheeling Ayumi around on the trays...

SUCH a step back from last years CDL and arena tour 06. I'm hoping that it was just because she had to redo segments from older CDL's. Something about the whole way it was filmed and looked felt completely off compared to all other Ayu performances lately. Do you think that it will somehow magically be improved once they edit it for the DVD?

[ayushiteru]

of course it will....a lot of edition,etc,etc,etc...

and ayu seems fat in some costumes(fly high and no way to say)

[..:Hot:Like:Wow:..]

I did'nt like it that much either.

[Ayumiko]

I think it will be better when they put it on dvd...the sound might be edited and some camera angles might be different.

[Qt Mashi]

Originally Posted by Ayumiko

I think it will be better when they put it on dvd...the sound might be edited and some camera angles might be different.

yup that's why i havent seen any performances od this CDL, i'm waiting for my DVD!

[Tasked]

it looked cheap because they used ALL THESE EXPENSIVE stuff, but didn't use enough money to make those stuff as perfect as in the Arena Tour's... It still is the most expensive CDL Ayu ever did though.. On the DVD the vocals and instruments will be enhanched and it'll be great then.
Also; don't compare ATs with CDLs too much, because ATs are way more important, and they put sooo much more effort in them. (A CDL is just a 2-concert-show)

[Rain_RuLez]

What was most distressing and disappointing to me was the lack of true emotion in her singing... She performed well, but nothing was overly emotional like we're so used to seeing.

I also am kinda disappointed there weren't more ballads in this Countdown...
The best performance vocally & instrumentally that was good visually as well was A Song for XX. She did a good job with it.


By the way, you can tell she had more surgery. Her face is alot more slender and defined than previously.

[Dustie]

Originally Posted by Rain_RuLez

By the way, you can tell she had more surgery. Her face is alot more slender and defined than previously.

Actually, that's called growing up. She's closing to 30. She can't have a baby round face.

[Rain_RuLez]

Originally Posted by Dustie

Actually, that's called growing up. She's closing to 30. She can't have a baby round face.

Actually, it's called plastic surgery =)

Bones are bones. Her nose also looked a bit more slender.

These changes also don't happen over the course of a few months. Watch the Jewel & momentum PVs. Her face is even different there.

[Kikaru]

Originally Posted by Rain_RuLez

Actually, it's called plastic surgery =)

Bones are bones. Her nose also looked a bit more slender.

These changes also don't happen over the course of a few months. Watch the Jewel & momentum PVs. Her face is even different there.

Actually, the shape of your face change pretty constantly due to the amount of weight you put on and stuff.

Plastic surgery isn't the only thing that can change facial features.

And I think CDL is much more of the "you-have-to-be-there" concert than than, say, her arena tours.

*shrugs*

Second note, Beautiful Fighters sounds so much better on the TV version after the mechanical voice toned wayyyyyyy down.

[Dustie]

Originally Posted by Rain_RuLez

Actually, it's called plastic surgery =)

Bones are bones. Her nose also looked a bit more slender.

These changes also don't happen over the course of a few months. Watch the Jewel & momentum PVs. Her face is even different there.

It's the same... it's just the lighting and makeup fooling you... she might look tiny different on the PVs or concerts or whatever, but she looks exactly the same in all the backstage stuff. There is now way she could go for a plastic surgery in recent months, she wouldn't have time to recover, which takes at least a month for the scars and skin colour irregulations coused by the surgery to heal completly...

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Rain_RuLez

Actually, it's called plastic surgery =)

Bones are bones. Her nose also looked a bit more slender.

These changes also don't happen over the course of a few months. Watch the Jewel & momentum PVs. Her face is even different there.

She looks exactly the same to me. : And for the record, yes your face does get slimmer with age.

If I were to rank the CDLs:
1. CDL 00-01
2. CDL 06-07
3. CDL 04-05
4. CDL 05-06
5. CDL 02-03
6. CDL 01-02

[Yukitora]

^more surgery? More defined and slender?

I haven't seen this yet, but thanks for stopping me from seeing it The DVD ver will hopefully be much better though.

[AyUmIXx]

i found this CDL 06-07 as a very interesting CDL ever..
it's really a good idea of using the same old costumes on stage..
with the new arrangement of music, probably..

[ayu_ready?]

you musn't compare CDL to AT, because CDL is a middle-class live, real 'countdown' ya know, and ARENA is a n expensive thingy, very well filmed and made.
always.

just a question: is it worse than CDL04-05?

[Ayumiko]

I never compare cdls to ATs because obviously more money and effort will be put into ATs than cdls. I thought ayu did alright in this cdl...sure its not surprising since majority of the performances she performed already in her previous ATs...but I believe this is her most expensive cdl.

[Norrel]

Sadly, people still do compare her CDLs to her Arena Tours..

[Kodayumi]

Definitely not me, its a good one, i think, at least for me.

[simonlau]

i just saw that on youtube
and i cant say i hate it
but just dont like it

[Diana]

I knew it was Best Of CDL.... But I didn`t know that they will put the same costumes Grrr...It`s not fun, I saw it all before right? That`s why I don`t like it.