Thoughts on CDL 09-10?

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Originally Posted by Mai82Go

I sometimes think Ayu uses soooo many dancers because she wants that they feel needed or something. Ayumi Hamasaki is a company and Ayu is the CEO who loves all her staff. If she wouldn't use them, they would be unemployed. So she uses them, so that they are satisfied. Ayu's really become a package deal, you cannot get her alone, it's always the entourage with her. Probably one of the reasons why the teddy bear Performance gets so much praise. Only Ayu, nothing else. Actually I hated the MC part and miss the times when it was just her and Yo-chan talking. Those dancers are not even funny....*sigh*

I don't think she should totally drop the dancers, but I feel they are not needed for the rock parts (like LOVE 'n' HATE and identity from AT09) and the ballad parts like at AT09 and Future Classics. It doesn't look good unless it's songs like EnergizE that are real cute or the high energy ones like evolution. I do enjoy them at times like that.



See... I wish Ayu could be more like this. (I don't even like P!NK that much. haha) P!NK has dancers and backup singers and everything-- but she's separate from them and her presence over power's theirs. In Ayu's case, it's like she becomes one with them and there is one stage presence. That's what irks me. Sometimes Ayu even seems to get lost up there and if it wasn't for her voice, I'd be like "AYUUUU~~~?" I love performances like ASFXX from AT08 where you feel like WOW. THAT'S AYUMI HAMASAKI to performances like LOVE 'n' HATE from AT09 where it's like "Okayy~ I hear Ayu but there's so many people!"