ayumi hamasaki 15th Anniversary TOUR ～A BEST LIVE～ V

[roanmy]

Originally Posted by channy

Shocked to hear she's fooling her audience with full-playbacks even during her anniversary concert tour. Obviously it's not even well done otherwise you guys would not have noticed it.

Biggest problem I have with this is poker face as her very first single, a song that is in some way reminiscent of her grandmother and she willingly lip-synchs it...

Her Grand mother passed away in Fuuoka while she was recording it in Tokyo, I doubt it bears good memories for her (in that sense).

[JEWELian]

Nem and I with cosplayers <3

[alanphun]

Did she perform sakura?

[ayumisrael]

That's the problem with BEST performances. It's like how it was with BEST of CDL 2006~2007, it was pretty dull compared to other CDLs/shows because it was more of a performances outtakes from previous tours, so this one looks like it as well (and it's not only with ayu). The Japanese must love these though. XD

I wouldn't really accuse ayu of this, but that's like a "necessity" every couple years for the japanese fans/audience.

Kinda like BEST of CDL 06-07 had the A Song for xx standout performance and this one has the HEAVEN/JEWEL one.

And Nice photo Nem and JEWELian <3
Maybe foreign fans "should stay away" from BEST lives, unelss you have never seen ayu before

So she lip-synched poker face~Fly high and HONEY? They are short versions but I wonder why?

[axmish87]

^^ Woooo Nem cool :-D
I am so glad that you guys were able to see Ayu
Have fun while you are there

[ayu-michan]

It feels like the Japanese likes BEST better, while us foreigners prefer a concert with an actual theme (laugh)

[Chris85]

Yesterday's setlist is up.
No Sakura. July 1st at encore.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/giants88pride/15439419.html
I'm so happy that I got to see Sakura performance, I think it was one of the standout moments of this tour.

[ayu-michan]

^ Reallyy?? I wonder why she didn't perform it.. hope it's only technical issues

[mizuki-7]

I hope the final will be slightly different =)

[freedreamer]

any recommendations as to buy a B3-5 block, which are the two areas beside the circle stage OR the C3-5 block which is the area in front and diagonally left/right of the circle stage

Spoiler:

[ayumisrael]

At least she re-recorded poker face, Fly high and HONEY? lol I mean I hope she didn't use poker face from 2003 lives XD

[mizuki-7]

No she didn't ^^ but I thought that she had re-recorded only poker face the two others seemed live lol

[ayumisrael]

LOL seriously? So poker face sounds exactly like A museum/TA live vocals?

[mizuki-7]

No no XD sorry it's a re-recorded version with her current voice

[Andrenekoi]

Are you guys sure it's lip-synched? People complained more than once about fake lip-synching...

(and felt for obvious lip-synching constantly too \o\)

@channy
She did it for most of her career, during almost all of her tours. I'm surprised someone still is surprised.

[khan5]

is ayu the only one out of koda kumi, utada hikaru, and namie amuro to lip sync at her lives

[Andrenekoi]

^Well, at least she is not screwing her voice singing those with the high pitched voice... Those songs are far way her healthy range @_@

Originally Posted by khan5

is ayu the only one out of koda kumi, utada hikaru, and namie amuro to lip sync at her lives

Hikki doesn't lip sync.
Ayu and Koda do sometimes.
Namie did it a lot, but not at all on recent years. She uses heavy backtrack during some performances, what some picky people don't consider "real" live singing (I'm not included).

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Namie did it a lot, but not at all on recent years. She uses heavy backtrack during some performances, what some picky people don't consider "real" live singing (I'm not included).

Namie sometimes uses a backing track, but I can't think of a performance that I've seen that is full out lip synch, let alone "a lot".

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Namie sometimes uses a backing track, but I can't think of a performance that I've seen that is full out lip synch, let alone "a lot".

I remember seeing her lip-synching a lot during her TK days/early 2000s, not a whole concert, but enough so she could do her dancing. I can't remember right now the performances (both because I didn't like the concerts enough and because it has some years now since I watched them), but I remember I was surprised because I was used to her not lip-synching at all.

But nothing wrong with that, some older Ayu concerts are a lipsynching feast too (AT03-04 comes to mind).

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Are you guys sure it's lip-synched?

100 % sure. I have several recorded concerts from this tour, so I put one track onto another and Poker face, Fly High and Honey are completely identical!
What makes it hard for fans to identify that it's playback is that this time she uses slightly off-key pre-recordered version, so it sounds pretty live.