[News] Ayu to perform at Music Station 19 September

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by Yoake

Last year, in SONGS

You don't compare special episode centered on 1 single artist to a regular TV show.

[attractive nausea]

Def gonna be a medley, SEASONS needs to die forever tho, goodbye my hopes for Dearest lol

[oaristos]

Well, I'm not surprised but... at least she's singing three songs. I'm excited to see the outfits she's going to wear for each of them

[//ABEST]

oh right! totally forgot it never watched that performance

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I'm so bored with Seasons and Evolution
Though I don't get tired of M

If she were to perform evolution by herself + band I'd be all for it though. But I'm sure there'll be 30 people on stage lol

[Ryusei]

Funny thing is JUJU is singing her new cover song instead of maybe yasashisa de afureru you ni so I'm sure ayu could've worked a newer song in there

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Yeah tbh evolution doesn't really get mentioned by many people though.

M and Seasons are by far the most mentioned I think.

If you have them listen to choruses from various songs they generally know them. It's just they're not as memorable I guess.

Also almost everyone always says Maria instead of M lol.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Yeah tbh evolution doesn't really get mentioned by many people though.

M and Seasons are by far the most mentioned I think.

If you have them listen to choruses from various songs they generally know them. It's just they're not as memorable I guess.

Also almost everyone always says Maria instead of M lol.

There's that video of a comedian playing several pop girls and the chosen song was evolution (not only while playing Ayu, but all of them), so I guess the song is iconic enough. I believe A Song for XX is notorious too.

[Evan Odinson]

A song for XX is iconic af but maybe is not considerate "a hit" since it wasn't a single or something, I'm not sure tho, Dearest instead of SEASONS would have been something fresh and a totally throwback to I Am...

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

There's that video of a comedian playing several pop girls and the chosen song was evolution (not only while playing Ayu, but all of them), so I guess the song is iconic enough. I believe A Song for XX is notorious too.

Evolution is a big hit. I've seen several people break that one out at karaoke. A Song For Xx though is really more of a fan favorite and I don't feel that many people in the general public recognize it.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

There's that video of a comedian playing several pop girls and the chosen song was evolution (not only while playing Ayu, but all of them), so I guess the song is iconic enough. I believe A Song for XX is notorious too.

I didn't mean to say it's not famous/popular, but in my experience it's rarely brought up amongst the general population in comparison to SEASONS and M.

[EndOfTheWorld]

Thank you for the stream link.

[Ruan Borges]

Yay for 3 songs! About the choices, there's no surprise at all.

[maxikot]

There will be short versions almost for sure but maybe we could get MIJ evolution ^^

[stepYOU1234]

No huge surprises for a hit based show but happy M is in there.

[js_surrealism]

you like listening to her sing the same songs over and over again? great. many fans don't and would prefer to see something else.

[attractive nausea]

^ 1) It seems that Japanese fans prefer her to sing the same songs over and over instead of new stuff or underperformed old songs (someone pointed out that at TA tour 2015 some fans didn't even recognize/know Present when she sung it)
2) This Music Station's aim is not to please fans, its aim is to appeal to the general public who only remember the same old stuff from her peak, even your regular Music Station's aim is not to please fans, its purpose it to show the general public what's new and which new CD to buy.

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by Chris85

You don't compare special episode centered on 1 single artist to a regular TV show.

I don't get the purpose of your comment. A tv program is a tv program. And at a regular show as MS Ayu won't sing several songs as she can do it in a special show.

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by Yoake

I don't get the purpose of your comment. A tv program is a tv program. And at a regular show as MS Ayu won't sing several songs as she can do it in a special show.

We discussed here how many songs she usually gets to perform on a TV show among other artists. This time she will sing more than usual. So bringing up SONGS is ...

Originally Posted by attractive nausea

2) This Music Station's aim is not to please fans, its aim is to appeal to the general public who only remember the same old stuff from her peak, even your regular Music Station's aim is not to please fans, its purpose it to show the general public what's new and which new CD to buy.

THIS so much. I don't know why people don't get that.

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by Chris85

We discussed here how many songs she usually gets to perform on a TV show among other artists. This time she will sing more than usual. So bringing up SONGS is ...

Except that //ABEST didn't specify that he was only talking about music show with several artists and he didn't contest my answer as you did. So your comment was a bit incongruous. To be honest when I read your comment earlier I thought that you nitpicked but apparently it was just a misunderstanding. We didn't understand //ABEST's comment in the same way