Most disappointing ayu's concert

[love in music]

Originally Posted by Piccolo

Too much hate on Stadium 2002, ouch. I liked that one.

me too. it's one of my favorites

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by Tom Punks

I actually am probably one of her few fans who doesn't really enjoy her concerts that much. @_@ I mean, they're nice and big, but I think they're just so... cheesy? The choreography is weird and unimpressive (especially the flailing during ballads), and the costumes are so unappealing to me. Plus everything nowadays is recycled and I'm not a fan of her live vocals these days. ^^;

THIS! I laughed so hard at the arm flailing sections during her tours XD

[Crystal_Ageha]

Originally Posted by Tom Punks

I actually am probably one of her few fans who doesn't really enjoy her concerts that much. @_@ I mean, they're nice and big, but I think they're just so... cheesy? The choreography is weird and unimpressive (especially the flailing during ballads), and the costumes are so unappealing to me. Plus everything nowadays is recycled and I'm not a fan of her live vocals these days. ^^;...

I really like her concerts, but I agree that they're really cheesy and a bit too extravagant, lol.

[zyoeru]

Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

I wouldn't pick any of her first concerts... cause she was just starting! people couldn't ask for better xD


CDL 2001~2002 was terrible thou... they even had to eliminate songs from the TV version in the DVD. She seemed very annoyed back then with all the A BEST polemic going on.

What do you mean with the part about CDL0102?

[jiarongisme]

ASIA TOUR 2007 A

Boring. I hate it that they recycled the stage from BEST of CDL. The concepts of the performances were recycled too. :\

I love ARENA TOUR 2002 and STADIUM TOUR 2002 but the DVD editing butchered both concerts. Sigh.

[waterballoon]

ASIA TOUR 2007's DVD editing was gross too. But I really liked that concert: evolution, part of Me/Secret and kiss o' kill were omg!

[shizukanaotoko]

i actually LOVED the dome tour and how she stepped out of the globe... so cute~ i also find her voice most true to the original songs during that tour (not off-tune and hoarse like the 2000 tour) i would choose the 2000 tour as my least favorite considering that she had basically lost her voice~

[zyoeru]

I think I'm the only person who loves both 2000 tours.

[waterballoon]

I liked the 2000 tours... maybe except her hair. I sort of puked when I saw her perform SEASONS in the disgusting hair, eew clothes and cheesy butterfly wings lmfao

[Minttulatte]

ASIA TOUR 2008 and CDL 2007-2008 are the only ones I can remember now. I didn't like these two concerts at all. :/

[koumori]

Originally Posted by nemesisyume

I'm sorry but I can't put ''disappointing'' and ''ayus concert'' in the same post

Iawtc. <3 I like all her concerts..I sound like an ayu-stan, but she does have this huge stage presence which gives me shivers *o*

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by zyoeru

What do you mean with the part about CDL0102?

ohh that was the time when ayu was thinking about quitting. She seemed really annoyed at the start of the concert; like she didn't want to perform. She sang terribly all the first songs, she even lost her timing in SURREAL. They didn't put all of the songs that she sang that day in the DVD version because they were AWFUL, so that's why that DVD got so few songs xD I think they didn't put M, ASFxx and other 3 more.

http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/video/14.cdl0102.htm <--- this shows which songs weren't included, and also brings you to the screencaps of the concert.


But from the end of evolution, she started becoming a bit more confident, or something.. she seemed happy at the end of the concert maybe that's even the exact moment when she decided to keep on singing!

The only performance that I love from this concert is the Dearest one! it was really nice. Ohh and I liked Connected because it looked all really nice even that she had on a dog face x_x

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by zyoeru

I think I'm the only person who loves both 2000 tours.

Nope, I do too. And I actually liked her vocals in them. Not in the sense that they were technically great or anything, because they weren't but because they had a lot of real emotion to them - a raw quality.

Most disappointing for me I would probably have to say was PCDL. Which is a shame because I was really looking forward to it and I loved the set list.

[mi|kshake]

Yeah Ayumi's concerts do get quite cheesy towards the end but it does look like a lot of fun!

mi|kshake~

[Embleu]

I'm actually a fan of her earlier concerts because of the outré, avant-garde-without-being-too-bizarre visuals and their (apparent) incongruity with the lyrics/overall feel of the song. It's the same reason I like her music videos so much, really: if there is a connection, then it's super, super deep and shrouded in symbolism. Like the 2000 Concert Tour (especially its performance of Seasons with dancing clowns and a giant book) or Evolution from the Dome Tour, with Ayu dressed as a cowgirl and her dancers dressed as British palace guards...that's genius if I've ever seen it.

[keepsgettinbetter]

I was quite disappointed with ASIA TOUR 2007, because they put the documentary in with the live. I would have preferred it way more if they were seperated. :/

[Aisha_Angel]

I'd say best of CDL '06-07, Premium CDL '08-'09. The first one was just a WASTE of time and money...An excuse to recycle old costumes and setlists from concerts past. The former just had the most OFF THE *****ING* WALL costumes...I will NEVER forget the butterfly-fairy thing she wore. That thing was so cheaply made, she could have bought that outfit from K-mart's Halloween collection for kids. Sure there were a few good costumes, but they just pale in comparison to her past concerts.

And the setlist...*sigh* I thought it would be fun being able to vote for our favorite Ayu-songs and that with a longer running time would be a better experience, but I was dead wrong. I may have been able to *FINALLY* see Green, SCAR & in the corner live but most of the other songs were songs we've all heard before at least twice if not then a billion times.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by sanzo2011

Asia tour 08 ! too terrible ! although her vocal in concert tour 200's terrible but i love it the most , I want AYU not DIVA .

I actually was kind of disappointed with Asia Tour 08 too...

I'm not sure why.

I like her first concerts...there's just something about that era that I think she's lost in the last few years. I don't know what it is.

[keikeiaznqueen]

Originally Posted by emiko

I actually was kind of disappointed with Asia Tour 08 too...

I'm not sure why.

I like her first concerts...there's just something about that era that I think she's lost in the last few years. I don't know what it is.

I agree. I think something was lost. There's something about Ayu in her earlier years (I think between Concert tour ~ A Museum) that really shook me. Maybe it's because she was newer to touring than she is now-- her freshness gives her a different kind of aura on stage. Nowadays there isn't that feeling there anymore. On top of that, Ayu's concert concepts were a lot deeper before-- now she's often borderline cheesy (if not downright), or typical. The formula for her concerts is dead set.

Different tours have their own great qualities. I think, for example, Dome Tour 2001 and Stadium Tour 2002 were great for different reasons. Both Concert Tour and Dome Tour were sprinkled with symbolism in most parts of the performances, and if not that, then there's a raw sense of genuinity that only the young Ayu could give. Dome Tour was also great because there were just so many people-- I think the idea that Ayu was so *popular* adds to the atmosphere of a concert.

Stadium tour was great for similar reasons-- it was also huge, but then I think the whole open-air thing it had going on really added to it. Stadium Tour also had great vocals and you often saw a little Ayu against a huuuuge audience really clearly. I always thought that was great.

I think the most disappointing Ayu concert to me was CDL 07-08. I was really sad when I first saw the TV version, because-- my god... I was really worried about Ayu's vocals. Of course, her voice recovered and all, and the DVD version was nicely edited out so I wouldn't have to re-live those vocals from the TV version. But yeah, I was quite disappointed. It looked so promising.

PCDL ended up growing on me, but I was actually quite disappointed at first as well. I didn't like how she sang ballad after ballad in the same dress. I got bored by the time she started singing Scar, lol.

I was actually quite disappointed with MY STORY tour, which is weird... because it's a very popular and well-liked tour, but then it's probably because I heard so many good things about it that, when I actually watched it on DVD, I thought to myself, "Ehh, it's not that great... I like Stadium Tour more." I guess I just don't like the MY STORY and (miss) understood tour setlists. Those two albums didn't contain my favourites.

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