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

[AyUmIXx]

i hope it'll be really something awesome.
so we gonna have an album earlier than before this year?

[chikocchi]

I'm excited for a new album!
Hopefully a lot more creativity and effort goes into it than went into "LOVE again" :\

[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Please refresh my memory. Because I only remember her saying that she would go anywhere where people listen to her...

Ayu said once that she doesn't want to start a career overseas, like releasing CDs. I guess he is just assuming from that Ayu also doesn't want to tour overseas....

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Gackt is hardly a musician and more like a hack. lol.. I like what I did there.

Ayumi has already demonstrated she can do a stripped down tour. It was called Power of Music. The first round of shows were incredibility minimalistic.
There is a reason why she doesnt go over seas, because she doesnt want too. She has already said she has no desire to do it so why?
Her main audience is in Japan. Thats it. Theres not reason for her to go to Europe or america for her MAYBE 100's of fans.
She might to do another asia tour one day, who knows. But the way she is being hated by her international 'fans' why bother?

You've gotta be kidding about the Gackt comment. He writes his own lyrics, music, often times arrangements as well, plays several instruments botg live and on his albums etc. If he isnt a musician then i dont know who is. Also, Power of Music was a far cry from a band in a hall or club.

Don't get me wrong, my favorite ayu show ever is the TA limited live. But it's as you said, if she wanted to do that kind of show again she would, but clearly she doesn't. Or at least doesn't think it's worth doing - as you put it for a few hundred fans. Gackt and Hyde as well do think its worth it however and I think them being actual musicians probably is a factor. Hyde could be selling out stadiums with l'arc yet he chooses to spend a lot of his time solo touring small venues around the world. That says to me that they are more concerned with their music being heard by as many people as possible, rather than going only where it will be most profitable for them, their companies etc. and I'm not saying one is bad, but it's just obviously a very different way of doing things that I'm not sure ayu is willing to do.

[alternarist]

Originally Posted by ayu-butterfly

According to AyuAngel's translation from TA, she'll be working on her new album after a-nation.

it could be 5 mini albums before we get a full album

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Awesome. Don't care about the format as long as she keeps releasing stuff

hell yeah she will!!

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Sigh, I don't know, but I really do miss singles.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Gackt is hardly a musician and more like a hack. lol.. I like what I did there.

Ayumi has already demonstrated she can do a stripped down tour. It was called Power of Music. The first round of shows were incredibility minimalistic.
There is a reason why she doesnt go over seas, because she doesnt want too. She has already said she has no desire to do it so why?
Her main audience is in Japan. Thats it. Theres not reason for her to go to Europe or america for her MAYBE 100's of fans.
She might to do another asia tour one day, who knows. But the way she is being hated by her international 'fans' why bother?

Here's some info for you: he' plays around 10 instruments - piano, bass, drums,guitar, shamisen, violin, trumpet, tuba, horn, trombone; is a trained min'yō singer (traditional type of japanese singing); composes 99% of his music as well as writes lyrics and also does arangements. SERIOUSLY, NOW.

Also you are probably only one TRUE FAN WHO LOVES AYU UNCONDITIONALY around the world i asume?.... And PoM? Really? the only concert u can call REALLY stripped down to almost nothing is a limited TA one, THAT was stripped down. Sure PoM was quite simple compared to her usual pompastic stuff but nowhere near as stripped down as TA limited one. She could take TA limited one overseas, no way PoM...That would be wayyyyy too expensive.

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Yeah, I was going to bring up Gackt as well. He obviously has no problem with stripping down his shows and just playing. He has played all over the world now. But, the sad truth is that there is a difference between him and Ayumi - Gackt is a musician.

Well i think for GACKT it was easier because he's in a rock/VK world and lots of VK/rock bands went overseas so he had a bit of an idea what to expect. I franckly dunno how j-pop does overseas. And fact is that yeah they are very different.

[saigodansu]

Gackt a hack and Ayu a musician? If Ayu was on Gackts level, no one would need to plead for the return of CREA because CREA would compose all her music. She lets her music be dumbed down by the Avex way of doing things. Her music now is getting a bunch of demos, picking 5-18 out depending on if its a single or album and then trying to make some lyrics conform to demos that have been around for who knows how long. Gackt writes his own music and lyrics exactly how he chooses as each recording session comes around and doesn't need to add or remove things from lyrics to make it look like the song is written about some love in his life created for publicity. I would place Ayumi's voice at #1 & Gackt's in the top 10 all time I want to hear over and over again on CDs, but for Gackt I would place him top 5 in talent among all celebrities, while Ayumi presently I wouldn't place in the top 100. Her voice is great, her lyrics conform to whatever the current image is Avex wants her to portray and her music writing has disappeared & publicly she's made herself look like a joke/***** for publicity the last 3-4 years instead of the very endearing sweet image she once had.

[kaled kalil]

You guys are forgetting that an intimate live (which TA Live was) is more about the vocals than the whole production, maybe that's why Ayu doesn't wanna do this anymore.

It has been a long time since Ayu's concert aren't "Ayumi Hamasaki - the singer", but "Ayumi Hamasaki - the show", with a lot of thing going on around her. I mean, she doesn't dance anymore (not that this was her thing, but at least she danced one song per concert, like Inspire, Real me, appears @ AT07...), and she's almost never alone on stage...

I know her vocals are getting better, but I think she's not confortable enought to focus a whole concert around that.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by saigodansu

Gackt a hack and Ayu a musician? If Ayu was on Gackts level, no one would need to plead for the return of CREA because CREA would compose all her music. She lets her music be dumbed down by the Avex way of doing things. Her music now is getting a bunch of demos, picking 5-18 out depending on if its a single or album and then trying to make some lyrics conform to demos that have been around for who knows how long. Gackt writes his own music and lyrics exactly how he chooses as each recording session comes around and doesn't need to add or remove things from lyrics to make it look like the song is written about some love in his life created for publicity. I would place Ayumi's voice at #1 & Gackt's in the top 10 all time I want to hear over and over again on CDs, but for Gackt I would place him top 5 in talent among all celebrities, while Ayumi presently I wouldn't place in the top 100. Her voice is great, her lyrics conform to whatever the current image is Avex wants her to portray and her music writing has disappeared & publicly she's made herself look like a joke/***** for publicity the last 3-4 years instead of the very endearing sweet image she once had.

Gackt's music has sucks since REDEMPTION and that was released in 2006. Ayu didn't even begin to stumble until 2009.

[koumori]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

Gackt's music has sucks since REDEMPTION and that was released in 2006. Ayu didn't even begin to stumble until 2009.

Do you sometimes mistake your opinion for fact? People are stating facts about why he's a musician, so your comment is pretty random lol

[TeamAyu2004]

Well, to be fair they are BOTH musicians. the defiantion of musician is:

A musician (or "instrumentalist") is a person who plays a musical instrument, especially (although not necessarily) as a profession, or is musically talented.[1] Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music. A person who makes music a profession, anyone (professional or not) who is skilled in making music or performing music creatively, or one who composes, conducts, or performs music (especially instrumental music) can be called a musician.

The bolded is for ayumi. As for who is the 'better' musician, thats a matter of personal preference and I think I made it clear where GACKT stands in my book. (Also just to point out, just because someone can do something doesnt mean they should, or that they are any good at it).

[ayu-butterfly]

Originally Posted by alternarist

it could be 5 mini albums before we get a full album

I hope not lol I'd rather a new single than another mini.

[marty]

^
If the minis would be anything like LOVE or again, they'd pratically be singles anyway, lol.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

You guys are forgetting that an intimate live (which TA Live was) is more about the vocals than the whole production, maybe that's why Ayu doesn't wanna do this anymore.

It has been a long time since Ayu's concert aren't "Ayumi Hamasaki - the singer", but "Ayumi Hamasaki - the show", with a lot of thing going on around her. I mean, she doesn't dance anymore (not that this was her thing, but at least she danced one song per concert, like Inspire, Real me, appears @ AT07...), and she's almost never alone on stage...

I know her vocals are getting better, but I think she's not confortable enought to focus a whole concert around that.

She isn't dancing because she is singing live...

[mizuki-7]

^
She dancing during AT 2010 and this one was full live too ! She also dancing a little during AT 2012 but the general theme of this show was not into this at all but it's not like if her recent songs were oriented dance ...

[AyUmIXx]

Originally Posted by ayu-michan

I got lost just from looking at arguments.. But anyway, I think the kind of music ayu released recently is not that terrible. She's not the person she was years ago, now she is all grown up, and I respect her thoughts and whatever she is trying to show us.

i agree.

and i also wish that ayu'd do another limited TA tour in small halls, just her, live band, back up vocals and few female dancers.

[*hearT_Place*]

For people who have been to the tour already, how early would you recommend getting there before the goods stands open?

[mizuki-7]

With a more positive note she sings teddy bear today =)

[jiarongisme]

Originally Posted by mizuki-7

With a more positive note she sings teddy bear today =)

Finally something on-topic.

It's great that she sang teddy bear. I hope it sounds good.