ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2022-2023 A 〜Remember you〜

[truehappiness]

She was laying down for a lot of Because of You and is this LOVE? sounded very very different compared to BoY. I think that she sang some of Because of You but a lot of it was assisted heavily.

I think the shouting is part of a side effect of being half (or more) deaf along with trying to compensate for new vocal technique in songs that she was normally very nasal for during the high notes. It's not that bad though, there's just some songs she really can't do anymore unless she alters the key or how it's performed.

When it comes to using heavy backing tracks, I think it's more to save the artist's vocals for whatever is to come. I see Celine fans talk about this too because she performs so much and some of the grander parts of songs she has a track she always lips to and then sings other parts of the song seamlessly. It is better to think of it as a break for the artist than being done for other reasons whatever they are thought to be.

[chu-lips]

Any translation lyrics for not remember you.... please...

[Andrenekoi]

@truehappiness
Yeah, not judging or anything. I follow several artists that lip-sync way more without any health issue.

@chu-lips
(Not) remember you translation: https://lyricskpop.net/lyrics/ayumi-...h-translation/

[koumori]

There is also this translation, originally posted in the AHS Discord. Full credit goes to remove-mom.

Spoiler:

[Surreal17]

Wow, these lyrics feel so different coming from ayu, but I like them!

[natalaxie]

I love this translation! It's interesting the lyrics turn from criticism to self-criticism :S

[URANUS]

Those lyrics are definitely directed to those dancers that she fired due to the real estate scam. Wow

[SKYia]

Originally Posted by URANUS

Those lyrics are definitely directed to those dancers that she fired due to the real estate scam. Wow

real estate scam? do we have any thread explaining what happened? It's the first time I hear about a scam

[brener]

Gotta watch it asap!

[visionfactory]

Thanks for the translations! This sounds like almost another songwriter from the ayu we are used to, nice for a change ^_^

[brener]

(NOT) Remember you, which is one of the best songs of the album imo, does deserve another live performance, I got the concept that she was like denouncing someone to the media/court, and it was the intro so she wouldnt be all dancing and jumping, that's why this song deserves more live performances, more energic ones with her walking around the stage and acting fierce <3

[Yoake]

The concert is not bad but I'm worried about her ears' health. From November we could see and hear there is something wrong. She couldn't clearly hear herself and she didn't stop to focus to try to sing well while she was singing off-key 95% of the time. I don't count Moments and M because I don't believe that she can sing two songs (and one of her most difficult song of her discography) in a row almost perfectly while all the rest from November to B&G was mostly bad. They were surely lip-synced. During Next level she was slightly out of time with the instrumental at a moment.
I can understand why she burst into tears in Love song.
That's sad because I believe that she trained to sing so much in spite of her half-deafness (the beginning of cdl and the last TV lives proved it, she can control her voice) but loud music during concert killed all her efforts.