[News] Ayu to perform at Music Station 31 March

[Aderianu]

[attractive nausea]

She indeed lost her charisma and her overacting just makes her look like a parodia of herself, i agree with people saying it looks like she's trying too hard, even tho they're haters lol If i wasn't a fan i'd also say that it's time for her to retire.
Appearing on tv is not a good idea anymore, it's bad for her image, which is sad.

[Zeke.]

I've been watching ayuready for the first time and it is as if she is an entirely different person compared to her attitude and character in those days.

[relmy]

I think her stylist did her dirty with the hair and make up, but when you look at the state X are in... she looks pretty damn good. People on twitter just want to put her down though.

[TheRainbow]

Eh not good. Also, Timmy took me out of the moment when I saw him--he didn't fit the vibe at all.

[AyumiAi]

Originally Posted by UHPlus

It's times like these that we misses this ayu

Sigh... good times good ol days...

[truehappiness]

TO BE probably could have been changed a bit to fit her vocals now more especially towards the chorus. The original as it is kind of requires her to sing out of her nose and she rarely if ever does that anymore.

ourselves sounded nice I think. It'll probably be in the tour with the attention it's getting thus far.

I'd say this is probably a result of not warming up properly and not performing much in the months after CDL. I think she almost always never has proper warmups prior to MS performances which is why they are always so hit or miss. Even when MS appearances were normal for her, the vocals were shaky back then and it's even more obvious now since we only get maybe one a year at best.

And part of the issue is that since she doesn't appear on TV much in recent years and instead tours all the time, she basically goes into live performance mode which doesn't really fit TV as much as it does the stage. The only thing that could help is that if she was told to reel it back a bit since TV performances don't need that sort of exaggerated nature to them or if she got used to doing TV lives again but it may be better to just stop appearing on TV since her presence is already rather small on these sorts of shows. Not to mention that just about all the shows she used to appear on have stopped airing.

[AyuGAME]

To be is not that bad..but also not good..just ok
Ourselves is quiet good..not perfect...but not bad...
Overall.,not the best performance but not the worst performance...6/10

[SKYia]

I like both, her vocals won't be better in TV programme, looks like her team isn't responsible for the technical side there and it's always very rough and revealing, I mean, she can't conceal the faults of her voice and technique there, it was so much worse in the past, this isn't perfect, but wasn't a catastrophy at least.

[melissalove]

Ayu just needs to understand that her current voice doesn't fit with her older songs. Say what you will but The vocals were horrible.

[TeddyGrahams]

She still screaming/shouting, but this wasn't as terrible as I've would thought. After seeing some comments, I braced myself for the worst like the time she did evolution a while back. It's not great either. It's probably something to accept her as we move forward. Haha.

[Chibi-Chan]

It was horrible. As sad as it is, but her vocals were great compared to for example CDL. Furthermore she lost everything that once made her Hamasaki Ayumi when performing.
When I saw the selfie with YOSHIKI posted on facebook I found it cute, because YOSHIKI felt like taking a photo with her and I love him. But already her expression on this photo makes me wanna puke.
Back then it felt as if she was performing just for herself and nobody else and her charisma was amazing. Now it feels as if she is literally screaming "LOOK AT ME!!!!!!11!!!1!!1!!".
I'm a fan for 14 years and I'm honestly grieving for my Ayu fandom.

[EndOfTheWorld]

After listening again to some videos on instagram of the performances, I think that Ayu's voice itself is still quite good. It's the way she sings that makes her sound bad.
Maybe she has just lost too much hearing from her ears?
I may have missed it since I don't understand Japanese but, was there any mention of the upcoming tour and anniversary? It seemed like Ayu didn't promote anything. She simply showed up to sing two songs and that's it.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by melissalove

Ayu just needs to understand that her current voice doesn't fit with her older songs. Say what you will but The vocals were horrible.

I think she just needs to ease up on certain things she does when singing notes that she formerly met with the the squeaky nasal voice of the early part of her career but now ends up 'shouting' those notes. I'm sure there is a solution out there but it's really up to her to figure it out.

[yabieru]

Lol @ people crying like it's the end of the world for one TV performance


Yep. Ayu's dead. Definitely

[errikkutrancex]

Indeed, her performance is really bad on To Be...what a shame ! Is she really ready for her future tour ??? I really worry 'cause I'll go to see her in concert, but I hope she won't sing that bad... (I know she's really abble to be better/greater than that !!)

[acia2004]

It was a disaster, I can't watch this stopped at the middle of To Be. This year I''ll go to see her live but now...
Of course I'm still her fun but it's painfull watching her today. So painfull because we can't see her like she was in her "old era".
I can't believe that she doesn't know it.

[KillTime111]

AHh can`t wait to watch this. It`d be nice when she does medleys to incorporate a new song and an old song. These are classic Ayu songs.

[SEOHYUN]

I mean... the stage setup was nice, with the chains and the wires and all the things. At least the staff tried.

[mi|kshake]

Wow, I mean these definitely aren't my favourite performances of Ayu's, but I'm sure as hell not writing her off yet! I get too much enjoyment from her music, PVs and performances for that.