Thoughts on PCDL '08-'09

[majrakun]

What's up, Fairy Princess Ayu? Can't afford to buy real angel wings for ANGEL'S SONG since you tore them apart for Endless Sorrow? And all that fur is too distracting.

\I wonder if she purposely wanted that tacky cute atmosphere, what with the dancers having neon blue and green 60's hairstyles. *shudders*And then in the between all that, Gomi the magician was among them as well. GOMI, the manry man.

The part where Shuya "attempted" to give her presents were funny though, his reactions were so comical when she rejected them. But she got the best of them all And then they were separated by one of the green-haired girls, who could probably be Midoring. Daym, is there some sort of love triangle going on here? XD

But their outfits at that time were a recycle of last year's RAINBOW-evo-B&G-glitter (yeah you get the point), with a few added blings. I'm still not sure who did better.

And then mister solo's outfit during the ballads. Come on, winter overcoat, LEATHER pants, and a scarf? If you're so cold, why don't you put a shirt on? XD It's okay, you're still awesome for doing two solos.

The multi-coloured thingamajig isn't that bad. At least it looked much better than on pictures. I actually quite like it. But as for the dancers (again) TRACKSUITS?! A few of them were even doing aerobic moves during the countdown. Mocking themselves, much?

My favourite outfit is definitely In The Corner's. Man-Ayu, you should make more appearances in the future! I hope this will be an inspiration for some future performances, especially given the fans' reactions to it! <3

Yeah yeah, I'm ranting about something else other than her vocals.

[freedreamer]

U noe because of this CDL, i actually burned a CD for myself with the rarer songs...and songs that she wont release on the BEST album(unless it's fan-picked)...old songs..and some recent...
sadly...I dun have POWDER SNOW without the ASfXX's vocals...damn..

1-WE WISH
2-Connected
3-too late
4-And Then
5-Naturally
6-End of the World
7-Heartplace
8-HOPE or PAIN
9-Over
10-SCAR
11-Will
12-In The Corner
13-everywhere nowhere
14-ANGEL'S SONG
15-HONEY
16-End roll
17-rainy day

i could have added Key, teddy bear, Dolls but these songs kinda stood out more...

i quite like the flow of all these.
Heartplace ~ HOPE or PAIN because it has strings and rock.

[Ayumiko]

Finally finished watching the main concert and I have to say I really love it! CDL 07-08 was my fav cdl and this topped it. Ayu looked gorgeous! seriously! gorgeous! She definitely lost some weight. Her vocals were very good. I'm very pleased with that. The performances were very excellent. I really like all the performances minus Angel's song coz of the crazy outfit. I can see ayu and her staff put a lot of effort into planning this cdl. As for the stage, its similar to last year's but better...I like it a lot better actually...and looks higher budget. I really like the lighting.

btw...Maro is so much better than shuya. The lion dance part...omg...he looked so cool doing his martial art/dance moves. Shuya's solo dance part...>_>...its just like his other ones.

[Diana]

Oh well.. I'm currently watching PCDL And I came to ANGEL'S SONG.. The singing was ok... Until the first chorus when she instead "Kimi no se ni tenshi no hane wo mita" sang "Kimi no se ni tenshi no hane wo motsu" lol You can see by moves of her mouth I was like: PLAYBACK!! And I thought HONEY was on playback...haha.
So did anyone else find something similar?

[pommy48]

hmm heard she messes up on Over too

[Diana]

Really? I just skipped few performances yesterday, I'm gonna see what she missed
And yeah, I noticed that she always has something on her right wrist! Is it because of surgery? First i thought she didn't hurt her hand at all because she moved it too much/too normally..

[prussian blue]

she sang wrongly in the last part of mirrorcle world too, right? the ye ye ye part, she was not in the right timing.

[Ayumi_lover]

^ i think it because of damaged file, all here downloading it but it is damaged, and there is still no file from other source

[LacusClyne]

vogue feels like lip sych too, but ANGEL's SONG is 100% lipsych, coz it's playing 'hana wo mita', but her lip was singing , 'hana wo motsu'.

see 3.12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswiJh_3pyo

[Diana]

Originally Posted by pommy408

hmm heard she messes up on Over too

I just saw Over, I think she didn't miss. :/ On Ayuprimenova are lyrics
"jikan ga nagare" but she sings "toki ga nagare" and I think it's translators mistake, cause on real mp3 is toki Correct me if I'm wrong!

Originally Posted by prussian blue

she sang wrongly in the last part of mirrorcle world too, right? the ye ye ye part, she was not in the right timing.

Really? When I watch it I'll see xD

Originally Posted by Ayumi_lover

^ i think it because of damaged file, all here downloading it but it is damaged, and there is still no file from other source

It's like Lacus sad, it's too obvious for ANGEL'S SONG. I also thought because it's damaged file but then I remembered 2nd chorus lyrics...

Originally Posted by LacusClyne

vogue feels like lip sych too, but ANGEL's SONG is 100% lipsych, coz it's playing 'hana wo mita', but her lip was singing , 'hana wo motsu'.

see 3.12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswiJh_3pyo

I skipped half of vogue because it started to iritate me lol

[LacusClyne]

^how does it irritates you? i thought it's ok?

[se7entheaven]

i think the last part of over wasnt lipped

[majrakun]

Oh man, will this be another lipsyncing "discussion" thread? Why can't we just keep it in the "Thoughts on PCDL" thread. It's where it originated from. Those observations were already mentioned over there too. :/

[ayumisrael]

I didn't see the concert yet, just heard some MP3s and ayu's vocals are GREAT.
Has to be one of the greatest shows ever!!!
For lypsincing maybe just on ANGEL'S SONG and Over.

[maikaru]

Originally Posted by majrakun

What's up, Fairy Princess Ayu? Can't afford to buy real angel wings for ANGEL'S SONG since you tore them apart for Endless Sorrow? And all that fur is too distracting.

\I wonder if she purposely wanted that tacky cute atmosphere, what with the dancers having neon blue and green 60's hairstyles. *shudders*And then in the between all that, Gomi the magician was among them as well. GOMI, the manry man.

The multi-coloured thingamajig isn't that bad. At least it looked much better than on pictures. I actually quite like it. But as for the dancers (again) TRACKSUITS?! A few of them were even doing aerobic moves during the countdown. Mocking themselves, much?

I think all these costumes are to remind people of past ayu.
Like, in one concert she had people on stilts in ridiculous costumes.
That's more embarrassing. ahaha.

But then yeah, these costumes really remind of the old old concerts.
I realllly loved Angel's Song ones.. ahaha.

And remember, didnt she only have one wing in Endless sorrow? =[
ahaha

Originally Posted by Ayumiko

btw...Maro is so much better than shuya. The lion dance part...omg...he looked so cool doing his martial art/dance moves. Shuya's solo dance part...>_>...its just like his other ones.

I know!!!
Maro was so cool, when he was on the lions.
And so cute as the baby lion!!~~~
I wish there were more of him.
I think he even looks better than SHU-YA.

[Diana]

GREEN/Will - it's pretty nice I just think that wig is bleh!

vogue/HONEY/ANGEL'S SONG - ok, it's cute, liked HONEY perf, just didn't like AS

End of the World/Heartplace - For the first song chorus was awful! I liked Heartplace very much, just the begining is bad when she does those moves

Real me/ And Then~Naturally/In The Corner - everything was great!! Expect outfits :/

POWDER SNOW/HOPE or PAIN/Over/SCAR - LOVE IT!! I'll start to listen more to POWDER SNOW! And I am so glad she chose other songs to sing

SIGNAL ~ Hana ~ too late/UNITE!/SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL - noppeee.. just SURREAL!

Who.. /Trauma/independent/everywhere nowhere - everything was nice It was actually nice to see Trauma!
Mirrorcle World - it was ok, she uses the same thing all the time so i was a little disappointed because of the outfits :/

[Maemi]

Her outfits were awful. I liked very much GREEN, Will, MW, Over and In The Corner. And Then - Naturally were really cool <3

The whole concert was ok, but nothing special ._. The beginning was just amazing.

[Raleigh]

Here's my mini-review:

The first video was really really neat. I liked the offshots a lot. They really made it look epic and very professional. I liked it a lot. The intro for GREEN looks low a bit low budget but it was a good job from her backup dancers. The dragons were pretty neat. I enjoyed the performance for both GREEN and Will. The fact that she still danced a little and put in effort was a good thing. However I would've preferred Will to be sung in a kimono, even if she used the same one from GREEN.

The pink outfit for vogue was out of place. Even the backup singers had a more appropriate outfit... It's supposed to be an oriental/Asiatic song. The mini-choreography was nice but if they used the fans again it would've been so much nicer. I'm guessing they didn't want to include an interlude or something so she changed her outfit before. HONEY was pretty cute and fun to watch. She looked like she was enjoying it so much. ANGEL'S SONG left me with no words. First I saw Ayu's outfit and wondered if she borrowed Kumi's stylist. Because that was ...tacky. Well, a fashion disaster once in a while is acceptable. The whole performance was chaotic and err... it seemed that whoever designed this was on drugs.

END OF THE WORLD was pretty good. Kinda like Decision last year. Anyway I liked the simplistic style and the dramatic performance. Also she looks so good in that outfit. Heartplace was good too though she struggled with some notes. But I enjoyed that a lot, made it feel more raw and emotional. The fact that they even got a small orchestra was really neat.

Real me was quite good. I liked the outfits, reminded me of her Rainbow era. The choreography was a bit mellow though. Naturally + and then were a nice trip to the past. The choreography for Naturally was pretty neat. Nothing spectacular but quite solid. In the Corner is one of my favourite songs. It's a shame she didn't choose a lovely gown for this song. But the choreography was not so shabby. I felt it was a bit unmemorable though.

POWDER SNOW had a nice intro though I'm not too crazy about seeing Shuya dance again... Ayu's outfit was really nice. Is it a modification of her Happy Xmas live? Ayu pulled off a very nice performance on this one, especially since it's such an old song. Someone mentioned they should've included snow.. I think that would've been nice. HOPE or PAIN was okay but I'm wondering if they recycled yet another gown of Ayu's. It was another nice performance but Shuya's dancing was.. oh well. Over was yet another solid performance. I liked the fact that Ayu was alone. SCAR sounded good. Liked the idea of a choir. Overall she pulled a very basic but classy performance.

SIGNAL-HANA-TOO LATE were also quite well performed. The choreography was good, the vocals were sold and Ayu looked quite good. The whole 90's outfit was sooo cool! I was surprised that she was still full of energy and looked like she was enjoying herself so much. I think this part was one of her best parts. UNITE is a song that has been performed over and over so there's nothing much to say. It's quite good as the other UNITE performances. Same goes for SURREAL/evolution.

The 10 years clip was nice. I liked the highlights of her career. Really showed how much she loves performing for her fans. Who.. was a nice song for the countdown. However the outfit was sooo bad. Trauma is always a fun song to dance too. The audience looked like they were having fun too! independent is one of my favourite concert songs. I'm a bit disappointed that Ayu looked a bit tired and didn't dance so much in this one. everywhere nowhere had a cool arrangement

Finally Mirrorcle World sounded good. Nothing else to say here either. It was good, the outfit looked cool and the choreography was good.

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Also I will never get tired of saying this but her backup singers are not really good. Their voices grate, it's as if they are wailing. I know they're her close friends but I always get SO irritated when I hear a solo by them. I was so angry when I heard Peco wailing at Heartplace!!!

Overall, I think this is one of her best Countdown lives. The fact that so many underrated songs got sung was awesome. Also it was amazing how Ayu pulled such a performance when she had just injured her hand. I can't wait to see this on DVD on a higher quality!

[waterballoon]

*hint hint* Might Maro replace Shu-ya? Oh the sad lives of these transient dancers!

[alternarist]

to be honest, i thought most parts of the songs were lip synched.