[News] New Album TROUBLE on August 15th ~III~

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

Oh god... how much I hate vibrato at Last Minute

Yeah, I saw a small clip of that as well - and it's kind of scary.
I do love ourselves though!

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

Oh god... how much I hate vibrato at Last Minute

It’s not that bad.

[Aderianu]

Shake it https://www.weibo.com/2120591210/GuD...&mod=weibotime

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[Earth_maiden]

tenso have my order but I had to verify more details with them because it looked "suss" or something. Did anyone else have this issue? I have to wait for them to check my verification details before theyll let me ship it out.

[Cahz-]

Do ya'll have a link to Last minute? I love vibrato.

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by Cahz-

Do ya'll have a link to Last minute? I love vibrato.

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5840295656

[Cahz-]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5840295656

thank you. And omg, that is some hardcore vibrato

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Cahz-

thank you. And omg, that is some hardcore vibrato

I can survive the vibrato, but the fake crying seems to be ruining the song every fucking time. It’s embarrassing to watch. I can forgive screaming and shouting, but she wouldn’t sound half as bad if she would only stop pretending to cry. Sounding awful should not be a part of the performance and with some of the songs its becoming normal and she seems to be doing it on purpose. And no you cannot possibly get that sad all of sudden after performing the song for over 70 times. She does the same thing when she sings Walk - the first time at the CDL it seemed genuin and I didn’t mind, but then last year she started choking at the same time both nights in Yoyogi and ruined a nearly perfect vocal performance.

Is it that hard to just stop, nobody is going to like her less if she stops the whole crying thing for the sake of performance. If it weren’t for that she could handle the majority of her recent songs without any problem.

[xLuna&1LOVE]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

I can survive the vibrato, but the fake crying seems to be ruining the song every fucking time. It’s embarrassing to watch. I can forgive screaming and shouting, but she wouldn’t sound half as bad if she would only stop pretending to cry. Sounding awful should not be a part of the performance and with some of the songs its becoming normal and she seems to be doing it on purpose. And no you cannot possibly get that sad all of sudden after performing the song for over 70 times. She does the same thing when she sings Walk - the first time at the CDL it seemed genuin and I didn’t mind, but then last year she started choking at the same time both nights in Yoyogi and ruined a nearly perfect vocal performance.

Is it that hard to just stop, nobody is going to like her less if she stops the whole crying thing for the sake of performance. If it weren’t for that she could handle the majority of her recent songs without any problem.

Sometimes Ayu reminds me of that girl in the movie Mean Girls in the scene when all the girls need to read what they are sorry for before the crowd break their fall. But then this girl tells some heartbroken story, while appearantly never really did go to that high school, and responses with 'nooooooooo I just have a lot of feelings.'
Idk, that just having a lot of feelings just screams Ayu to me, and I got reminded of it again, when reading your post.

Sorry for the irrelevant post. I do agree wholeheartly with you though.

[Diego-kun]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

I can survive the vibrato, but the fake crying seems to be ruining the song every fucking time. It’s embarrassing to watch. I can forgive screaming and shouting, but she wouldn’t sound half as bad if she would only stop pretending to cry. Sounding awful should not be a part of the performance and with some of the songs its becoming normal and she seems to be doing it on purpose. And no you cannot possibly get that sad all of sudden after performing the song for over 70 times. She does the same thing when she sings Walk - the first time at the CDL it seemed genuin and I didn’t mind, but then last year she started choking at the same time both nights in Yoyogi and ruined a nearly perfect vocal performance.

Is it that hard to just stop, nobody is going to like her less if she stops the whole crying thing for the sake of performance. If it weren’t for that she could handle the majority of her recent songs without any problem.

I completely agree with you. Back in the old days she truly got emotional while singing some songs such as Who..., teddy bear or Memorial Address. I'll always remember how those AT 03-04 performance gave me chills. Now it just seems extremely fake so it just makes her sound worse and it ruins the performance.

[RealLight]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

I can survive the vibrato, but the fake crying seems to be ruining the song every fucking time. It’s embarrassing to watch. I can forgive screaming and shouting, but she wouldn’t sound half as bad if she would only stop pretending to cry. Sounding awful should not be a part of the performance and with some of the songs its becoming normal and she seems to be doing it on purpose. And no you cannot possibly get that sad all of sudden after performing the song for over 70 times. She does the same thing when she sings Walk - the first time at the CDL it seemed genuin and I didn’t mind, but then last year she started choking at the same time both nights in Yoyogi and ruined a nearly perfect vocal performance.

Is it that hard to just stop, nobody is going to like her less if she stops the whole crying thing for the sake of performance. If it weren’t for that she could handle the majority of her recent songs without any problem.

THANK YOU, not only Last minute but to a lot of songs she's been doing this act for the last few years.

[love in music]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5840295656

I usually dislike her vibrato but here it works, sounds really cool actually.

[SunshineSlayer]

Really want to see the full concerts. That was the best part of this release for me. She has so many concerts to release over the last couple of years. Still wondering about what's going to happen with Chapter 2 as that's the one I wanted to see the most.

[RealLight]

^ I still want a DVD release of the last CDL.

[Andrenekoi]

I wonder what is the measurement being used to decide if the crying is real

[wednesday]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I wonder what is the measurement being used to decide if the crying is real

Crocodile scale.

[Zeke.]

What really bugs me is that one of the main selling points for this album is the “fact” that “all 5 songs are of single quality.” Every retailer is echoing this same claim made by avex and it angers me for a number of reasons.

First of all, none of the songs hold a candle to ANY of her previous single releases. They don’t even sound remotely as polished as previous album-exclusive promotional pieces (aka, the new songs used to promote an album’s release). I’d go one step further and say she has songs that weren’t promoted at all on previous albums that surpass those on this release.

Secondly, especially with it being a mini album, with nothing but 3 new additions, they SHOULD be of single quality!! That’s not really a claim one should have to make - it’s an expectation, a minimum!

Finally, if avex deems these tracks “single quality,” it really destroys my hope for future releases. This is not the standard they should be aiming for. If this is top tier for them, how can we expect anything better to be produced hereafter?

As always, they are blissfully unaware of all the issues this release has, which means her release are bound to continue suffering from the very same issues in the future.

[ayumi_croatia]

After listening to TROUBLE at least dozen times:

W is the worst thing she has ever released. It's deplorable.

The way I am is really lovely, the melody is so good. The acoustic version is better though. I tacked it on the end of my TROUBLE playlist.

WORDS is nothing as a standalone song, but it works in the context of the mini album.

Aeternal has a nice atmosphere (if that makes sense lol) but I get bored with it pretty quickly

I even started liking We Are Queens. I guess it gives this EP a welcome change of pace, while not being awful like W.

This was not worth the 2 year wait. She can do much more, but at least she gave us The way I am.

[Sky High]

Originally Posted by ayumi_croatia

W is the worst thing she has ever released. It's deplorable.

I agree, irritating song, trying to be something, but it is all over the place (musically...but also I didn't like lyrics). The rest of the album is ok.

[HilaryDuffFanboy]

Originally Posted by ayumi_croatia

W is the worst thing she has ever released. It's deplorable.

She definitely has worse. W is not that bad.