Has ayu lost her touch? - Page 3

foxhana · #1 3rd January 2010, 08:35 AM

kuu screams porn. i don't undestand teh comparison between kuu and ayu either. kuu's music is horrible to an extent I don't even want to see her face in people's icons and signatures. (>_<)

kuu and ayu very different, so we should stop about kuu already. since this thread is ayu based. ^^

so ayu needs to rest. but if she rest, then her competitors will come up, just like how utada kinda disappeared for a while. and ayu rise to her pedestal. O_o

GRACE · #2 3rd January 2010, 08:36 AM

imo, I think she's complacent because nothing's really going wrong for her. As much as I think it'd destroy her position in the avex hierarchy, I think losing her streak and actually having to WORK for something for once would influence her in a positive way, I feel like she'd put more feeling into it I guess?

Andrenekoi · #3 3rd January 2010, 08:38 AM

Yeah! I wish she dies before she kills her career!

Ok: Let's get the facts straight...

She can't change her stage every year, it's the most expensive part of the concert... it would coust her +- one house (and a big one) every year... it doesn't matter how rich she is, she is not made of money

Since Best of CDL, CDLs are concerts for fans... they repeat loved performances and test new stuff for the main tours... And that's very common, testing new themes/outfits/songs with a live audience before touring with that

She is testing costumes on CDLs and reusing them on ATs... Ayu is not considering her lifeless die-hard fans that download or buy every little fart she recorded by accident... She is considering her japanese/asian fanbase or casual listeners that don't dig everything she does but go to her concerts... her hardcore fans would never sell out 35 dates of arena performances

She is not repeating performances often on her tours, she only did that on Stadium Tour medley, At07 (and all the performances she reused where improved, like at02 evolution or a museum appears) and mnW at At08... other than that, only CDL performances reused on main tours of the same year and AT loved tours reused on cdls

About outfits, photographers, etc... She used only Kazu for Next Level era videos and photoshots mainly, end of NL era? She released 4 pvs, and no Kazu at all... Her fish mouths are gone... And I'm pretty sure the side-opened pants will be too on the next tour... this is not being repetitive, this is being coherent with her image for the whole era... But it's very annoying how people complains about she using the same thing for 1 year or 1,5 year like she were using it for the entire decade

Still, I agree her voice is sucking... and I believe she needs to re-learn how to use it after getting deaf... But IMO she is getting slowly better over the time...

The only main problem I have with her right now, and it's not even a new problem, is that she should slow down the pace of her releases, not cuz she is releasing bad material or that I'm afraid she is going to die or anything... but that relasing an album and a tour every year works agains her...

nanakopy87 · #4 3rd January 2010, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

The only main problem I have with her right now, and it's not even a new problem, is that she should slow down the pace of her releases, not cuz she is releasing bad material or that I'm afraid she is going to die or anything... but that relasing an album and a tour every year works agains her...

i thought she's slowing down already?she released 2 or 3 singles before an album.the only thing she's still insist to do that much is the tour.she can't stop herself from the concert!i hope she will not have a long tour,but she announced that she'll have a long tour on 2010?

Piccolo · #5 3rd January 2010, 08:39 AM

Lost her touch? I wouldn't so much as to say lost her touch as to say that she has changed over the years. For better or worse is up to the listener.

zyoeru · #6 3rd January 2010, 08:40 AM

GRACE: Well that's true...it's a well known fact that most artists can't work unless they have tragedies going off. But that's where I'm split.

I want Ayu to make fantastic music like it was from Duty-MY STORY (even though I love all of it). But I don't want her to be the sad person she was from ASFXX-I am...

AyUmIXx · #7 3rd January 2010, 08:50 AM

how i wish that we all could give comments on her Team Ayu blogs, so she would know how much we want her to be better....

Piccolo · #8 3rd January 2010, 09:01 AM

On second thought, maybe Ayumi just needs more talent around her like in the past.

ayu_ready? · #9 3rd January 2010, 09:01 AM

I feel like she lost her touch long time ago...I believe that after MY STORY everything went wrong. at least for me. that's what I think.

somehow. probably she's tired of smth.

I can understand that though. I luv her no matter what, but being honest, the production goes very bad nowadays. I thought (m)u to be a disaster, then, I managed to get over it. I LOVED NEXT LEVEL so much except some songs. so I hoped NL would be a fresh start...

asmAyumi1992 · #10 3rd January 2010, 09:04 AM

Ayu don't lost her touch for me. She always fresh to me.

I don't care everyone's opinion about her latest CDL. But for me, CDL09-10 is so much better than her other CDL 3 4 years back.

Mai82Go · #11 3rd January 2010, 10:45 AM

^having watched quite a few Johnny's concerts, I don't know if it would actually work in an Ayu Show. Most of them are in Domes and Stadiums, for example, and there is much more you can do there, I think. The one time Ayu did a Dome tour, I really liked the stage design. I just get shivers down my spine when I remember the Evolution Opening at Dome Tour. You just have so much space to work with. I also find KinKi Kids concerts to be really simple, which is a good thing, but it only works because they have great voices and can pull it of.

I don't think Ayu lost her touch, at least she didn't loose it with me. I have phases with her, sometimes I listen to her more, and sometimes less. I don't compare her with others. I like a big variety of artists, and she happens to be my favourite. I don't think about it too much, I never analyze why I like what I like. It's like falling in and out of love. It just happens, you cannot control it. And maybe one day I'll suddenly realize I don't love her as much anymore and move on. But I'm a faithful person at heart and I doubt that would happen. My expectations are not set high, so I'm always never dissappointed.

SunshineSlayer · #12 3rd January 2010, 10:47 AM

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^having watched quite a few Johnny's concerts, I don't know if it would actually work in an Ayu Show. Most of them are in Domes and Stadiums, for example, and there is much more you can do there, I think.

Oh for sure, you can always do more with more space. Although even the Johnny's arena tours are pretty elaborate anyways. Most of the things done in dome's can be done in arena's too, just on a smaller scale. My basic point is just there is always something more that can be done and so many people like to say that there just isn't anything more she can do, so that is why she repeats things. I disagree with that. If given the choice though I would personally prefer her in a concert with her and the band and that's it, haha.

**Yoake** · #13 3rd January 2010, 11:04 AM

I don't agree. It's seems like everyone forgot that the CDL called Future Classic!

some people says that her outfits are all recycle? But where do you see the pink dress? The step you performance was really different from the other ones! The intro of the concert was really differrent too. Usually, it's a interlude or intro from her album (except for PCDL).
No, I really think that a lot of people exaggerate.
And, if you are not agree with that, I tell you to do a concert with a lot of new ideas. I think I'll have a lot of fun.
I would like to say that Ayu move on to concert! It's impossible to change choregraphy of all songs for each concert!
Do you see the stuff she used when she song evolution? Usually she moves a lot. It's a new stuff, too.

SunshineSlayer · #14 3rd January 2010, 11:13 AM

^Actually I was wondering about the thing in Evolution. When I saw it, the first thing I wondered is if the reason was so that Ayu could get from one end of the stage to the other without running and therefore loosing her breath in the song - just put her on a luggage cart instead.

It didn't really have the right effect though cause she was still out of breath.

nanakopy87 · #15 3rd January 2010, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

^Actually I was wondering about the thing in Evolution. When I saw it, the first thing I wondered is if the reason was so that Ayu could get from one end of the stage to the other without running and therefore loosing her breath in the song - just put her on a luggage cart instead.

It didn't really have the right effect though cause she was still out of breath.

ya.i thought it would help her alot,but

**Yoake** · #16 3rd January 2010, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

^Actually I was wondering about the thing in Evolution. When I saw it, the first thing I wondered is if the reason was so that Ayu could get from one end of the stage to the other without running and therefore loosing her breath in the song - just put her on a luggage cart instead.

It didn't really have the right effect though cause she was still out of breath.

Yeah, but I think she didn't realize that she's 31 years old and not 20 again. But it's good to see that she understood that she should try to find other stuff to keep her breath! We could think that her concert ran 3 hours. It's a lot. With a 2hours concerts I'm already tired and I always sit down and not move. XD
So I perfectly understand that kind of thing.

AyuHamasaki01 · #17 3rd January 2010, 11:13 AM

I didn't even bother watching CDL 09-10 ...

yamogi · #18 3rd January 2010, 11:54 AM

I just think that she needs to rest a few months, let's say 4 months?

FuNsTyLe · #19 3rd January 2010, 11:55 AM

I agree with you guys, she isn't what she used to be, not to me at least. Most of ehr songs sound alike now, whether it's her rock-songs, her power ballads or her usual summer-songs. We need something new! Like back when she did Bold&Delicious. Not her best track by far, but a nice change and something new and innovative!
I haven't even watched her 4-5 latest AT's and CDL's, they don't interest me, and by the pictures and reviews posted here, they seem to be identical to each other.

I wish Ayu would have a rest. Take a break for a year or so, find some inspiration to make new stuff.

AyUmIXx · #20 3rd January 2010, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by FuNsTyLe

I agree with you guys, she isn't what she used to be, not to me at least. Most of ehr songs sound alike now, whether it's her rock-songs, her power ballads or her usual summer-songs. We need something new! Like back when she did Bold&Delicious. Not her best track by far, but a nice change and something new and innovative!
I haven't even watched her 4-5 latest AT's and CDL's, they don't interest me, and by the pictures and reviews posted here, they seem to be identical to each other.

I wish Ayu would have a rest. Take a break for a year or so, find some inspiration to make new stuff.

you really don't watch her latest 4-5 ATs and CDLs??
really? wow!

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anyway, how i wish that we could log onto her TA blog then we can share our minds to her and ask her to stop singing and take a rest for a year!