a-nation 10th anniversary for Life information thread [II]

[truehappiness]

Oh, it appears that Why... in the finale was Urata's version, not JUNO's.

[KuuXAyu-fan]

I am super confused can anyone please explain? Why the hell is Ayu switching labels even being considered? Has something happened? lol

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

I am super confused can anyone please explain? Why the hell is Ayu switching labels even being considered? Has something happened? lol

It's not. I have no idea how that came about.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

I'd love if she switched labels, avex ruins its artists most of the time.

Anyway yeah, what's happening now? lol

[prussian blue]

one of the video is set to be private, is there any download link for that?

[truehappiness]

I think it was set to not private for like a day and then... yeah, lol.

Aderianu probably has a copy.

[Misa-chan]

Where's all this "fans hate ayu's new work" coming from? I think it's mostly just the same few on AHS stirring up drama again, because if Twitter is any proof, most Japanese fans adore FIVE, especially the collab songs.

The only dissatisfaction that I see comes from a-nation. Even so, most of the reviews from Twitter are good, it's just that ayu herself seems kinda agitated(not sure if that's the right word) over some issue, judging from her recent TA entries.

[YUKARI]

^yeah, it seems like she's not in good mood nowadays. even the album itself sounds quite dark..

[Bigtop]

If Ayu wants to switch labels, she should not go to Sony, but I think, in my personal opinion, For Life Music Entertainment (FLME)...?

[Aderianu]

20110829 doesn't work? yes, I have it... will upload later

[prussian blue]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

20110829 doesn't work? yes, I have it... will upload later

thank you very much!

[rusuke]

I don't get the mentality why some people have issues of Ayu not performing the last part. She's been performing last - I think almost every a-nation festival (Or so I know) since the beginning. This makes me sad.

Anyway, Urata and Ayu are so cute together! Love it!

Ayu is so sexy with her gold outfit!

[erika_ayu]

damn it, I would rather see her performing with JUNO than Urata ToT

[Minttulatte]

I don't understand why Ayu fans are so hurt because she didn't perform last. I don't see any problem with it even if Ayu is a legendary artist. Does she really need to be the last performer year after year anyway? Haven't she been the last one since the first a-nation anyway? And if she had an argument with avex that almost told her not to perform, you should just be happy she did. It would be sad if they didn't let her to do that (and I can't even imagine what a reaction that would have btw...).

I don't mean to sound offensive to anyone but I just don't get it, like, at all because Ayu will probably be the last performer on a-nation '12 again. At least I think so.

[truehappiness]

They didn't tell her not to perform, she felt like she shouldn't. But because she had fans/staff/etc. supporting her, she decided to go on, though she ended up deciding to perform next to last.

I think knowing the circumstances now, it's not as "bad" since she'll be last next year probably.

[Aderianu]

20110829.mp4
http://www.mediafire.com/?ur8pfpii43bicva

[LEOyumi]

I think she did right in not going for what avex expected. She wasn't the last perofrmer, but she was able to perform the way she wanted to (except for JUNO), I'm glad for that. And having Naoya with her is always a plus, they work really well together!

[Yoake]

I undertsand that!!!But I want to know the real reason about why they wanted to push aside JUNO & change her setlist? Fans disagreed about Naoya singing with her too but he stay!

[truehappiness]

It seems like a possibility that it was an issue of taste issue since JUNO is the twin of one of the Tohoshinki members that left to form another group... and that group is also pending some sort of legal action against avex as well?

Not sure what was happening with that, but ehhh.

but avex didn't let her be the last artist because of her setlist...

She made the decision herself, not avex. I think in the end, the setlist she wanted to perform was still not the one she ended up performing since Urata had to replace JUNO. I don't think Urata was as much of a problem as people think according to the tweets about Ayu trying to get JUNO to perform for Tokyo and being unsuccessful in convincing avex to allow him into the Tokyo show or whatever.

[AyUmIXx]

the a-nation drama, it's clearly about JUNO alone.

it's all on the tweets ayu has been tweeting since 27.08.2011.
she even said some complaints went to JUNO then he kept to himself and decided not to go on stage. so i think ayu insisted him to perform with her at first but JUNO himself didn't want to.

ayu also had no idea why avex didn't want JUNO to perform at the time, but not sure if she knows now since she said on her "explanation" tweets that she omitted some parts of what she supposed to say but didn't, maybe that would cause more drama?
i think that avex wanted ayu to perform last, but ayu didn't want to. it seems like ayu said this, "if i can't go on stage with JUNO then i'll just perform the 2nd last... i won't be able to be the last performer" and not to say that ayu thought of herself being last performer is important but it seems it's important to avex because it's been the tradition since previous a-nations.

it's still weird to not have ayu as the closing act like usual. well people can just say, "let's break the tradition" but maybe for avex themselves, it's still important factor?