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The only thing she could do to help her about that would be releasing less stuff so her material would get old slower, but other than that... |
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As for me, this is my thoughts based on what I've seen so far...
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Between AT08 and AT09, it seems they have a bit similarity if i compared this: Quote:
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Finally finished the whole thing. Sort of. I may have jumped through some annoying songs *cough*UNITEevolutionSIGNAL*cough*, but uh.... I saw the show for the most part.
I must say, the crowd seemed high or something. There was definitely an audible "woooooo!" when Shuya stroked Ayu's hair during LOVE 'n' HATE, and they kept like.... clapping on something, when the slowest songs were playing. O_o Like... repetitive clap. clap. clap. I'm like.... umm, are they expecting some kind of upbeat remix of this song to happen? Even during Bridge to the Sky. =_= The audience was a bit annoying. I could do without their audible feedback. I also want to say that.... wow. I was hoping Ayu would perform In the Corner again (wasn't sure if it was apart of my dream CDL0910 setlist or not), and she did! And Ayu didn't let me down with her perform. of LOVE 'n' HATE. She did so well with the theatrics of the show this time around, especially with L'n'H, my fave song. I love how she connected Load of the SHUGYO to it, too. Gives me more reason to love that interlude now. All in all, I guess I wasn't too disappointed with the Ayu part of the show, just the videography and audience. *sigh*
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[QUOTE=mellody;2174832]As for me, this is my thoughts based on what I've seen so far...
Disco-munication + EnergizE: Nice and Cute screens, and for the performance itself still cannot beat HONEY in AT05 i think, but still good enough, the choreography also very good! Yes.Its cute when the dancers showing "Ayu : No.1" with the pom pom identity: At first, i was hoping very much from one of my favorite song in NEXT LEVEL, this song, identity, wonders about choreography and such, but in the end, Ayu x Shu-ya duet? I'm sick of these, even though the performance and her voice are not bad. I'm a bit disappointed after see this performance. No clapping from the audience when the interludes playing too. i beg to differ.I think its nice.I didn't read the lyric (yes.i don't read the lyrics) I love how they are like a lovely couple and then,ayu is like hate shuya and shuya is kinda fed up with her and so on.i love this 'drama' but it kinda wastes at the end there when ayu is dancing and walking around shuya .she's like don't know what to do next and keep on walking with her hand waving here and there Days: I love this song and performance very well, perfect expression and emotion at the same time, nothing much to say anymore~ Very good Indeed! Btw, during short break between GREEN and Days, her costume changed into Pink, doesn't that really fast? Maybe she wears 2 clothes at the same time? yeah.i think she just take off her big big jacket. rollin':The break were short, but they changed that fast? It's all the dancers and Ayu herself changed that fast? They just wear a jacket when the lights are dimmed.Its very obvious that you can see the shirt they wore for the previous song Last edited by nanakopy87; 4th December 2009 at 12:14 AM. |
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I watched this last night and I enjoyed it. It was missing the bells and whistles of her last few arena tours though. Hardly any stage props, relied a lot on dancing for entertainment. Did it work?
Rule - Love the way she enters. She looks hot in that leather outfit. UNITE! - Heard it so many times before, nothing special but a great concert staple. Gets the crowd fired up at the right time. Disco-munication: Oh my god, best Ayu concert video ever? I can't wait to see this on the DVD. Energize - The obvious lip syncing kinda turns me off this performance. It's still fun though. Sunrise ~Love is All~ - Unusually loud cheer for this song, must be popular among Ayu fans? Plain performance, but fun. Load of the SHUGYO - The video is awesome, once again. Love the little twist when Shuya escapes. LOVE 'n' HATE - This is the song which could have used an awesome stage prop to liven up the performance, like with (don't) leave me alone. But it ends up being bland. Ayu's done peformances like this so many times before, when the dancers throw themselves on her and she "rejects" them, without it really going anywhere. Vocally, really good though. Loved the counting. Identity - I like that this performance involved her band more, and the choreography was pretty cool. Awesome vocals too. In The Corner - A little improvement on the PCDL performance. I love this song, so it was great to hear it live again. HOPE or PAIN - The performance of the concert for me. The last minute gave me goosebumps. I loved the PCDL performance of this too though, but they managed to re-create the whole live for the Arena Tour. There's so much emotion in Ayu's voice. Love the ending. GREEN - Way too plain of a performance compared to PCDL. Didn't really enjoy this except for the end when the dancers came back. Days - Another really big cheer from the crowd as it starts. And a surprisingly good performance, the ending is sweet. Another highlight of the concert for me. evolution - Another decent performance of the song. But I really liked how she opened AT07 with this song, and she hasn't managed to match that performance of the song since. SIGNAL - Fun, lots of energy. Her voice soars with this song, which is weird as its one of her oldest. rollin' - the LOL performance of the concert to me. I can't help but love the dancing. It's so good. <3 Ayu's thrusting while singing the song made me laugh too. I think Ayu really likes this song, it seems to be the one she enjoyed performing the most. Sparkle - The live of this song, I imagined that it would be something amazing and mindblowing because its such a powerful song. But it ends up being very plain, but still enjoyable. I like the "no no no's" from the crowd and the no no no dance as well the crowd was copying. Another song Ayu seems to love performing, I think she's very proud of this song. She knows its one of her best. Bridge to the Sky - I like how the backup singers are singing this song instead of the usual playover of the interludes. The video is eh until you realise how it connects with NEXT LEVEL, which then it becomes a nice video. NEXT LEVEL - I love the start, how she comes up looking at the chair sitting up top. Just a fantastic performance to end the main concert. ---------- So overall - while its more plain than her last few years of concerts, Ayu still manages to put on a top show. Only disappointments are a few songs that I expected bigger performances from. Last edited by Tony G; 4th December 2009 at 12:53 AM. |
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Her vocals really are no good. It's a shame, but I suppose I have to get used to this from now on. I'm not trying to put her down--it's just a sad reality when a person has gone deaf in one ear and has beaten her vocal chords into submission over the years. She sounds almost like she's choking on her voice sometimes.
I liked the stage and the nifty lighting effects, but overall I feel like the show was just...kind of uninspired? The choreography half the time was wack, the costumes were meh, and there weren't really many creative performances except In The Corner and Next Level. Next Level was probably where the concert peaked....I can only imagine how awesome it was to experience live. She must have looked like an angel floating up to heaven! The best thing about this concert to me was how happy Ayu looked. She truly seemed to be having a good time. But I guess, the bottom line is, that alone is not enough to make me want to sit and watch a concert.
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I just read through the thread: - I think EnergizE and Sunrise were lipsynched. Even though she revved the crowd up during Sunrise, they would have turned on her microphone for that portion and then turned it off when the lyric sections came. - Sparkle doesn't sound lipsynched to me. You can tell she concentrates on hitting the notes in this performance. - Shuya sux. I like that they used the other dancer during the ballad section. But Ayu's non-involvement in the GREEN choreography was weird. I think it was just like because this tour was rushed, and having Ayu do as little choreography as possible made it easier for her to learn the steps before the first shows. And it stayed that way throughout. - I didn't think Ayu's voice was that bad. She's sung worse. It's not perfect, but it held up where it needed to. |
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I'm about mid show, I'm here to leave some comments in the form of how I've been ranting about it on MSN, the other half of the show won't NEARLY be as detailed, but whatever.
This is unedited, so, be warned weary of heart Spoiler:
The other review will be more general, cause everyone I've been ranting too went to bed...
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Thanks for pointing that out~ Gotta watch it again! Sparkle could be a stable song, Ayu didn't teach the choreography, am i right? But the audience suddenly follow them, it means that something special here, i think.
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I haven't watched Days yet, but I LOVE that HOPE or PAIN and GREEN have a story to them instead of just being Ayu pining over on of her male dancers(Shuya) as he writhes.
as expected, Days comes in to spoil the no Shuya party. GO BACK TO THE MARO(?) AND MIDORI(?) ROMANCE STORY PLEASE, it's much more interesting then anything Days had to offer GOD can those two just get a room already, I hate the sexual tensionq
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Last edited by GRACE; 4th December 2009 at 05:09 AM. |
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grace's review wins for lol
ayu does sluutty dancing in identity |
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after the ballad's the rest of the concert is nothing to write home about lol. rollin' was Ayu
SIGNAL was really cool though. I've always loved her songs from ASFxx, I just can't stand listening to them because her voice and the arrangement are truly dreadful. The modernized SIGNAL she sings here is great <3 Bridge to the sky, loved the pictures, too much focus on Yochan, Enrique, Peco and Princess aka people who don't matter. I want to see the pictures, watching these idiots isn't entertaining it's painful. And back to what I was saying earlier, who DRESSES these people and WHO says that what they're wearing is ever good. NEXT LEVEL however, proves to me that Ayu works VERY hard to make sure that EVERYONE ELSE on stage is in worse costumes then she is. With this tour, NOT an easy task considering LOVE'n'HATE/identity had the one good costume. But she manages to come out glammed up with gems, and lets her dancers dance around in white potato sacks. Good to see the wealth hasn't gone to your head sweetie. as much as I tear it apart, I actually had a good time watching this concert <3 I just like tearing my Ayu apart, because, let's face it, she's kinda like a hot train wreck :3
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I finally had the chance to watch the whole tour start to finish for more than 30 minutes ~yey~.
First...I have definite problems with... 1. Too many damn interludes/videos. Like after EVERY song nearly. Was really boring...especially since some of them werent really that great. 2. Set list. Tour suffered because of this list imo. Mostly because of the order/style of the performances...maybe thats why she felt she needed so many interludes. Who knows. 3. Dancers. Just ew. You know how many times I wanted to push Shuya off stage? Yeah. However, I think this tour had some great redeeming points. Interestingly enough, my favorite performance was GREEN...and I actually think it was the best one. No fuss, just Ayu, singing, and singing well. Slight hand gestures reminiscent of the drama. And it was beautiful. A really fantastic performance. I also think that the concert after GREEN was a hell of a lot better than the one before it. I didn't really care for any of the performances before it, they were all really boring and needed more theater to save them. She butchered Hope and Pain though. And with this copy of hanabi from stadium tour performance...ew. This song does not need a big ballad's performance to convey it's drama. It needs more of a story performance. So yeah...the concert after GREEN is fantastic. Even Day's with it's CAROLS AT05 repeat wasnt that bad...until she started crying...but I ignored it lol There also werent so many interludes after GREEN, thank god. SIGNAL was great. I almost cried with NEXT LEVEL...but that's just because thats MY song lol So...I'm gonna pretend like the first half didnt happen...and give this tour a Fantastic rating...an 8/10...and I really like it
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^I thought just the opposite lol I thought the preGREEN concert was great, and after GREEN it went to hell.
I must repeat, because it's like my favorite part, I LOVED how in HOPE or PAIN and GREEN instead of having Ayu play the "female lead" in the "love story" she was just singing, and let her dancers tell the story of her music. It was so much more moving then ShuyaFlails and Ayu fake tears. That and I think Maro is very hot, so any excuse for him to be on stage (especially in what he was wearing, oh my god <3), is worth it fo rme
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I think we just have differing tastes lol
I did think Rule was good though. Solid performance...but energize and sunrise or sunset whatever totally dead... I couldnt respect the dancers together....because Piccolo pointed out that the performance was so strikingly similar to Hanabi at stadium tour in 2002, and he kept going on about it the whole performance...and it really was similar, except that hanabi was a lot better. and the interludes really really killed it for me...even the cute one like discommunication... I was soo BORED lol I think the reason I liked GREEN so much...was that it reminded me of like...it seemed like a perfect TV performance or something...or like a perfect old days Kouhaku performance...when it was just her on the stage, in her dress, singing beautifully. And then I tihnk the reason why I liked the tour after that, was that imo, the songs after went a lot better with the simpler stage... I know it's sort of ridiculous to think that, but imo, NEXT LEVEL has a simpler stage lol (sorry my posts are so long)
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I might be a bit biased though since next level might be my favourite ayumi album. I like electroayu <3 |
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No no, I don't really mind the songs she chose, mostly the order of them and where she chose to put stuff...I just...found it sort of odd for some reason...
Nothing seemed to flow well...and there were hardly any performances that could lead into another for continuous performing lol (which is just less boring imo)
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You know I probably screamed louder than half the audience all together when that came on. Lmao And the interlude where he's got his shirt open... yeah I was drooling all over the freaking place. I didn't stop screaming his name during SIGNAL when he danced, I clearly saw the dude sitting next to me, his face was like "STFU!!" lmao
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