Full streamin link..
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1gV41...nique_k=Xof5Nn

while she definitely -has- lip-synched before, and some TV performances (e.g. FNS) have indeed been done in multiple takes, I agree.

in the end she's a professional who has had record of performing live really well in the past. she must have received regular coaching in order to adapt her singing technique to her Deafness. in addition, the few months of lockdown has given her voice the necessary rest she'd desperately needed after 56 years of non-stop TROUBLE tour.

Agreed. The backtrack helps a lot and in some of the songs it was very prominent.

I thought DaD sounded better than during FNS. It was a bit choppy there.

I know ayu loves performing but I really wish she wouldn't tour so extensively. Resting her voice during the pandemic has been a wonder for her, I enjoyed both the fns and a-nation performances, a-nation especially. She was great! Bit shouty during the summer songs section but she'd been on for 45 mins by then so understandable lol

I think that the extensive touring is sort of her rebellion against the 'inevitable' with the deafness. When we got word of the increased danger for her working ear in 2017 or so, we thought she might stop but since then she has been touring MORE than ever before! Might be that she feels it's a race against the clock and she wants to let as many people see her lives as possible.

Or avex is trying to milk as much from her when they can. I totally believe this increase in touring and decrease in music has to do with avex going where the money is.
Thats why its been so great to finally get consistent new music from her!

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I highly doubt that, it just doesn't make sense given the state of her career. If she didn't want to do it (AKA she was being forced to), then she wouldn't have done it. Especially not during her pregnancy. It's clear to me that this is what Ayu wants/wanted.

It's probably both.
Ayu is a successful senior artist (and she even owns quite a percentage of avex herself, doesn't she?), so she enjoys privileges.
But she also is under contract and has to fulfil certain criteria.

That's true, but she's probably not contracted to perform as much as she did since 2017.

How can anyone watch Ayu on a stage and not see how much she loves doing that?

She literally couldn't hide her excitement for being on stage again throughout all Natsu no Trouble, indeed.

FNS was pre-recorded, so it doesn't count as her usual live performance. CDL was mostly pretty good, yes.

I only browsed through the performance, but she sounded alright and looked vibrant :heart way better than FNS to me

I'm 100% with you here. She is always so full of passion, love her.

Thanks!

Members of the forum has been praising how good her live is, and wow, is indeed good..!

And does anyone noticed she changed again the way of holding her mic?

This. I think its both too. Never said Ayu did not enjoy doing it. But doesn't mean Avex isn't pushing her to perform more and giving her less of a budget for music releases. If music sold more or as much as it did in the past, we would have had more albums believe me. Again, this does seem to have changed recently with all the new music. Just hypothesizing of course!

I'm pretty sure if she was eager to release music, we woudln't be getting so much generic ballads lately lol. Ayu feeds her music with her own personal issues... I wouldn't be surprised if after so much music released, she just had nothing new to share for a while.

Lol true!

Can anyone explain what the intro video meant. Im clueless lol. Was it supposed to be funny?