Thank you both for the info! :heart I'm sad to read that he doesn't actively compose anymore - he and Ayu worked magic together.

Yeah, she was lying and that wasn't the only time. I remember there was an early Utaban where she said that she couldn't ride a bike....yet there is an idol video of her riding a bike...

I believe he made a return for Do As Infinity's latest album. But it wasn't for many songs.

https://d-a-i.com/discography/detail.php?id=1017032

Though the two songs could have also been old ones. Also the last thing he was really producing was "Sword of the Far East" which was like a rock violin group with a soloist around 2015/2016.

There's something about CDL 13-14 that just feels really out of place as an Ayu concert for some reason to me..

I don't even consider it a Countdown live. it felt like the official tour for the year for me.

HLS Tour is currently on Youtube, so much memories, it was my first Ayu Tour I attended <3

Edit: screen videos <3

This song is so incredible and underperformed


The careless happy go lucky delivery and melody contrasted with the bleak self destructive lyrics about her career...*chefs kiss*
The world's begun spinning backwards
and it's only speeding up
Before I knew it, it was dark under my feet
and I was just standing at the edge of a cliff

I cannot retrace my steps anymore
Even if I turn pale, nothing will change

With the light you've persistently made stronger and stronger
Even if on this road that continues on forever..
is the end of the world

Money runs out
and glory isn't worth much either
How long will you continue pretending to not understand?
Realize that I'm afraid of being hurt

In these times, my dream
was to make all your wishes come true, but...

Overtaking the wind, faster, faster than anyone
I'll even pierce through the clouds, higher, higher than anyone
Even if I'm living too fast

With the light you've persistently made stronger and stronger..
Even if on this road that continues on forever..
is the end of the world

The fact that the song is a response to Avex pushing Ayu to come up with more optimistic bright CM friendly songs *chef kiss&

too late was one of the very first songs I downloaded back then and it's still one of my favourites. ♡

IDK the CDL for 12-13 was great but Premium showcase and 13-14 don't feel like Ayu at all..I think she was having a real identify crisis during the COLOURs and Tyson/living in LA period in hindsight and then found herself again with Made in Tokyo/Japan.

It's really annoying that Avex has uploaded the Midnight Circus CDL which is essentially the same show as the Midnight Circus Arena tour they uploaded a few days ago :irked

Upload stadium or dome tour already.

Also, can someone help me, what concert opens with Do It Again with the shimmy sliver jacket and mask? I swore it was Hotel Love Songs.

^ Wasn't it the 2011-2012 CDL for HLS?

As for Too Late, it always makes me think of JT Peach Water, to this day. LOL

I actually love that they uploaded the CdM CDL cause I love to death her performance of Walk there, wish she had kept it for the arena tour. And it was also interesting rewatching it now cause most things seems improved in tour when compared to CDL, especially the outfits.

Made a Twitter thread with edits of Ayu albums wearing mask, use as you want lol

https://twitter.com/EvanOdinson/stat...235082241?s=19

But it wasn’t the CM Song for JT Peach :D
It was actually used for that Honda motor roller (moped) CM...

I really love too late! I was so happy back when she performed it during PCDL <3

^god that makes me so nostalgic! I still have that very old very lq CM saved somewhere. I often get back to those old files whenever I need a trip back to late 90s/early 00s lol

Does anyone remember the monomane where the comedian (Himeka Shirosaki) is doing Virgin Road complete with a Manny standin? At the end they actually start making out and the audience loses it. :laugh I can't find it on youtube anymore

My god, the dove in I am...'s cover also wearing a mask sent me lmao

I think ayus dream is something that lasts forever. Permanence.

I get the sense that Ayu has experienced having many dreams, or rather dreamlike moments, but the instant she would take notice of them and as well her happiness as a result of them, the dream would leave her or disappear forever.

That’s why now she often sings about such things as “the continuous dream” or “a never ending dream,” so that she may deliver exactly what she never had to her fans. Its all the more tragic when you think about how her hearing loss and vocal problems have threatened to strip away all of that.

She doesn’t want to be someone’s dream that ends, because she knows first hand the pain of wanting desperately to hold onto a dream, yet being utterly incapable of stopping it from slipping through the cracks in your fingers.

Timmy is live on Instagram right now, he said Ayu's doing well and he just got off the phone with her when someone asked

^Good to know!

So far I've watched:

CDL 04 05
Arena Tour 2015 Cirque De Minuit
CDL 13 14 (Wow, I had seen clips of this show before and it was so good! Really enjoyed We Wish and had a moment with Free & Easy)

Just watching CDL 07 08

i just watched Future Classics for the very first time and all i can think about is that she has such an beautiful career! it doesn't matter that she's not on top anymore because she already was there for a very long time

at the same time it really hit me how her career has changed since 2009-2010. this really was nostalgic CDL