I've seen better, I've seen worse. She does look stunning.

Thanx for the link

overall, she did good job, love her vibrations in parts that didn't sound too much.. it's just perfect. she just did off tune for 2 u yeah 4 u yeah part.. aside of that, i love this performance.

What was mika's tweet if you don't mind me asking?

She's drop dead gorgeous. But not to be so rude, is she sick? Her vocals are kinda frail to me. :(

those clothes that the dancers are wearing are exactly the same with the progress performance at KOUHAKU last year

she sound like she have cold or sth
she looks gorgeous, but nothing special, i never been a fan of tv-lives. they sound like a karaoke lives more than performance of big artist.

Interesting! My attitude in that matter happens to be completely opposed to yours. I even dare to say that I prefer TV performances over concerts as they appear more genuine and less showy to me.

During concerts I often ask myself if her vocals are live or playback. This can hinder yourself from enjoying the music whereas TV appearances always seem convincingly live.

She's out of practise...the reason why her vocals were so strong 10 or so years ago is because she was so used to singing live on a weekly basis with support/training..now it's been two or three months since the tour finished ^_^ by CDL comes around, she should be all warmed up and okay ^_^

LOL I just noticed, I wouldn't be surprised if this year's Kouhaku performance is just the same as this live.

Mika took a message that Ayu had sent her privately and posted it on twitter. This was a couple of days after she missed the music station appearance. In Ayu's message, she said that she is sick and can't sing for a while.

I can only think that Mika posted it because she thought that would make people more sympathetic if they knew Ayu was sick? But it actually caused more damage because now it looked Avex/Ayu maybe lied about not being able to make it physically to music station and that the real reason might have been because Ayu was worried about the condition of her voice.

^ They possibly weren't able to take their flight back to Japan as planned because of Ayu's illness, so how come you assume that either Ayu or Avex could have lied?

It's weird how many people here are against lipsynching, but seem to forget that big parts of some of Ayumi's most popular concerts are full playback. Just saying.
I'm glad she stopped lipping recently, her vocals are so much better now than 2005-2009 anyways.

Yeah and you used to be the one who kept pointing it out like it was really important. I don't see a problem with people being against regardless of the fact that Ayu has done it. I am against it, yet I am a fan of hers and I'm fully aware that she has done it so many times.

I pointed it out when people pretended it was live, not when people accepted the playback. So many people here used to pretend Ayumi is a godess that would never even think of lipping and that ignorance and attitude quite frankly pisses me off.
I myself don't mind it much if the rest of the performance is good, I just can't stand people pretending it doesn't happen. Of course the same performance live I always prefer, but Ayumi has good reasons to lip so when she does it well...perfectly fine.

D':

That's totally beyond my comprehension. How can a singer have reasons to cheat on the audience? The usage of playbacks is actually likely to be one of the main factors, people often assume the genre as cheap and trashy.

Don't exaggerating she has never done a concert full playback... Maybe 50/50 but not the entiere show and it's like 3/4 Lives (2007/2008/2009) sorry if i forget something but at this time she a lot of vocal problems & deafness (it's not an excuse but she had a reason)
I don't deny she has lips sync in the past but she never done that before 2006 (maybe one or two time) and has not done this since 2010 ! so there is a reason ! I think ^^

I agree ^^ Like britney spears full playback ...

I didn't. I said that it opened up the possibility for people to think that so it made no sense that she should post Ayu's message. Being sick would not have been considered a valid excuse to miss music station anyways.

Ayu is using halth playback on concerts I think.

I'm sorry, I wasn't being totally clear there. With "full playback" I meant that in a particular song she lips the entire thing, not that the whole concert is playback ;) "Full playback" is just to differentiate from using a backtrack(which is having a playback but also singing live vocals over it, Lady Gaga does that in all her upbeat songs for example) or half-playback(parts of a song are playback, other parts of the same song are live).

Ayumi first did playback(half-playback) in CT00 afaik(not sure which of the two) btw, in Trauma the final chorus was lipped from the studio version, I'm guessing because she's scared of heights and performed that part while hanging over the stage.
The only concerts of hers in which playback annoys me are AT05, AT07 and CDL0809(she just fell and got out of the hospital, so this one is excused for me) - but aside that I think that, given her hearing problems and since hearing is THE most important thing about vocal performance, her lipping a few songs every now and then until 2009 was just fine :)

Britney doesn't do full playback that often anymore btw, she mainly uses backtracks nowadays. She's a weird case, when you watch fan recordings of her tours she clearly sings some songs live, but on the DVD/Bluray you hear the studio versions.

The Mika you are talking about is Mika Nakashima ???

Yeah, I was wondering about that.

Probably Mika Noguchi of Peach John :)

Waiting for FNS~ *-*
I hope she doesn't sing Song 4 U again.

I think she may be more likely to do how beautiful you are or something a bit slower. Song 4 u could be a bit too exciting for FNS.

1999 - appears
2000 - M
2001 - Dearest
2002 - Voyage
2003 - No way to say
2004 - Moments
2005 - Pride
2006 - JEWEL
2007 - Together When...
2008 - SEASONS + Days

Closest track to Song 4 u would be M but... who knows? I hope she looks amazing.

heres hopin for something off of again.

How long until FNS airs?

6 hours, 14 minutes to go...

She could sing Sweet scar or melody ^^

Sweet scar for FNS please omg i would die happily :luv2

please NOT song 4 u. :(

the HEY! x 3 performance was extremely disappointing and boring to watch. She's basically recycling her performance ideas aka fairyland... i expected somthing more from her after such a long absence from TV shows. ew...

Mika John, Ayu's close friend and CEO of Peach John

OK, I see - Mika Noguchi, that is... And I don't know if Mika Nakashima even have a Twitter or not...most likely officially not

I hope for Sweet scar!! it's perfect for FNS :heart

has FNS started??? hope we get images asap ahha

I really hope she will not sing Song 4 you ! I want a song from Again & Appears or other old song lol

in 30 min!

can we watch it live? on KHTV??

I can't find the channel after KHTV forced an update

yes you can if it works with you ! mine don't shows Fuji TV ... sad XD

Me too ...

the FujiTV name on KTV is in japanese?

looks like they removed Fuji TV, NTV and Asahi

yes please after that Hey3 performance (her dancer used teh same outfit as at Kouhaku and the same choreography as in fairyland perf) so i want something fresh, Melody or Sweet car would be great :yes

It is not "FujiTV" in the listing. It shows up as ISHIKAWASANTEREBI.

http://puu.sh/1xmD5

^
and how is it written in romaji?

Oh thanks ^^

It´s written in Kanji, but you can easy find it, tehre is only one program on my list at least without password and long kanji name^^

PS: Anyone knows the lineup when Ayu will sing?

Yeah and it's the one with the highest number of watchers x)

Thanks found it

OMG I THINK AYU IS GOING TO SING WITH HIROMI GO. It mentioned "dream collaborations" which is what's going on right now.

Then again, they may have just shown some random artists... and they showed SMAP x AKB48 at the start.

Now if system administrator would stop kicking it offline it would be great

Yeah, collabs are a big part of it again this year. I think we will finally see one on fns from Ayu. :)

Kuu on right now singing Ai no Uta.

ok im watching it now! cool!

please share the tutorial to watch FNS on keyhole

edit : got it..i can watch it now

^
DL KTV install, and watch it from the channel list

edit! Ayu is going to perform soon right, or is that one of the collaboration?

I have the feeling FNS is one big commercial interrupted by some performances xD

^Yup..got it

Nana Mizuki is up now..singing with...old guy

oh so it's her lol ok xD but its a beautiful song ^^

For me FNS since last year fully loaded with AKB48 girls...collaborate with lot of artist, pop here and there...

Yes I don't really like that ...

Ah, I love Cosmos. However, that song didn't really work with Nana and that guy.

AHAHAHA AT THE LTE ELT CM HAHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GODD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAA That last part where Mocchi and Ikkun are just looking at screen like "Really?".....

Sexy Zone = pretty horrible.

yea like FNS uta no matsuri :grumpy

Loved that ELT LTE CM and Otou san! haha

i don't have any heart feelings towards AKB or SKE or whatever with 48, but sometimes, they need to know when the time to give other artist time to shine...
it's too much sometimes...

waiting for Ayu...

Well, they are popular so that's why they get featured everywhere.

I personally don't care for the different versions of them though. (AKB, Nogizaka, SKE, etc)

Does anybody know when Ayu will be on? :)

She just tweeted that she's gonna start soon!

I wonder if she personally is standing in the green room tweeting, or if she has an assistant doing it. =P

She's probably tweeting herself as usual, haha. I think she does this before concerts too.

Yay, Mocchi and Fuyu ga Hajimaru yo! BTW this guy who is singing with her and sang with EXILE is the guy who wrote Sweet Season.

Koda with TRF now

Oh dang, I just saw TK on the keyboards, hahahahaha.

Kuu get out we already saw you give us Ayu now :P

They have really good collaborations ^^

er wait you mean Noriyuki Makihara??

Loved the collabs of Kuu and TRF and ELT with Noriyuki Makihara too!

Yeah. He has a really distinct look. He didn't really fit with EXILE though.

Watching ARASHI try to dance is pretty hilarious imo, haha.

Their voices live aren't all that as well xD

Koda collabed with TRF; I thought it would be Ayu.

Also, Arashi really just brought it.

I would ayu would be with kuu but I can keep on dreaming apparentely. I wonder who ayu will collab with.

Is it ALL collaborations this year? No solos?

i doubt ayu will collaborate with anyone..she's been so long no do that..but maybe with Kishidan??

Exile + Arashi had solo performances, Smap too^^

Well, she did have two songs on FIVE, plus Dream ON. Though, yeah... in a setting like this, it almost seems unnatural.

Every five or six songs, there's a non collab. I hope Ayu gets a solo -and- a collab section.

AKB is asking for slap >.<

I just hope she doesn't sing Song 4 U again. I don't really care for it, and I want Missing or Sweet Scar!

LTE ELT CM is the best among those CMs about LTE!!!

AKB48 now performing GIVE ME FIVE. btw I was so surprised by Kashiwagi Yuki!! She's got such a clear voice :love

AKB48 again...
oh my...its not FNS
its AKB48 featuring other artist

From the 7-8 hour they throw in tons of cms. From 8 on though its less.

For the most part, all artists on the show will have one collab plus one solo. And in the case of some acts like AKB - they have like 5 performances. :thud

I don't think there are high chances that ayu will sing other song than Song 4 u (from the new ones) since the CD isn't in stores yet and it's not likely because usually they don't sing songs before their release and for kouhaku I can see Song 4 u as this year's progress.

Hideaki Tokunaga with...?

I can see Song 4 u at Kouhaku, but not here. Ayu doesn't seem to like to do upbeat stuff at this even but it may be the first time she does a non-ballad.

i have feeling this gonna be like FNS Uta No Matsuri, Ayu is going to perform last and no collabs maybe =.= seems a bit awkward if she does a collabs with these type of ballads xD

She was shown in the beginning when they announced collaborations at the end of the intro with Hiromi Go (?) next to her which will probably be who she collaborates with. I hope she gets her own segment though.

AND LOOOL THE ELT LTE CMS SADHSADSAIDSAHDISDHI

Haha!!! The second CM wit ELT LTE!!! God bless SoftBank :laugh

Huh? Ayu has sung songs before their release a lot. Just not recently.

Yay, Princess Princess. :)

I wonder if Time goes by got a resurgence because of those CMs.

HAHAAHA yeah i like it a lot! :laugh

Sorry, I forgot to insert the recently :).

PRINCESS PRINCESS is still singing? She's the one with the song "M" right?

And ELT's CM is awesome lol.

Ahh, I LOVE Diamonds!!!!

btw, I think Ayu will do a collab. It seems the last few years its basically a requirement. If she is the only artist not to do one, that's just going to bring bad press.

I was sure it would be TRF though. No clue now.

They retired but came back this year for a Tokyo Dome show.

yeah.i think she will sing song 4 U
there is so much upbeat song on this FNS...why not for Ayu?