I prefer her older vibe when she performed the song. Of course I see that some of you like her more mature style for this song, and I think it's just a personal choice, nothing wrong for choosing either. But, my brother and I both agreed that her voice in M was very unstable.

And she was a bit unstable in Love song performance as well. She did better in Best Artist.

she sounded tired that day. Best artist was better. She sang M pretty well but with her current vocal it seems pretty hoarse. but at least she did her best. she is improving :D

I loved it.
It was awesome!

M is made for her higher pitched voice, no doubt about it. But it still works with her more mature style. She knows her limits and she didn't try to reach what she no longer can. I think I just liked the passion more, even if it did sound a bit like screaming towards the end, she connected to the song and the performance and didn't look like she was just going through any MS live. The crowd seemed to love it as well.

I just love this song as well - it hasn't aged at all. 10 years old, made in 2000, and it could pass on love songs.

For me it was the other way around. I thought she sang Love songs almost perfectly..I'd say a bit better than she did at Best Artist. And I thought she did an OK job on M, but definitely was not suited to her current voice imo.

I prefer the current one, it sounds more powerful :)

i kinda liked it but she could have been more 'gentle' with the song...

The beginning part was okay, but the chorus sounds horrible. It sounds more like a screaming than singing.. she should lower the tune :/
I feel bad looking at her struggling with the high-pitch (seriously it breaks my heart)

^ oh she used the normal key music then?

I think, she sung both song well. I liked it.
Sure, she don't sings like in the past... but I don't would say, it was bad or something like that.
For me.. it was a good performance.

You know what? I'm not into her current style.

Sure her voice has gotten powerful, but that seems to come from her belting instead of singing.
And don't get me started on her vibrato!
I used to extremely love it very much, in fact, it made me fall in love with Ayu in the first place.
Now, it's OVERLY fast and strained. She can make it sound flowy and divine, but she chooses to make fast, unholy one.

"Love song" in Best Artist is better in my opinion. It's on pitch and nice.
Nonetheless, I was surprised at "M" though, she sounded like she's in her "Secret" era in the beginning; it almost brought tears to my eyes.
But those are gone when she start screaming again in the chorus.

Anyway, it was nice to hear "M" again.

I agree ^ not into her current style as well but the diction and power is there.

I love how she sang M recently (well, compared to MTV Asia Awards). She's offtune in some parts but I love how she merged the old M on her new style.

There's nothing new with the screaming parts. Actually I was expecting that to happen on the whole song but she just screamed on the chorus part.

Yeah, Long Song in Best Artist was better.

ummm...i LOVED it...honestly to me her voice sounded great...i love this voice...its not as screechy as the voice she used to sing M with but still with beautiful passion and emotion. i enjoyed it especially towards the end

Hahaha, my thoughts exactly! She likes to scream nowadays. Yyyeeeaaaahh! *cue firework boom*

Best Artist gets "Love song", ('u')b

I agree M was WAAAAAAAY better than Love Song in this perf.

I didn't notice til the "R" in "MaRia" until u said that! I love it! ^^

I use to think Love song was the better performance but now they both seem like they could have been done better. You can tell M is very hard for her to sing for some reason, especially at the end. I can't get over how stunning she looked though.

it was not as good as she did it in 2001-2004 maybe, but better then I have expected, I was quite pleased with the performance. it was among the first ayusongs for me that I heard along with SURREAL in 2001 and when my ayulove began, so I adore the song and love it very much. audience loves it too, very very much :)
I don't know, I'm a afan of ayu 2001 era, so I always tend to compare eveything to that time. for those who said 2001 performance was bad in terms of everything, I think the performance "now" is much weaker

Yeah, I agree with you. Even though she got this powerful voice, then is stronger than now.

I've been an Ayu fan for a very long time too and I prefer her voice today but I wish she was a little better at controlling it. There are times when she's flawless though (crossroad performances) and there are times where it's just hard for her. And I think she should lay off the oldies that she doesn't sing regularly until she can really nail it because that M performance looked painful xD;

honestly i find Love song's performance a good performance..