she actually said she doesn't listen to any kind of music these days. that's what Katsuyuki was talking about lol. that is definitely an automatic playlist, most of these songs she covered/talked about in the past, so...

The shameless lip-syncing and dance routine for Boys & Girls has me dead to the bed.

The only "recent" song is My Way and its from 2014 lol

OMG!! I never really watched it till the end because its such a cringy performance (the hair, the lipsync, the odd medley) but I never saw that she actually sings Boys & Girls in Korean!!!! That was cool (and explains thelipsync too) lol

Honestly, I don't really know if that's what she said... if anyone wants to pick at it again, the answer she gave at the time was not that specific. The question itself was also specifically about her music but then she gave a very vague only somewhat related answer.

https://youtu.be/f7veTAd1TNU?t=2751

Basically it looks like what she said was something like music can often remind her too much of work, but the context of the answer isn't really clear either.

The TA email said Ayu chose the playlist herself.

Well, she wasn't doing anything unexpected from a kpop performance at the time...

I see, thanks for clarifying that

I actually love this performance, no joke. haha She's living her pop singer fantasy there dancing the whole songs, lip syncing a la Britney, and she looks so happy. That's one of the reasons I love Evolution from Asia 2007 as well.

It doesn't have to do with the quality of the music, she said she just doesn't and it's probably due to the fact that she has so much going on. Yet, it is bad for ones own development to not ay attention to what is possible (and I don't mean what is or isn't trendy).

"A BALLADS" TRACK LIST LIVE is out and I was surprised to see this:

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^ Actually, they did the same mistake TWICE :

I mean, come on...

And since we can’t comment on it we can’t even tell them lol

Could they not have used the Limited TA Live performance of Rainbow?

Why did you have to post that? :tired

The lip-synching and fake-acting job on this performance devaluates 15 years of fandom in less than 10 minutes :no :D

@pedronekoi @Sim' me and a couple other users also noticed that during the premiere.

I can just facepalm/ at this.

I wonder if Ayumi Hamasaki will retire now that she has a baby. I wish she could have one more big hit, the way Namie Amuro had with Hero. Then she could release a final compilation album, do a farewell tour, and hopefully everyone in Japan will focus on their fond memories of her again..

^ Same. I didn't catch the premier but I saw the video after. Lol first clip in the video and already a big mistake...but ayu's staff are constantly making mistakes so are we really that surprised that they put a completely different show?

Yesterday Ayu's YouTube channel uploaded the all the performances from the "A song for xx Live Tracklist" separately.

https://i.imgur.com/jqmNpXN.png?1
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7e...-w5tNtP7sgeeNg

Hope they do the same with A BALLADS. I really love appears from AT07.

She's dancing like MAD in this though~ I think the lip-synching is understandable. I honestly see nothing wrong with the performance :D She radiates so much energy in the second part of it, it's fun to watch~

They just uploaded JEWEL "acapella" a few minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrF95t0cZZ0

They added about 25 acapella tracks with the tag #ayumix2020