Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - ayumi hamasaki 15th Anniversary TOUR ～A BEST LIVE～ V

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Originally Posted by JEWELian (Post 3016138)

Erm what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed...

Unfortunately that's true :-(

Did she perform sakura?

That's the problem with BEST performances. It's like how it was with BEST of CDL 2006~2007, it was pretty dull compared to other CDLs/shows because it was more of a performances outtakes from previous tours, so this one looks like it as well (and it's not only with ayu). The Japanese must love these though. XD

I wouldn't really accuse ayu of this, but that's like a "necessity" every couple years for the japanese fans/audience.

Kinda like BEST of CDL 06-07 had the A Song for xx standout performance and this one has the HEAVEN/JEWEL one.

And Nice photo Nem and JEWELian <3
Maybe foreign fans "should stay away" from BEST lives, unelss you have never seen ayu before :laugh

So she lip-synched poker face~Fly high and HONEY? They are short versions but I wonder why?

^^ Woooo Nem cool :-D
I am so glad that you guys were able to see Ayu
Have fun while you are there

It feels like the Japanese likes BEST better, while us foreigners prefer a concert with an actual theme (laugh)

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Originally Posted by JEWELian (Post 3016138)

That's all I can say really- was a bit angry I won't be going again tomorrow night because Celga are completely incompetent (guys don't ever use them) but after seeing the show I'm not too fussed lmao.

Really? o.o I never had any problem with them, I got my fanclub tickets through Celga and teh tickets arrived safe at my Hotel in Japan^^

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Originally Posted by JEWELian (Post 3016138)

Just back from the tour- what can I say?
More like ~A HOT MESS LIVE~

Maybe because it's the 8th time I've seen her- it just felt like a copy-and-paste ayu show, with short segments (no more than 2 songs) and long interludes, lots of dancers, acrobatics, and lots of ayu just standing around.

Sure, I loved last year's ARENA TOUR- but this one... well it fell flat, souless just like the album she released this year.

JEWEL (and I guess HEAVEN too) saved it for me. It's my song- and I cried. What a beautiful performance, suspended in the air in water.... (Shame I had to kill JEWELian but w/e).

Sure, her voice was great- a bit of a mess when she was singing against heavy backing music (I guess because of her deafness), but no worse than last year, if not better (or maybe because Hiroshima's Green Arena had better sound that Shizuoka and Fukuoka?).

The theme was a mess, the setlist was odd- ending with Voyage? The random English wasn't that nice... And Timmy. Ugh.

The opening was really strange also- all this drama and hoo-hah around dolls and marionettes on strings who break free. It should've just started with ayu appearing on stage as she did.

The allusions to past tours were good- I obviously noted the last segment's to ASIA TOUR 2007's opening segment, but it wasn't until Nem pointed out to me that the trick in Wake me up was taken from Ladies Night at AT06.... and I'm sure there were other illusions in the show to past shows, too. (Like the mask in the opening to CDL 10-11, maybe the tiara and hair in JEWEL/HEAVEN to HANABI/End roll in AT08, etc).

The encore was strange with the double encore... it was funny tonight though because these *****es wouldn't shut up and kept shouting and ayu had to take three times putting the mic down, then being like "seriously you guys can't keep quiet? please?" until she finally got to do her mic-free "ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA~~~~~~~" but then obvi came back for MY ALL.

Erm what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed... shame HONEY is a short version... Also You & Me? Seriously? BLUE BIRD was nice though...

But the interlude with DJ 2-YAN playing Sweet Nothing and Starships and Gangnam Style (to which I was totally twerking to the first two btw) before ayu came on stage? Total wtf moment!

That's all I can say really- was a bit angry I won't be going again tomorrow night because Celga are completely incompetent (guys don't ever use them) but after seeing the show I'm not too fussed lmao.

I think you are a little hard on the tour. :) But it is true that this tour really isn't anything that special compared to previous years. What saved it for me was the setlist. It does bother me though that they held a vote for the top 50 songs, yet the setlist doesn't change except for one song in the encore. When I first saw the tour, I thought the reason for the pretty basic setup was because they would be changing the setlist every other show or something. For example, the ballad section - No Way to Say/M could easily be changed out to Days/Dearest, the cute section of the concert could be using different cute songs that made the top 50 etc. etc. The fact that the setlist has remained the same is the biggest disappointment imo.

Yesterday's setlist is up.
No Sakura. July 1st at encore.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/giants88pride/15439419.html
I'm so happy that I got to see Sakura performance, I think it was one of the standout moments of this tour.

^ Reallyy?? :( I wonder why she didn't perform it.. hope it's only technical issues :(

I hope the final will be slightly different =)

any recommendations as to buy a B3-5 block, which are the two areas beside the circle stage OR the C3-5 block which is the area in front and diagonally left/right of the circle stage

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Originally Posted by JEWELian (Post 3016138)

what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed... shame HONEY is a short version... Also You & Me? Seriously? BLUE BIRD was nice though...

Shocked to hear she's fooling her audience with full-playbacks even during her anniversary concert tour. Obviously it's not even well done otherwise you guys would not have noticed it.

Biggest problem I have with this is poker face as her very first single, a song that is in some way reminiscent of her grandmother and she willingly lip-synchs it...

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Originally Posted by channy (Post 3016391)

Her Grand mother passed away in Fuuoka while she was recording it in Tokyo, I doubt it bears good memories for her (in that sense).

At least she re-recorded poker face, Fly high and HONEY? lol I mean I hope she didn't use poker face from 2003 lives XD

No she didn't ^^ but I thought that she had re-recorded only poker face the two others seemed live lol

LOL seriously? So poker face sounds exactly like A museum/TA live vocals?

No no XD sorry it's a re-recorded version with her current voice

Are you guys sure it's lip-synched? People complained more than once about fake lip-synching...

(and felt for obvious lip-synching constantly too \o\)

@channy
She did it for most of her career, during almost all of her tours. I'm surprised someone still is surprised.