Ayu was announced as a headliner for a-nation online 2020!

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40 artists part of the first announcement!

https://a-nation.net/

Wayne Huang ex member of SpeXial? Wow :O

Are Kalen and Ayu gonna perform together. :D Or at least meet backstage?

So wondering how they intend to stream this?

I'm still a little bit confused with the logistics of the online performances. are all the artists going to be performing in separate locations (and then streamed chronologically according to the list) or are they all going to take turns using one venue?

if the former, then it would give each artist some liberty to set and decorate their own stages AND I think it could minimise exposure to covid-19 since they would "only" be interacting with members of their own crew.

The list is alphabetical.

They're probably all going to stream in from various venues like in Korea or China/Taiwan for those acts. They're setting up "multiple stages" so you can tune in to certain acts if you wanted to. I think it'll basically be like old a-nation with the main stage, then various smaller stages for smaller acts available to choose with simultaneous running schedules and some of the international acts will probably be mixed into main stage or have their own stages.

Also in this case "stage" just means, which stream to watch them from since at actual a-nation they typically have a smaller separate area for smaller acts that is not part of the biiiig main stage.

It's already announced that they're going to stream from several stages across Asia.

Great news!!

thank you for this! excited to see what kind of act ayu's doing.

I'm curious if they'll have a stadium to use just with no audience or just where they'll do the main acts... I guess we'll see!

The only way they'd allow Kalan to perform at a-nation would be if they can't put her in front of an audience and have the luxury of editing it lol

That would be a total waste of cash.

Actually, unlike her drama recorded lives, she was pretty ok singing on TV those past months... She even sang with some older acts and it was good enough.

Maybe she is more of a singer than she is a performer, something the Ayu role demanded of her.

The way she was performing it was very "karaoke-lite" at least. I think Ayu started off similarly but Ayu had a bit of a spark to her somehow?

Ayu always had this very particular stage presence... I agree Karen Anzai has a karaoekish thing to her peeformances, but tbh, the same can be aplied to most jpop singers.

I mean, look at Hikaru Utada, for example: two decades in the industry, a concert being broadcasted globally though Netflix, still looks lost qs fuck on stage lol

Ayu was not always the most natural either lol. This is prime karaoke-stance lol

Ayu's eyes were always expressive, even when she was bent over double singing to herself haha. Karen's eyes just seem blank

^This. Ayu didn't move her body much in the begining, but she didn't really have to because her face was always expressive.

:love

ayu was the first J-pop artist I followed religiously and I just took her stage charisma for granted. I never realised how much she commands the stage after I started watching performances of her contemporaries. it's crazy how much presence she exudes with just a look, a hand gesture, and other small things.

Think this has lots to do with experience, ayu started touring early on at an aggressive pace and has continued to do so during the whole of her career. Utada does a tour every 5-7 years.