Bilibili Macro Link 2021
 

ayumi hamasaki to perform at "Bilibili Macro Link 2021 (BML 2021)"!

https://i.imgur.com/MVRZmLj.jpg

ayumi hamasaki will be appearing on stage at "BML 2021", a live event held in Shanghai by the Chinese video distribution site "Bilibili Video", from a special Japanese venue!

The event will be viewable from Japan on the day of the event, so please be sure to check it out.

Date:
July 11, 2021

Dearest: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1f64y1t7vz
MY ALL: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sh411h7jz

message from weibo

"I'm very happy to be invited to participate in the summer event BML2021. I will bring you wonderful program from the Japanese venue! Among all, "Inuyasha" theme song "Dearest" will be sung to everyone at Shanghai Mercedes-Benz Arena, July 11th. Let's meet at BML2021, see you soon! "

Omg! Shanghai! Dearest! :luv2

What an excitement!

Omg hope we can watch.
That venue is something else.

Hope she lowers the key.

So excited for this! It's been so long since the last time she performed a full version of Dearest (I know she did it at that private concert but no footage lol)

Wow, Dearest at Shanghai, now that's something cool!

I wonder will it be live or prerecorded

Maybe it's the first step for an Asia Tour she hinted months ago?

So excited about this!

FYI her biggest hit in China is "my all."

Chinese fans posted "setlist". Ayu will perform 2 songs - Dearest and My All

^Great! :) I'm still super happy about Dearest!

Any news about being a pre-recorded remote performance or a presencial one?

It's coming!!

Ayu will appear on stage around 21:30

Hope someone record her performances.

It will be delivered online for free

https://live.bilibili.com/h5/2013

^Awesome! Still hope someone records it because I'm not sure if I'll be home by the time she performs lol

Thank you!

I believe Chinese fans will save the video

So I was searching for some snippet of the performance on Twitter, then I realized it will be only tomorrow :yrolleyes

Is the streaming limited to Japan and China only?

Thanks. The videos can be downloaded, but is there an option to stream in something other than 480P?

Bottom right of the screen there is 3 icons and a text in Chinese, if you click this text you can choose viewing quality

I feel illegal to watch this large amount of people in this live event.
Pandemic really changed our life.

^ for real. What I still have yet to understand is the fact that in China life went back to normal a while ago, and without vaccines.

There is 4k option. I can't register, hope Chinese fans will save it in good quality

Not sure if that's just a phone thing but the stream is incredibly laggy for me.

It´s ok on PC

^Will try to use that then! Thanks :)

She already sang? I think I lost her.

Seems it will be 21:30 at Chinese time, not Japanese?

^^Did she? I haven't seen any posts about her yet?

I'm watching it through my notebook (which is old as hell) in 4K and it's flawless lol

EDIT: is that InuYasha OST or am I crazy? lol

After the current one will be Ayu

SHE'S ON! THAT INTRO??? OMG!! AM I JUST CONFUSED OR DID THEY PLAY THE INUYASHA OST?

Yes, they did!

Ahhh!!!! This is even better than expected! Omg we need a HQ recording of this! She sounds amazing!! :heart This arrangement is gorgeous, too.

Ayu did a collaboration with the Philarmonic Orchestra, so unexpected!

^and it sounds great! Also loved her adlibs at the end of Dearest. They sounded good.

She's doing MY ALL right now!

EDIT: Omg her "let me hear you" and "thank you for having me tonight" was so cute!

i went to take a shower at 9.15 pm in preparation for her appearance at 9.30 pm. when i am out she was already halfway done with MY ALL lolol

but from what i heard, she sounded great!

I can't wait for a good recording of this performance so I can listen to Dearest again and again.

Her vocals were really on point!

It was written in the setlist that Dearest would be a collaboration^^

Agreed!

She was great, the instrumental for Dearest was epic, I'm still not a fan of her "baby voice" but if it lets her control her vocals then let it be, also really happy to get the first full performance of this song since 2008 (right?), wish she sang a little bit of MY ALL in chinese but probably it was hard for her and she wanted to avoid backlash from the media or something lol

I thought she was going to sing chinese version of MY ALL

Do you have the setlist please? (Did Tsuchiya Anna already sung?)

Dearest was epic. I kinda love but hate at the same time her new voice. But the vibrato seems to be back which I like.

Blibli uploaded Mika's live in HD they should upload Ayu's soon!!

A snippet of "Dearest".

Do you have the link?

I was kind of discouraged when I knew about the songs because they're not my favourite but after having seen the performance, I was wowed :laugh

Dearest is so lovely, and so is MY ALL. her voice is so so controlled and good. I understand how people may be put off by this "baby" voice but I'm not. after years of having her just shout at every song, this is a literal breath of fresh air.

also I teared up when the audience cheered for her at the end. it makes me so happy that so many people still love her too.

by the way @kyohiiru on Instagram uploaded the medley.

Dearest: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1f64y1t7vz
I can't download in HQ

sry I took a nap after the live.
https://show.bilibili.com/platform/detail.html?id=43560
*scroll to bottom*

MY ALL: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sh411h7jz

https://i.imgur.com/IPfGxqu.jpg
download

dearest with the Chinese mix is so sweet and MY ALL is great as usuall.
I really wish there would be a Chinese lyrics at the final chorus.
By the way she was great and I was touching with final arigatou, It's very Ayumi Hamasaki

Sounds like Dearest is using “omoi no hate ni” (想いの果てに) from the Inuyasha OST at the beginning?

I thought she sounded great. It’s nice to see her appreciated!

Actually it's "Toki wo Koeru Omoi", a slightly different version of "Omoi no Hate ni", made for InuYasha's first movie. They started playing that track from InuYasha OST then went to Dearest with new arrangement made by Shanghai Fillarmonic Orchestra and that traditional chinese group.

Ayu sounded great!!! It’s amazing!!!! And it’s held in shanghai. I think her popularly isn’t as prominent as years ago. But she’s still so significant! :):)

Dearest performance is really good ! Her vocals sound really nice.
But, enough of the "u" prononciation ! She uses that way to say "u" as our French "u" instead of japanese "ou".

The intro was fantastic, loved the musicians, their costumes and instruments. It was nice that Ayu wasn't shouting for a change and I liked the filters they used on her voice, but overall there's nothing natural about her way of singing starting from the baby voice and ending with a forced vibrato.

The moment I read Dearest had a rearrangement I was like "Oh no..." but thank god it wasn't like that. The new sound is very pretty and she sounded lovely. I coudn't sit through MY ALL because, Ayu, I know you had to 2 babies, but you don't need to sound like one singing.

Yeah, I never liked it.

is that actually LIVE? coz that was amazing wow!!
minus the high pitched forced cutesy voice i think that was so good

At 0:10 of this clip, the “ne” part of “nemuri,” sounds EXACTLY like her old vocals. Like as if from the studio mp3 itself. It struck me very suddenly. The rest is good, but obviously sung in a more childish tone.

Listen to that moment at 0:10 and tell me if you hear it too.

Ayu posted photo at that outfit a week ago. Probably recording was made at that day

I do hear it 🥰

Such a beautiful performance. Again I don' care about baby voice !! Her new vocal is really nice with this arrangement. This is what Dearest deserves for years. Maybe it's pre-recorded maybe It's not totally live but... Oh god this is soooo beautiful ! I love it !!!!

She's not lip syncing, but this is definitely pre-recorded, she's pretty much on key 90% of the time, so that's a giveaway.

Sounds like it a lot, probably because they retouched it (but I'm sure it's not the same as the studio track)

^ I think Zeke was just trying to make a point that for a brief second she has managed to sound like 2001's ayu.

What a performance for Dearest !!

I know

Linguistically the Japanese and French languages both use the same u pronunciation marked by /u/ in IPA. That’s why it sounds the same because it’s phonologically the same sound.

They’re both made by a backward placement in the mouth and rounded lips.

When they're speaking, it's more evident, but when they are singing it's more common to use the "uh" sound.

In the studio version she does the “Uuuuu” thing lol it was a stylistic choice she often did back then personnally I don’t mind because the “ouuuu” often sound off to me.
Well this performance is really amazing with these arrangements and it’s so strange to heard Ayu singing that high after all these years ...it’s a bit disturbing but in a good way I’m proud of her.

Yes!
Everything has been prerecorded and edited since the pandemic (minus the Christmas live... and it showed) to make her sound almost perfect as in most live releases.
She could be offkey all the way and we wouldn't know unfortunately.
Crossing fingers her voice is indeed not so far from the result.
The latest Life unedited vocals (from the Return concert) were ok with noticeable offkey parts.

Me too!!! That’s cool. Her 2001 vocals always sounded powerful!

Her voice is great.

But the MY ALL performance is a bit sad at the part that she stops singing and let the audience to sing.. but there is no audience at her side.. and you can only hear the background voice.... that part is so sad and shows how pandemic changes the world in every single level even in this small performance.

I think that sometimes there is no salvaging stuff and no amount of post production can help. I can vouch that she’s sounded amazing in Saitama in Feb last year and its obvious she’s doing something about her voice.

POWER of A^3 is a very good example of that. Editing made the concert better, but it's clear she's struggling a lot to sing during the whole show. That's not the case of these 2021 and 2021 concerts.

Absolutely + the CDL 2007-2008 where she sounded horrible even on DVD.

It's funny because she sounded bad most of the time, but I remember she sang Together When..., untitled and Sotsugyou Shashin greatly even during the original broadcast.

I don't know... As regards being offkey, I believe editing can do wonders. I don't remember which live it was (but an old one) and I compared both versions (edited/unedited), it was just day and night. Without her sounding robotic or over edited (like some later shows).
If they could have such results 20-10 years ago I have no doubt they can correct everything they want by now.

As I said the live version of Life really stands out (not in a good way) among all the other edited renditions of the last concert.

Wat

I really think she sound good in Life. She's off-key during some parts, but most of the time it sounds good and stable to me.

I think it's obviously been far worse in the past but she's still quite far from sounding good to me (in that particular performance). Too many offkey parts throughout the whole song. In that regard it's really contrasting with the edited versions of the other songs where (almost?) everything is on key and where she seems to hit every single note effortlessly.

That's what I mean when I say you can't really judge from prerecorded live versions. With ayu the difference between edited and unedited has been pretty noticeable. Above all when the source material wasn't great to begin with.

I would say she's still trying not to scream and have more control which is definitely a good thing to carry on. And we all heard good improvements with the last non-edited Promised Land. Hope it's going on like that. At least it shows she is really focusing on vocals these days.

Well, we have cases like that since I remember being a fan of her, specially during Countdown Lives (as we usually didn't have access to unedited Arena Tour recordings). I remember how different she sounded during Endless sorrow @ CDL 05-06, with a lot of editing to make her sound on-key at the DVD version.

My point is, considering all the circumstances and given her actual condition, I think she sounds as good as she can and she's not struggling or shouting a lot. Also, her singing difficulties aren't on her way to convey emotions during the performance (different from POA^3, when she was too disturbed, probably because she couldn't her herself properly). I'm personally satisfied with that, but I know it's subjective.

Yes I know what you mean. I used to listen to the non edited live, if you compare it with the dvd you can really hear the work being done. And to be honest the source material wasn’t sooo bad. She sounded quite strong that CDL.

Of course, I agree on that ; )
(I remember she sounded quite sick that night during POA^3 recording or like she damaged her voice previously).

Anna Tsuchiya made a long Instagram live in the dressing room before just coming up to the stage so I don't think it was pre-recorded

I think Ayu's part was 100% pre-recorded. They way she changed her outfit didn't seem it was live.

Absolutely right. Ayu change outfit in a second for something that can't be hide under the dress

Maybe Dearest was live and My All was pre-recorded

ok this is it for me. this vocal technique she's using is trash. sing with your normal voice, woman.

I was enchanted by this performance. Stunning and beautifully sang :love

Late in the party but I'm in love with the arrangement of Dearest. Wish the Made in Japan Tour was something like that, with oriental arrangements for her older songs, but oh well, that's life :heart

I'm having mixed feelings with her baby voice, I'm happy that she's not screaming but I like it more when she sings more naturally like in the MY ALL performance. Want to see how she's doing with the Music For Life :)

I think the baby voice worked perfectly for Dearest.

me2.... i was waitin for it. hahaha
but its ok. Was wonderful <3