[confirmed] Ayu will sing Mirrorcle World on Kouhaku
 

The song list is out for this year's kouhaku. Ayu will be singing Mirrorcle World.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/artists/index.html

My last hope for GREEN is shattered.

Geez...I'm stuffed with MW....why Ayu why??? :( I expect either Days or GREEN will be fantastic

yay Ai Otsuka will perform Ai such splendid song!!! XD
And Kuu is going on her TABOO again,,
Angela Aki will be singing Tegami and Mika Nakashima will sing Orion (why wouldn't she sing Anata ga Iru Kara?)

Yay, Mirrorcle World :D
But why is Ayu never singing GREEN?

I don't get why ayu chose to sing Mirrorcle World...shouldn't she save energy for her 3.5 hour concert? Well I'm still looking forward to the performance...wanna see her outfit. :D

there was never a performance for Life right? maybe it will be the same for GREEN.

Yea, I haven't think of that yet,
Why wouldn't she chose a less aggressive and less powerful song for the sake of her voice during PCDL??

10x for informing ^^

that's good =)

Life is a B-side so you won't see her singing that on live EXCEPT concert. So far the only exception was GAME. I dun really think GAME is A-side because it's written as "INSPIRE c/w GAME", and in oricon it's "INSPIRE". So I don't have idea why she performed this song on PopJam, MStat, etc.

Back to the topic... whhhhhhyyyyyyyy?? I hate Mirrorcle World live!!! Why doesn't she perform Days instead??

thanks...
but why MW again...
she should sing songs like green,days or life...

Not so happy about the choice. Mirrorcle World has been performed so many times now..

eh, weird. If she didn't wanna sing a slow song, there's GREEN. Maybe she's avoiding it for whatever reason?

pretty good...i think maybe days released later than mirrorcle world thats why it didnt get chosen...nevertheless im quite looking forward to it since it have been quite long since we see the performance!

I thought the decision wasn't up to her....?

does the japanese audience not like GREEN? is it because of where it was shot?

Nuuuuuuu, not 'Mirrorcle World' ;___;

She rarely sings GREEN ... :(

Mirrorcle World totally doesn't fit the Kohaku image. Not sure why she picked it other than its a big performance number that is already well practiced so not much work would have to go into it.

MW is her song of the year i think...its the song that represents her 10th Anniversary...

im sure, like alterna, GREEN will get its own solo slot in next year's Arena Tour...

GREEN needs to be gone in BIG :D


MW didn't have many good presentations, so this is the last time to make it right! :D:D


thanks for this info ^^

OMG ! poor Green ! hope she'll sing it next year !.

she sure doesn't like to perform GREEN that much live :(

wow...i'm suprised...
but i love MW...

I thought she would sing Days or GREEN... anyway I love Mirrorcle Wolrd!!!:love

Mirrorcle world again ! Why she doesn't perform GREEN ???? I wished so much for a live performance of GREEN, I really didn't need another awkward MW performance! Plus GREEN or Days would had fit better IMO

my thoughts too. nevertheless, i'm looking forward to the performance. ^^

EDIT: did anyone notice that TOKIO is performing on the white team? maybe ayu will have to see tomoya. >.<

well TOKIO always perform in kouhaku, so I dun think it's anything at all if ayu meets tomoya there..

well, i think MW is the better choice for battle up against Mr.Children...
Go ayu, take them down!! LOLZ :D

lol, thats surprising!

WoW!! I'm so glad that it's gonna be Mirrorcle World!! This is my favorite Ayu song, so I'd be happy to see it's LIVE again. Her last two performances was FANTASTIC!
And I hope her outfit would be the same gorgeous as before!

terra LOVE your PERSONA4 set! <3

I'm looking forward to seeing this perfomance!! Mirrorcle World is such a great song :D However, I think that Days/GREEN sales would improve if she would have decided to sing one of those songs :P

maybe MW is easier for her (as well as the dancers) to take less time for rehersal since she is very busy for the year end...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I can just hope that she'll perform GREEN in the cdl as a new year present for us...

Even though I want to see GREEN performed, I'm happy with Mirrorcle World, it's one of my absolute favourite og hers, and it's so cool. ^^

I think she wants Mirrorcle World because it's gonna be easier since it has be done before. And she also prolly thinks Mirrorcle World is something that she wants to show... like "the end of the 10 year anniversary"... end it with the song that represents it.

And I like the idea of defying the norm of events Kouhaku!

Thanks for info... but may I know where's the list? I want to see what songs others are singing
EDIT: found the list

Oh, even how much I love MW but gosh Im a bit tired to watch it. But sure, its like the only single she have done this year so... in Kouhaku she needs to do the single that can represent her year or something, and then we have nothing else but MW. So so....

To bad for GREEN that it never gets performed. Either its to hard for her to sing, or maybe shes planning a big performance for it on the next tour a la alterna.

It's probably MW because that was really her 2008 song, and she probably really likes MW. After all, if she didn't really like it, why would she bother making Mirror into Mirrorcle World

so my predictions were right.. i knew it would be MW because she simply doesnt have time to come up with a new performance. She would recycle something that she is already very familiar in performing..

But then it doesnt seems as though Days is difficult to perform. All ayu needs is a big dress.

oh well.. it's time we see some changes in ayu's performances in Kouhaku.. ayu will rock the stage!!

she doesn't like green probably

I was so sure that she'll be doing GREEN exactly like the PV with all the costume, dancing, and the hair... Oh, well... She'll definitely stand out with MIRRORCLE WORLD...

i thought she would use GREEN or Days for promotion... but i'm not complaining.

That is kind of surprising. Either she's trying to cap off her 10th anniversary year of some sort, or she just likes MW even more...

But here's something that is even more surprising:

ikimono-gakari (いきものがかり) - SAKURA

Ikimono's song is from 2006 - that's kind of too old - two years old outdated! Any comments on this as well as MW decision?

I don't really think it was up to Ayu! I read somewhere that Kouhaku pick the song if it fits this year's event theme! So maybe they picked it for her!! I'm surprised she didn't sing Days or GREEN but her Mirrircle World performances are always great!!
I'm sure she'll save GREEn for PCDL!

no GREEN ;(

I dun think Kouhaku picks the song. They probly have influence on what should sing, but in the end it's the artists who make the final decisions on what songs they're gonna sing.

I do think MW is the most "ayu" song of this year.. But she sings it so badly on live. I was expecting to see Days with a fluffy cute dress...

I agree with bluegie. It's definitely been around a lot longer than Days, which just came out. Of course it would make sense she sings MW, but it doesn't sound as good live; still good nonetheless. Days would be perfect I think...it's a much less intense song and would go perfect with a dress. Singing in a dress with MW just looks a little weird, although she's done it in the PV and many other live perfs.

It could be that they want to perform it because it is their first time appearance on Kouhaku. Doesn't have to be the most current song that is always performed. There have been times when artists have performed songs that are more than four years old at Kouhaku (non Enka). For example SPEED is doing "White Love" this year. That song is from 1997. ;)

Aw...I'd love for Ayu to sing one of her older songs then. That would be so awesome. For me Dearest and Voyage come to mind. She's always sung nice laid back songs. Mirrorcle World is a little intense I think. It's like a huge guitar onslaught and quite a heavy song in general. Maybe she'll do a special arrangement version? I doubt it.

I think she chose Mirrorcle World because it is the 10th Anniversary anthem. Days/GREEN or GREEN/Days are just the new singles for the next project (album...).

Since the Kouhaku is a year-end celebration, Mirrorcle World best fits as Ayu's goodbye to 2008---The year of her 10th Anniversary.

why MW again, I'm a bit borroed of it. maybe she will perform GREEN at CDL?
but i would like to see her performing something more ballad like than MW!

(I think like its often in music business that someone chose the song and not Ayu.)

Well hmmm... I wonder when/if she'll ever even do GREEN. :/

I'm sort of bored with MW already - I want Days or GREEN, please!!! (Just kidding on Days/GREEN - it's already final decision for MW...)

Too much MW!!! I want some GREEN !!

i kinda feel the same way ...
i don't have much problems with her performing MW anyways... maybe because i haven't watched so much performances of MW.....

although i was thinking that she should perform GREEN one day...

MW? Hmmm... GREEN would be nice.. or Days. But not MW again.

Ugh, I am tired of her Mirrorcle World performances. If she would change it up a bit every once in a while it would be cool, but it's always exactly the same :(

It was a surprise for me. I expected her to sing ballad as always. But I`m totally happy that she`s doing MW, it`s my favourite song this year:)

Well, it all depends on the theme too.

I'm excited because this will be really interesting on what she'll do.

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EDIT: The theme is "The power of music: The bonds of people". What will she do? hahaha.

Hmmn.. she better comes up with something different. I hope she's not wearing
- the super big red dress, OR
- the silver "soldier"/"cyber" look.

She will probably do the Anation version, start with dress and then change into the other.

ah lol at first I was 'WHY MW AGAIN!?'

But MW will be perfect for the theme :yes

Mirrorcle World is a Bomb song... its great... but im so tired of its Live Performances... i'm expecting Ayu to sing Days or Green... but it would be a real Mirrorcle if she'll sing RULE! Lol!

ugh I didn't want Mirrorcle World or DAYS, both have been done to death.

She needs to come out with GREEN.

I'm sooo glad she sing mirrorcle world I watched too much Days though I love all the lives... upbeat mirrorcle world would be best for KOUHAKU

Mirrorcle World... great upbeat song... But, Kouhaku usually isn't upbeat, is it? lol

I wonder what this one will sound like. :O

Oh yes that's exactly what I'm trying to say. For the most part it's the women in huge dresses singing something not so intense.

Odd... Really odd...
I hope it's a completely orchestrated version.

:O
I'd sell my soul for something like that!

Well with a skilled arranger they can pretty much put all kinds of spins on the song. I don't think it'll happen though. It'll be sung in all its intense and blood boiling glory.

lol.. she probably will be wearing BOTH.. :P

YAIYAYIAYAY another MW

She looks amazing in the cyber soldier costume. If you're referring to that shiny gold costume with the cop hat and the curly blond hair. Very sexy.

A new livve for MW it's a good news. I wonder which outfit she'll wear! red dress?

I'm expecting an orchestrated version or something. Anything else would be inappropriate for Kohaku I think, even if it IS her 10th Anniversary song.

I wanted Days. :(

Yay...MW...again...

Hmmpf..

The only reason I like Ayu performing MW is she gets this really "eye of the tiger" look when she strokes her arm across the face. The kepi cap gets points for looking stylishly military, but nothing else strikes the mind. The dance steps look sharp but the overcoats look somewhat clumsy, of course, till it starts to rain. Then it makes perfect sense.

Boo! I was hoping for GREEN.

ugh

Bad choice. *collapse*

ar... why Mirrorcle World again??

She shld promote GREEN!!!

Lol now that I think about it she's never once sung GREEN live. At least I haven't seen any lives of it floating around =|. It would be the perfect song to sing along with Days though. She could wear a qipao dress or something lol.

This, I agree totally.

While I don't think it fits in either -- and I almost feel a sense of disappointment -- I think for Ayu it's an important song. I definitely think it represents this year for her in terms of her career.

Even then, I still think Days would have been a better choice. The public in Japan seems to love Days D:

Days hasn't been out long enough for it to be "her song of the year". That's what it all comes down to I think. That and MW marked her first 10th anniversary single release.

I think 'Mirrorcle World" is like "evolution" probably..

Or maybe Ayu wants this song become fan favourite like evolution,
Mirrorcle World was a phenomenal song for me,
The lyrics, PV, Music, is different from other artist..
(Another different i think like Utada's Passion)

Maybe she will still use this song until 8th April 2008?
10th Anniversary never ends after that day, i think..

um...as long as she wont repeat MW in CDL I think it's ok...but well...we never know. Shw wanted to close this year with this year's most fenomenal single -literaly-

Then again, she will definitely repeat the same performance again, the dance etc. except different costume

I think MW still appear in CDL..

Hey, evolution, decision, Mirrorcle World, they have "wow yeah" things..
So, any connection with the songs??

I hope she will wear a different costume this time...no more pirate themed ones!

she better go all out with mirrocle world, i`m excited actually.. i like more high tension songs in general, hEH. sanks for the update~. hope she`ll have energy for her concerts (o_O;.

yay! :love

i think she has had lots of practice for MW...her recent lives for it sounded gd...
and since its Kouhaku...we can expect a more elaborate gown...(hopefully she tears it apart again) lol

its her song of the year...and even the song of her 10 year career...I respect it...it's a really cool and unique song with climaxes, tension and soft moments

Really! I'm surprised.

Well, thank you for the information!

:thumbsup completely agree, that`s a good way to describe it. it has all the types of ayu i like in one song.

im abit sick of MW :l

I wasn't a big fan of her singing this on Kouhaku but now I think I've changed my mind. Ayu will actually open the show with this song so it fits perfectly. A nice upbeat and intense song to start things off right for the female team. Since Kouhaku is essentially a battle between red and white team, I think it makes sense the females send up the "queen" to start things off right.

Ayu is top batter for the Kouhaku team.
Every year, the opening act is so impressive and huge..
Like, a big festival and ceremony.
So, it makes sense for Mirrorcle World.
It's a really regrettable thing that her hand happened when she became the star of Kouhaku. =\