NEXT LEVEL CD2 (CDL 08-09)
 

did anybody listen to this? is it even really live? it sounds like prerecorded vocals covered with sounds from the audience. did ayu sing the concert live or was it a lip-syncing performance?

WARNING: this is not to discuss whether or not lip syncing is good or bad, so please keep that out of this thread.

It was live, she was on drugs, maybe she needs to be on them more often lol.

errr.its really from the concert.
and,i believe she did lip syncing part of the concert.and of course she do sing live in some songs like who...

oh if I remember she did lip sync some songs for the PCDL~ Especially Angley's Song... she was even caught on the tv broadcast version! But I don't think the Next Level Version sounds lip synced... she even went off notes with some of the song~ Yeah that's not the greatest argument but I actually thought the NL version had very weak recording sound compare to the DVD

It's definitely live. The audience was not "placed" there. There is a definite difference between Ayu's studio voice, and Ayu's live voice.

This particular live? Maybe it sounds too good to be true for you, but if you watch the actual concert the audio this disc was from, you'll have a better experience (and far more appreciation of Ayu singing live). :)

for example Days and Green, they were too perfect to be sung live! i thought ayu always jumped around and did fancy things while singing, so should she at least be gasping for hair at some point in the song??

The only song we know for sure isn't live from that CDL is ANGEL'S SONG, and that wasn't put on the CD.

I thought she sounded good in GREEN, but Days was really bad imo and sounds very live to me lol

Did you... watch Days and GREEN? She stood in one place the whole time she sang those songs.

Erm, she really didn't perform much for those songs in particular. ANGEL'S SONG ->yes she jumped and pranced around. For Days she just stood there.

IMHO I think the CD is more raw (i.e., less processed) than the DVD.

o.O she's jumping and running in independant and some other fast songs but she didn't move so actively in days and green!
i believe she DO lipsync at least 30% of the whole concert

Jumping around and doing fancy things during THOSE two songs? Uh. Those songs are slow paced, and don't require any jumping around or fancy gesticulations or dance moves for them to be conveyed to the audience.

tbh, the songs on the CD are the ones she actually sang, and the ones left off the CD are the ones she lipped =/ (which is completely forgivable, since she had just broken her hand and was on drugs and probably in some pain, she didn't need the added stress of singing all the songs in that ridiculously long concert)

yes.i agree with you,grace.

Ok, I refuse to believe all of these were lipped:

SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL
Who...
Trauma
independent
flower garden
Boys & Girls
MY ALL
+

do you really think so?

wow, in that case im really impressed! because green and days were really really good! they were almost like cd quality!

i didnt watch the concert, i havent got the DVD :( im waiting for it. im dissapointed she juststood there and sung green.. its such a dramatic song, i thought shed have nice choreography (like in the pv)

i think she do sing live for the songs you listed.i suspect angel's song(this is 100% lip sync),Real me,And Then,Naturally are lip sync
paparatzi,i recommend you to download the TV broadcast and watch it.then listen to the CD again and then only watch the PCDL DVD.

Well actually she did dance with Maro in GREEN. Her dancing is a lot better than it is in the PV too.

good point! i believe the DVD version will be edited? are the vocals in her concert DVDs the same in the broadcasts or different?

For the most part they're the same. But for some songs, they're miraculously better.

Who... for instance sounds the same in the TV version as in the DVD...

But like... SURREAL at CDL07-08 on TV and on DVD were completely different.

The CD is definitely live, and I personally believe they are not lip-synced. (The only one we have proof for is ANGEL'S SONG, but that was obvious even without the visual screw-up, lol. :tipsy)
No doubt they touched up the vocals at least a little, though, even if it was only to make the audio more crisp. They always do, be it a live DVD or a live CD (or, obviously, any regular CD).

no, she wasn't lip-syncing~~

come on, her voice is really differentt compared with her voice from the 1990s or 2001-2006~~

^ but using that argument doesnt really work, as her lifes from 2006 and 2009 are very different too! i remember her 2005-2007 performances on TV shows were never perfect.

Well, I bet Real me (some part of, when the dance gets harder), ANGEL'S SONG (oh... really?), And Then, Naturally, vogue, HONEY and even GREEN. GREEN looks like "fake", even her vocals aren't good (maybe it's a record from December 30th CDL?). Of course, if they are playback, probably it's a pre-recorded studio live.

Except for these, I think the rest was pretty live. And... Seven songs, 4 of them aren't "full"... This is not the end of the world.

after seeing everyone talk about angels song, i went and watched it.. i wish i didnt. :tired

ya.i think naturally is kinda obvious(if you watch TV broadcast) but i do suspect the few songs from real me till naturally are all not-so-live :P like you said,pre-recorded

to make it clear to you

;)