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Originally Posted by ayumisrael
Well I wouldn't count what people who hate her say about her, even if she would have the best singing in the world they would still say crap about her.
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Well, we don't know if they hate her, this is just a general message board from CDTV. It's not just Ayu though, they spent a lot of time talking about Keiko's nose (Globe) singer and how it must be surgery, blah blah. lol actually someone said "holy crap, Keiko has Michael Jackson's nose now!" So while maybe the opinions are a bit extreme, they are still a better gauge of what the casual audience thinks, rather than just the die hard fans. I wouldn't necessarily trust what a big fan of Ayu's would say about her vocals because usually they don't want to say anything bad about her. Some fans are able to be objective when it comes to this stuff, but most are not. (I myself would always let my love for Ayu cloud my objectivity in the past more than now.^_^)
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Originally Posted by ayumisrael
Also decent amount of people from here that were actually at some of the concert dates really complimented positively about her vocal performance (though most were at the first dates).
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...and I was one of those people that was actually at the concert.
But yeah, it seems her vocals may have been a bit better at the beginning. I remember I said that I actually liked this tour best of the ones I have seen live, but that it was only because it was my favorite set list so far. I remember mentioning that I thought the vocals weren't as good as the vocals of her other lives that I have been to with the exception of a-nation 07 which was the worst.
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I wanted to add this that I found. There are some comments on 2ch that do say they are Ayu fans or at least used to be - so not really Ayu haters that I'm reading from. One comment in particular stood out to me:
"あゆの唄
全然 心に響かない
伝わらない
あゆ
あゆ自体が空っぽなのね "
What he basically says is that "Ayu's songs don't reach my heart and that she is empty inside now, isn't she?" hopefully my translation isn't totally off.
Another similar comment:
"あゆ大好きでめっちゃ憧れたし、あゆはずっとかっこいいんだろう。と思ってた。今はオーラさえ感じない。 あゆが変わってしまったのか、私が変わってしまったのか、もうわからない。" Basically, "I've loved Ayu a long time and have always hoped that she would remain great for a long time. But now I don't even feel that aura at all. I don't not understand anymore whether she has changed or I have changed."
Kinda sad stuff really.
Anyways, I just always think it's interesting to read the Japanese comments and see the difference between here and there. btw, they didn't just bash every artist, they praised the ones that did perform well - I only saw pretty positive comments for Glay, Southern, Porno Graffiti, Aiko, and Mr. Children.