OMG LOL I'm sorry but Ayu does not sound that great live now. Honestly, I'd rather she just lipsync more of it if it makes her concerts sound better. I think this is a matter of opinion though. A lot of people prefer if the singer sings the songs live because they paid money to see the singer sing, but others prefer just to have a good time and watch an entertaining performance. If you are someone who prefers someone who sings live than thats ok, but i think a lot of people would also choose the 2nd option. If you are looking at the point of view of entertainment then I think britney blows ayu out of the water. I mean she had CIRCUS tricks, she has better dance moves, and her music is catchier and easier to dance to. And I think Ayu's tour doesn't change all that much over the years. Her live tracklist is very repititive and she does similar move over and over. Of course this is just an opinion but to me, Ayu's tours now are a big waste of money because I feel she's just reusing ideas over and over, but change the costumes or something minor. So yeah Tours are very debatable. It depends what the crowd wants and both artist delivers what they need to deliver and I think thas perfectly fine.
AS for music. I love how people says ayu's music has MEANING to it. You know music isn't just about lyrics. If it was we might as well just categorize it under poetry. THere's a reason why they are seperate
Sure lyrics do help with a song, but I think if a song can be liked without lyrics, it means A LOT more than if you like a song Just because it has lyrical meaning. Classical music is a great example of this. are you going to say classical music is bad because it has no meaning. It is just instruments playing. These songs just capture people's attention. Maybe some songs can be interepted for something, maybe not. There's nothing about LOVE or Friendship in many famous classical songs, but they are still famous : ). Music is about preference to the melodies of the composition. Sometimes people even measure it by the creativity of using harmony, melody and rhythm together. Thats why it is a subjective matter. I don't want to sound rude, but people like you are the ones that are ignorant about music v_v. You should be labelling a song bad because it doesn't entertain you, it doesn't capture your attention or it doesn't flow with your groove. If you like a song, but you don't listen to it because the lyrics aren't deep enough for you then this is your own loss. Seriously. Even in physics music is labelled as a rhythm or repeated pattern of wavelengths while noise is random wavelengths. (I cant explain it too well haha) Lyrics are only one aspect of music.
^ haha altho I agree with most of your post evolution, lets not insult people who like to find lyrics with meanings lol. I'm sure they're not all social rejects. =) But I agree with you, I love how britney's break down is a promotional item but when you bring up ayu's deafness incident its a whole different story. i mean seriously. lets not make exceptions for artists we like. Its not a different story jsut because Ayu is involved. unfortunate accidents happen and seriously, I think britney would rather sacrifice some of her sales and not have that break down. Anyways as evolution said, her sales suffered because of the incident rather than boomed back up.