I also think that countdown was the worst, but..
Ayu has had ups and downs in her career vocally, and its not gonna change. For me, I hate the Duty album vocally because it sounded to me that she just continued singing from her nose.
I also really wonder what made her voice go downhill so much from 2005-2006 countdown, to Arena Tour 2006, which featured much more damaged vocals that the countdown itself... Born to be's vocals were really bad... I have to wonder now if she does really smoke sometimes, because of course we know she has lost hearing in one ear but if you listen closely you can hear her breathing and everything is changed and almost so short breathed.
But I really gotta agree with many people against SunshineSlayer. I feel most of the time, you only say bad things about the Ayu of right now, and say this is lipsync, that is lipsync, etc. I always expect it from you to come in at the perfect time and say 'this is the lipsync, dont even tell me its not.' It's not enough that it's your opinon, you gotta have to create it into some kind of law, and try to tell others that they are wrong saying its not lipsync, or whatever.
Also, maybe sometimes people dont wanna have a rational conversation about Ayu. Sometimes, they just love something so much that they wanna overlook, and I wanna do that a lot too. I dont want to have someone force their own opinions into me, saying how bad she is, how she always lipsyncs, and if she sounds good, it must be edited.
And I read that you didnt mean that if she sounds good in TV live then it must be edited, but you did say that you wonder if the reason why CDTV was not live was because she's afraid of vocals, and if you say that, doesnt it imply she will edit that vocal too?
I wanted to say that for a long time now, to stop trying to make everything into a fact that she has not improved at all from 2007 - 2008 countdown, how sucks she is, how she always lipsyncs, etc, because it just pissed everyone off... try to make things sound more non-confrontational and not looking for a fight, because thats how it sounds, when you always complain about something and put
... thanks.
Thats all I will say to that, so on another note,
I'm really looking forward to the performance of You were...
I can't wait!