[JEWELian]

Just back from the tour- what can I say?
More like ~A HOT MESS LIVE~

Maybe because it's the 8th time I've seen her- it just felt like a copy-and-paste ayu show, with short segments (no more than 2 songs) and long interludes, lots of dancers, acrobatics, and lots of ayu just standing around.

Sure, I loved last year's ARENA TOUR- but this one... well it fell flat, souless just like the album she released this year.

JEWEL (and I guess HEAVEN too) saved it for me. It's my song- and I cried. What a beautiful performance, suspended in the air in water.... (Shame I had to kill JEWELian but w/e).

Sure, her voice was great- a bit of a mess when she was singing against heavy backing music (I guess because of her deafness), but no worse than last year, if not better (or maybe because Hiroshima's Green Arena had better sound that Shizuoka and Fukuoka?).

The theme was a mess, the setlist was odd- ending with Voyage? The random English wasn't that nice... And Timmy. Ugh.

The opening was really strange also- all this drama and hoo-hah around dolls and marionettes on strings who break free. It should've just started with ayu appearing on stage as she did.

The allusions to past tours were good- I obviously noted the last segment's to ASIA TOUR 2007's opening segment, but it wasn't until Nem pointed out to me that the trick in Wake me up was taken from Ladies Night at AT06.... and I'm sure there were other illusions in the show to past shows, too. (Like the mask in the opening to CDL 10-11, maybe the tiara and hair in JEWEL/HEAVEN to HANABI/End roll in AT08, etc).

The encore was strange with the double encore... it was funny tonight though because these *****es wouldn't shut up and kept shouting and ayu had to take three times putting the mic down, then being like "seriously you guys can't keep quiet? please?" until she finally got to do her mic-free "ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA~~~~~~~" but then obvi came back for MY ALL.

Erm what else... pokerface~Fly high and HONEY were totally mimed... shame HONEY is a short version... Also You & Me? Seriously? BLUE BIRD was nice though...

But the interlude with DJ 2-YAN playing Sweet Nothing and Starships and Gangnam Style (to which I was totally twerking to the first two btw) before ayu came on stage? Total wtf moment!

That's all I can say really- was a bit angry I won't be going again tomorrow night because Celga are completely incompetent (guys don't ever use them) but after seeing the show I'm not too fussed lmao.