Just finished watching it, for me it was bad... Not sure how to feel yet, maybe I need more time to start appreciating it. Didn't like the set list at all (only 5 fav songs) but I guess that's a personal thing.
But first, the bad things:
- most of it seemed too edited, I couldn't really hear her voice because of the loud back vocals (
Connected,
Terminal,
Lelio). Kinda like mashed potatoes where everything is just stirred together and you can't distinguish between anything lol. xD Back vocals should only complement the live singing, not mask it. :Z I think this tendency started with A Best Live and CDL13-14, but somehow the CDL was amazing.
- FTL was the flagship song of the tour so maybe she couldn't omit it, but
because of you,
decision,
You & Me and
B&D had absolutely no place there... She already sang them at the CDL, with the same video wall and effects, totally redundant if you ask me;
- the insert song was bad :/
- where is Urata Naoya?? I wanted to see him, just playing his voice was very lame;
- the last
koko ni part from
Angel was lipsynced from the studio recording, I wonder if they only did it for the tv version but nonetheless it was noticeable;
Now the good things!!
-
Never Ever was good!! Maybe I'm finally starting to appreciate this song and I was impressed!!
-
TO BE was a huge surprise and the dress was beautiful! A bit static but looked amazing seen from the camera above, when the turning started. The sphere during
Connected reminded me of
alterna from AT06;
- the whole thing with the masked dancer was thought out well, imagine when the time for introducing band members comes and he takes off his mask, who else would be there but shuya... lol xD Of course it wasn't going to happen, but it was an interesting part and kept me wondering who he might be;
- Lico taking selfies at the end was a funny reference to xoxo, I laughed
- there was less focus on timmy *coughhotellovesongscough*
- visually it was stunning, really liked the beginning with the water and the intro sounded a bit like swan lake;
- the acrobatic dance WOW!! I didn't pay attention to it at first, it was a bit dark and I assumed it was the same person who usually does it, but when the song was over and I replayed.... omg it was ayu!! XD Such a dangerous performance and she did so well!! i'm still in shock.
Another thing I noticed is they forgot to turn on the autotune toward the end of Lelio, because that was the only time when I heard her real voice. I was looking forward to Lelio the most but it wasn't epic enough for me (and the excessive voice editing too).
I realize the tv version has bad camera angels, often I could see her face from afar or not at all. The BD will be definitely better with more interesting things I missed. Overall the concert felt very rushed, I didn't get the feeling of an arena tour at all.
It's almost as if the CLD was an arena tour and vice versa. If I remember anything else, I'll add later.
