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Originally Posted by Gustavopc
SO.EFFING.TRUE
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Glad I'm not the only one.
I do want to elaborate on what I mean by that... It's like the whole concert is at this weird place in between trying too hard and not trying hard enough. Every performance seems to be moving toward a concept but then not following through. (Why, for instance, is Shuya's outfit during Free & Easy not red? Why is Ayu not wearing simpler, more tattered looking clothing? Are the stake & the red spotlight REALLY as far as you're gonna go with the imagery?? REALLY!??)
I'd probably love at least the encore if she didn't have that short blond wig on during it. It's like she couldn't even decide if she wanted to commit to a more casual, natural appearance for the encore - again, so close to being a concept, but no completion of the idea.
The audio has its issues too - since "Dream ON" is very bassy, it sounds REALLY REALLY out of place in context. The whole show should have been mixed with a bassier sound as it went on, so "Dream ON" wouldn't be so odd. (I'm not even gonna get into how frustrating the singing - back track - singing - backtrack switching during "Last angel" was - and that was how she OPENED the show! Doesn't bode well.)
There's so much about the show that I like though - about half of the costume design (the other half being absolutely dreadful); some of the choreography (the new choreography for Marionette in particular is quite good); the fact that the cameras focus so much on Ayu instead of the dancers for most of it (although this was done better on the live stream than on the DVD version, it's still done better here than most of her concert DVDs); the consistent purple color scheme in costumes & lighting but with occasional red sections, which help the concert to have its own cohesive identity to some degree, which most of her concerts lack... And the set list itself was a GREAT mix of classic concert staples, new songs, and stuff that didn't get performed often.
And to be honest all those good aspects just serve to make it even more of a frustrating watch for me, hahaha. Ah well.
