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Old 1st January 2020, 01:51 PM
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The curtains opened, Ayu appeared in a wheelchair. She started with "I'm sorry for such a shocking appearance on stage", because she fell, talked about this live, changes in the seat structure, listened to the audience requests of the songs they want to hear in the next leg of Trouble tour. Then group pictures were taken with Ayu facing each block and she thanked the fans before bidding farewell. The public was sitting all the time, Ayu didn't leave the stage or shake anyone's hands or talk directly to anyone. It all lasted about 10 minutes.
That fall looked really painful, I don’t blame her for keeping it short. It kind of sucks for the fans that thought they could meet her individually, but it was pretty clear from the TA email that she wouldn’t really be having individual conversations. Honestly, I’ve got to give her props for powering through, because she must’ve been in a lot of pain. I hope she recovers quickly and it doesn’t ruin her already damaged knee. Let’s see if she uses any of their song suggestions *return road* on final filming day.

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You're right. Identity's choruses are pitch-perfect which give it away. Marionette and Decision are pitch-perfect and more powerful and screamish than the rest of the show.
I missed large parts of these songs on the live stream, but when I went back to watch them later I noticed the same thing. They sound more balanced in the mix with the backing tracks compared to the live vocals, and she was hitting the higher notes with some power, they didn’t sound thin, she sounded less hoarse in the verses etc. decision wasn’t pitch perfect the whole time, but the vocal sounded mixed and closer in quality to marionette so it was probably one of those “live prerecorded but with a few off notes” tracks. I also suspect the first half of Song 4 U (before the countdown) but I’m not totally sure.

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