～POWER of MUSIC～ 2011 A LIMITED EDITION setlists, photos, and etc. [IV]

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Originally Posted by Heavenly Zerase

^ I don't think that was Ayu's best performance ever xD. It was probably one of the bests since 2008, but any performance before sounded better. And in my opinion the chorus lacked of power

I didn't write best, I wrote one of the best. She got a handful performances that beat this - all before her hearing went too bad. It sounded better than anything not recorded at the 2005 and 2003 a-nations and AT05 pretty much. And an acapella is always much harder than singing the song with music so it was quite impressive. Better than the A Museum A Song for XX acapella though forgiveness is a much harder song.

You have to consider that a) forgiveness is one of Ayumi's hardest songs, a song she wasn't even able to sing well when she released it, a song that goes out of her natural range and her range is smaller now than it was before, and b) this is an unedited performance that starts off in a way that you hear every tiny flaw and has a bad mix. Yet this performance was almost flawless vocally(not completely perfect but few people in pop could sing this song better) until she went a bit flat towards the end. And how the hell should she have sung the chorus with more power? o.0 Look at the melody, it's not one you can sing much more powerfully without sounding ridiculous. The reason this didn't sound powerful enough to you probably is the mix rather than her actual vocals.