COUNTDOWN LIVE 2011-2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs~ information thread

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

Oh, I forgot about CDL 05-06. I do think that was a great concert. I like her first CDL 00-01 as well, although it was far from extravagant.

Fans really think she's pregnant? I mean, if she was actively trying to get pregnant she wouldn't still announce an ARENA TOUR for 2012. Unless she plans on sitting on a couch for the entire concert.

CDL05-06 was stunning but it's the exception. It was pretty panned at the time when we saw the TV broadcast btw.... then the DVD came out and everyone forgot that they hated it, lol. I've enjoyed watching most of the CDLs since I became a fan (04-05 onward) but they definitely are kind of like appetizers compared to the main courses that the tours are. They give Ayu a chance to perform normally unperformed songs (in this case I think she did mostly newer tracks she hadn't done before compared to say a teddy bear/TO BE/acoustic set kind of thing) and fans get another concert to look forward to in addition to the tour. Lately though she seems to have been jampacking CDLs with tracks we've already seen like 5-6 times so that's kind of sad.

Also... how would Ayu have gotten pregnant? Skype transmission? I don't think pregnancies work that way.

But then again, when she started 30 mins late I was thinking of a million possible reasons why, morning sickness was one of them as well as uncontrollable diarrhoea!

30 minutes late is pretty normal for Ayu concerts though. They might as well schedule them a bit later but she'd probably end up late anyway.

Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

It could still be cancelled.

I find that very unlikely. Ayu's never really canceled anything completely unless she absolutely had to like for a-nation '05 or whatever when she got super sick or when she couldn't make it to Japan for MS.

[tasking]

Originally Posted by emiko

Well, she already sat a bunch for this tour. She's released something like FIVE.

who knows what she'll do.

I love you, meekerz Hahaha~

[AyuGAME]

pregnant?! wow...
just wait and see...

[Chritopher]

Originally Posted by tasking

That's one of the few awesome CDLs imo. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it it's one of my most favorite concerts ever.
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CDL 05-06 is my favourite CDL of all times! :-) The vocals were so good for the most part of the show even in unedited TV broadcast, and Ayu looked stunning with dark hair, like completely different person (it's still my favourite image of her)! And I loved the show itself too

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Also... how would Ayu have gotten pregnant? Skype transmission? I don't think pregnancies work that way.



30 minutes late is pretty normal for Ayu concerts though. They might as well schedule them a bit later but she'd probably end up late anyway.

No it's not. I've never been to an Ayu show that is more than 15 minutes late. She may have at some point had a show start 30 minutes late before, but I wouldn't call it a common occurrence.

Also, assuming that her marriage is valid, I'm sure they have seen each other more than just on Skype.

[freedreamer]

pregnancy!! wow..
we'll see. one year ago, we had the wedding. this year on new years day, the pregnancy?! they planned this really well didnt they???

[truehappiness]

Also, assuming that her marriage is valid, I'm sure they have seen each other more than just on Skype.

I do wonder when they would have found time to meet then since she's had her own thing (as he does with his own career) going on since they were last seen together in Los Angeles.

[SunshineSlayer]

^ Yeah, that's what kinda makes me wonder about that marriage. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt though and say they have been meeting secretly.

[emi♡]

when did they meet for the super ayu thing

[HilaryDuffFanboy]

Yeah I'd like to say Mannie went to London but judging on tweets that doesn't seem true....

Also agree with SunshineSlayer, she is never 30 mins late, 15 mins tops.

By the way, I too, am also waiting for an announcement tonight after last two nights questionable performances. If there is an announcement, it'd make the super short MCs on the 29th and 30th make sense because she doesn't want to spill.

I was thinking more of big announcement of new single in Feb and new album later on in year and finally acknowledging Party Queen (we only assume its called Party Queen)

[saigodansu]

Leslie was in LA during POM, took the book with him and did the photoshoot for Mannie's book although the only thing he was tweeting was about being in LA for a japanese celebrity's shoot.

[truehappiness]

If there is an announcement, it'd make the super short MCs on the 29th and 30th make sense because she doesn't want to spill.

Hmmm, as far as I can remember though, super short MCs seem to be normal for the non-New Year's CDLs, and then the New Year's one is like 45 minutes long, lol. It was the case last year as well with the introduction of some new dancers and Daichi Hamasaki... and that was it. For Future Classics, the MCs before New Year's was handled by Zin and Subaru it seems and wasn't that great either.

[KPL]

BTW, is there a chance that Party Queen is actually a cover? (though I hope not)

[ayuuk]

Now that we had two days of CDL, and the A CLIP BOX Blu-ray version is being sold at the venue, I wonder why there isn't any real item pics of the box? Or maybe someone has already posted it somewhere, and I just missed it?

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by LUOYUXIANG

BTW, is there a chance that Party Queen is actually a cover? (though I hope not)

I think she introduced it as a new song. Basically every blog that reviewed the concert listed it as such.

Now that we had two days of CDL, and the A CLIP BOX Blu-ray version is being sold at the venue, I wonder why there isn't any real item pics of the box? Or maybe someone has already posted it somewhere, and I just missed it?

There are a LOT of photos of the box floating around. Click around this search link to check them out~

http://search.ameba.jp/search.html?q...10&profileRow=

Photos are also floating around in the A CLIP BOX thread.

[ayuuk]

^Thanks, i saw the box as a whole, but still couldn't find pics of the 4 Blu-ray discs. Do they form an "A" logo when put together?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Hmmm, as far as I can remember though, super short MCs seem to be normal for the non-New Year's CDLs, and then the New Year's one is like 45 minutes long, lol. It was the case last year as well with the introduction of some new dancers and Daichi Hamasaki... and that was it. For Future Classics, the MCs before New Year's was handled by Zin and Subaru it seems and wasn't that great either.

The non-new years ones are always long too, just like any of her tour dates. Last years was shorter though; but not this brief. But maybe they have changed how she does her lives in general as the MC has been having a bit less importance over the past year it seems.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by ayuuk

^Thanks, i saw the box as a whole, but still couldn't find pics of the 4 Blu-ray discs. Do they form an "A" logo when put together?

Yes, they do. However the tops of the Blu-ray cases cut off the design so it doesn't look as good.

[Deep snow]

As far as CDLs go, my best is still PCDL. In terms of vocal quality (I heard the unedited first-broadcast TV version mp3 rips and they're almost all pitch-perfect), setlist (absolutely amazing for me; touches all my right spots. Excuse the expression), costumes (don't even get me started on this), stage... gah. Everything about PCDL is dear to me.

Anyway, I hope she has something good to announce in the last show. Like the name of a new single/albumwhatever. Or that she's pregnant. Anything. (Although, per last year, she announced her marriage after the new year, so, it's not impossible that she'll go all silent in the last show as well and then BOOM, a wild TA entry about pregnancy appears! *Pardon the 9Gag reference)

[HilaryDuffFanboy]

Yeah no more *wait for everyone to shut up* "Arigatou gozai mashita!!!"