What did you think of Hotel Love Songs?

[Mimichild]

Pros:
-Colorful and lively!
-The cuteness of Shake It<3
-Ayu was obviously having fun (Major points)
-Timmy's outrageous stage presence (outfits and all)
-Majority of songs were enjoyable
-Stayed to the Hotel theme
- the next LOVE wwwooooo!! She was classy and SEXY!!

Cons:
-Though colorful and lively...was a tad bit gimmicky
-Too many dancers and flailing (-__- something new please)

In between:
It was like AT09 after AT08
Ex. AT08 was EPIC and had major props and costumes, memorable. Then you get AT09, it was fun but overall ehhh b/c of the striped down factor. And it repeats itself with AT10 EPIC...and now this. But it's not really a con or pro.

[delangre]

it was a very crowded stage, and i didn't know where to look because of all those dancers. I was like... where's ayu?

but vocalwise it was a good concert, a bit of their concepts were overused though... i guess it's a great time for a change. You know, for the best live tour maybe. Please please please tissue dance or separated lover dance no moreeee T.T

[brener]

Originally Posted by FoObY

Things I loved:
2. Ayu's cute-sy singing. I don't think it suits her anymore. I didn't mind it as much for Shake It, but Ladies Night was dreadful.

3. Even though I loved the Tell me why/reminds me segment musically, the acting was a little over-dramatic.

4. Clowns. They didn't even fit the concept. It's time they retire!

i cant stand those stupid clowns anymore, and yeah, there are too many dancers... reminds me would have been too much better if it was ayu alone on stage... and omg, that "cute" voice on shake it was annoying :=

[thinkingoutloud89]

haven't seen this yet, but listend to the mp3 versions and I'm pretty impressed compard to the last 6 concerts.

best were Happening Here, Love song (gosh, so greta and the lalala at the end) and One night Carnival (she should do a cover/collaboration album)

[Mirrorcle Monster]

I was really pleased with the concert!!
Happening Here was such an epic concert opener, and the costume is one fo her bests ever! Song 4 U was great also, such a pity they didnt use the full version
Tell me why/reminds me was entertaining, but im super tired of the "love wars" concept. She sounded amazing though
appears/Missing was great vocally, but the concept is megasuperused. The dress was really cute
Shake It was actually super funny and she looked really lovely, and I really liked her vocals here. STEP you was fun as always, but they cut the second verse T.T
NaNaNa and Sparkle were a BIG surprise. LOVED the video before NaNaNa, and how energetic ayu was during both performances. Her outfit needs to go tbh, we've seen it 74647849 times already. Still loved both perfs.
the next LOVE was great, but ESM was a little bit crowded. kiss o' kill was really good, but cant be compared to AT2007
Ladies Night was the worst performance: awful outfit, awful vocals, 0 energy. Party Queen was saved by the "lonely queen" part, but I missed energy too. SURREAl~evolution~SURREAL was as great as always, and I actually loved Love Song (i would never imagine it would work that well as a concert-ender)
The encore was way too short, but i loved the outfit

Overall:

Best performance: Happening Here/Shake it
Best vocals: Tell me why
Best outfit: Happening Here/Song 4 u

Worst performance: Ladies Night
Worst vocals: Ladies Night
Worst outfit: Ladies Night/Party Queen/SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL/Love Song

Setlist i would have used:
1. Happening Here
2. Song 4 U
3. UNITE!
4. Tell me why
5. reminds me
6. is this LOVE?
7. appears
8. Dearest
9. Shake It
10. STEP you
11.NaNaNa
12. Sparkle
13. the next LOVE
14. Eyes, Smoke, Magic
15. Virgin Road (a capella) + Return Road
16. Party Queen
17. SURREAL~evolution~SURREAL
18. Love Song

ENCORE
19. Letter
20. Trauma
21. Boys & Girls
22. how beautiful you are

[AyUmIXx]

I love HLS Tour.. love the stage design, the costumes and the whole thing has the HOTEL feel. the only thing that bothered me is the clowns act also the acrobatic dancers, Ayu should really give them a break and hire magicians instead. and yes sometimes in some songs, there are too much dancers. i think ayu should decide which songs should use only 5-6 dancers, not ALL dancers involved in one song. and i think the dramatic "can't reach you" concept is quite boring already~~

i'd give this tour 8/10

[Beauty4123]

my favorite performances were "Shake It", "NaNaNa", and "Sparkle". i thought those performances were awesome! i also liked the outfits that ayu wore during the "NaNaNa" & "Sparkle" performances. i thought the outfits were very cool & ayu was so cute in the outfit she wore during the "Shake It" performance, as well. that performance was so cute!

[KillTime111]

After watching the concert on blu-ray.. I kept thinking.. something is missing.. and then I realized what it was when the credits went by.. a performance with a huge dress was missing!.. She didn`t wear one for the filming of the concert.. but wore one in other performances... and it looked really cool changing colors and such.. Other than that, I thought it was a fun concert, with dark themes..

[ayudancer]

The concert was great but I agree with some others that there are too many dancers now and those clowns do need to be retired. Less is more :-)

[ayuuk]

I think this tour is kinda disappointing like the CDL 2011-12. There are too many people, the clowns, Timmy, and too much stuff on stage. Maybe because I feel a "hotel" theme could've been better implemented. In the original HLS poster (in 2011), Ayu was popping out of a suitcase.

[waterballoon]

full concert with Mandarin subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...lmvIWv2lX4ecA5

[AyuWorld]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

I love HLS Tour.. love the stage design, the costumes and the whole thing has the HOTEL feel. the only thing that bothered me is the clowns act also the acrobatic dancers, Ayu should really give them a break and hire magicians instead. and yes sometimes in some songs, there are too much dancers. i think ayu should decide which songs should use only 5-6 dancers, not ALL dancers involved in one song. and i think the dramatic "can't reach you" concept is quite boring already~~

i'd give this tour 8/10

Agree.

anyway what made me feel like this concert is lacking something is when AYU GOT LESS SCREEN TIME! what they with RnRC Tour, they zoom in her face and we got so many close up on Ayu but not this time, kinda bothered me beacuse at some performances you can barely see her

and the Appears performance should have been done the way at AT07

during Surreal time, I hate it when Timmy is stealing the attraction with his huge Lips thing, and Ayu with silver dress while him in red outfit; no,no you 'll surely see him first. Surreal is always my favorite perf of Ayu with Yo chan Enrique and fans, not too many distraction please

[xLuna&1LOVE]

It actually looked pretty cool! I enjoyed watching it.
Not her best concert, definetely not, but it was fun!

Only, and yet I agree with others, the clowns...
Clowns are not funny. She should come up with another thing.

[maxikot]

I am more or less done with the concert. All in all i enjoyed it, i even found reminds me part with english subtitles and it reached me, i felt bad after this performance, really strong emotions here. And i hate totally timmy, he destroyed surreal with his behavious, outfit and simply with his person. I hope that if letting him go is impossible, may he go into shadow...

[ayu_ready?]

I think what I didn't like was that there were too many things - too many dancers, too many emotions, too many back-up singers, too much 'Chicago' thing going, which made me actually like the concert much less

I say I really liked the theme and theme execution and interlude movies. btw, why were the interlude movies much better than her new PVs? do not understand
costumes were good too

sick of Shu-ya and Maro and all these 'relationship portrayals'

also, Timmy was too bad there, like a drag queen parody, bad outfit, hilarious make-up. eww

I hate 'Tell me why - reminds me' part and 'appears' performance was the worst ever performance of appears. the matress thing's ridiculous

kiss o' kill performance seemed really out of place

her vocals were better than I've expected

and her best performance for me was 'Sparkle'

[Surreal17]

I've finally watched HLS yesterday after a long waiting...I enjoyed the show a lot,liked the costumes and the special screens (the one for A Cup Of Tea was really hilarious and fun especially the moments when Ayu was falling..oh,and what a mess they did).Her voice was in a very good shape,much more than I expected,especially if you look at her A-nation 2012 performance.I don't know,she always manages to make a great figure in her tours but her most TV performances seem so flat and bland.The songs that I enjoyed most in this tour were the NEXT love,Eyes,Smoke Magic, Surreal~Evolution~Surreal and the first part of Kiss'o'Kill (FIRE!!).The jazzy songs were fabulous,her voice was really good in it and it was a really unique and different moment in her live carrer.Also,the opening was BIG.