[News] ayumi hamasaki LIMITED TA LIVE TOUR 2015 - II

[SKYia]

Does Ayu post this? I only see it in For"A"ver Club on FaceBook

[Aderianu]

she uses this pic as cover on her twitter page

[AyuGAME]

Sorrows - She did a good job..not an easy song..
Startin' - Perfect vocal..
Unite - not as strong as usual...kinda shaky especially on the chorus part.
Last Minute - she always did a good job singing this song
Heart Place - she struggling...but not that bad..
Days - off key here and there...but it's fine
Beloved - good job
Summer Diary - good job, but I feel that she kinda running out of breath
Dolls (acapella) - she always did a good job on acapella. maybe because she is half deaf, she can't clearly hear her vocal if there is a background music.
Key ~eternal tie vers. - struggling a little bit..but the emotion reach me
XOXO-Lelio-Sparkle-Feel the love-You & Me - good job, she nailed it
Love Song - she did good job singing this song like usual, not perfect but 8.5/10
Evolution-Surreal - well..very fun song, she can sing these two songs in her sleep
The Show Must Go On - wow..she did a good job with this song..her voice is so stable..even though the beat is so fast...
Replace - what a nostalgic song...her vocal is good here..
My All - always love the song and she did amazing job...I wonder if everyone still did that hand movement in that crowded room

[TheRainbow]

It was? :O

[JEWELian]

Tonight:

09. Dolls (acapella chorus) -> part of Me (acapella chorus)
10. Key -> HEAVEN
13. evolution~SURREAL -> Boys & Girls

I'll post the audio tomorrow or Thursday.

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

Tonight:

09. Dolls (acapella chorus) -> part of Me (acapella chorus)
10. Key -> HEAVEN
13. evolution~SURREAL -> Boys & Girls

I'll post the audio tomorrow or Thursday.

Thank you! So M is still missing.

[JEWELian]

Yeah. And no Present either >.< I'm so sick of MY ALL.

Also in the MC Yo-Chan was talking about tomorrow being the day from Back to the Future and ayu said she didn't know what that was lmao clearly she's never been to Universal Studios

And fk okay I've not said anything about Timmy for a few years now but seriously, her bringing him out this tour was just a new low. Both nights it was the same routine of Timmy pretending to barely speak or understand Japanese and not know anything blah blah blah. He's been living here for four years! FOUR YEARS. Even someone who is terrible at picking up languages would surely have learned how to actually talk without just bumbling around. It's sad that the one foreigner in the show is just being used to reinforce negative stereotypes. And it's also sad that Timmy goes along with it. (Shows how desperate he is I guess for his pop star lifestyle).

[SKYia]

I knew she won't sing It was

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

Yeah. And no Present either >.< I'm so sick of MY ALL.

Also in the MC Yo-Chan was talking about tomorrow being the day from Back to the Future and ayu said she didn't know what that was lmao clearly she's never been to Universal Studios

And fk okay I've not said anything about Timmy for a few years now but seriously, her bringing him out this tour was just a new low. Both nights it was the same routine of Timmy pretending to barely speak or understand Japanese and not know anything blah blah blah. He's been living here for four years! FOUR YEARS. Even someone who is terrible at picking up languages would surely have learned how to actually talk without just bumbling around. It's sad that the one foreigner in the show is just being used to reinforce negative stereotypes. And it's also sad that Timmy goes along with it. (Shows how desperate he is I guess for his pop star lifestyle).

I meet a guy that's has been in the USA for 14 years and doesn't know a word in English It happens. Maybe Timmy just wants to be funny.

Tears!! I want it was too.

[chocopockymaster]

I don't think it's an act, sadly. During the LINE live fast they did before the start of the tour the emcee asked him a pretty basic question and his answer was like...completely not even related to what had been asked.

[luna7996]

In his defense my aunt has been living in U.S. for the past 17-18 years and still doesn't talk any english.

[Gustavopc]

When you go for a country which has totally different alphabets and grammar structure, I dont think it's that impossible not to get the basics after some years... Of course it also needs some effort from his part, but I dont think it's cause he's a duck, I guess it just isn't his priority lol

[Chris85]

Having read his Twitter and newsletter entries I'd say his Japanese is ok.

[kotora]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

Tonight:

09. Dolls (acapella chorus) -> part of Me (acapella chorus)
10. Key -> HEAVEN
13. evolution~SURREAL -> Boys & Girls

I'll post the audio tomorrow or Thursday.

LoL ayu killed immortal evolution~SURREAL. WELL DONE.

[SKYia]

It's really possible not to learn the language, me & my parents have been travelling to Germany each year (sometimes twice a year) for the past 26 years and they didn't learn a thing, maybe few words simply because they were among people who spoke their language and even in stores they didn't try to use it always relying on family members. I learned German because I was watching a lot of cartoons (RTL2 ftw) but since no-one actually spoke German to me (besides short conversations in stores when I was older) I understand everything but I'm not that good at speaking.

I've been learning Japanese on and off for the last ten years but whenever I'm in Japan, Japanese don't really want to talk to me in Japanese, they always want to try their English on me (which was funny the first time I went there because my English was very bad and I tried to aswer them in Japanese).

If Ayu (and others) keeps Timmy as her English practice tool then he actually can still be pretty bad or it can be an act, a kind of 'cute gaijin' image. Maybe.

I really hope for It was / Liar / Criminal, omg, I can't :p

[Aderianu]

Timmy has few songs in japanese. I was thinking he wrote lyrics for them

[Gustavopc]

Maybe he has gotten good at writing/reading in Japanese bit still sucks at listening My mom is an English teacher (since like 1995) and is a grammar expert, but she can't watch movies without subtitles and also is not good at conversations because written English is what she pratices for 99% of the time

[JEWELian]

^Your mum doesn't live in an English speaking country though. Timmy's been here for 4+ years and would be hearing Japanese all day every day.

About comparisons with Western countries, those don't really hold up. In US, Canada, Australia, UK, France etc. there are significant culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The same cannot be said in Japan, at least when it comes to Westerners. Timmy would need to speak the language to live here - there's no way around it. There's no "Western town" where all the shops are run by white people who sell imported food and other items from US/UK. The overall ability of Japanese to speak English is limited as well. So yes, Timmy is either faking bad (speaks Japanese well and is pretending to not be able to) or he's an idiot (can't/won't learn the language but will still live here). Either way, he's still giving foreigners a bad wrap in an already highly unicultural and somewhat xenophobic country.


Anyway. I'll get off my soap box now.

Here's the audio from last night: https://soundcloud.com/goldtransam29...15-zepp-nagoya

[aliceshields]

My husband's Australian customer who is currently residing in Japan for many year, he speaks super perfect Japanese (if you close your ears to just listen, you won't be able to tell he's white), my jaw dropped when I first hear he talking on the phone when I first met him (my husband did "warn" me before but I still surprised how fluent he can be )

[holy_arrow]

Originally Posted by JEWELian

Here's my recording: https://soundcloud.com/goldtransam29...15-zepp-nagoya

(I love my friend's reaction at the start of Days hahaha)

JEWELian, I can't access to the link anymore. Maybe it died.
Can you reupload for me ?
Thanks in advance