Ayu: Anything Goes [XXVII] - Page 19

pedronekoi · #**361** 20th April 2020, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Also something I thought was a bug/issue with my DVD copy of stadium tour seems to be an error in the final render of the concert? Anyone else notice the small skip of frames during the first verse of Depend on You on the copy Avex just uploaded? I always assumed my DVD was scratched lolll

I don't see anything wrong. You mean the part they are showing the dancers? I think it's just the edit.

chocopockymaster · #**362** 20th April 2020, 10:03 PM

lmfao I do not know what kind of ROCK I have been living under the past 18 years but I was today years old when I realized Urata Naoya was one of Ayu's backup dancers in ST2002

No wonder she took him under her wing the way she did when he was branching out and trying to go solo

YUKARI · #**363** 20th April 2020, 11:09 PM

I think I rewatched Stadium Tour 2002 live fully for the first time in 15 years. and I guess I like it much more now than 15+ years ago.

and I actually really like her casual sports style there! why does it look more stylish now than in 2002??

truehappiness · #**364** 20th April 2020, 11:53 PM

Yeah for whatever reason editing was weird in 2002... I imagine something was imperfect regarding some recorded performances which explains why they were "bonuses" as opposed to being part of the main thing. Ayu of that time would be that meticulous about some things.

Urata Naoya iirc was in DT01 initially?

chocopockymaster · #**365** 21st April 2020, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by truehappiness

Urata Naoya iirc was in DT01 initially?

That is so weird to me.

truehappiness · #**366** 21st April 2020, 12:17 AM

I think it was due to the scale of the dome and stadium, they had a ton of dancers from an ASAYAN audition or something. I recall that is how he got into the troupe initially and then made friends with Ayu so he was brought back with a few others later on.

Evolution7/4 · #**367** 21st April 2020, 01:02 AM

The charisma for Stadium Tour is out of this world. She was giving us Britney while still being undeniably Ayu.

cosmicfirefly · #**368** 21st April 2020, 02:47 AM

Stadium Tour is so good, one of my favorites

voltron · #**369** 21st April 2020, 03:08 AM

It's really amazing to see the amount of growth she experienced from Concert Tour 2000 to Stadium Tour 2002...like in 2 years she literally transformed into a completely different person, in many ways.

chocopockymaster · #**370** 21st April 2020, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by voltron

It's really amazing to see the amount of growth she experienced from Concert Tour 2000 to Stadium Tour 2002...like in 2 years she literally transformed into a completely different person, in many ways.

Agreed. I also find the transition from Stadium Tour 2002 to CDL02-03 *completely* jarring. She morphed

pedronekoi · #**371** 21st April 2020, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Evolution7/4

The charisma for Stadium Tour is out of this world. She was giving us Britney while still being undeniably Ayu.

Completely!!

Edit: OMG AT2003 is up now and it's so nostalgic!! It was the first full Ayu concert I ever watched (bought a fake copy on one of those anime events back in the days lol). And she looks so stunning during the ourselves and Real me part!! Her face is just angelic <3 I feel like the quality on YouTube is better than the DVD?!

ExodusUK · #**372** 22nd April 2020, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by pedronekoi

I don't see anything wrong. You mean the part they are showing the dancers? I think it's just the edit.

I'm mistaken, it's not depend on you but there's def a glitched in the medley that is present on both the DVD and youtube upload.

It's kinda disappointing that Avex doesn't seem to have a proper archive or process for retaining raw footage/stuff from over the years. If they had, they would have definitely released a $300 collectors edition of new PV edits or "close up version"/"dance version" or something from over the years.

Katsuyuki012 · #**373** 22nd April 2020, 01:02 AM

The editing can be off-putting at times but ST02 is just such a great concert. It's very energetic and feels very 'easy', probably due to the open air factor. And I love the fireworks

hud · #**374** 22nd April 2020, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by pedronekoi

I feel like the quality on YouTube is better than the DVD?!

I think so. I even replaced my dvd rip with it. lol

ExodusUK · #**375** 22nd April 2020, 10:13 PM

Was the appears cover considered problematic/blackface when it first came out or is it one of those cultural things that isn't a issue in Japan as they're such a homogenised society?

Chibi-Chan · #**376** 22nd April 2020, 10:28 PM

^the cover never meant to show Ayu as a black woman, it's simply gyaru style, which was very popular in the late 90s

pedronekoi · #**377** 23rd April 2020, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Was the appears cover considered problematic/blackface when it first came out or is it one of those cultural things that isn't a issue in Japan as they're such a homogenised society?

The concept of black face is not known by most of japanese society. You can see people doing it on TV even nowadays and no one says anything.

SunshineSlayer · #**378** 23rd April 2020, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

monochrome says it was performed at all the concerts and it was performed at the Open Air Live (held in June before the Stadium Tour happened in July) as well...we may never know why they cut it :/

While we’re on the subject, they cut the performances from AT02 in a similar way and included those as bonus tracks but who the F knows why? Daybreak and the acoustic songs?? That whole section with that fabulous white shirt should have come after A Song for xx in the main setlist.

Man, avex were trippin’ back in the day.

lol, I had almost forgotten about all of this. Maybe Avex thought by slapping the term bonus on them people would think they were getting something that wasn't always there to begin with...

Andrenekoi · #**379** 23rd April 2020, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Was the appears cover considered problematic/blackface when it first came out or is it one of those cultural things that isn't a issue in Japan as they're such a homogenised society?

I don't think the japanese public would consider that problematic even nowadays.

mizuki-7 · #**380** 23rd April 2020, 07:12 PM

I didn’t know that Ayu wrote the lyric of LIMIT on her first EP nothing from nothing !! It’s a great song to bad she will never acknowledge it lol
It’s interesting because it’s an Urban kind of EP but she stated in interview and in her book that back then she liked rock Music, it’s like the opposite world lol

English translation:]

A lonely girl who has no hope for the reality of life
Stay and hurt each other with a boy, in limited time, who has got his eyes staring at his dream

Just wanna say love, wow, wow... limit lovers
(Just wanna say limit love)

The bright smile of him and his bandana make it feel good, that her closed heart, which has been left in somewhere
Her tears slid down her cheek
His hands are always warm, with his kindness but without decoration: full of feeling with truth
Someday two of them fall in love and stay together and hurt each other in the limited time

Just wanna say love, wow, wow... limit lovers
(Just wanna say limit love)

She couldn't make sure about their love because if she says something loudly, nothing will appear, even the smell...
He says that he, definitely, comes to see her
Even if she realized that it is a white lie, she kept waiting forever, only knowing to believe him
Trying not to realize her sadness in the wind, she dreams about limit love, reading a book, in the non-limited time

Just wanna say love, wow, wow... limit lovers
(Just wanna say limit love)