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[truehappiness]

There is probably a reason why she doesn't do certain songs live.

[kotora]

Originally Posted by nalini-dahlia

I always felt like "darker", more intense songs such as GUILTY, Criminal, ever free, and Liar might just be too intense and personal to sing live.

I feel like if she ever did sing ANY of the above mentioned songs that she should sing ALL of them together. They might actually be quite thematic that way...

...and automatically change any of her concerts into being pretty intense.

Even though, tbh, I always felt that Reminds Me is one of the most intimately tragic songs she's written and she sang that live so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

I wish she would never perform Wake me up, snowy kiss songs again. These songs reminds me the pornstar she dated. LOLOLOLOLOL

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

How did GUILTY notoriously fail? XD

It broke her streak of number 1 albums, basically. Not talking about quality, but about sales.

^she never did perform a full album on a tour which I think is quite sad. Liar and Guilty are just examples. The CDL should be used for what she does in the Tours, not the other way around. PSC was pretty close and as such pretty cool (and so was HLS)

You are complaining she doesn't sing enough new tracks on tour and say she should have tours closer to her cdls, but her cdls usually rely even more on older songs.

[Anna.L]

I just wish a new album that she performs at least 2/3 of it, just this

[thinkingoutloud89]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

It broke her streak of number 1 albums, basically. Not talking about quality, but about sales.



You are complaining she doesn't sing enough new tracks on tour and say she should have tours closer to her cdls, but her cdls usually rely even more on older songs.

no, her CDLs tend to introduce newer songs which get cutted in the final tour. Or maybe I'm wrong. But I feel she should use her CDLs for her staple songs and performe all new tracks of an album at the tour.

[Andrenekoi]

^Her CDLs tend to introduce the winter singles only as new songs... Usually it's a mix of the latest winter single, songs performed during the past tour and fan favorites + obscure tracks.

During tours she performs between 60% and 90% of the newer album (with some exceptions like AT07, AT08, AT11 and AT13 where she performed almost nothing or nothing from the album and AT09 where she performed every track of the album, even interludes. She still performed every song on FIVE during AT11). The only CDL she actually performed a massive number of newer tracks before she started focusing tours on new releases (at03-04) from an album was CDL11-12, and that's because she actually performed the tour she later axed because of the tsunami disaster.

Even AT15 has 6 of 11 A One tracks on it. 7 if we cound A Bell.

AT15: 6/11 A One songs (+Step by Step): 7 new songs total
PSC: 8/10 Colours songs 8 new songs total
AT13: 1/13 LOVE again songs (+ Tell All) It was 2, but SAKURA was axed because her friend she wrote the song to passed away. 2 new songs total
AT12: 8/11 Party Queen songs (+Happening Here, 2 LOVE tracks, One Night Carnival) It was 9 songs but one was axed due to her divorce.: 12 new songs total
AT11: 1/12 Love songs song, 5/5 FIVE songs. During AT11-12, 5/12 Love songs songs: 6 new songs total
AT10: 7/13 RnRC songs (+ Moon, Seven Days War and the whole L single): 11 new songs total
AT09: 10/10 NEXT LEVEL songs (+ the whole S/S single): 12 new songs total
AT08: 5/10 GUILTY songs... 6/10 if you count Mirrorcle World.: 6 new songs total
AT07: 4/11 Secret songs (+Part of Me) 5 new songs total
AT06: 11/14 (miss)understood songs (+the whole Startin'/Born to be single): 14 new songs total
AT05: 11/14 MY STORY songs 13 new songs total
AT03-04: 6/8 Memorial Address songs (+ Moments): 7 new songs total

Her usual until 2012 was dedicating 2/3 of the concert to new material, between the album being promoted, recent singles and tracks soon to be released. Her releasing schedule is far slower nowadays and her albums are also shorter, so we don't get 1 album + half of 1 album in singles every year anymore, giving her less recent songs to pick from nowadays. On the other hand, her concerts are getting longer and longer, making what would be a reasonable number of new tracks before (8, for example, when she performed 15 songs per concert) seen very little. Even so, we have recorded performances from every A One song but THE Gift and recorded performances from every Colours song but Pray.

Her tours dedicated to celebration and promotion of compilations tend to have less newer tracks (what makes total sense), and so did AT11 that was a special tour focused on the Fukushima disaster.

And to be fair, there's a ton of old songs (usually the ones from after the TK era) on Namie concerts, but her setlists tend to be twice the size of Ayu's.

[truehappiness]

I was not a fan of how she kinda avoided ACTUALLY doing ever free, but I understand why she didn't do it.

[Aderianu]

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[kotora]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^Her CDLs tend to introduce the winter singles only as new songs... Usually it's a mix of the latest winter single, songs performed during the past tour and fan favorites + obscure tracks.

During tours she performs between 60% and 90% of the newer album (with some exceptions like AT07, AT08, AT11 and AT13 where she performed almost nothing or nothing from the album and AT09 where she performed every track of the album, even interludes. She still performed every song on FIVE during AT11). The only CDL she actually performed a massive number of newer tracks before she started focusing tours on new releases (at03-04) from an album was CDL11-12, and that's because she actually performed the tour she later axed because of the tsunami disaster.

Even AT15 has 6 of 11 A One tracks on it. 7 if we cound A Bell.

AT15: 6/11 A One songs (+Step by Step): 7 new songs total
PSC: 8/10 Colours songs 8 new songs total
AT13: 1/13 LOVE again songs (+ Tell All) It was 2, but SAKURA was axed because her friend she wrote the song to passed away. 2 new songs total
AT12: 8/11 Party Queen songs (+Happening Here, 2 LOVE tracks, One Night Carnival) It was 9 songs but one was axed due to her divorce.: 12 new songs total
AT11: 1/12 Love songs song, 5/5 FIVE songs. During AT11-12, 5/12 Love songs songs: 6 new songs total
AT10: 7/13 RnRC songs (+ Moon, Seven Days War and the whole L single): 11 new songs total
AT09: 10/10 NEXT LEVEL songs (+ the whole S/S single): 12 new songs total
AT08: 5/10 GUILTY songs... 6/10 if you count Mirrorcle World.: 6 new songs total
AT07: 4/11 Secret songs (+Part of Me) 5 new songs total
AT06: 11/14 (miss)understood songs (+the whole Startin'/Born to be single): 14 new songs total
AT05: 11/14 MY STORY songs 13 new songs total
AT03-04: 6/8 Memorial Address songs (+ Moments): 7 new songs total

Her usual until 2012 was dedicating 2/3 of the concert to new material, between the album being promoted, recent singles and tracks soon to be released. Her releasing schedule is far slower nowadays and her albums are also shorter, so we don't get 1 album + half of 1 album in singles every year anymore, giving her less recent songs to pick from nowadays. On the other hand, her concerts are getting longer and longer, making what would be a reasonable number of new tracks before (8, for example, when she performed 15 songs per concert) seen very little. Even so, we have recorded performances from every A One song but THE Gift and recorded performances from every Colours song but Pray.

Her tours dedicated to celebration and promotion of compilations tend to have less newer tracks (what makes total sense), and so did AT11 that was a special tour focused on the Fukushima disaster.

And to be fair, there's a ton of old songs (usually the ones from after the TK era) on Namie concerts, but her setlists tend to be twice the size of Ayu's.

Love again is the saddest album in her discography, in terms of performing.

Hope this is not going to be happen again and again.

[Andrenekoi]

^Pretty much... There's always one or two songs from a album that we never saw live, but never most of it.

[Isicio]

Is she was finished the recordings of the new album maybe at the end of May/June/July ~again~ they will have the product finished.

[Heavenly]

Originally Posted by kotora

I wish she would never perform Wake me up, snowy kiss songs again. These songs reminds me the pornstar she dated. LOLOLOLOLOL

Wait what ?! Since when Maro is a pornstar ?

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

^ he was in a video that's marketed as adult videos for women or something like that lol

[Aderianu]

Wasn't it also gay porn movie?

Wow I didn't pay attention that Secret tour has only 4 Secret songs %)

[kotora]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

Wasn't it also gay porn movie?

Wow I didn't pay attention that Secret tour has only 4 Secret songs %)

I remember it was a gay porno. Saw a picture of him in bed and his legs were in the air...lolololololololol

Secret, BLUE BIRD, BORN TO BE..., Beautiful Fighter, 1LOVE, Startin', JEWEL, kiss o' kill

Which 4, do we also consider music only like Not Yet, Taskinst?

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

He was in a movie where he portrayed a gay man? Or a call boy? Or play boy? All of the above? Which sees him with another man.

And he was also photographed in a gay japanese magazine to promote it.

But it was an actual movie, not porn.

The porn he did do was straight porn.

[//ABEST]

wait what?? what are those movies' names? need to google this!

[Andrenekoi]

^Someone posted about the porn movie around here, but the mods don't like porn

So, he did a art house gay movie with simulated sex scenes and a straight porn movie targeted to women, what makes it easy to understand why Ayu dated him

[rainbow_smile]

Originally Posted by //ABEST

wait what?? what are those movies' names? need to google this!

I think the gay movie was called "Tokyo: The city of grass" *cough* sorry, glass

[//ABEST]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^Someone posted about the porn movie around here, but the mods don't like porn

So, he did a art house gay movie with simulated sex scenes and a straight porn movie targeted to women, what makes it easy to understand why Ayu dated him

omg i need to see it!!

Originally Posted by rainbow_smile

I think the gay movie was called "Tokyo: The city of grass" *cough* sorry, glass

thank you!