ARENA TOUR 2009 A ~NEXT LEVEL~ setlist and pictures [I]

[wannajoin_Team Ayu]

Originally Posted by Emperatriz Ayumi

Yes!!! I totally agree with you!!

Remember people that in AT 06 at first she wore during AUDIENCE performance a horrible yellow dress (it seemed that was made of flowers...) and then in the last tour presentations she wore that golden corset with that feathered white dress and the white boots...

I hope that her costumes will change a bit. I think that they are simple ones because of the new stage where she doesn´t have enough space to run, for example, as the previous stages from the other tours.

This is my point of view...

ah, I didn't seen the yellow outfit of AUDIENCE in AT06 before... can someone send me the link? thx so much~

[Luther10]

Someone said the stage have 6 screens, and most of the songs have different visuals. I wanna see some pics...

The NEXT LEVEL tour have all the NEXT LEVEL songs. What more do you guys want? Be happy that she is still performing.

[noidea]

@ ayulove 18 Yes, she had many performances with amazing visuals where her voice was really good, because she didnt have much more work during performance(like Born to Be...AT06, it had great props and costumes, but the dancers had the extra work, not ayu) I think her voice suffers more from dancing than from the visuals of a performance xD(I mean: how does a great prop, an amazing movie or a special light show effect your voice? but moving very much and being breathless affects your voice)

6 screens...could that mean its similar to AT06? but people would have said more if its that amazing, wouldnt they?

[LNany]

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090...0504011-n1.htm

[Luther10]

Originally Posted by LNany

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090...0504011-n1.htm

Love this picture. I think is the beginning of RULE.

[noidea]

Originally Posted by Luther10

Love this picture. I think is the beginning of RULE.

yes, the picture looks GREAT! It seems the beginning is more powerful than AT08, theres lasers and not just smoke^^

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

The title NEXT LEVEL has nothing to do with quality like people seem to think. If Ayu was going to make a statement about quality she would have named the album "HIGH LEVEL" or "LEVEL UP!", lol. It's just a step in a different direction. Musically, yes it was different, and was received with mixed results. It was never Ayu's intention to make some kind of pretentious statement about how awesome the album is, so it's entirely your own fault if you have higher expectations than you usually would just because everything has the name 'NEXT LEVEL' attached to it.

Finally some words of wisdom.
I couldn't put it better myself.
NEXT LEVEL from the beginning intended to be something different and nothing that goes along with being higher quality, musical friendly and bring the tour awesome new level things ayu's fans never saw in their life.
The NEXT LEVEL is purely about the album being different with its songs, the use of electro style and in some use her pop and rock to fit the electro style inside of them.

ayu gets lost in translation for people a lot of times.

Originally Posted by LNany

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090...0504011-n1.htm

WOW

[SKYia]

Originally Posted by LNany

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090...0504011-n1.htm

I love these photos, I guess the costiumes didn't appear nice also because the shots were bad (angle, size, quality). Here we have better ones and they look much better.

[Kashoku]

I would like to cry/and or barf at that Real Me rehash outfit with the horrible wig. Her entire look for Next Level from album covers to this tour is absolutely terrible. I declare this her mid-life crisis.

[Luther10]

Originally Posted by Kashoku

I would like to cry/and or barf at that Real Me rehash outfit with the horrible wig. Her entire look for Next Level from album covers to this tour is absolutely terrible. I declare this her mid-life crisis.

This is pretty RUDE.

[ayulove_18]

now those pics help a lot with the outlook of the concert. It might take awhile to enjoy everything but i think the more hq/glossy pics we get the more happier i might be with everything. I do think she should have her hair down with the rule outfit. the hair seems too plain compared to the outfit.

[noidea]

ok, the stairs change colors and theres lasers, fits the next level theme^^

[Lady_Eowyn]

That's stupid because she's thirty, not 40.

And it's also stupid because it seems that you've got no idea what means to have a crisis.

[noidea]

yeah, if she had a crisis, everything would be way worse, look at what britney spears went through 2007/2008, THATs a crisis!

YAY GREEN LASERS

But Rule acapella will sound quite weird,I think.

[noidea]

she might sing the bridge acapella? that would sound quite good and then kick in with the first chorus like it was the last

^Maybe,but the intro in acapella would sound really blah.

[aloopy]

lol @ the high kick. great view for those who dig it xD

[Andrenekoi]

By the away... people said the acapella thing happened last year... but she used this at a museum too

Should I make a topic with everything she recycled over the years on her tours? xD~~~ That would be funny

[noidea]

I already intended to do that(together with a thread listing every playback), but with costumes^^ I just needed to watch EVERY concert before(havent done that yet) if you do it i will help as good as i can^^