Profile of Mona Lisa<\/em> tour with a performance at Osaka\u2019s Osaka-jo Hall. On October 13, she ended the tour with a grand finale at Kanagawa\u2019s K-Arena Yokohama.<\/p>\n\n\tOpening for her at each show on the tour was Phantom Siita, an Ado-produced idol group whose concept is \u201cretro horror.\u201d Their unique performances made a tremendous impact on audiences.<\/p>\n
\n\t2024 was an exceptionally busy year for Ado. She embarked on Wish<\/em>, her first world tour, with 14 performances attended by a combined audience of over 70,000 people. Then there was Heart<\/em>, two days of shows at Tokyo\u2019s National Stadium attended by over 140,000 people. These were followed by the Profile of Mona Lisa<\/em> tour.<\/p>\n\n\t\u00a0Ado\u2019s stage performances are well-known for her performance from within a box, but her shows go beyond just her extraordinary voice. In her dance performances, she expresses a flurry of emotions\u2014refined, manic, joyous. This dance is a defining part of Ado as an artist. The same was true for the October 13 show. Following the opening movie that played on the screen behind her, the box seamlessly rose from below the stage. Of course, Ado made her appearance in the box.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u00a0In her performances, Ado\u2019s shouts and screams richly express the full range of negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, fear, disgust, pity, frustration, and jealousy. She began this show with \u201cKokoroToIuNaNoFukakai,\u201d a song written by her emotional rudder, utaite mafumafu. She poured out her emotions in the song\u2019s shouts. The audience clapped along through \u201cBacklight\u201d and \u201cShow,\u201d a testament to the audience\u2019s high expectations for Ado. Her voice, bigger than ever, and the lush backing band rose to meet and surpass those expectations. She effortlessly rapped the dense lyrics of \u201cFleeting Lullaby.\u201d If anything, it seemed like Ado was seeking out new challenges to take on. In \u201cRebellion,\u201d she turned the band mic towards the audience, and vocal effects adorned her voice on \u201cKagakushu.\u201d<\/p>\nAdo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t\u00a0The love ballad which began streaming in August 2021, \u201cAitakute\u201d was featured in the film Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War<\/em>. At the time, Ado had yet to perform a solo show. Just as life experiences provide people with greater depth and impart a greater sense of persuasiveness to their words, the variety of emotions Ado has experienced since then gave her voice a more layered and solid feel\u2014a reality that spoke straight to the heart. She playfully danced as she performed \u201cFaking of Comedy\u201d and then continued with the rhythmical \u201cHungry Nicole,\u201d which she accented with cheerleader dancing and twists. Just like her unpredictable life, Ado always delivers fresh discoveries through her songs, presenting the audience with pure and unvarnished truth.<\/p>\n\n\tThe focal point of the show was \u201cRuLe,\u201d which got the whole floor moving to the music. The moment the intro began, the audience erupted in cheers. It was immediately apparent that this was one of the moments the crowd had been waiting for. Although it was impossible to make out her facial expression from her silhouette, Ado sat on a chair in the box, suddenly breaking out in laughter, the very embodiment of someone who has achieved the mental state of transcendence. It was her most frenzied performance, as she swung her hair around and unleashed a sense of pent-up rage, almost palpable in every fiber of her being. Her voice, coming from deep within, was overwhelming, expressing various personalities. As the song ended, she stood atop the chair and then fell to the floor. This was no longer just a song, it was an overpowering theatrical performance that left the viewer so rapt that they dared not blink. Ado spoke to the audience, saying \u201cI believe that if, by serving as a sidekick, my existence can help others, then I can come to love myself.\u201d As she sang, her vocalizations were so powerful it was like she had transformed into a wild beast. She easily accomplished what no ordinary person could do. And, seeing that, the audience could not help but feel their own pent-up frustrations naturally dissolve, without singing a single note. As she had hoped, her voice shined a light for the audience, and one could not help but take off one\u2019s hat to her exceptional skills, even when singing songs written by other artists.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u00a0In the second half of the show, the box grew larger, presenting Ado with a wider area in which to perform. In \u201cI\u2019m a Controversy,\u201d \u201cKura Kura,\u201d and \u201cChocolat Cadabra,\u201d the audience sang along and clapped their hands, but what stood out in particular was the excitement with which the audience reacted to each of her challenging vocal performances. Ado proceeded to perform song after song that showed off her talents and elevated songs in a wide range of genres, such as the club music-inspired \u201cNukegara\u201d and \u201cYoru No Pierrot (TeddyLoid Remix)\u201d and the city pop \u201cAll Night Radio,\u201d making them her own. \u201c0\u201d was the last song on Ado\u2019s second album, Zanmu<\/em>, which she released in July 2024, and it was clear from the audience\u2019s reaction to the intro that \u201c0\u201d joined \u201cRuLe\u201d as another highlight of the show. These two songs have an underground feel, as if the songs don\u2019t want to be discovered by the masses. They also feel like especially strong expressions of Ado\u2019s emotions.<\/p>\nAdo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t\u00a0In the encore, Ado showed the audience two faces that she had never revealed before. She performed \u201cHello Signals\u201d and then \u201cThat Band\u201d and \u201cHimawari,\u201d original songs by Kessoku Band, the rock band from the anime Bocchi the Rock!<\/em> She followed this up with an updated arrangement of \u201cShoka,\u201d the first song that she ever wrote and penned the lyrics for, back when she was 17 or 18, and she played her own guitar, which she got when she was just 13 years old.<\/p>\n\n\t\u00a0\u201cI keep moving forward and surpassing what I\u2019ve done in the past so that one day I can come to love myself,\u201d she said. During this voyage of coming to love herself, she has struggled with being judged based on surface-level interpretations, and she has found it hard to truly communicate her thoughts. Through her voyage, Ado shared, she has found the courage to discover her own will, her own essence, and what she truly wants to communicate. She compared this to Mona Lisa, a personage known by people around the world, but whose profile nobody knows. While she had once considered giving up playing the guitar, writing music, and crafting lyrics, she later came to want to express herself through her own music and words, showing people sides of herself that none had seen before. Even now, Ado takes on the challenges of her music while asking herself if this voyage, which she had believed in so deeply, was truly the right choice. Despite the tremendous changes around her, Ado\u2019s roots remain unchanged. We can only hope that she will continue on her voyage.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u00a0On December 27 and 28, Ado played rescheduled shows in Nagoya International Exhibition Hall (Portmesse Nagoya), where she performed \u201cTake Me to the Beach,\u201d a collaboration with Imagine Dragons that began streaming worldwide on December 16.<\/p>\n
\n\tAdo JAPAN TOUR 2024 Profile of Mona Lisa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tSunday, October 13, 2024<\/p>\n
\n\tKanagawa K-Arena Yokohama<\/p>\n
\n\t<Set list><\/p>\n
\n\t1. KokoroToIuNaNoFukakai<\/p>\n
\n\t2. Backlight<\/p>\n
\n\t3. Show<\/p>\n
\n\t4. Fleeting Lullaby<\/p>\n
\n\t5. Rebellion<\/p>\n
\n\t6. Kagakushu<\/p>\n
\n\t7. Aitakute<\/p>\n
\n\t8. Faking of Comedy<\/p>\n
\n\t9. Hungry Nicole<\/p>\n
\n\t10. MIRROR<\/p>\n
\n\t11. RuLe<\/p>\n
\n\t12. I\u2019m a Controversy<\/p>\n
\n\t13. Kura Kura<\/p>\n
\n\t14. Chocolat Cadabra<\/p>\n
\n\t15. Nukegara<\/p>\n
\n\t16. Yoru No Pierrot (TeddyLoid Remix)<\/p>\n
\n\t17. All Night Radio<\/p>\n
\n\t18. Value<\/p>\n
\n\t19. Tachiire Kinshi<\/p>\n
\n\t20. 0<\/p>\n
\n\t21. FREEDOM<\/p>\n
\n\tENCORE:<\/p>\n
\n\t22. Hello Signals<\/p>\n
\n\t23. That Band<\/p>\n
\n\t24. Himawari<\/p>\n
\n\t25. Shoka<\/p>\n
\n\t\u2014This article by Mio Komachi first appeared on Billboard Japan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July 2024, Ado kicked off her roughly three-month-long Profile of Mona Lisa tour with a performance at Osaka\u2019s Osaka-jo Hall. On October 13, she ended the tour with a grand finale at Kanagawa\u2019s K-Arena Yokohama. Opening for her at each show on the tour was Phantom Siita, an Ado-produced idol group whose concept is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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