アイドルのコンサート、初めてでした。もともとアイドルに興味は薄めだった自分ですが、エビ中の５thアルバム「MUSiC」がとにかく気に入って、この半年ぐらいは以前のアルバムにさかのぼりつつ、エビ中の曲ばかり聴いていました。さんざ気持ちが高まったうえで迎えた今回のコンサートは、自分の独りよがりな期待を軽々と超えて、本当に素晴らしいものでした。
It’s my first time to go to an Idol’s concert. I was not much interested in idols before, but I somehow came to like Ebichu’s 5th album “MUSiC” and I’ve been listening to almost only their songs for these sixth months tracing back their old albums. I was perfectly ready as I would ever be on the day the concert was held, and their performance was really much better than I thought it would be.
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「ようこそ秋冬ホールツアー2019～世界のみなさんおめでとうアイドルって楽しい～」と銘打ったこのツアーは、全国16か所の都市を回ることになっているようです。その10か所目である福岡公演が行われたのは、天神の繁華街にほど近い、福岡市民会館のホールでした。
This tour was called “Welcome to Autumn-Winter Hall tour 2019, ～Congratulations to People All over the World, Being Idol Is Really Fun ～”, and they are going to visit 16 cities in Japan. The place where the 10th concert of the tour was held on that day in Fukuoka was a hall called Fukuoka Shiminn Kaikan, which is quite close to the shopping area called Tenjin.
出だしは、ややとまどいました。初心者なりに予習していたつもりが、はじめの数曲は「ハイタテキ！」以外、知らない曲ばかりだったのです。中盤は、「MUSiC」からの曲が多く、自分がこのブログで取り上げたものばかりだったので喜びました。
At the beginning of the concert, I was a bit perturbed. Although I was sure that I had listened to their songs enough to enjoy the concert, the first few songs were the ones I didn’t know except for “Haitateki”. At the middle of the concert, there were songs from the album “MUSiC” and all of them were the songs I mentioned in this blog, so I was pleased.
実感したのは、エビ中の歌のうまさでした。「星の数え方」のように歌唱力が問われる曲も難無く聴かせていました。ダンスなしで歌い上げるこの曲では、歌の力だけで聴衆を惹きつけることが要求されます。他の曲では、ダンスのキレが素晴らしいと思いました。あれだけ動きながら息切れせずに歌いこなしていくのは、アイドルとして当然のこととはいえ、並大抵のことではないはずです。ほぼMCを入れることなく、休みなしで次々と楽曲を披露していく姿に、アイドルのイメージを超えた、アーティストとしてのエビ中の凄みを見たように思いました。
What I realized there was they really sang well. They attracted the audience enough even with the song called “Hoshi no Kazoekata”, which requires some skills in singing. They sang this song without dancing, so they needed to fascinate the audience with only their singing skill. I also found them quite good at dancing in other songs. It must be really tough to keep on singing while dancing so lively, even though doing like that is exactly what idols have to. They hardly talked in the concert and they sang one song after another without taking a rest, so I had a feeling that I saw their greatness as artists rather than idols.
エビ中福岡公演のリポート、次回に続きます。
To be continued.
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