#fns 2011

The production team must have gotten a bashing, it's not just Arashi's sound system, the sound was iffy at other parts too. The background music overpowers the vocalists overwhelmingly, so they sound like they're squeaking unless they sing a lot louder.

I personally found the camera team a bit odd at some performances, they panned around and zoomed into the older performer's hair so much that you can see a few white strands. The camera also just stayed at the top for the AKBXSKB performance, you can barely distinguish each girl with the dancing.

Props for the amazing piano and violin performances though, don't know the performer :S

Nishino Kana was amazing as always, the sound was super clear, although the high notes were a bit weak. Her, Mai Kuraki, and BoA were amazing *__*

Arashi's Imoto performance as well :3 so precious

I don't get how their earpieces be misplaced in such a short timeframe though -__- wanted to see them perform their best, they do so few performances already D: oh well, hope they get more chances to perform Meikyuu Love Song ^^

Honestly when I first saw it yesterday morning before my first final, I was in shock until Oh-chan's solo part, where I realized his mic was screwed with and then got really pissed. Not good before a final lol but I did notice that none of them seemed annoyed by this negative turn of events. I expected Matsujun to be really ticked, but his okay sign during the performance...I love Arashi T_T so inspiring. To be able to perform like pros throughout that performance is pretty amazing. I'm sure they knew that Fuji TV would be burned down affected if they showed any annoyance, and it would be hard to perform there again.

Re-watching it made me realize it really wasn't so bad. It was just that Oh-chan's mic was too soft compared to all the others', so the sound was not the usual. Just proves that Arashi needs all 5 of them :D Plus, it seems like most of the other singers all had background music (I swear the kpop groups used this the most lol it's probably hard to sing in Japanese for them) not just the orchestra...they didn't seem to turn it on for Arashi :( they need the background music, it'll have a bit of their voices at bits like in karaoke but it really helps the entire sound quality - keeping a stable voice while performing a dance routine is pretty damn hard.

Also Sexy Zone is getting cuter, their group name was kind of unappealing to me at first. Where's Kis-My-Ft2 though? lol just read on wiki that they're doing national Dome tours and international concerts next year...nothing against that but seriously Johnny-san, international concert tour for Arashi who are going into their 13th year, please??

or the new NEWS??

I haven't read any news or specific comments yet about Arashi's FNS performance. But I have just watched it. Yes, it came to a point when they sounded really bad. but. Those five boys sang and performed like the true professionals that they were.