By the way, (Because it's 12/23/16 and 8pm already here in America), has the Christmas show itself happened already or not? If so, may someone posts pics and the setlist?
December 23 [Event] Momoiro Christmas 2016 DAY1 Setlist 01, DECORATION 02, Pinky Jones 03, Naichaisou Fuyu 04, Z no Chikai 05, Kimiyuki MC 06, Believe 07, The Golden History 08, Hashire! 09, CONTRADICTION 10, Shiroi Kaze MC 11, Santa San 12, Mele Kalikimaka 13, Stardust Serenade 14, Kono Uta 15, Ikuze! Kaito Shoujo MC 16, Mafuyu no Sun Sun Summer Time 17, Koko Natsu 18, ROCK THE BOAT 19, SECRET LOVE STORY MC 20, Tsuyoku Tsuyoku 21, Hitotsubu no Egao de 22, JUMP!!!!! Encore overture 23, Sora no Curtain MC 24, Bokura no Century 25, Gorilla Punch MC 26, Koyoi Live no Moto de
Thanks! But dang, another setlist without a couple of MCZ classics? Despite that instant flaw, the show looks amazing from these pics!
Food for thought: once a group has a bunch of albums and songs under their belt, it gets harder to "always" sing certain songs at every concert. Inevitably, as new songs are released, fans will have new favorites. And though some classics may be cherished by many, people want to hear new songs, too.
Agreed, you have too many songs to pick from after a while. Looking at the numbers, given that this was the xmas concert, you lose 11 slots right away to allow for the entire winter song collection. ikuze and hashire/anosora are more or less certain to show up at every concert, so that's 2 more down. gotta promote the recent singles and albums a bit (looks like that took 5 slots). For a 26 song setlist, you only have 8 slots left at that point. Momoclo has far more than 8 classics. Something will be missed.
Exactly!! I'm not asking for ALL to be played or fill all 8 spots on the setlist with them. Heck, if you looked at my comments at the Amaranthus/Hakkin No Yoake show thread, I praised them for having at least 2 classics for each day on the old school MCZ setlists (At least it is less egregious to not have it for this show than the U.S tour).
I'm sure they could have thought of replacing a couple of songs just to get a couple of them on that spot. An example would be Coco Natsu, because why have a summer song in a christmas show?
By the way, this Winter Collection version of Kimi Yuki SHREDS over the original. THE FEELS/EMOTIONS/GOOSEBUMPS that this version delivers is simply GORGEOUS!!
As if I needed another reason to love thos song, it's an indefinite top 3 MCZ indie song in my opinion!