Oh my god. I am so sad after watching Otsuka Ai's performance on the FNS Best Hits Award show. I didn't watch NEWS on that show yet because I refuse to. I mean, if I start watching Yamapi on that show, I would eventually want to watch everything I missed out on him for the past 3 weeks or so, and I would never go back to studying. And so I decided to catch up with Otsuka Ai instead.

She had a technical failure during her performance! OMG. Her earpiece wasn't working. =( I don't know exactly what the earpiece does for singers, but I remember once asking my brother and he said, the earpiece is suppose to help block those loud surrounding sound from the speakers on stage so the singer can focus on his/her singing and be able to hear him/herself sing, and that's when you KNOW that they're really singing live. Hence, you never see those artist wearing an earpiece when they lip-sync. Anyhow, Otsuka Ai was wearing her earpiece at the very beginning of the performance, and then you see her take her earpiece off like less than a minute into the song. After taking her earpiece off, there was a MAJOR change in her voice, like she sounded very scratchy. (I think it's because she couldn't really hear herself singing properly) =/ She sung off-pitch a couple times and then she slowly recovers afterwards. She looked like she was struggling REALLY hard to sing without the earpiece. >.<" She also looked VERY disappointed in her own performance at the end. T_T