When you listen to the CD single track, it is mostly Azusa’s voice that holds it all together so you’d think that any performance without her couldn’t have worked, but by the time they were doing it in 1993, the sheer energy of the girls MADE the song!
As it was their debut single, most of the early performances of the girls doing Equal Romance in 1989 are rather stiff, with everyone concentrating very hard on remembering their lines, their dance moves and looking cute, prim and proper! A good example is this nice if very subdued performance on Paradise GoGo:
At first it seemed jarring to begin watching a Concert Video and jump RIGHT into the ending song, but once you watched it and saw how powerful the performance was, you understood as the curtains came down on a huge crescendo of an ending and then the beginning credits came on, starting the show!
It’s THIS performance that I hold above all others as THE performance of Equal Romance!
