Producers/acts you would like Ayu to work with~
 

It's been a long time since SWEETBOX and I wouldn't mind if Ayu worked with some known producers/composers. I would love Ayu x The XX, I can imagine Ayu singing a lullaby type song over music like this


Also Japanese band Boris, i think it could work well~

Nah, I disagree, Ayu is totally wrong for The XX.

Trying to sing something in their style would seriously overemphasise how squeaky she can be, even with her current vocals. She isn't mellow enough.

Tak Matsumoto.. Nuff said.

Another DAISHI DANCE remix kbai

YuriChan knows who I'm gonna say, and naturally, she's already said it! :)

I'd like to see ayu do at least one proper 100% rock album. Just honest, catchy, emotional, raw, powerful music with REAL instrumentation. Well-produced but charmingly rough around the edges. I would LOVE to see Ayu do this. And a collaboration with Tak Matsumoto would be amazing for this.

I also wouldn't mind seeing her collaborate with the guys from Monkey Majik for another sort of approach. Songs like "call" and "Letter" and "count down" and "It was" and "Love song" make me think she could do that pretty well.

My dream collaboration would be Ayu and Kuu. If they formed a group, kinda like how Namie joined Suite Chic, I bet their popularity would increase. I can dream... :smitten

I would love for Ayu to collaborate with them as well. Having listened to the music they have composed and produced for other artist; not to mention Blaise's and Maynard's solo work and Monkey Majik's own body of work and remixes they have done, a collaboration with Ayu should be a piece of cake for all sides to create something solid and well polished.

COMPLEX's Hotei Tomoyasu would do something epic if not amazing with ayumi since he's legendary royalty in the industry with him being part of 1 of the most influential JRock bands ever aka BOØWY

If not , his counterpart Himuro Kyosuke is another great choice if ayumi wants to continue doing rock music in her future works

If all else , capsule's Nakata Yasutaka , please ! that guy is a genius in almost everything he does for other artistes >_<

Oh man I would LOVE to see ayu collaborate with anyone from BOOWY! That would be so freaking cool. Ayu likes classic rock too so it would probably be a very fruitful collaboration, it seems like she'd feel comfortable with that sound.

how about Ayumi Hamasaki + Johnnnys Entertainment (JE) heheheh
i want to see ayu collab with her ex boy friend Tomoya nagase (tokio) or Arashi
but i also want to see her making collaboration with Mr. children .....
or Dj Bass (soul scream) i think she should make another rap album with DJ bass (remember her EP "Nothing from Nothing")

how bou if ayu+lin kin park or evanessence...
loll

I'd like her to work with Daisuke Asakura but it's not probable since she hasn't worked with him already.

I kinda want Ayu to collaborate with Yasutaka Nakata like how Ami Suzuki did...

... That would be so amazing. This x1000. :love

i was gonna say the same thing, but was afraid of the hate i might receive! haha!

I don't think I'd mind that! But I don't really like the slightly more organic route he's been taking with capsule & Perfume lately... Not sure he's in the phase of his career where he's at his best anymore. =\

As you wish.

Ayumi Hamasaki New Concept Album "Koda Kumi"
2012/10/31 On Sale!

Track List
1. INTRODUCTION
2. D.D.D.
3. SHAKE IT x Koda Kumi
4. KO-SO-KO-SO
5. TABOO
6. BUT(T mix)
7. 今すぐ欲しい
8. Butterfly
9. キューティーハニー
10. JUICY
11. show girl
12. V.I.P.
13. Physical thing
14. ECSTASY

Koda Kumi New Concept Album "4 Ayu"
2012/10/02 On Sale
1. Introduction -Happy Birthday-
2. Do Me More
3. Trust Your Bra
4. Gossip Girls
5. Shoes Collection
6. Queen Fallin'
7. Dior
8. L.V. (Love Virgin)
9. Make-UP!
10. REUSE (Dancers)
11. Outdated Dirty Dancing
12. Buy Your Next Album

I'd like hear what she produces with someone like Kobayashi Takeshi or William Orbit.

William Orbit would be nice! also another DAISHI DANCE work wouldn't hurt :yes

RedONE > William Orbit

A song (JUST a single song) with David Guetta ... that really high energy club style,

^ugh, no thanks lol :p

Calvin Harris, however, would be fine, though it depends. It always depends lol

I don't really care to know all the potential produces, japanese or whatever, that are out there and that ayu can work with. The only other asian artists I like as much as ayu are Utada and Eiko Shimamiya...and idk what hikki could do for ayu

As far as western goes, I love several bands but I don't think I'd want ayu to go their different directions. Maybe Innerpartysystem if they were together.

^Calvin Harris would be cool too. I mean, what genre hasn't she tried though? lol

hikki could make an ethereal pop sound for Ayu *drools*
But I won't let Ai Otsuka touch Ayu. When Ai collaborated with Ami Suzuki, it was a huge flop.

Anything or anyone that gets away from the plastic guitar music. From MY STORY it's been pretty non-stop..

^^^I'd be okay with David Guetta or anyone as long as the songs good. I don't mind style too much

^^and yeah, if she arranges it. But with her compositions, I just can't imagine ayu singing them. I just don't know if Hikki's style would work for ayu. It depends on how she arranged it, though whatever it would be, it would likely be great lol

I think, just once, it would be to do an Avex collaboration single with ayu, namie, and kumi. Each girl would have solo song on the single, then there would be between two and three songs featuring all three girls. That would be pretty cool. We could have a ballad, a typical "ayu-ish" song, and an ero-kakkoi upbeat dance song like JUICY or SHAKE IT, and the PV for that would feature all three of them dancing. OMG can you imagine?! LOL

If COMPLEX's Hotei Tomoyasu did wonders with Anna Tsuchiya & Kuriyama Chiaki and likewise for BOØWY composing for DAIGO☆STARDUST's MARIA , I don't see why both of them are not able to do something amazing for ayumi

BIGBANG
Dong Bang Shin Ki

I would really love for her to have songs by Tetsuya Yukumi again. I miss his compositions so much esp after that 48hour Ayu marathon. Since we had BOUNCEBACK and D.A.I on Party Queen, I can't really complain about that alrady. She could even work with [alterna], [CAROLS], [fated] composers...or maybe Kazuhiro Hara as well again

I'd like to see Bounceback and CREA again!

CREA doesn't...That's not collaboration, really. Wat. o_O

Someone else said William Orbit, and I've had that fantasy for a while. Holy chit.

Others on my wishlist are Trent Reznor, and my weird pick for a song she would convert to an Ayu-rock-smash would be Revis' "Seven." Oh man, that would be hot. But it's so obscure and the chances so slim that we'd be hit by a deep-impact meteor first.

Seven

DAISHI DANCE
Calvin Harris
RedOne
im sure i can think of more later!

^^I know that, I was thinking composer. Just got confused I guess.

waahh! CREA.. anything with crea would be amazing.
DAISHI DANCE and Crea... aww.. melt..
Crea and Clivan Harris... melt again...

I always loved CREA+DAI

come on people!
Lets say how we really feel!
I am... part 2 (the album of course)

^I think that's what a lot of people (including myself) want!

I just wanna see Ayu singing about really personal stuff on a regular basis again. Party Queen was SUCH a welcome change from the safe, plastic, "everybody look towards the future, i'm always there for my fans" stuff she's been doing for the last gazillion years. Part of that? YES I want to hear more CREA again.

I want to think of ayu as a singer-songwriter too, not just a pop star.

Anything with CREA would not be amazing. I generally love most ayu songs composed by CREA but they really need to have the good arrangements that the CREA songs have. So I just need some good arrangers. Like hikki lol.

With I am...as someone mentioned. I wouldn't want a remak of all those songs. I'd prefer less evolution and UNITE! type stuff, and more Naturally and still alone sounding things.

I would to see ayu give composing a try again :)

Mademoiselle Yulia lol

Cause she'd make Ayu look so badass and they'd probably make something totally crazy.

I should like to hear a song withe the 4 Avex Top girls : Ayu - Kuu - Namie - BoA
a RnB type song (since Ayu already tried it), add a female rapper and it could be some project like Lady Marmalade one...
A strong project with strong performers (studio and on stage)... It could be just amazing !!!

A wonderful video could be made... and a other for the B -Track (a ballad)
Prepare it for next summer (2013) to end the last A Nation date and promotion on TV... And there you make some history !

Xenomania or Richard X
The best pop producers around.

I don't know why, but I am kind of dreaming ayu can work with Justin Bieber or One Direction.

Ayu X Lana del Rey (for an amazing ballad)
Ayu x Skrillex (for an great dubstep intro/outro)
Ayu X capsule (an uptempo cutesy song)

that i approove!! Amy would show her how to be a baddass rock chick with class xD tho i can't really imagine that happening, the band and Ayu are way too diferent xD

i am kinda surprised none mentioned this plastic man who's so good in music producing and arrangements, has class and respect.....


LOL

ROFL Plastic Man. He used to perform with ayu in Christmas time.

Jin Nakamura would do something totally amazing with ayumi , especially since R&B is not something ayumi tends to do on a normal basis

Jin Nakamura is 1 of my fave producers & if what he does to his protege Matsushita Yuya is amazing & that goes for EXILE's best known songs to date (such as Ti Amo , LOVERS AGAIN) , why not for ayumi ? it will be something outta the ordinary but it might work

I'm listening to MEG atm so I was just thinking "hm what would Nakata Yasutaka do with Ayu". : D

No really, I would love to hear that.