Ayu's social networks - Discussion #39
 

Opening up a new thread since the last one has overflown (in other words, we've breached the 500-post limit).

2016.02.06 weibo: "God bless Taiwan"

2/7/16 Facebook: Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike + ayu = something exciting!!!!!!
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...64&oe=57685EF2

Yay!!! If it means up beat new EDM songs then I'm happy!
ayu knows what I like.
They are electro-house DJs!

I'll comment the same thing I said in the album thread regarding this collab.

oh, god, not again...

something not exciting :shrug

I don't care if this ends up a trashy mess. Gimme COLOURS 2.0 :heart (minus Hello new me)

This

A folk LP idea is probably gone....

Gimme some big room ayu~

^I would love a folk LP! (And if would be cool if Akeboshi could feature)

I'm happy with this news although I'm not familiar with the DJs she is working with but it'll probably be only for 1 song anyway.

The only thing I want is that the songs exude Ayu's soul. She can create a song that is not my cup of tea because of the style but I don't want to see another singer in my mind when I'm listening a song made by Ayu anymore.

Cool! I know nothing about these two. But the fact that it's -new- for Ayu is exciting!

The fact that she's meeting them also means she has the potential for input as opposed to just buying an already made track floating around.

Hmm I wouldn't be mad at some ayu bangers as long as the lyrics are ok

I miss Smashing Pumpkins rebellious Ayu...but I will remain optimistic for something fresh :)

OMFG THAT BUBBLE BATH VIDEO IS TOO CUTE

Her new tweet made me miss the "Guess where Ayu is" (or whatever it was called) game

Photo and article about DJs at modelpress http://mdpr.jp/music/detail/1563436
http://i.imgur.com/gPmQUqhm.jpg

was this photo made at the same day?
http://i.imgur.com/YEHkHRom.jpg

2016.01.31 "Today is cold but pleasant Sunday. Let's go out warm dressed.
Strongest of twins"
http://i.imgur.com/d85JawMm.jpg

ayu excited about #DaikanyamaSalad
http://i.imgur.com/VhlaEYKm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/yilVGzTm.jpg

2016.02.01 "HAPPY BIRTHDAY to RIKI #MyFrog #MyMonkey #Love #Respect"
http://i.imgur.com/NVLjxVFm.jpg

2016.02.04 "#MaleDancers #Choreographers #airport #transit #LAX "
http://i.imgur.com/3smDNTWm.jpg

2016.02.08 "Safely arrived in Narita with everyone. It was the best meaningful journey #LasVegas"
http://i.imgur.com/b9Ql8HOm.jpg

2016.02.10 "Flying again. Guess where my next destination is!!! "
http://i.imgur.com/24zOG67m.jpg

"The answer is......... http://i.imgur.com/kQzsKD9.png?1 #missedmylondonfans #missedmyeuropeanfans"
http://i.imgur.com/5BGSC0Vm.jpg

She looks beautiful!

Ugh she's so close yet so far away :( I wish I had a chance and money to meet her

You're all a bunch of moldy, smelly, wet blankets.
Ayu should experiment after delivering the snooze fest called A ONE.

Give me Next Level and COLOURS' love child, please!

i hope she tweets couple of days before if she's gonna meet fans so i have time to ask some days off from work and book a flight to London :yes

The best album since GUILTY.

absolutely agree!

isn't it too early for recording new album?

Chances are she's got everything ready...You know how fast she works.

I wonder if this will be another lengthy stay or if she's ready written the majority and truly just there for recording?

Let me guess, you love Party Queen as well? :P
Points for praising GUILTY, though! That album is so magnificent in its rawness and despair.

I mean, we got WARNING and several songs did show the "back to form" spirit she was talking about in regards to the album, but it personally was such a chore after a while and the songs seemed to sound very samey, or similar to other songs she's released. Idk, I like it but I'm critical of it.

What really bothers me about AHS is that the moment something new is done, people bitch and moan about Ayu being fake or following trends and missing the old Ayu. I get it to an extent, but it's annoying because it means that she can't win if she stays the same or if she changes.

^ well, that is how the sekai works. The music is your subjective damned cup of tea or not. Naturally, nobody has any control over how the next album will sound or how the cover will look like, so no need to throw any shade or calling us a wet blanket (lol) and leave people be in their own little dream world.
In my opinion, no one was moaning until you 'jumped in the scene'.
O, &, I never heard anyone saying that Ayu is fake. And if anyone did, I guess they left the forum a while ago.

Yes. I think of Party Queen as a continuation of (miss)understood. It's probably among her most diverse albums.

To be honest, over all NEXT LEVEL has to be her weakest album to date, even though the singles were great.

^ Hm... I can see how PQ could be a thematic follow up to (miss) understood. Musically, I cant. What PQ seems to do with its experimental tracks is be alot bolder, but I don't think the variety is there. I'd place Rock N' Roll Circus as the real (m)u follow up and have PQ come after that album.

And it's interesting that you'd say that about NEXT LEVEL because I think that the album tracks are better than the single tracks xD Well, Rule/Sparkle was very solid but the Days/Green single throws the rest of the album off whole being Ayu's standard fare at the time.

Maybe I just have really different/unpopular opinions, lol.

@xLuna&1LOVE there was moaning about Ayu working with these two house producers ir whatever, you can see it -in this thread or in the general chat (unsure of where it is ).

Agree...although I love A ONE. Just nothing like Party queen please!!

Definitely this please. A ONE was a good return to form but it's time to bring back "experimental" Ayu again. I *need* a sequel to COLOURS. She tried it out then and it was a fun album besides a couple snoozers and I just feel like she can perfect the sound even more if she gives it another shot.

Yeah to me Party Queen was well thought and had a good flow !! She makes a lot of experimentation especially with the electro and jazzy segment ! What really bother me in this album is her voice it's like she was sick the day of the recording ... This album with the voice she has now I would have almost nothing to say about it !
Let's be honest a lot of people have a biased opinion because of the trashy covers !! Her fandom decreased so suddenly after that !She should have keep the original concept !

Wow, people have such DIFFERENT opinions about Ayu's music. What one considers to be a masterpiece or a great album, other sees it as boring, uninspiring, not exciting etc.
Actually, this is quite the magic of music and Ayu's. And the good news is that every song (and I mean every one) is loved by someone.

Colours is so basic. I guess you can call that experimental in the sense of ayu never doing it...but it's not worth making a part 2 of imo. You can make music in that genre and have it be much more innovative. But Colours wasn't. Very fun album and I enjoyed it, but it was certainly lacking depth in many ways. I don't mind shallow lyrics sometimes and see their worth but when the music is also like that, it just makes the overall experience lackluster.

I suppose I see how many fans inherently find music from Colours more "exciting" and so more interesting to listen to, but I don't think that something with an EDM label is automatically more interesting or better than the styles of music that are on A One. You can make very fascinating and innovative songs in the style of that album as well. A One was just also lacking in many ways while using that style in the same way Colours was lacking in its own. So switching back to Colours-esque music won't fix any of that.

I don't care what genre she decided to sing in as long as she does at least something somewhat innovative and with depth. I think that's what she needs right now.

@mizuki-7 Party Queen wouldn't be as interesting fron an artistic point of view if it wasn'y for it's trashy overall image IMO xD

@Primavera Yeap... Both Colours and A One are well produced and good pop albums, but both are also overly safe... I can get why she did it and I can see her plan worked nicely, but I miss bolder material

+100000 ponts for you.

It had no flow, though lol. The first three songs are upbeat and then we go to some basic pop rock, then after some showtunes/jazz (I liked the jazz, it was fun) it ends in a ballad. Her voice is really poor in this album, and I'd probably like it alot more if her current voice was on the tracks.

The problem that I have with the concept is that it felt a bit lacking in execution. The tabloid concept would have been cool, but then it's only used on the cover. We're meant to attach the meaning of the title song to the photos but it feels hollow. Don't even get me started on the twitter mess with "drunk" Timmy over the "totally obvious" meaning... that still feels messy as fuck.
On my end, I think that people who like this album know the concept after it was fed to them and THEN can see the story. Lyrically the album is very solid, but asthetically it fell so short. I don't "see" a theme, but a random photoshoot and ugly leopard print :P

I love NL, Love Songs, FIVE, and there are things about COLOURS that I find to be awe-inspiring. A ONE had great ideas but I don't think they were executed well.

Now I'm just gonna say it. Rock 'n' Roll Circus is in my humble opinion the weakest album she has ever done. I loved it to pieces when she released it...Hell, it has some great stuff on it. But YAWN... I just don't think about it, the quality sounds really off to me, and it's an awkward album because it really does feel like it is in the dead center of a transition. I still love it in the back of my head, but I've been really thinking about how much...it just hasn't really aged well for me... Party Queen at least had some powerful, dark feelings making it go whereas R'n'R Circus just seems to have no set tone or meaning.

@MessiahofSilence Except some people figured out Party Queen's concept, or at least it was going to be a dark album, as soon as the tracklist was released. And Ayu didn't tell the concept on twitter, but confirmed when people seemed to get what was the idea. Even the "lonely queen" thing was already something a fan said 2 or 3 days before the album release before we knew it would appear on the album (Na Na Na) and then, on concert.

Hmm maybe flow is not the good word but this album definitely follows a concept from the beginning to the end and is well organised just like a setlist for a live divided by segment of the same style but that's normal this album was done on purpose ! The best example is Rock N Roll Circus ... She released a summer single followed by a winter single and then she decided of the concept for this album ! Result RnRc is really inconsistent and sound like a catch-all...
:/

:yes The strength of this album are the album tracks (minus Meaning of love) they are all well produced and interesting yet I can't say the same about the songs from her singles ... Sunrise /sunset for me is probably her weakest to date ! In You were /ballad only the last one brings something and Red line sound too much like a B-side to deserve to be included !

^Besides liking Sunrise I agree with you... There are several tracks on RnRC I really love, but I can't bring myself to listen to the album as a whole... The same with Secret (but on that one I feel like I'm listening to several singles lazyly put together to pass out as an album)

❤ ��Happy Valentine's Day��❤
http://i.imgur.com/x6xhZNB.jpg

LINE: "I just got back from a whirlwind 4 night trip to London and Dover. I totally enjoyed being able to experience so much culture and meet so many people during the trip!
So now it's back to working hard on the CD album!!"
http://i.imgur.com/qYr3tscl.jpg

twitter: "Back in Tokyo. Home sweet home"
http://i.imgur.com/0QzUX4Dl.jpg

so sad that there were no fan meets this time...

Good to hear that she spent 4 days to relax herself.

SHE WENT TO DOVER?!

That's where I grew up, my family still live there.

She must have met Timmy's parents as it's where he's from too.

Omg Ayu

Ayu better drop the bass again! I need more songs like Sparkle, Sayonara, Lelio and Wake me up (Remix)!!!

her real brown eyes are so pretty ~
so she just went on a trip to london..thought she was working on something.

btw, read on FB that ayu is going to HK on 20/2 then go straight to macau with her husband attending madonna's concert and maybe will meet her in person, hope they will have a pic together!

Didn't one of her dogs die? But she posted a pic of both of them? I'm very confused lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/BB2ZlQCN...y=daviddownton

This photo is so similar to Ayu's recent one. I can't quite work out where it is though. That instagram account is the illustrator in residence at Claridge's.

THIS! :yes

Wonder why she couldn't switch her stay in London if she wants to see Madonna as Madonna just performed in Japan some days ago. She didn't work in London, did she?

Because it was a work trip to London and because Alvin will introduce Ayu to Madonna at his birthday party and he won't schedule his party according to Ayu? :P

"Long-awaited shot"

http://i.imgur.com/lJYpmh9m.jpg

Who is she with?

^ Max Matsuura!
I love seeing them together

God, she looks beautiful. That's a good angle for her :yes

That's even a good angle for Max Matsuura. :laugh

weibo: "Are you guys ready? http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t4/appstyle/e...hainio_org.gif http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t4/appstyle/e...hainio_org.gif http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t4/appstyle/e...hainio_org.gifI'm so glad that I can finally go back to Macau and HK!"

Ayu's Instagram isn't in the OP.

https://www.instagram.com/a.you/

@LaPerla: Welcome back! http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t4/appstyle/e.../lovea_org.gif http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t4/appstyle/e.../lovea_org.gif
@濱崎歩: Thank you!!! See you on 23rd http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t4/appstyle/e...flower_org.gif

ayu looks so beautiful in the pic with max..
and max looks younger too.

omg i miss ayu so much :( it's been a long time since i last visited this forum

https://scontent-gru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...0e&oe=572D2CAD

"Macau I am coming! See you all at studio city!"

www.instagram.com/p/BCKErHZpPlq/?taken-by=a.you

The return of the queen to instagram! So happy :)

Well, that's a bit surprising... I think she should be in Instagram more often! :D

maybe she will use instagram for news, without selfies and private photos

^ tbh that's exactly what I was thinking... Guess her staff will use the account now once in a while

and I was wrong xD



2016.02.25 instagram "Tokyo, I'm home. I came back after a long time.
Home sweet home. Time to meet my babies"
http://i.imgur.com/zvKZi1Em.jpg

She looks so young fresh and beautiful on that pic...

Queen's Instagram revived.

2016.02.22 weibo: "I'm finally baaaack to the one of my favorite hotel rooms in this world. Do you guys recognize? This summer, we’ll shine stronger than ever before〜♪ #NeedRedbull#
http://i.imgur.com/KZRv6kem.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GkKmjNkm.jpg


Do you recognize? =)

That's the place where she shot Glitter cover, right?

yeah!
http://i.imgur.com/ui4NMWdm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mZOceLFm.jpg

Such a gorgeous place! I loved the glitter/fated covers!

instagram: "Lounging at home...why not❣"
http://i.imgur.com/wQFfrOHm.jpg

"With snacks... why not"
http://i.imgur.com/spnAYEhm.jpg

Next single or album will be called "why not" :-D

beautiful picture of her again!

this is so cool!:yes i thought glitter / fated was shot in studio

english translation of LINE hasn't appeared yet
Ayu wrote that wants to remove hair extension and back to natural simple hair...
and then that after strawberry color tone she wants to be ash green...

hope I translated it wrong =)

^ I think she said she already changed the tone and she asked if we noticed?

She looks gorgeous in that last selfie! :heart

at this photo?
http://i.imgur.com/zvKZi1Em.jpg
I thought it's lighting, because even her skin is "ash green" %)

i knew it! Ayu can't have an Instagram account without using it. #thankgod

Well damn. Since it seems like she will be somewhat active on IG lemme just go ahead and re-follow her lol

Well, her hair has always been lighter with that kind of lightning XD Like with the strawberry tone, most of the time her hair was dark brown, but it was lighter when the lighting was really bright (and only then could you see the red-ish undertones) and fans thought she dyed hair hair, when in fact she always had it like that, it's just the lighting lol So I think it's the same this time: it's still dark, but the tone is slightly different

2016.02.26 instagram "Which perfume for today...?"
http://i.imgur.com/IbLdC1Im.jpg

YAYYYY she's doing instagram again!

"My sweet lil man... See you in my dream"
http://i.imgur.com/4I9wk7Rm.jpg

Yay she's back on instagram :) Avex really couldn't stop her HAHAHA
And her followers keep growing!

"Weekend breakfast. Avocado toast with poached egg"
http://i.imgur.com/EScQdBfm.jpg

"Weekend breakfast. Waffle with Berries"
http://i.imgur.com/jPlbdzYm.jpg

"I was looking for my lil man for a while...."
http://i.imgur.com/aCCEx61m.jpg

"Had a great meeting with my tour crew and choreographers at my place. So excited about 'MADE IN JAPAN' TOUR
Good night Tokyo"
http://i.imgur.com/2wh1P9dm.jpg

She loves instagram xD
Good for us^^ I like this little details from her life. And I need to taste an avocado toast with porched egg next week xD 8i love avocados^^)

Gosh, I feel so poor whenever I go through her instagram pics lol

because it uses a large mirror near the bed ? O.o ....she stares at herself when she sleeps ?

Could be mirrored closet doors.

I am pretty sure it´s that.
Oh how I love her home style *_*