[truehappiness]

I remember reading in the English version of RAINBOW's liner notes that they (meaning Ayu) had several arrangers work on the Free & Easy arrangement (not 100% sure if it was that song) and they ended up choosing HAL's. Nowadays, Ayu probably knows exactly who she wants to work on a song, so we get a lot of Yuta and CMJK especially on album tracks.

Also, she has made her last set of albums overseas in Los Angeles or the UK so.... all she has when it comes to arrangers are CMJK/Yuta for albums.

The demos that composers send her probably include a really bare bones arrangement of what the song is supposed to be before it's beefed up by the arranger, so she probably knows what it'll sound like roughly. Like... About You used to be more delicate and ballad-y I believe, and ANGEL'S SONG was a bit of a rock tune before they decided on the happier pop arrangement.