[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by artcika

i believe musicians live out of their music, the stuff they actually compose, arange and vocaly perform, and lets not forget being able to play at least a couple of instruments. The fact that she TRIED collaborating with someone who'd help her compose one album and try to do some stuff herself doesn't really make her a musician. Musicians are those who make music and she only performs it*shrugs* i think it's good that she at least does her own lyrics.
She was originally an idol that became a megastar songstress not a musician. She's good at what she's doing and if she actually wanted to be a musician, she would have ended up composing and learnign more about the process of that and it wouldn't have ended after I am..

Originally Posted by artcika

well people do get experience over the time, Ayu has been in the scene for more than a decade of course she knows what she WANTS and probably the people who work with her do know very well what suits her, so it's kind of working out nicelly together. Actually usually those who compose themselves do love doing that and has some sort of inside source where it all comes from, that they just can't stop.

To me she's just as good as GACKT (which probbaly everyone knows i kinda call a genius lol).. how to explain... if there would be two lists of artists separated for lets say "singers/performers" & "musicians" Ayu would take a first place on the first list while GACKT on the second one, for me .
She has a lot of experience and knowledge now, and she said it herself somewhere that she lacks a lot of skills in terms of aranging and composing so she better leaves that stuff for professionals, while still keeping a close eye on how the things are going. And i am actually very very glad she always writes her own lyrics. And yah she probbaly is a little more than a "prformer" cuz she is involved in a lot of the stuff that is produced under her name. I find her amazing in what she does.

Since for me those who can compose music and do arangements are a mystery of a world to me and are like supernatural people and in this age when poop on a plate can be considered as art, and a girl who does karaoke can be called a musician(not implying that on Ayu) it kinda feels like there should be some sort of leveling what is actually a talent and creativity and what's not. *sad sigh*

Can't agree more!