Ayu - Anything Goes Thread -XIV-

[Delirium-Zer0]

Yeah, Ayu's concerts are like... Whenever I have to design a website or an ad, and the client says to "emphasize this... oh, and can we make this pop a little more? ... I wanna draw more attention to this, too..." and by the time he's done telling me to make EVERYTHING pop, NOTHING actually draws your eye at all, it's just a big old mess. There's no focal point, there's no flow that draws your eyes from one thing to another, it looks like a child's messy playroom.

That is what Ayu's concerts are like for me a lot of times. lol

Originally Posted by //ABEST

^ early video mix?

Yeah, an early edit of the video was posted on Vimeo by one of the kids' parents, and the mix of the song is VERY different. The guitar & banjo have more emphasis, and a bunch of the studio-synth isn't included or has been greatly reduced. The drums are more complex & less polished, as well. The whole thing just feels a bit more... singular, I guess. It's more nuanced.

You get the feeling like Ayu recorded her vocals on top of the original first-run instrumentation (maybe it's on top of the original demo's instruments), and then mixing afterwards just stripped it of EVERYTHING even remotely uneven, thus stripping it of all its character. I mean this version of the song feels like... Ayu's first foray into Country Music lol. It's actually pretty unique to me! It's not an AMAZING song, but holy crap, everything good about it was, for me, just GONE by the time it got released.