Ayu - Anything Goes Thread -XIV-

[Yumsushi]

Originally Posted by jiarongisme

I think this is the Sweet Season video in question

I remember watching this when it was first posted but I never noticed the difference between this and the final version. Personally I like both, but this version sounds rawer, warmer somehow.

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

These days I'll listen to music like old-school Garbage, Enter Shikari, late 90s/early 2000s BT, some progressive metal & dramatic Visual Kei stuff, Bjork's "Post" and "Homogenic" albums, Tori Amos' "from the choirgirl hotel" and "To Venus and Back" and I just think.... Ayu should be doing music somewhere at the midway between all that & her current stuff. THAT is where she seemed to be going, and I dunno if she got scared of going that way or what. And I think I'm disappointed that I never got to see a mature version of the material on "Duty" and "I am..." because NONE of the above music really scratches the itch for me. Enter Shikari has all the screaming vocals which I'm really not into. BT's stuff is just a BIT too engineered for Ayu (although I'd still ADORE a collaboration between them, I really would). Prog metal (and math rock) don't typically have the female vocals and when they do the singer just doesn't sound like she's really feeling what she's singing... like she's more focused on the technique than the emotion. The other stuff up there I've just listened to too many times, and there's nothing new that sounds like it, so I'm left kinda feeling like "okay, I'm done listening to all that, does anyone have anything for me? ...No? well crap..."

By BT did you mean Buck-Tick? I would LOVE to see a collaboration too!
Something like Oukoku kingdom come, Romance or Keijijou Ryusei. Although I think even Ayu would find it challenging to match Sakurai's sexy soulful style.

Also as a Bjork and Tori Amos fan I can say that looking at their careers, they too (to me) had highs and low in terms of their musical output but I dont think any of them actually lost sense of their selves or their art like I feel Ayu did. I feel that Ayu is too immersed in her world to be able to look at anything objectively. She needs to either step away for a time or hire an objective third party to critique her work.

[Delirium-Zer0]

Originally Posted by Yumsushi

By BT did you mean Buck-Tick? I would LOVE to see a collaboration too!
Something like Oukoku kingdom come, Romance or Keijijou Ryusei. Although I think even Ayu would find it challenging to match Sakurai's sexy soulful style.

No, BT the electronic composer/producer... although a collab with Buck-Tick might be interesting, especially if Ayu sticks to her lower voice and gentle vibrato. She can be absolutely entrancing when she sings low like that. Imagine a Buck-Tick collaboration version of "the next LOVE"! They could add a really gorgeous gothic touch to something like that.

But no, BT (Brian Transeau)'s older big beat stuff (cuz nowadays his stuff is more straightforward EDM/pop/trance) is a GREAT fit for Ayu. To be honest even his recent EDM stuff is a better fit for Ayu melodically & production-wise than a bunch of what was on "Colours," but only marginally. I just feel like the feelings they both put into music seem very similar, but he's much more willing to express it than Ayu has been.

I just have such a hard time believing Ayu hasn't looked into working with BT at all o_O I mean, Hybrid and Mad Professor back in the day, but not BT? That's weird to me.

....Also, Daishi Dance is a poor man's Hybrid lol.

god I miss millennial techno & electronica music. hahahaha