TA Blog: 春よ、来い。| Haru yo koi

[Deep snow]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Here it's a live performance from Yuming herself. It totally feels like something Ayu would do.

thank you so much for sharing this link to her performance. I just saw it and completely agreed. the round stage, the pageantry, the dignity with which she sings this, it's the things ayu could pull off with her rendition of the song, as well. can't wait to fall in love with ayu's version of this!

Originally Posted by AJFmzk

Trying to force creativity is very draining, emotionally speaking. Trying to put into words or song or music your inner feeling when the creativity just isn’t flowing is so frustrating and exhausting. It’s a hard thing for an artist to feel as though they’ve “lost it” but still trying to create. I really loved オヒアの木 because it felt like she had some of her old inspiration back with her son, and she crafted a song for him that you can really feel her love.

I honestly had never thought about it that way until I read this. you made me understand why her recent work feels the way it is. I hope ayu gets to rekindle much of her creative force back again

Originally Posted by BlackSilence

The only thing i wish is for people here to stop calling everything that's not to their agreement "toxic". We are allowed to dislike something just as much as people are allowed to like something and state that. It's really not that hard to grasp that.

amen to this so much.

[AJFmzk]

Originally Posted by Deep snow

I honestly had never thought about it that way until I read this. you made me understand why her recent work feels the way it is. I hope ayu gets to rekindle much of her creative force back again

I’m glad I was able to help explain. I can’t speak for Ayu, only for myself, but trying to force creativity somehow expends more energy than when it’s flowing easy. When things are flowing easy, there’s usually such a feeling of excitement that you can forget even to eat or drink and you just don’t want to stop because if you stop you risk losing your flow of creativity. However, when you’re trying to force things it’s much harder, things aren’t coming, it’s not feeling right and you’re just dissatisfied with how it’s going, you’re sad and disappointed in yourself which on one hand makes you work harder but also increases stress and feeling of dissatisfaction with your work if it doesn’t feel right right away. Of course, I can’t speak for Ayu only for myself, but I certainly can see her feeling this way if she wasn’t connecting to her flow of creativity the way she used to.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by AJFmzk

I’m glad I was able to help explain. I can’t speak for Ayu, only for myself, but trying to force creativity somehow expends more energy than when it’s flowing easy. When things are flowing easy, there’s usually such a feeling of excitement that you can forget even to eat or drink and you just don’t want to stop because if you stop you risk losing your flow of creativity. However, when you’re trying to force things it’s much harder, things aren’t coming, it’s not feeling right and you’re just dissatisfied with how it’s going, you’re sad and disappointed in yourself which on one hand makes you work harder but also increases stress and feeling of dissatisfaction with your work if it doesn’t feel right right away. Of course, I can’t speak for Ayu only for myself, but I certainly can see her feeling this way if she wasn’t connecting to her flow of creativity the way she used to.

And it was probably even harder for her who actually could produce way more than the average artist in a very short time spam.

[AJFmzk]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

And it was probably even harder for her who actually could produce way more than the average artist in a very short time spam.

Yep. She was (and still is I think) a force to be reckoned with, even when she’s not at 100%. I’m always so inspired and amazed by how much output she had in her first few years, and she slowed down to “only” one album and 3 tours a year (Arena, A nation, CDL, sometimes more) plus tv appearances.