Ayu: Anything Goes [XXIV]

[indigochild]

I've been sleeping on vogue for the longest time and I'm only now appreciating the beauty of this song.

[cosmicfirefly]

Originally Posted by indigochild

I've been sleeping on vogue for the longest time and I'm only now appreciating the beauty of this song.

vogue is such an amazing song, I find myself humming it or singing it at random sometimes lol I also like rearranging the Duty tracks on a playlist where I'll put the trilogy in order then SURREAL right after.

Edit: Just have to add that recently I've really gotten into listening to her instrumentals when I was never interested in them before. But with good quality headphones, I can pick up so much in the music I wasn't hearing in the regular versions. Right now I'm really loving the instrumentals of monochrome, SURREAL, WHATEVER version M, alterna, and Mirrorcle World. I wish there was one of Ladies Night, because that's one I'd love to hear just the music of.

[primavera♥]

Originally Posted by cosmicfirefly

vogue is such an amazing song, I find myself humming it or singing it at random sometimes lol I also like rearranging the Duty tracks on a playlist where I'll put the trilogy in order then SURREAL right after.

Edit: Just have to add that recently I've really gotten into listening to her instrumentals when I was never interested in them before. But with good quality headphones, I can pick up so much in the music I wasn't hearing in the regular versions. Right now I'm really loving the instrumentals of monochrome, SURREAL, WHATEVER version M, alterna, and Mirrorcle World. I wish there was one of Ladies Night, because that's one I'd love to hear just the music of.

Yesss!!! I have been doing this too lately, like just over the past couple months. It never interested me before. But I've been enjoying listening to the instrumental tracks and finding new nuances in the music.

WHATEVER is one I particularly like to just listen to.

[mi|kshake]

I like listening to instrumentals too! It was Hikaru's Colours that got me interested in instrumentals. The only thing that bugged me in comparing Colours to Ayu's intrumentals is the backing vocals but I guess that can't be helped.

I've not listened to the Whatever instrumental so will have to do that.

I also love this piano instrumental of Surreal:

[LOGMAN]

Originally Posted by cosmicfirefly

vogue is such an amazing song, I find myself humming it or singing it at random sometimes lol I also like rearranging the Duty tracks on a playlist where I'll put the trilogy in order then SURREAL right after.

The trilogy?

[Calico]

^ vogue -> Far away -> SEASONS

They were released a month apart from each other and had interconnecting covers and PVs.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

walking proud is such a masterpiece

[voltron]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

walking proud is such a masterpiece

The arena tour performance of it with the tissue dancers, where she starts tearing up...so freaking fantastic!!

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

^ agreed!

A museum, arena 2003~2004, My story tour, and miss understood tour

This is my absolute favorite group of concerts she’s released.

They all seem so natural, not forced or anything. They just all work imo.

She looks so happy.

[voltron]

Even back in her first tour and CDL she had such presence, even if she wasn't fully confident. Those were her first real forays into big stage productions and I think they really perfectly balanced her natural presence with high production for the show.

[cosmicfirefly]

I wish they would finally release the My Story and Secret tours on blu-ray. They're so good and I really want to rewatch them in high quality.

[mi|kshake]

I've never actually see the (miss)understood tour and it's my favourite album. Think I'd need to buy it on Blu-ray though.

[summerain]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

walking proud is such a masterpiece

I really love her rendition at AT05

[love in music]

Does anyone know where I can find an english translation of æternal?

Btw, listening to TROUBLE in flac, I'm loving the whole album more and more. I almost forgot what a difference listening to her music in high quality makes.
I actually really am liking "The way I am" now, when I originally found it a bit bland.

[Katsuyuki012]

^Translations are linked on the first page of the third TROUBLE thread.

[Aderianu]

Line stickers with ayu's dogs

[xLuna&1LOVE]

I have asked before, but I haven't seen a response. Maybe it is the dumbest question on AHS in 2018, but nevertheless:

How are you guys pronouncing 'aeternal'? Like 'eternal' (I say it like this)
But every other song on TROUBLE starts with a w, so I was wondering if I should pronounce aeternal like 'waternal', 'weternal' lol.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by xLuna&1LOVE

I have asked before, but I haven't seen a response. Maybe it is the dumbest question on AHS in 2018, but nevertheless:

How are you guys pronouncing 'aeternal'? Like 'eternal' (I say it like this)
But every other song on TROUBLE starts with a w, so I was wondering if I should pronounce aeternal like 'waternal', 'weternal' lol.

From wikipedia:

In recent times, it is also used to represent a short "a" sound (as in "cat"). Variants include Ǣ ǣ Ǽ ǽ æ̀.

She probably picked this because

Given their long history, ligatures are sometimes used to invoke archaism or in literal quotations of historic sources;

I guess the idea was that she got old :B

But would need an official source saying the song's name. Maybe your theory is right considering the other tracks.

[Katsuyuki012]

Isn't æternal an old way of writing eternal? Nevertheless, I say "eternal". Also, I call W "double" cuz iirc that's what the letter as an abbrevation stands for in Japanese and it also sounds better, tbh.

[Teppei-chan]

I most likely pronounce the æ like ei/ai just for the reasons that I know this letter from the Icelandic alphabet. It's probaly the wrong way to pronounce it but I'll stay with it