Ayu: Anything Goes [XXII]

[EndOfTheWorld]

There is an interesting discussion on Arama Japan. The topic was "Is Arama Japan too hard on Ayu?".

http://aramajapan.com/aramaexclusive...ost-159/84094/

[KittyKathy]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

http://morimasa.art.coocan.jp/e-ayu.html

Thank you so much!

[pedronekoi]

Originally Posted by 280301

ALSO: There's an artist called Rina Sawayama, she's a London based artist who recently released her first ep called RINA. She's highly influenced by late 90s/early 2000s jpop. One track in particular, Alterlife, sounds (structurally, melodically and lyrically) like Ayu during that time period...I recommend everyone listen to it + RINA as a whole. It's not j-pop (all tracks are sung in English), but it is certainly influenced by it!!!

Alterlife PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhf9gkkYaBg

Yeah! She even mentioned Ayu as one of her favorite J-Pop singer. <3

[AyuFan2008]

Originally Posted by pedronekoi

I'm dying

So Koda fans are horny guys, Utada fans are all cosplayers because she did Kingdom hearts, Nami fans are all snobby middle age women and Ayu fans are all transvestites, don't get the Ayu part.

Do you think Ayu is happy because I don't

[ayumi_croatia]

I love Rina Sawayama! I can definitely her Ayu's influence in her work, especially 10-20-40 and Alterlife.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by AyuFan2008

So Koda fans are horny guys, Utada fans are all cosplayers because she did Kingdom hearts, Nami fans are all snobby middle age women and Ayu fans are all transvestites, don't get the Ayu part.

Do you think Ayu is happy because I don't

I think a Koda fan made it because they couldn't come up with anything better for Ayu fans. Either way, drag queens are fabulous werk...

[Andrenekoi]

Drags are fans of good performers so...

[Zeke.]

I wish ayu would utilize auto tune in her tracks more. I think her voice paired with auto tune gives off a particularly amazing and enjoyable effect. The only original track she has utilized that in is NaNaNa, but DJ Amaya used it a lot in his earlier remixes of hers and it’s magical. It creates a unique kind of atmosphere, and I would like to hear more of it. (I’m talking blatant auto tune as a creative element, not auto tune in the sense that it has been used to “smooth” out imperfections)

[truehappiness]

I thought XOXO had a good bit of it too.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I thought XOXO had a good bit of it too.

I hate XOXO so I never listen to it. Lol. But I still wouldn’t consider it as blatant as the effect DJ Amaya uses or the effect in NaNaNa. Like, it’s not as choppy. For example, when she says “Have (fun)” she hits two different notes when voicing the ‘a,’ but they blend into each other. It’s like there’s a blanket around her voice, which gives off a very different impression, imo.

[Katsuyuki012]

You mean the way Cher uses and made autotune famous? Going up and down a bit during verses etc.? Well I think ayu preffers the "telephone" effect or however you call it...

Buuut, I do recall ayu using autotune in such way during parts of Rollin'. And altho it's an interlude - "glasses". God how I love this interlude xD For Sexy Little Things it was partly used as well (at least for background vocals) not much, I know but hey xP

[Cahz-]

So I was having my daily Girls Channel read (because I'm a masochist xD) and 2018 must be the end of the world because there is one recent positive thread about Ayu. It's about her "hidden gems" and these are some of the post-2010 songs mentioned:

Sky high
beloved
SAKURA
Last minute
Love song
Tell all
MOON
Don't look back
Microphone
blossom
Pray
progress
Out of control
Song 4 u
Missing
Melody
Last angel
FLOWER
Mad World
TODAY
BRILLANTE

NEXT LEVEL was mentioned 3 times I think.

Someone mentioned Feel the love and it got more negative votes than upvotes

http://girlschannel.net/topics/1502648/

[truehappiness]

Well, Feel the love is a little bit of a weird track for Ayu... I do think it's fun however, just weird to think about it being from someone that is/was in their mid 30s.

[Sky High]

Pray-Out of control-Melody are rare gems

[truehappiness]

Melody - Out of control - Pray is an amazing trio... want to hear them all in one concert for an acoustic live or something.

[stepYOU1234]

Add in Ivy and Walk and that list definitely includes some of her best post 2010 songs

[kotora]

Originally Posted by visionfactory

SHOCKING (sad) NEWS

TOKYO - Japanese pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro said Friday he will quit his music career after a weekly magazine reported his extramarital affair with a nurse.

Komuro, 59, who produced many million-seller songs for top Japanese pop singers including Namie Amuro, said he is retiring a day after the Shukan Bunshun weekly reported that he had an affair with a female nurse while his wife was struggling with the after-effects of a stroke.

The magazine said Komuro had dalliances with the nurse at a Tokyo hotel and at each other's homes in December and early January.

Source: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2...of-affair.html

So no more ayu song from him now?????

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by kotora

So no more ayu song from him now?????

fine by me!
until he already made something for ayu. Sometimes she pull out old songs

He wrote:
A Song is born
Love song
crossroad
sending mail
Last angel
Like a doll
Thank U
do it again
November
Virgin Road
snowy kiss
Ivy
You & Me
Feel the love
NO FUTURE
Anything for You
The Show Must Go On
Walk

+ Many Classic Moments and Departures

[Refix]

He made a bunch of great songs imo... Too bad.

[pedronekoi]

Oh God... Tetsuya is such a mess. I get a bit frustrated with the fact that he was allowed to get back to the music industry after going to prison for selling the copyrights of songs he didn't had the license. And having lots of artists working with him again (Ayu included). And now cheating on KEIKO! Bye