Also would've preferred Ayu to record "Anytime smokin' cigarette," now THAT's a fantastic example of TK's genius. Too bad there'd probably be a fan meltdown over Ayu singing about cigarette smoking.

I suppose the lyrics of this song are better suited for Ayu, tho.

I like the full cover and I think her voice sounds great, but I wish she had included the rap somehow, that part of the song feels kind of empty without it.

Just ayu performing my fave classic jpop song is enough, honestly <3 <3, but now I'm yearning for the piano outro version of it with her vocals.

why ya'll so negative here? i think this is her best since Terminal :luv2

album on #4 at oricon, so seems it sold less than 10000 at the first day
right?

^maybe they're under stocked because I went to the Tsutaya at Shibuya and passed by and the album was sold out, I even asked staff if they had and they said no :/ so it's weird

omg you can actually hear the autotune on her voice around 4:59... sloppy.

Hmm I really like it, it's definitely a jam

I actually like the break after the first chorus quite a lot. The song would be very, very repetitive without it, imo.

I actually think it's quite repetetive even with the EDM break.
The best part is still the end.
Speaking of the end - Ayu isn't singing the s of the last "many classic moments". It's bothering me.

mte :dead2

I wish there was a remix for this song, I see potential but it didn't surface as I expected it to :(

Oh, for sure! I agree with you, the song is repetitive, I just think it would be almost unbearable for me without a break in the middle. It's a great song but definitely not the best one in the album. I find myself listening to Anytime smokin' cigarette and Wanna be a Dreammaker all the time, they're pure gold.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to see a live or some worked performance of Sayonara and The Gift. I hope she works on it soon.

They're subtle, but I hear it in all of them.

I feel like all I do is compliment how great her english has become, but I'm really proud of how she pronounced "classic" so well :D

^
instead of "cRassic" ? :D

^Yeah I was expecting it to be really japanese like "kurashikku" but she proved me wrong!

I'm really happy with the cover and I've got it on heavy rotation right now. My only complaint is that she does the most obnoxious thing in the choruses where it sounds like she has the freaking hiccups and she almost...squeaks? at the end of each word that she sings. It's much more pronounced in the first chorus and I've heard her do it in other songs but it seems like it's on another level here and I can't unhear it no matter what I do.

I really like this cover!

Her "Party Queen" horrendous duck voice during the verses is hopefully switching for a really clear and pleasant voice during the choruses. Reminds me of NO FUTURE's vocals.

This is really a "new" ayu song for me also, since I've never heard the original (until this week...and I prefer ayu's cover lol). I think it's a great EDM track. I also wonder if it was done by RedOne, and that this is the song they were referring to when first promoting sixxxxxx...

The last few parts of the album really reminds me how she sounded during her earlier days, reminds me a lot of AUDIENCE.

^You mean the last few tracks on globe's tribute album remind you of old school ayu? Maybe I'll give them another shot.

I really love this song the most from Globe and I'm so happy that Ayu get this song <3

So when I first read this title, and until the actual song came out I thought this meant that she was going to cover the "many classic moments of globe". As in she was going to cover several classic globe songs, it wasn't until the actual song was released that I realized it was a specific song. Oops

I just listened to it for the first time and I really like it!

I really wanted to like the cover! But Ayu's voice in the cover.... :/ I just feel like her singing style lately actually holds her BACK from expressing a full range of emotion. There's a certain quality of her voice of late that is very....strained and aged sounding?I'm not much of a Keiko/Globe fan (though I love the Many Classic Moments song!) but I have to say Keiko lets out wayyyy more emotion in the original track especially toward the end of the song. There's such intensity and desperation in her voice throughout the song that even though I'm not much a fan of her other stuff this song amazes me. I didn't feel ANY of that from Ayu's cover as much as I wanted to. And the autotuning was done in a manner that's just so harsh on the ears.....I'm usually not a downer, I swear! I guess I just had high hopes (I didn't listen to the preview before listening to the whole track) and now they're dashed lol. And I agree that NOT having the rap part was probably a good idea, but the bridge they replaced it with wasn't very creative.

This is my jam, but definitely her voice is so pitchy that I dislike some parts in her singing, I feel comfortable with it when I put down the tone... Its very chipmunk sometimes

I don't like ayu's cover at all. I'm team kumi on this one.

I love this so so so so much.

Her cover of Many Classic Moments is just amazing! ♡ Best thing she released last year. And even though I prefer the original, which will forever be one of my favourite songs of all time, Ayu's cover is pretty damn great!

Knowing that RedOne did the arrangement, I wonder if that track that was supposed to be a lead on sixxxxxx is still going to be made.

I still listen to Ayu's cover of Many Classic Moments on a regular basis. It's SO good!

I love it too! It's such a great song

I'm team TRF / hitomi / and Sakamoto Miu. TRF hit the fucking ball out of the park with their cover of wanna Be A Dreammaker. And hitomi... someone I've never enjoyed... she honestly breathed new life into Anytime smokin' cigarette.

I love Sakamoto Miu so, so much. So, I was thrilled to hear her in her element with Precious Memories. She took something globe and made it brand Miu.

Sadly, most other covers were not as thrilling. I did like Ayu's cover, but I think TRF and hitomi did the upbeat covers far, far better.

I really, really appreciate that TRF put so much power into wanna Be, and I love that hitomi captured the disenfranchisement in the lyrics while still doing a dance version of Anytime.

Koda did a decent job, but Wanderin' Destiny just wasn't as memorable as other covers.

And, just for the sake of globe being a female-fronted band, I wish they would have brought in more female singers for this compilation. Like actual singers. I would have loved to hear covers from Ai Otsuka, YUI, YUMI, ayaka, and others. It would have better represented globe.

even if ayu isnt a rapper, i love the rap part in it!

This is starting to freak me out because I just started getting into Utada then Ayumi covered her. And I just discovered globe and a week later this comes out. O_o I feel like every Japanese artist I get into Ayu knows and she's going to cover them lmao.

What? :D You can't possibly say that.

^ Really love your signature, it's beautiful ❤

While we're at this thread again, I just wanna say that while I really love this cover, did anyone else see her performance of it at MADE IN TOKYO? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdR86FJBIRk

I didn't really focus on her news around CDL, but dang what even happened to her voice? Kind of a shame because TK was there too, and the visuals everything seemed great, except for her voice.

^She was sick obviously. It's possible that she didn't recover from her pneumonia properly as she started again the TA tour quickly after the announcement of her disease, did the rehearsal and CDL concerts without rest. All the fatigue impacted her voice.

i think TK makes it way more awkward to watch than ayu in MIT

She's been sounding like this for a long time now......

She was sick around the time of the concert.

She sounded fine in stuff before the CDL. Also there were some really horrid audio issues at the time like during CDL09-10.

I had not seen this before because I am waiting for the blu ray, which they are taking forever to release by the way. She sounds so hoarse. Especially towards the end. Even when she talks at the end she sounds hoarse. Poor Ayu.

Visually speaking a great performance but other than the voice I found TK real distracting as well. The piano sounded so much louder than everything else plus the piano + the instrumental of the song playing in the background did not work! They could and should have done a piano only ver. or a ayu's ver and be done with it, in my opinion.

Oh, this performance was also axed from the M-ON rebroadcast.

The audio for this concert's initial broadcast was horrid.

Seems like she's been sick for a few years now then... Hope she gets better soon.

Unfortunately, she was perfect at Cirque, so there's no real validity to shadiness IMO.

^You mean the concert where she butchered Duty and immature? Umm, okay.

^everyone is entitled to their opinions but I think those performances were flawless!!! So I don't know what your talking about.

You mean the best Duty performance ever?

Both dates I've been to, Duty literally sent [positive] chills down my spine. Everything about that performance was TOO PERFECT.

immature, while I didn't like the new arrangement as much as Duty's was still exceptionally good!

I think we might just ignore everything js_surrealism posts from now on, all he's been doing for a while is saying how her newer songs are shit and how she sounds bad even tho i'm sure he hasn't been attending her concerts. It's not worth responding to him trying to convince him otherwise.

You could argue if the AT15 performances were good or not, but they were definitely not the same as the CDL 15-16. Her voice was certainly not hoarse to the point that she couldn't even talk.

But I don't think she ever mentiones being sick on that exact day? I know she had pneumonia, but it was way back during the TA tour. Perhaps she didn't recover properly, perhaps she was tired after 2 tours. Or maybe the combination of both had this effect.

TK was certaily embarrassing though. His piano was way out of place.

Wow it's interesting that this thread has resurfaced :laugh

Ugh TK's performance was so awful in that clip. I hope they eliminated the piano sounds altogether and let it be plus-one on the Blu-ray.

Yea you're right about that. Nothing's going to change my mind about the fact that CDM turned Duty and Immature into overdramatic cheese fests and ripped every shred of subtlety that was in the originals out of them altogether. If people are judging based on videos, then I'm sure it's valid for me to do that based on a DVD rendition which has surely been cleaned up 999 times, sound and vocal quality wise.

MADE IN JAPAN (the album) is pretty good though.