About Namie. No her music isn't "avant garde" (lol please don't use that word), but I think it's interesting that many people liked her change of style.
I don't think that would work with Ayu, unfortunately. Even though Namie changed her style, she went from one mainstream sound to another...even with her mixing it up in the middle for Past<Future. I don't think Ayu has that advantage.
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Originally Posted by Coelacanth
Most of you are unfortunately brainwashed by the Western mainstream music consumer's mindset of music that is fresh and "current" = good.
Not sure how any of you could be considered arbiters of good taste anyway since most of you, outside of listening to Ayu, only expose yourselves to K-pop, Namie, Lady Gaga, and shitty EDM. LOL
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But maybe they're the best audience for Ayu's current music. It's not like she has the technical or artistic knowledge to do the things actual musicians do.
As for her voice, tbh I never really listened to how "emotive" ayu's voice sounded in her songs. But the other day...I was listening to Boys and Girls, and I wrote on twitter how it sounds like she has such
conviction in her voice. Like you NEED to listen to what she's saying cause it's the damn truth. (In a song like Boys and Girls wut)
But going back over her songs...I don't think that quality has been in her voice since like, Rainbow or before :/ Or else it's very rare in only a few songs.
And I mean, I don't think that it really affects the quality of her music THAT much. She still has gorgeous songs, but I think that lent something very special to her older music for a lot of people.
I always just felt, like Ayu's old music was technically better. Better composed, better arranged for the most part, etc. But in this instant, I felt something else. Like I finally understood something that other people have always understood about her older sound.
Maybe it's just the raw nature of that sound, free from any glitz and glam, unpretentious and just honest.