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Originally Posted by oaristos
I'm sorry, that's what I meant! I got confused with the terms "mixing" and "mastering."  It's a slight difference, yes, but I can't listen to the single version of Last minute ever since A ONE was released. |
Same. It sounded okay in context, but now it just sounds REALLY thin to me.
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Originally Posted by truehappiness
The introduction of Komuro was nice.
She needs to work with producers that she never has before to get that freshness IMO. Sweetbox did it, Komuro did it... who is next? DAISHI DANCE? A female singer-songwriter? B'z?
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Well we've gotten DAISHI DANCE more than once and it has not been his best work.
I do think Tak Matsumoto would have been a very good fit for her at one point but his sound (when he writes for other people) is a bit cheesy for the current climate... but clearly he CAN do "pop that rocks" really well, as shown in the songs he wrote for KAT-TUN, Misia, etc.... Hell, he can do it well as shown by his work in B'z lol. I'd love to hear what he would compose for Ayu.
I would mostly really like for Ayu to bring in unknowns (or relative unknowns) again though. Do As Infinity and HAL and Miki Watanabe and Huge and so many other writers, producers, and remixers have (or had, RIP Huge) their old school Ayu work to thank for either their discovery or a huge boost to their early careers, and Ayu picked those people not because they were well known names but because their sound matched up with what she wanted. I think far too many of Ayu's producers & songwriters lately have been trusted, established names rather than people who "get" what Ayu wants to do.