What does Max Matsuura actually DO?

Zeke. · #1 29th January 2006, 04:34 AM

Practically everything by Ayumi is produced by Max Matsuura but what does it mean to actually "produce"? I see that it is said in all of her albums and after the credits in CDLs and Tours, but is that only because he is the one that "produced" Ayumi Hamasaki, or in other words, discovered/made her a star? What is there to "produce" at a CDL and TOUR if it is "visioned" by Ayumi Hamasaki? Also, what is the difference between composed by and produced by? How can a song be composed by one person and produced by another? I am confused...

JesA · #2 29th January 2006, 05:44 AM

i think produced means physicly making the cds/dvds and stuff. im not sure. i dont like that guy much.

Zeke. · #3 29th January 2006, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Sayonara_Ne

i think produced means physicly making the cds/dvds and stuff. im not sure. i dont like that guy much.

LOL, why not? Ayu seems to love him, and if not for him, Ayu would not exist (or at least the Ayu we all know and love)!

boogieordie · #4 29th January 2006, 05:50 AM

Very generally a producer deals with the money people (record company, movie studio, network) and the business aspect of whatever creative venture he or she is producing: tv, music, movie whatever.

JinHamasaki · #5 29th January 2006, 05:53 AM

A producer decides in what direction an artist should go and what products to release. They decide on how the artist will look, dress and sing. However, max matsuura openly said that his name is there only as part of the contract, Ayu herself has complete control.

There are times when he does use his powers, which is obvious in the production of A BEST, A Song is Born, and A BALLADS. However, Ayu showed her own power by resinging some songs in A BEST, and writing the lyrics the way she wanted to in A BALLADS.

Zeke. · #6 29th January 2006, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by JinHamasaki

A producer decides in what direction an artist should go and what products to release. They decide on how the artist will look, dress and sing. However, max matsuura openly said that his name is there only as part of the contract, Ayu herself has complete control.

There are times when he does use his powers, which is obvious in the production of A BEST, A Song is Born, and A BALLADS. However, Ayu showed her own power by resinging some songs in A BEST, and writing the lyrics the way she wanted to in A BALLADS.

I thought her record company (AVEX) forced these decision not Max Matsuura. I know and have read about how good of pals they are and I don't think he would cross her like that...

Delirium-Zer0 · #7 29th January 2006, 06:01 AM

Max Matsuura = avex in those cases. (well, NOW Max Matsuura always = avex after the re-organization of management.) But although ayu and max are close, max's best interest is in the future of the company as well as ayu's career. Ayu may disagree with alot of things he does, but I think she understands that "I am a product" (her words).

As for your confusion over composer and producer... In jpop, the composer just writes the melody and maybe a basic chord sequence or backbone to the song. The "producer" as we say in western music is actually the "arranger" in japanese music, the one who chooses the final instrumentation. The mixer decides the volume of those instruments relative to each other.

Zeke. · #8 29th January 2006, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

Max Matsuura = avex in those cases. (well, NOW Max Matsuura always = avex after the re-organization of management.) But although ayu and max are close, max's best interest is in the future of the company as well as ayu's career. Ayu may disagree with alot of things he does, but I think she understands that "I am a product" (her words).

As for your confusion over composer and producer... In jpop, the composer just writes the melody and maybe a basic chord sequence or backbone to the song. The "producer" as we say in western music is actually the "arranger" in japanese music, the one who chooses the final instrumentation. The mixer decides the volume of those instruments relative to each other.

Thanx for clearing some of this confusion up!

*Petit* · #9 29th January 2006, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

As for your confusion over composer and producer... In jpop, the composer just writes the melody and maybe a basic chord sequence or backbone to the song. The "producer" as we say in western music is actually the "arranger" in japanese music, the one who chooses the final instrumentation. The mixer decides the volume of those instruments relative to each other.

that's not just in japanese music =P I don't know how things are in the US, but here it's often the same as in Japan.

AyuGAME · #10 29th January 2006, 12:51 PM

i just think that max is really smart in management

Delirium-Zer0 · #11 30th January 2006, 07:23 PM

Ah... in America, the "producer" in name is actually the arranger. People produce songs, not artists. Max Matsuura would be the executive producer probably. (In the US Executive Producer = the one with the money behind it, who has final say in who gets hired to do what)

JackieRos · #12 30th January 2006, 08:15 PM

max owns avex trax

JackieRos · #13 30th January 2006, 08:15 PM

max owns avex trax

ayu_fan929 · #14 30th January 2006, 09:06 PM

producer, as sum1 else mentioned deals w/the financial aspect of the cds. so he invests money into her music career and therefore the part of the profits would go to him. dont know if its already been mentioned but theres 4 parts of making a song in asia:
composer: the melody
lyricist: lyrics
arranger: the additional instruments, background
producer: the person who funds the project

JinHamasaki · #15 30th January 2006, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by anime_fanatic21

I thought her record company (AVEX) forced these decision not Max Matsuura. I know and have read about how good of pals they are and I don't think he would cross her like that...

masa's articles have some very interesting quotes about what max does.

"　When making the song "a song is born", I told Mr. Komuro and Mr. Matsuura how I was thinking about the recent terrorisms. But they were thinking differently, as they are adults. They said they wanted to make a song to say "sorry" for not having noticed before the incident which situation the world is in now.
　But I said I was not going to "reflect on" my way of living before it. It's not true that I had been slack in my living until the incident, nor it caused me to think newly that I should live seriously. It's true that the incident was really shocking and stroke my heart, but I told them I was feeling that I, as "Hamasaki Ayumi", should not apologize. I was not going to say as "Let's make the world in peace", either.
　So I sang, "Though I can do nothing but deliver this song from such a place as this." Not in the tone as "Listen, listen", but as "I am pleased, if you listen even just a minute."　　("Nikkei Entertainment" May 2002)"
-from masa's website @ http://homepage2.nifty.com/morimasa/iam1.html

krishna · #16 3rd February 2006, 06:25 AM

BTW,I never saw his picture.Does anybody have his picture?