Ayu: Anything Goes [XXI]

[truehappiness]

Last topic filled so...

Conversation was about Duty and GUILTY's leopard print.

Next, why were you considering following up last year's "white Ayu" and "black Ayu" with this CD jacket's "Leopard Ayu"?
A: Because for some reason I just really wanted to do it! (laughs) Before, I kept asking myself "Why do I wanna do White Ayu and Black Ayu?" and stuff but there was absolutely no reason for it, but lately, doing things with no reason isn't so scary to me. So it's just like, "I'm gonna do this!"
http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95766

I see her as beast at the cage.
There was interview somewhere around Guilty, she refers to Duty and that leopard print... Can't find

Basically though IMO I think leopard print = Ayu for her.

[Amalgam]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Last topic filled so...

Conversation was about Duty and GUILTY's leopard print.



Basically though IMO I think leopard print = Ayu for her.

I've always thought that she wears leopard when she's trying to project boldness/strength.

[himawariii6]

I really love Duty's leopard theme.

[Amalgam]

Originally Posted by himawariii6

I really love Duty's leopard theme.

I love it, but only in relation to the SURREAL PV.

I do like the symbolism of the leopard Ayu - she's the animal at the zoo that's there to sit pretty in a cage, dressed in a tight outfit and in an opulent room.
It almost distracts about one of the bars in the cage being bent, as if she's trying to escape.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

List bing to STEP you for the first time in a while, and I forgot how good it is! The music itself has so many layers to it. The single was pretty perfect imo. The live version of step you has been played out. And made all cute.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

List bing to STEP you for the first time in a while, and I forgot how good it is! The music itself has so many layers to it. The single was pretty perfect imo. The live version of step you has been played out. And made all cute.

Omg yes, the layers are just one reason why that track is so infectious. I have so much gratitude for it, even to this day. I feel honored to have been blessed with it honestly, lol.

I wouldn't agree about the live version though, probably because I always hoped it wouldn't reach that point before I got a chance to hear it live, which I finally did. I think having to watch it constantly via DVD - in that case it may be played out, but I would be happy seeing it every damn year if I could afford to attend her shows annually.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I can't believe I was auto corrected into "list bing"--wtf lol. "Listening"

I just wish the live version was changed up a bit, much like her other songs that get similar treatments each time they're performed.

[Earth_maiden]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

List bing to STEP you for the first time in a while, and I forgot how good it is! The music itself has so many layers to it. The single was pretty perfect imo. The live version of step you has been played out. And made all cute.

All I wanted to hear Ayu sing when I went to see her was STEP you and I missed out both times. It was basically the first song of hers that I fell in love with (my friend gifted me miss understood when it came out and after being confused by bold and delicious, this was THE song for me). One day!!!

[!Lawi!]

I guess the premium showcase version was different, more sexy than cute. Step you is my first ever Ayu song, it’ll always have a special place in my little fan heart!

[mi|kshake]

I haven't enjoyed the recent Step You performances as much as the AT05 one. I wish she would perform it like that again.

[truehappiness]

I feel a lot of Ayu's legendary tracks from that era got "dumbed down" a lot. Like what the heck is with live Ladies Night? It needs to be rock, not that... thing.

[Aderianu]

~another night~ is adorable

[Bigtop]

Well, tomorrow is Ayu's birthday (October 2nd), and she's going to turn 39 years old, but things haven't been really interesting in the world Ayu recently for me, and Ayu's next show is on Wednesday, as she's taking the weekend off...

I still have to wonder - what's with those 'mid-week' (e.g. Wednesday, Thursday) concert dates? It's typical mid-week days, and this is from a singer that used to be big at least 10-15 years ago...

Originally Posted by Aderianu

SECOND CHAPTER ~sacrifice~ <Hall Performance>
September 2017 - November 2017
✓ 10. 2017.09.06 - Kanagawa: Pacifico Yokohama Great Hall
✓ 11. 2017.09.07 - Kanagawa: Pacifico Yokohama Great Hall
✓ 12. 2017.09.11 - Fukuoka: Fukuoka Sun Palace Hall
✓ 13. 2017.09.12 - Fukuoka: Fukuoka Sun Palace Hall
X --. 2017.09.16 - Tokushima: Naruto City Cultural Center
✓ 14. 2017.09.18 - Kochi: Kochi Prefectural Cultural Hall
✓ 15. 2017.09.28 - Shizuoka: Shizuoka City Cultural Hall
✓ 16. 2017.09.29 - Shizuoka: Shizuoka City Cultural Hall
• 17. 2017.10.04 - Oita: Oita Iichiko Grand Theater
• 18. 2017.10.05 - Kumamoto: Kumamoto Prefectural Theater
• 19. 2017.10.11 - Fukui: Phoenix Plaza
• 20. 2017.10.12 - Ishikawa: Honda No Mori Hall
• 21. 2017.10.17 - Mie: Mie Prefectural Culture Hall
• 22. 2017.10.18 - Gifu: Nagaragawa International Conference Hall
• 23. 2017.10.22 - Hyogo: Kobe International Hall
• 24. 2017.10.23 - Hiroshima: Hiroshima Cultural Academy HBG Hall
• 25. 2017.10.27 - Saitama: Omiya Sonic City
• 26. 2017.11.01 - Tokushima: Naruto City Cultural Center
• 27. 2017.11.02 - Ehime: Matsuyama City Hall
• 28. 2017.11.10 - Osaka: Festival hall
• 29. 2017.11.10 - Osaka: Festival hall
• 30. 2017.11.17 - Miyagi: Tokyo Electron Hall
• 31. 2017.11.21 - Chiba: Ichikawa City Cultural Center
• 32. 2017.11.22 - Yamanashi: Collany Cultural Hall
• 33. 2017.11.28 - Yamaguchi: Shunan City Cultural Center

[Amalgam]

I wish Ayu's PVs would get some effort nowadays. Last album's PVs were Flower and Mad World but both seemed ... cheap? I wish that she'd funnel her own money to her artistry (and I hate that I'm comparing them) like Taylor Swift does.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Luniverse

I wish Ayu's PVs would get some effort nowadays. Last album's PVs were Flower and Mad World but both seemed ... cheap? I wish that she'd funnel her own money to her artistry (and I hate that I'm comparing them) like Taylor Swift does.

MIJ PVs most likely are the way they are out of a aesthetic choice more than lack of budget. The Sixxxxxx PVs seen to have a normal budget for a music video, for example.

[truehappiness]

I think if she wanted to she would do them 'big', but she chooses to make the concerts 'big' instead.

[ExodusUK]

2017 has to be most boring year of her career, literally so dry.

[Bigtop]

Yeah, it seems Ayu's birthday this year on AHS seems...quiet.

We really miss those good old days of Ayu... (but then again, I came pretty late, like, say, four years after Ayu's peak in 2002, I just joined the Ayu bandwagon in the end of 2006)

[truehappiness]

2016 was literally one of her most packed years ever and she has had to deal with her ear stuff in 2017 along with knee problems/surgery. AND SHE'S STILL TOURING A CRAPTON. I do think a release is coming though very soon.

[hud]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

2016 was literally one of her most packed years ever and she has had to deal with her ear stuff in 2017 along with knee problems/surgery. AND SHE'S STILL TOURING A CRAPTON. I do think a release is coming though very soon.

yeah Imma need her to take her time and come with quality like WORDS. she's been through a lot lately and she's touring! and I always feel like when she takes a bigger break than the usual, people start missing her. I've been seeing a lot of people thirsty for new music.

also this year I felt people kind of reconnected with her. at least the western j-pop fanbase, which I'm seeing always talking kindly about her legacy and work, also raving about a-nation recently which is pretty awesome for me.