Weird Ayu Song

[panda87]

So which is her weirdest song in your opinion? Which made you or still makes you go (O_o), like, what were you thinking Ayu?

It could be b/c the song didn't make sense or it was just wack, or just plain absurd.

There's a couple songs that are just sound so futuristic... and some just out of this world... and some... just not easy to listen to... like the song that's full of surprises, Free & Easy. it scatters my brain!

[Melrose]

Fun topic! ^.^ Especially when you're bored and have exams on your mind like me lol

- Beautiful Fighters
Who the heck came up with this song? Ayu's HIGH PITCHED voice + the wacky hook (We are beautiful fighters FAITO!) + the repetitive refrain = wacky song.
- everywhere nowhere
Honestly, how DID they come up with the verse melody? It sounds like some weird scific instrument being played backwards. Gotta give m props for coming up with something so weird. It's pop..but not pop. Weird.
- monochrome
WTF is the instrument. o___O Pipes being hit with a metal bar?

[keikeiaznqueen]

Wah, Free & Easy is cool because of its contrast. =P It's powerful.

I can't actually think of a song I find weird right now... Most Ayu songs eventually make me <3 even if I don't listen to them much. XDD And I happen to really like futuristic sounds...

Well, maybe About You, because I don't like the chorus. =( The verses were sooooo good and then... the key changes...

Also LOVE ~since1999~ XDD

I had troubles liking NEVER EVER, still alone, Connected... a few songs from I am...

[alternarist]

i feel that the song In The Corner is weird in the sense that it gives a weird feeling to the listener. not trying to say that the song itself is weird.

[Genki+]

I always thought Never Ever was kinda weird. Like, unique-weird. I like the song but there is something about it that is just strange.

Ladies Night. I think everyone should know what I'm getting at.

Also, BOLDDDDDDDDD & DELICIOUSSSSSSSSS is weird too.

[Chiharo]

I always thought that still alone and connected were weird.

[freedreamer]

Some songs in I am... (lol) like what's mentioned above
I am... itself is quite weird..the opening is scary for me hahaha
and still alone and UNITE! (dnno...when i FIRST heard it, it was weird..now its ok)

I think...
criminal
forgiveness - the verse
Liar and End of the World - the tune of the chorus...
alterna (VERY GD but weird hahaha)
GUILTY (mysterious)
Duty is another stand out song...
everywhere nowhere

[ImpactBreaker]

Pride - nauseating chorus....

[Kazeyomi]

Ladies Night The first time when I listen it, I was 'wut? Too westernpopgeneric for her..wth >_>'

I don't think Ayu has any "weird" songs, per se. But she does occasionally like to think outside the box and release a song which defies conventional pop standards. For example:

SCAR has a 6/8 feel.
SURREAL does not follow the standard verse-chorus structure.
Key ～eternal tie ver.～ does not follow the standard verse-chorus structure.
kanariya does not follow standard verse-chorus structure.
ever free does not follow standard verse-chorus structure and has a very conceptual arrangement.
NEVER EVER has a 6/8 feel.
still alone is a techno ballad.
Daybreak has a 6/8 feel.
M begins a ballad and suddenly becomes dancerock.
no more words has a melody more reminiscent of musical theatre than pop.
Free & Easy samples a movie theme, and really plays with dynamics and genre (hip hop, traditional asian music, european medieval music, rock, dance).
Dolls has a very classical arrangement and melody, but a pop beat, and also sounds like it could be in 6/8.
GAME has a separate melody for the intro, plus ends on what sounds like a bridge.
HANABI ～episode II～ has a 6/8 feel, and ends on what sounds like a bridge.
forgiveness has a strangely syncopated A melody and a quick 3/4 feel, plus combines a classical arrangement with a contemporary beat.
theme of a-nation '03 combines traditional Japanese elements and contemporary pop elements in both composition and arrangement.
HAPPY ENDING has a melody more reminiscent of musical theatre than pop.
Humming 7/4 has an obvious play with uncommon time signatures.
alterna has an incredibly conceptual arrangement, and plays with tempo.
Will starts in 3/4 with a hiphop beat and a melody reminiscent of a traditional asian folk song, then segues into a pre-chorus and chorus in 4/4.
HEAVEN does not follow the standard verse-chorus structure.
JEWEL combines a muffled hiphop beat with a simple piano ballad arrangement, and never reaches a full climax.
kiss o' kill challenges genre, with rock, classical, and techno elements in the arrangement.
Marionette has a 6/8 feel.

Originally Posted by Melrose

WTF is the instrument. o___O Pipes being hit with a metal bar?

I'm pretty sure it's just a sitar played in its lower register. Nothing too out there. It's probably got some funky reverb on it, too.

[Dearest Ayumi]

beautiful fighters and b&d

[Chibi_Venus]

^ I think all of this pretty much takes the cake.

I agree with you on a lot of them, too. Ones with a 6/8 feeling time signature certainly make me think twice since it's uncommon. I have to completely agree with you on GAME and Humming 7/4 (and JEWEL's and its anticlimactic feel).

[Taru86]

For me it's still alone
I just don't really know what to think about that song to be honest.
lol

[ownsarai]

I have to agree on still alone. I cannot really listen to that song...it's just strange to me.

[sugarbasil]

WHATEVER, although I love it, was always really weird to me. The techno was not quite techno, but it was... O_o I dunno.

And Ladies Night, of course, like everyone else has said.

I always thought that Memorial Address and Girlish (love it to death) will a bit weird. And Over to this day still doesn't feel like an Ayu song.

[AyUta]

Aleterna IS ONE OF THE WEIRDEST O.o; But it's good

[Melrose]

Originally Posted by evolusean

I don't think Ayu has any "weird" songs, per se. But she does occasionally like to think outside the box and release a song which defies conventional pop standards. For example:

SCAR has a 6/8 feel.
SURREAL does not follow the standard verse-chorus structure.
Key ～eternal tie ver.～ does not follow the standard verse-chorus structure.
kanariya does not follow standard verse-chorus structure.
ever free does not follow standard verse-chorus structure and has a very conceptual arrangement.
NEVER EVER has a 6/8 feel.
still alone is a techno ballad.
Daybreak has a 6/8 feel.
M begins a ballad and suddenly becomes dancerock.
no more words has a melody more reminiscent of musical theatre than pop.
Free & Easy samples a movie theme, and really plays with dynamics and genre (hip hop, traditional asian music, european medieval music, rock, dance).
Dolls has a very classical arrangement and melody, but a pop beat, and also sounds like it could be in 6/8.
GAME has a separate melody for the intro, plus ends on what sounds like a bridge.
HANABI ～episode II～ has a 6/8 feel, and ends on what sounds like a bridge.
forgiveness has a strangely syncopated A melody and a quick 3/4 feel, plus combines a classical arrangement with a contemporary beat.
theme of a-nation '03 combines traditional Japanese elements and contemporary pop elements in both composition and arrangement.
HAPPY ENDING has a melody more reminiscent of musical theatre than pop.
Humming 7/4 has an obvious play with uncommon time signatures.
alterna has an incredibly conceptual arrangement, and plays with tempo.
Will starts in 3/4 with a hiphop beat and a melody reminiscent of a traditional asian folk song, then segues into a pre-chorus and chorus in 4/4.
HEAVEN does not follow the standard verse-chorus structure.
JEWEL combines a muffled hiphop beat with a simple piano ballad arrangement, and never reaches a full climax.
kiss o' kill challenges genre, with rock, classical, and techno elements in the arrangement.
Marionette has a 6/8 feel.




I'm pretty sure it's just a sitar played in its lower register. Nothing too out there. It's probably got some funky reverb on it, too.

A sitar? I looked it up and google and wtf lol I've never seen such a weird instrument. They SO have a taperecording for that instrument when they do the song live lol. Yochan holding that thing would be hilarious. XD

@JEWEL: A muffled hip-hop beat? o.O It's more like crystals glittering and falling to me. Like crystals are being hit against eachother. I LOVE it. I also like that it doesn't have a climax. It makes me want to listen over and over and over, because it's so sweet and calm. Though the last chorus is kind of a climax. After that it quickly becomes calmer. BTW, is the song supposed to have a teddy bear broken radio-ish sound or is that the quality of my mp3?

@6/8: What's 6/8? @_@

@HEAVEN: Yea, and the same goes for SURREAL and M. I love that. ^^

@HANABI ep II: Now you mention it..it does! o__O It has like the silence at the end suddenly, and then it could BURST into the last chorus really loudly! Maybe that's what their intention was.. With the fireworks theme and bursting lights.

@GAME: Hmmm.. I'm beginning to see a pattern of my fav songs not sticking to standard arrangements.

@Will: What's 3/4 and 4/4? lol I suck at music terms.

Btw, I think you forgot everywhere nowhere? IMO that song is just WEIRD. I can't make out the verse/chorus/bridge composition at all, and the melody changes, whatever. I don't know what's going on but it's a harmonious mess lol.

[MissElin_]

Actually, Mirrorcle World is a musical mess. And I LOOOVE it!
MW is very weird, very new sounding, very fresh. Its hard to find songs that sounds like it! Its amazing imo! ^^

[criminal]

In The Corner

Spoiler:

WHAT were you thinking, Ayumi? That is a horrible song! (miss)understood could have been mistaken a 13-track+2-interlude greatest hits album if it weren't for that... thing. No offence to anyone, but I just loathe that song.

fairyland

Spoiler:

How many mainstream songs just randomly have a minute-and-a-half long interlude between them? o___o; But it's amazing and I love the song because of that even more!

Mirror / Mirrorcle World

Spoiler:

Again, in a good way. I love the different sound effects used to make it sound more ~dramatic~. Especially the part in the PV where Ayumi is on the ground in that amazingly gorgeous huge dress and it shows different frames in rapid succession, you know... it's inbetween two choruses, I guess. It's so cool!

Fly high [PV version..]

Spoiler:

The intro and the first "rap" are so eerie! It's so different and I would have never expected that.

evolution

Spoiler:

At first, when I just started listening to the song back when I got A BEST 2 -WHITE-, after the chorus, I was just like... o___o what.. was.. that? :| I was astonished.

M

Spoiler:

I have no idea how a song can sound so good from top to bottom.

Yeah, I guess that sums up my O_O, o____o and my :O experiences up.

Spoiler:

Sorry, I can't post this without mentioning SURREAL. I listened to this before I knew about Ayumi as a person and I was kinda left with the o___o face, once again.

[kirei_ayumi]

End of the world was pretty weird, but I like it