Ayu - Anything Goes Thread -X-

[orangeakira]

^I forgot to add (miss)understood! I can't believe I forgot about that song, I'm going to go add it to the list.

Spoiler:

Mirrorcle World
Wake me up
GAME
is this LOVE
Microphone
Rule
kiss o' kill
Heartplace
Ladies Night ~another night~
End of the World
alterna
Fly high ''Saturation Remix''
Humming 7/4
talkin' 2 myself
count down
Because of You
decision
SURREAL
About You
WARNING

taskinst
Heartplace
still alone
Daybreak
Memorial address (take 2 version)
Last minute
(miss)understood
A Song for XX ''030213 Session #2''
HANABI ~episode II~
Life
Letter
It was
NEVER EVER
reminds me
I am...
GUILTY
criminal

Pieces of SEVEN
HOPE or PAIN
walking proud
Together When...
Marionette
Liar
call
taskinlude
Last Links
winding road
WHATEVER Version J
flower garden
girlish
MY ALL
Depend on you (10th Anniversary version)
RED LINE ~for TA~

I also moved Last minute next to Memorial address since they're similar in that "starts off as a piano ballad and moves into emotional rock" genre.

[chocopockymaster]

The clowns at the beginning of CDL10-11 ~do it again~ are so fucking embarrassing. They went from being enjoyable during AT2010, to tolerable during RNRC 7 days' final, to downright awful for CDL. Do not want.

Also, Ayu, please don't perform Last angel ever again unless you're going to sing the entire damn song.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

I wonder if Ayu will change her hair before her mini album comes out. I kind of expect her to.

Do you guys think she'll go blonde again?

[Xianghua]

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

The clowns at the beginning of CDL10-11 ~do it again~ are so fucking embarrassing. They went from being enjoyable during AT2010, to tolerable during RNRC 7 days' final, to downright awful for CDL. Do not want.

I was just watching RNRC the other day! I didn't mind them at the start, but then that opening became too long to hold my interest. I'm glad there aren't drawn-out acts like that this year.

On the topic of her lives, I'm grateful that they always make me feel better when I'm down. I've had this thought a lot recently and I just needed to say it.

[Aokani]

Originally Posted by Xianghua

On the topic of her lives, I'm grateful that they always make me feel better when I'm down. I've had this thought a lot recently and I just needed to say it.

Same here! I own many of her live DVD's and I've saved my favourite performed songs on my computer, so I can easily watch the songs that fits my mood ^^

I used to have Scar on repeat when reading Vampire Knight manga, the live version of the song suited the manga so well!

[Surreal17]

Why hasn't ayu included theme of a nation on Memorial address? I mean..that album is already a messy compilation with genre changes everywhere..so, why not this song?
It pisses me off that I own almost all her studio albums but not this song x.x
I even have vogue CD with ever free but not &.
Love theme of a-nation. B couldn't even name it properly.

[jiarongisme]

Guys. Remember when SURREAL performances used to be full of charisma and badass-ery?

DT01 and ST02's ones were my fave.

[//ABEST]

i want her to have Last angel orchestra version on her next remix album

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by //ABEST

i want her to have Last angel orchestra version on her next remix album

DUDE

that is a killer idea. I can hear it now. Kanariya and Whatever sounded way cool that way so I think last angel would be awesome.

[//ABEST]

i know!! somehow Last angel's Maniau kana osoku nai kana, Mada hajime rareru kana part was playing in my head with violins only

[Delirium-Zer0]

Originally Posted by xLuna&1LOVE

Hey! Do not set me on fire please. I did not get that. I thought you said that ESM sounds like a rip-off from Chicago (as an answer to why people hate ESM). In which I responded: cannot be, Chicago is awesome and ESM is not. No intentions here to make you sound like an idiot or whatever. Who does not love Chicago?

And actually you touched on the reasoning behind her (and Timmy, who's never written showtunes and isn't particularly into them) using Chicago in particular as inspiration for its sound.

The song depicts a future she was afraid of having, a dysfunctional relationship and her future child seeing it and learning that it's normal... in order to emphasize that it's a fictional "what-if" scenario and set the song's stage, she made it sound like something actually being performed on a stage - so, a musical number.

She didn't JUST "rip off All That Jazz" though, she and Timmy made a track inspired by various elements of Chicago's soundtrack - It has elements of All That Jazz, Cell Block Tango, Mr. Cellophane, and others. (And these songs, by Kander and Ebb, sound very very similar to most of the Fosse musicals they did work for like Cabaret.)

Why Chicago? Well, it was something easily recognizable to people as "this is what music from a stage musical sounds like," and she needed that. Like you say, who doesn't like Chicago? It was recent enough and successful enough that her audience would remember it, and it would serve as a good crash course in recognizable theater music for Timmy to work from.

(apologies for coming back to this topic but I actually think the conversation is an interesting one.... it's the anything goes thread anyway, don't judge me lol)

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

And actually you touched on the reasoning behind her (and Timmy, who's never written showtunes and isn't particularly into them) using Chicago in particular as inspiration for its sound.

The song depicts a future she was afraid of having, a dysfunctional relationship and her future child seeing it and learning that it's normal... in order to emphasize that it's a fictional "what-if" scenario and set the song's stage, she made it sound like something actually being performed on a stage - so, a musical number.

She didn't JUST "rip off All That Jazz" though, she and Timmy made a track inspired by various elements of Chicago's soundtrack - It has elements of All That Jazz, Cell Block Tango, Mr. Cellophane, and others. (And these songs, by Kander and Ebb, sound very very similar to most of the Fosse musicals they did work for like Cabaret.)

Why Chicago? Well, it was something easily recognizable to people as "this is what music from a stage musical sounds like," and she needed that. Like you say, who doesn't like Chicago? It was recent enough and successful enough that her audience would remember it, and it would serve as a good crash course in recognizable theater music for Timmy to work from.

(apologies for coming back to this topic but I actually think the conversation is an interesting one.... it's the anything goes thread anyway, don't judge me lol)

I've never seen Chicago but I can't but feel like it's more like an homage than ripping off. I will accept it if I'm wrong. XD

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I want ayu trance 5 and ayu-mi-x 8

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

I want ayu trance 5 and ayu-mi-x 8

ME TOO. I would love some really great remixes. Having remixes of some of her newer songs would be quite awesome.

I think Pray would be an awesome song to remix.

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

I want ayu trance 5 and ayu-mi-x 8

ME TOO. It kills me inside all the songs that COULD be remixed but haven't been. :'(

[tsumekaze_]

Originally Posted by jiarongisme

Guys. Remember when SURREAL performances used to be full of charisma and badass-ery?

DT01 and ST02's ones were my fave.

I also love the SURREAL performance from A BEST LIVE.
When the music starts, the dancers move away to show ayu in the middle who is smiling with little tears in her eyes and that outfit from her first asia tour and that expression full of gratitude and happiness which says "just look where I am now. How far I came." because she knows she's about to perform the two most loved songs from her career and the show is closing and that message before...
I love it.

[stepYOU1234]

I hadn't even seen that performance! Sometimes I skip the concert classics for new releases I guess.

On a different note, Ayu sometimes says which make up products she uses. Did she ever say what lipstick she was wearing for CDL 2014-2015? Or does anyone know of a similar colour? Because I have similar colouring to Ayu and the same hairstyle at the moment (every few years our hairstyle aligns. Mostly because I don't use extensions and I am a devout believer in a fringe!) and the moment and I really liked how the lipstick looked.

[Andrenekoi]

Everytime I will listen to You & Me and instead of the cheap but catchy summer tune it starts playing the 3rd tier disney movie tackyfest orchestral version a piece of my soul dies....

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Don't wanna repeat myself in the AT15 thread, but I'm just so over Secret and (m)u being in the set list. LOL it's horrible but I just wish they would get replaced. I need more upbeat tracks!

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

^ Agreed.
I still don't like the setlist. It's monotonous.