[News] New mini album out August 5th, 2015 II

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

The only instances I'm aware of Ayu copying another artist's music were the songs from SWEETBOX on (miss)understood, which Ayu was 100% forthcoming about using their original tracks with her lyrics. But the difference there was that Ayu didn't hire a producer to make a near replica of SWEETBOX's music.

The only other closest thing I can think of are her actual covers of songs... like SEVEN DAYS WAR. But those are covers of another artist, not an original but clearly derived new work from the song.

And I'm complaining about Namie doing it because... well... it's Namie-freakin'-Amuro. She's been around for over 20 years but could sneeze into a tissue 12 times and sell 300,000 copies of it in the first week. Why copy another artist when she could write an amazing ballad with her eyes closed? In the last few years, she's written beautiful, Tempest, Love Story, and arigatou. All four easily sit among her best ballads, and none of them were the lead track on a single or album. So, it just seems unreasonable... but it's already been done and released, so it's not going to make a difference what I or anyone think about it.

Memorial address and Tell me why also have cover melodies.

And what are you talking about Namie writing original material? Namie has nearly nothing to do with the creation process of her songs, she doesn't write the songs at all, so it really makes no difference for her to release something that a previous artist already released or not, the compositions are just presented to her and she choose whichever ones she feels like it...

[orbitalaspect]

Originally Posted by pimenta

And what are you talking about Namie writing original material? Namie has nearly nothing to do with the creation process of her songs, she doesn't write the songs at all, so it really makes no difference for her to release something that a previous artist already released or not, the compositions are just presented to her and she choose whichever ones she feels like it...

You are so right. I honestly never bothered to look because everyone else writes their own material. Wow. Well, you're right, it doesn't make a difference because Namie wouldn't have a career if a team of people weren't writing her albums.

Originally Posted by xLuna&1LOVE

I hope they will put more thought into the next one, instead of watching Ayu & friends frolicking on beaches or whatever for 4 minutes. Though, if it has a nod to BLUE BIRD I cannot be unhappy.

To be fair, she once managed to burn down a $500,000 mansion while frolicking on the beach in a PV. So, she could always, I don't know, build a small village or something then burn that down for another PV?

Originally Posted by AYUmyQUEEN

I would like to remind everyone that she killed the choreography in the Rule PV (in a good way)! There is potential here

She did! But I distinctly remember her crew saying that Ayu was overwhelmed by the time commitment for dance rehearsals, and that the multiple takes they shot for the dance scene left her physically drained for a couple days.

Originally Posted by Raiu-Ayu

ayu has even said herself she's not a dancer. Yo-chan even commented once in arena tour MCs that ayu always seems to be a beat ahead of the dancers when doing routines.

i dont think she's a bad dancer. when routines are tailored to her abilities shes actually quite good (like INSPIRE, Real me, talkin' 2 myself, etc) but then sometimes ayu is very...

I'm sure if all choreographed dances were like Ayu in that gif, she'd be a master of dance.

[oaristos]

I don't think she is the best dancer out there but her skills usually work pretty well for the genre of music she sings, imo. I watch her concerts for all the "theatrical" experience, anyway.

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

You are so right. I honestly never bothered to look because everyone else writes their own material. Wow. Well, you're right, it doesn't make a difference because Namie wouldn't have a career if a team of people weren't writing her albums.

She surely wouldn't.

[JackieRos]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

Namie wouldn't have a career if a team of
people weren't writing her albums.

And yet she's managing to get to the top charts while everyone is scraping
by to atleast get top 10. She has 20 years in music.

There's more artist that don't write their music than that do and that are able
to get alot of sales and have good music. Writing music doesn't make you a
singer. A good singer means dancing, acting and most importantly have
singing skills. Ayumi has good writing skills, acting and singing and thats
what makes her an amazing singer.

If you only chose singers who wrote music and lyrics, then you don't have
many to chose from.

Saying that an artist wouldn't have a career if they didn't have people writing for them is a really dumb opinion.

[//ABEST]

Originally Posted by JackieRos

And yet she's managing to get to the top charts while everyone is scraping
by to atleast get top 10. She has 20 years in music.

There's more artist that don't write their music than that do and that are able
to get alot of sales and have good music. Writing music doesn't make you a
singer. A good singer means dancing, acting and most importantly have
singing skills. Ayumi has good writing skills, acting and singing and thats
what makes her an amazing singer.

If you only chose singers who wrote music and lyrics, then you don't have
many to chose from.

Saying that an artist wouldn't have a career if they didn't have people writing for them is a really dumb opinion.

actually that makes you a good PERFORMER, dancing skills doesn't make you any better singer tbh

[oaristos]

Originally Posted by JackieRos

Writing music doesn't make you a
singer. A good singer means dancing, acting and most importantly have
singing skills.

That doesn't make any sense. I thought that acting meant that you're an actress, dancing meant you're a dancer or performer. In that case Adele is nothing but a girl with a microphone on stage.

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by oaristos

In that case Adele is nothing but a girl with a microphone on stage.

She is not?

[oaristos]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

She is not?

So you'd rather call her "a girl with a microphone" instead of "a singer" because she doesn't act and dance on stage? That's my point.

[Raiu-Ayu]

Originally Posted by oaristos

So you'd rather call her "a girl with a microphone" instead of "a singer" because she doesn't act and dance on stage? That's my point.

Adele I would definitely class as a singer/songwriter because the bulk of her work is singing and writing her own songs. Utada Hikaru I would class as a musician because she writes her own music, songs, and sings.

Ayu and Koda Kumi I think would fall into the singer/songwriter category, as well as the performer category because of the way they deliver their lives.

Namie I would class as a singer/recording artist/performer. She has written a song or 2 in the past but its not her m.o. She is more of a recording artist as she doesn't really have much to do with production other than singing the songs. She has a team that does her producing for her. Many singers work this way and its not a fault.