The Official HAPPY-AYUfan thread! =D

[minkAYuko]

Originally Posted by hopeorpain

thank you mikayuko for creating this thread. I see that already we have some good friendly conversation going. But as a suggestion, I think maybe constructive criticism is allowed-like how movie critics do things~it's fun and unbiased if we do it correctly~

anyway my favorite album is RAINBOW~

Actually this is going to sound stupid... but I didn.t know how to write "constructive criticism " that.s why is not on the list! but yeah why not, as long as you don.t compare it with toher singers or artists then it.s kool. Always good opinions on how to improve something is nice, but u have to keep in mind that even if we think it could have been better or worse there is nothing that we can actually do about it, and that.s when the controversy begins cuase that.s your opinion against someone elses opinion, so... what do you think?

[LacusClyne]

and i'm proud to say i like the ayu now more then the old ayu. she seem more confident then ever, the old ayu seem to be lacking something whenever i saw her old lives.

[truehappiness]

Seriously. I thik Ayu's confidence factor sort of kicked in during M or something :\

Before she was just this jpop artist.. and now she's a presence to be reckoned with :x

edit: omg every time I play Startin', I replay the PV in my head xD I love the beginning of the song lol. Too bad I can't do this with Born to Be.... awesome PV though.

[minkAYuko]

I.m glad ppl like this thread! I hope it works!

[truehappiness]

lol Maybe Ayu works best under pressure HAHAHA.

M.A was made under a strict deadline.. and MY STORY was given a few extra months [Started in like May].

I hope she gets pressured to work harder again! Maybe she'll make songs even better than her hits! :O!

[hopeorpain]

^oh really? how about MU? A lot say that MU was rushed..

[truehappiness]

I think it seemed rushed because the 'GEOness' came so suddenly. Single release was Nov, and she finished the album by then..

Most of the GEO songs I think were recorded in a studio in NY.. :\ So some of them were rushed. /shrug though

"-Interviewer: ‘MY STORY’ has 17 tracks, so it’s a pretty long album. When did you start work on it?
-Ayumi: I began right after this year’s tour was over, so around May or June. I felt very strongly that I wanted to take my time with it.

-Did that have something to do with the fact that your ‘Memorial Address’ released last year, was a mini album, and you hadn’t released a full length album since ‘Rainbow’ in 2002?
-Last year’s was a mini album, so I feel like for fans who were expecting a full length album, it must have been like, ‘This is it?’. I’m sure they wanted to hear more. So this year I wanted to take my time making this record. Also, during ‘Rainbow’, there was a part of me that didn’t know what I should make my priority anymore, and it felt like I just somehow finally was able to make it into a full album. I didn’t want to feel that way again, and I didn’t want to do that method of creating, or of giving it to my fans. So last year that most that I could possibly do turned out to be a mini album. But I didn’t want to deal with feeling so pressed for time this year, and I didn’t want have a target date set, so I decided to ask if I could start working on it early.
-You wanted to put out something that you were really pleased with. So, does that mean that you made the singles you released this year while envisioning the album?
-That’s right. I made them with the idea that they’d been on the album. But I didn’t have any kind of concept for the album, I just wanted to put together a bunch of songs that I liked. I didn’t really care if they went together. So I really had hundreds of possible songs, and I gave them to various people to do different kinds of arrangements for, and wanted to just pick the only the ones I liked from all of that."

Quoted from article from AHS.

[hopeorpain]

^oh cool! thanks for the article!

MY STORY has a nice flow to it, and the single songs are excellent. However some album tracks weren't as good..

[truehappiness]

I think MY STORY was more.. free in terms of album songs. I think its one of her most 'album-exclusive' song-albums. 13 new album tracks.. and 4 single songs...:p

<3 Is it?

[hopeorpain]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think MY STORY was more.. free in terms of album songs. I think its one of her most 'album-exclusive' song-albums. 13 new album tracks.. and 4 single songs...:p

<3 Is it?

yeah, that's true and that's why I enjoyed the album a lot when I bought it. MU has too many singles >< so the album feels kind of "old" but still the songs are good anyways.

[cybermoomba]

RAINBOW is my favorite album

[hopeorpain]

Originally Posted by cybermoomba

RAINBOW is my favorite album

woot! yay! I'm a fellow fan^^
the whole album flows so well, everything, the lyrics, music, and album art..

[Raleigh]

I like this thread congrats for the thread creator. I liked the whole concept of RAINBOW and I was happier to see it sort of extended in A Ballads.

I agree, Happy Ending is an awesome song. I am completely suprised how many people hate it..

Anyway, Ayu's music was pure gold, even as squeaky as her voice was until after Memorial Address.

Like this?
Damn I am a failure at being nice..
Well, atleast I didn't say her music after that sucked.

Spoiler:

even though it kinda does...

[truehappiness]

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Well, it's all a matter of opinions, and in my opinion, her work has only gotten stronger over the years :]

Hopefully, she uses D-A-I mooorreee.

[Raleigh]

Indeed. I hope we get to see more DAI and CREA in the future.

[darkswordz]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

Indeed. I hope we get to see more DAI and CREA in the future.

i'm missing them

[hopeorpain]

Originally Posted by darkswordz

i'm missing them

"will" was both CREA and DAI. But I don't like that song so much..

[elepop]

Originally Posted by hopeorpain

"will" was both CREA and DAI. But I don't like that song so much..

I'm CREA's biggest fan! How odd. "Will" is the only song from "(miss)understood" that I really enjoy (oh, I also love "alterna").

I really think Ayu should start composing again, because hey! She's so talented.

[darkswordz]

But seriously, i find her albums released after A Ballads to be of better quality and i love them a lot