Ayu: Anything Goes [XXIII]

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by voltron

I find the fanclub birthday messages to be funny and random...I posted the one I got from Koda Gumi in Ku's thread. It's cute that Ayu's message is updated every year, here is the 2018 text:

Happy birthday♪ One year goes by so fast.
I wonder how the last year was like for you, I hope you have a lot of joyful memories.

2018 is my 20th anniversary year.
Thank you for your support as always(*^^*).
I was able to come this far because of you.

I'm always me and nothing changes on my 20th anniversary year, I think. lol
But I keep singing for you to bring never-ending dream as I promised.

I hope you take the courage to pursue whatever you decide.
Don't you think that it would be wonderful if we can push us up together?^ ^
I hope you have a wonderful year filled with joy!

I don't know if I can live my life without love.

Lots of love from ayu

Yep, I got that message this month too. Feels much more personal than other artists birthday message honestly.

[hud]

I get chills every single time I listen to You are the only one

[DonkeyKongRemix]

^SAME!

Hey, btw, ya'll. I don't know if it's just weird to say this but I'm thinking about two threads that would be fun to open on here. One in the off-topic about her interludes where we can discuss how they contribute to the albums and their themes, like something for some far-reaching theories and whatnot.

The other is out of a late response to Ayu's hilariously terrible fan banners she's made. I thought it'd be great if we opened a thread in the fanworks section for like...LAME photoshops, banners, and etc. that we want to create.

Anyway, thought these could be fun but I'm not sure if anyone would be interesting.

[EndOfTheWorld]

I am on board for the interlude thread.
I would love to discuss them all. Maybe also included the intros and outros too.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by EndOfTheWorld

I am on board for the interlude thread.
I would love to discuss them all. Maybe also included the intros and outros too.

Definitely!! I think I was actually thinking about intros and outros, and just said interludes. I will make this thread later tonight.

[EndOfTheWorld]

Sounds good.
I'll have to refresh my memory on them all, sometimes I can't remember them since there are quite a few now.

[Evan Odinson]

I like the idea of an interlude thread as well, count me in!

[ayumi_croatia]

I made a poll about interludes a few months ago

[relmy]

Originally Posted by pedronekoi

So funny that I saw the guy from the video in a bar this weekend lol

Just found this video from 2002 (uraayu promotion) on YouTube about Ayu surprising the actress Sakai Ayana and they showed a lot of cover perfomances of what it seems to be a special TV show with Ayu covers. Anyone have ever seen this? Everything about this is new to me.

Week later lol but this video is amazing, thank you for sharing! Even with other people covering them hearing her songs back to back like this gives me little goosebumps.

I spent an evening catching up on things recently and finally watched the CDTV performance from last month and it was so good. SEASONS was really great.

[Cahz-]

[attractive nausea]

^ I know ayu's high pitched voice from this era is irritating to some, but people trying super hard to imitate her voice is 100 times more annoying to hear lol Stop trying you can't reach those notes like she used to.

[Katsuyuki012]

Funny thing is, it wasn't her natural voice either.

[mizuki-7]

^
That’s true but when people try to emulate her voice of back then it sound so caricatural ... like I never heard a good impersonation of Ayu !!

[Katsuyuki012]

^agree

[AyuWorld]

Maybe mods can remove some of the conversations in other threads to here, it has become so long anf out of topic somehow

[Chibi-Chan]

I just came back from a two hour Ayu karaoke session I went to with a friend. We sang only Ayu's songs, it was so much fun. lol

[DonkeyKongRemix]

I'd really love some remastered versions of her songs. Certain ones that have more of a rock influence in them could really use it. I've felt this way about her song, Criminal, for quite some time. An updated, fully orchestrated version would be excellent. Such a shame this is one of her album songs that disappeared in time, like GUILTY. They could be great live.

I think it's funny how some of the songs she never performs are the ones I can best imagine with her live voice.

I really feel like a remastered, resung version of It Was would really fit her current voice.

My favorite thing about It Was are the drums during the second verse. Speaking of drums, and Criminal earlier. I noticed you can hear a really faint drum beat in it as well, in the 2nd verse. But, it sounds kind of like a hear beat, which is really interesting.

[Kacku]

Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan

I just came back from a two hour Ayu karaoke session I went to with a friend. We sang only Ayu's songs, it was so much fun. lol

Gah, that sounds like the best time, I'm so jealous!!

[DonkeyKongRemix]

So, on gaiaonline, I've been in a total rut over my avatar. I wrote a list of names, (characters of mine, characters from other works, and singers) numbered them, and used a generator and got Ayu as the person I'll be using for inspiration for my avatar.

Haha, I half expected this, actually. I've been obsessed with her first three albums recently, especially the first two. So, I'm going to make an avi with a look based on one or the other.

[tenshi no hane]

I made a little Ayu lyrics/translations website, if anyone's interested:

https://lynnetmedia.com/projects/ayu/



I made it to practice developing a web app in ReactJS, but it got a bit bigger than I planned

It only has the last few albums so far.

Support for modern browsers only. And I haven't tested it in Internet Explorer yet, but you shouldn't be using that crappy browser anyway