Ayu - Anything Goes Thread -XII- - Page 6

jiarongisme · #**101** 5th August 2015, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by artcika

We need an Ayu reacts to old performances video.

sitara · #**102** 5th August 2015, 05:06 PM

ayu said she never wanted to be a singer and never considered a career path like that even when max matsuura discovered her. that statement is very confusing, seeing that she did have many TV appearances pretty avex (and that nothing from nothing album)

and yeah, her voice is miles better than on a song for xx.

ExodusUK · #**103** 5th August 2015, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sitara

ayu said she never wanted to be a singer and never considered a career path like that even when max matsuura discovered her. that statement is very confusing, seeing that she did have many TV appearances pretty avex (and that nothing from nothing album)

and yeah, her voice is miles better than on a song for xx.

IMO those tv appearances and NOTHING FROM NOTHING were just activities as an "Idol" or "gravure model", music wasn't the intention as a career. Avex and Max approached and encouraged her to be a "recording artist".

Gustavopc · #**104** 5th August 2015, 07:07 PM

^ That's what I see from it as well. She was an Idol who sang, not a singer.

**ayumisrael** · #**105** 5th August 2015, 10:01 PM

STEP you/is this LOVE? is 10 years and 4 months old...

Oh god how time flies, one can't even describe.

melissalove · #**106** 6th August 2015, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by ayumisrael

STEP you/is this LOVE? is 10 years and 4 months old...

Oh god how time flies, one can't even describe.

I feel old

**DonkeyKongRemix** · #**107** 6th August 2015, 06:57 AM

I finally got around to watching Beautiful Fighters PV. I don't know how I never got around to it before but...

...I was cracking up laughing. I think that may be my new favorite PV of hers. XD It has the kind of quirky humor that really gets me.

Ryusei · #**108** 6th August 2015, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by YukiUsagi

Ayu 1994-1995. If you are interested, here

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...nNaWmZ6WmNpSzA

How do you get a hold of old stuff like that? The world of J-Pop continues to fascinate me...

Chris85 · #**109** 6th August 2015, 02:10 PM

I went to a Japanese restaurant with my coworkers for lunch today and Ayu's "Seasons" started playing there, I was excited. It's nice to hear Ayu in Russia:-)

ExodusUK · #**110** 6th August 2015, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ayumisrael

STEP you/is this LOVE? is 10 years and 4 months old...

Oh god how time flies, one can't even describe.

Funny...I became a fan around this time, I can remember the My Names WOMAN PV being uploaded to the old Ayunite forum and downloading the TV rip of the Fairyland PV...it took me ages to get my head around the amount of releases and previous PVs to watch at the time..fuck..a whole decade later and I've been a fan for more than half of her career, yet I felt like I missed out on so much in the 7 years before I knew her...

**ayumisrael** · #**111** 6th August 2015, 03:34 PM

I got to know ayu and became a fan between No way to say's and Memorial address' release. It took some time for me to reveal she has released a lot of stuff already, her status in Japan and who she is. Most songs I found on the net on that time were mainly from A Song for xx, LOVEppears and Duty.

Until I digged more of her I heard only Depend on you for a whole month.

***oaristos*** · #**112** 6th August 2015, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ayumisrael

STEP you/is this LOVE? is 10 years and 4 months old...

Oh god how time flies, one can't even describe.

Time surely does fly!

Delicious n Bold · #**113** 6th August 2015, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by YukiUsagi

What the heck?

LOOL a near spitting image of our friend Ayu.

truehappiness · #**114** 7th August 2015, 11:29 AM

The impersonations are almost always 2001-Ayu.

I wish they'd do Trauma and forget every other lyric.

LONJJONG · #**115** 7th August 2015, 02:38 PM

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/sec/...p_enquete.html

Music Station opens an enquete with the theme "J-POP that Japan is proud of" (sorry for my bad translation) and they would like you to submit a song you think can represent it. Let's submit Ayu's songs! I submitted SEASONS.

tsumekaze_ · #**116** 7th August 2015, 06:31 PM

^ you should totally create a new thread for it! I just submitted evolution!

Delicious n Bold · #**117** 7th August 2015, 06:59 PM

I was listening to Real Me the other day and I remembered how I keep hearing "full moon hit me like a dog/full moon hit me like a log" and then I thought about everyone saying something about ayu saying 'bilive' or something. Is that from the ending monologue of sayonara or something? All I hear is her saying "bul lai wanna buhleave". Just sounds like she had trouble with the end of "but" and the "I". It's probably due to how that transition almost makes an alveolar flap (try saying "but i" really fast. Sounds like you're sayinh a "D" almost if you flap your Ts. Same thing with "city" and "water" sounding like "cidy" and "wader" respectively). It's weird because the japanese R is basically almost an alveolar in position and in Japanese music it's basically that L and R are interchangeable at the beginning of a word or syllable. Just ask namie amuro (rearry, balelina, lope, crock, etc). But hearing ayu make an L sound at the end of the word? I've heard Namie doing it but it's something I can't explain. Maybe it's difficult for them to make the English alveolar flap and have to approximate to the Japanese R/L and its position that is CLOSE but NOT EQUAL to the English one.

The bilive thing is like... maybe ayu didn't use a schwa sound (say "appalled" and stress the second syllable. That "uh" for the first sound is a schwa and doesn't exist in Japanese).
This is just me rambling on. I can see why I have a linguistics degree lol.

***oaristos*** · #**118** 7th August 2015, 07:00 PM

^^ that's really cool! I submitted SEASONS too

Delirium-Zer0 · #**119** 7th August 2015, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by artcika

So i stumble upon this performance again and every time i hear it i'm baffled. I mean, her voice never was this nasally and super high pitched like it was when avex got hold of her, so i'm not sure what they did but it was not good. It sold but it didn't sound good at all. Like she sounds so much better here than she does on Poker Face. Like WTF?

I'm so glad she's no longer sounding like she did in Poker face. Her vocals have so much more depth and colour now. Which i love.

Reading old interviews with Ayu from back then (I'll have to get some of them properly translated), she actually used to be REALLY self-conscious about how "husky" her voice was. (Something I can relate to)... So then when Max Matsuura discovered her, higher-pitched voices were popular at the time so he had her singing stuff like Tomomi Kahala at karaoke. So her higher-pitched vocal style from her early avex years is probably the result of a bunch of insecurity about her deeper voice not being "good enough."

Andrenekoi · #**120** 8th August 2015, 02:11 AM

^Or they just adapted her to the market...