Microphone

Rock'n'Roll Circus Cover

Artist

Hamasaki Ayumi

Song

Microphone

Lyrics

Hamasaki Ayumi

Music

Nakano Yuuta

Other Information

Arrangement: Nakano Yuuta

Programming: Nakano Yuuta

Drums: Harry MacColl

Bass: Jake Morley

Guitar: Fraser MacColl

Additional Guitar: KIKU

Strings: The London String Machine

Mixed by Morimoto Koji

"Microphone" is a pop-rock song recorded by Hamasaki Ayumi. It was used as the CM song for Honda Zest Spark. The song is found on her Rock'n'Roll Circus album as track #2.

Live Performances

• [2010.04.02] Music Station
• [2010.04.11] Music Japan
• [2010.04.11~10.11] ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2010 A ~Rock'n'Roll Circus~
• [2010.04.14] HEY! HEY! HEY! MUSIC CHAMP
• [2010.04.16] Music Station
• [2010] a-nation '10
• [2014.12.29~31] ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2014-2015 A Cirque de Minuit
• [2015.04.11~07.05] ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2015 A Cirque de Minuit ~Mayonaka no Circus~
• [2017.09.06~2018.02.13] ayumi hamasaki Just the beginning Chapter 2 ~sacrifice~
• [2019.04.06~07] ayumi hamasaki 21st anniversary -POWER of A^3-
• [2022.04.06] ayumi hamasaki ASIA TOUR ~24th Anniversary special @PIA ARENA MM~

Music Video

PV shot

The music video was directed by Masashi Muto. Part of the video was filmed at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.

It continues to where Sexy Little Things left off. It starts in reverse and the guitar becomes whole again. The bulk of the video features Hamasaki singing with the band and is inter-cut of random scenes of random people. The transition effects of the video depict her switching the scenes like a touchscreen or crumpling the scene itself like a piece of paper. In the end of the video, the whole entirety is rewound by Ayumi (dressed in red, previously seen from the Sexy Little Things PV).

Disambiguation

The following are the different versions of this song released throughout Hamasaki Ayumi's discography, listed chronologically.

Microphone

Found on Rock'n'Roll Circus album as track #2. This is the standard version of the song.

Microphone (THE LOWBROWS remix)

Found on "MOON / blossom" single as track #3. It's a remixed version by The Lowbrows.

External Links

• ayu's Official YouTube Channel: MUSIC VIDEO | "The Lowbrows Remix" | "Acapella" ver.