| Delirium-Zer0 |
6th February 2015 04:06 AM |
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Originally Posted by primavera♥
(Post 3116726)
Same. It's kind of ridiculous. Ayu's had lyrics about love, loss, pain, hope, commentaries about life, people (especially women), and society...hmm...friendship, longing, belonging, family....I still remember being fascinated with the lyrics to eyes, smoke, magic because of the topic can she approached and the way she approached it...idk...she's done so much. Like, that's a lot of songs to pen lyrics for. It's awesome though. And I still enjoy her lyrics. Walk was great.
Anyway, if those are lyrics she posted, I like where it is going. I like when addresses the conflicting sides of things.
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She's one of the most spectacular lyricists whose work I've ever read. Bar none. I've been a music fan my entire life, I read a crapton of poetry, but Ayu's stuff is just really that good. One thing you don't really get to see if you don't speak Japanese is how she plays with words in very unusual ways (this makes her really hard to translate sometimes... not Shiina Ringo levels of hard to translate, but really freaking hard).
She has several songs where the way she divides sentences up between lines is very unusual and makes it all sound very stream-of-consciousness, like she's making the words up along as she goes across the melody (the first half of "JEWEL" comes to mind). Then there's songs like "Connected" where she uses alliteration which is INSANELY unusual in Japanese pop lyrics. "Moments" where she uses "kachoufuugetsu" as an outline for the structure of the choruses. And then there's her Mitsuo Aida-esque haiku-style habit of using tangible, specific, concrete, real-world things like phone calls, highway exits, and restaurants as microcosmic representations of larger themes.... even alcohol is reduced to "gold bubbles" in "Party queen."
She does a good deal of experimentation in her lyrics, and there are certainly songs where she's talked about the same theme as an earlier song but she's now doing it in a different way ("Like a doll" tackles the same concept as "Marionette" but with a different emotion behind it). There are also plenty of times where her feelings have changed or developed over time and she's addressing her new perspective ("vogue" could absolutely be considered a sequel to "Hana"). As long as she has a life to live, and as long as she's experiencing new things, her world view is going to shift over time and that'll always give her more to write about, and more ways to write about it. |
