Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - Thoughts on BLUE BIRD as a whole?

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This single for me is a perfect 10. After two really bad singles (Startin'/Born To Be & Bold and Delicious/Pride), I was glad that Blue Bird was released. The covers are awesome and they are everything I've always wanted, and the songs are great! Same with the PV's :D

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Originally Posted by truehappiness

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Uh, then wtf is going to be 40th XD

And they didn't just do 'new covers'.. they had a bunch of different things ~ :D

Different OBIs, different DVD material, posters, different CD-colors, different CDonly/CD+DVD inserts..

I dunno what could be the 40th one, really
but not "BLUE BIRD", for sure...

about a bunch of new things...
haha, actually, every single always has a bunch of new things, darling
like new design, concept, PVs, posters, promo etc
it's kinda "A RULE"

that not just what I meant
I meant, instead of making a real big hit with awesome music
they put the so-so music into a big nice colourful box
sweet trap
:P

I think it is a solid effort.I also love the cover.

this single as a whole?

BLUE BIRD

01. original mix >>> LOVE it, one of ayu's best summer song
02. Harderground mix >>> haven't heard of it
03. original mix -Instrumental- >>> haven't heard of it
04. video clip >>> i love the blue-sky-with-white-gown scene but the whole yacht & have-fun-with-my-dancers-and-looking-so-in-love-with-shuya scenes suck

Beautiful Fighters

01. original mix >>> the verse is really catchy and cute, but the chorus is a mess, they should put more power to the song, i mean, all i heard from the 15s panasonic ad was a rockin' song and i expected it to be like that, but this is just a mess
02. original mix -Instrumental- >>> haven't heard of it, but i hope it sounds better
03. video clip >>> plain BAD

Ladies Night ~another night~
>>> one of her best remixes ever

so i give the single 7 out of 10 for having both wonderful tracks (BLUE BIRD & Ladies Night ~another night~) and such trashy piece of ******* (Beautiful Fighters)

i like S/BTB... better, but i wonder why did it doesn't sell well

COVERS
I think they're really nice actually, I like the colours used and the composition. Quite artistic but doesn't try too hard.
8/10

BLUE BIRD
Nice summery single. I think it's better than fairyland, she sounds so happy that it cheers me up, even though I'm never down in the first place ^_^.
7.5/10

Beautiful Fighters
I like this song, I find it interesting. I never found the robotic sounds annoying because it's different. Again, it's nice and summery too so it fits in perfectly with BLUE BIRD, and I like it better than BLUE BIRD.
8/10

Ladies Night~another night~
Re-arrangement or remix, it makes little difference to me. I think it sounds great as a rock track, the kind you would perform as an encore. I'm sure everyone else is going to think I'm an idiot, but this reminds me of evolution, but not a cloned version of it, which is why I think it's so good. Does it do justice to the original? Yes. Is it a great track? Yes. Is it better than the original? No.
9/10

BLUE BIRD (HARDERGROUND Remix)
Okay, so I'm very into trance music, so I may be a little biased here (then again, so are the people who hate remixes and arrangements, so screw it). I love this song. It's just so... summery again. So it's like, after the darkness of Ladies Night~another night~ you get this summery feeling back again, and the single ends on a very happy note indeed.
8.5/10

BLUE BIRD PV
It resembles fairyland very much. Whoever denies it is in need of serious help. It has beautiful scenery and the whole crew looks like they're genuinely having fun. It's not quite as good as fairyland though, the scenery in fairyland is just the best.
7/10

Beautiful Fighters PV
A very comical and animated PV. I don't really care that this PV doesn't have 1000 meanings in every scene. Sometimes it's nice to just sit back and watch without thinking. We have too many alterna's, M's and Free & Easy's already. Do something fun!
7/10

Overall: 8.5/10 (exact was around 7.86).

It's an excellent single, I gave it an extra .5 because I thought that all the tracks were of high quality. This single should get her back on track :).

This single is pretty good i have to say

BLUE BIRD - 8/10
After hearing a real copy of this song I'd have to say this song will probably one of the top songs in the next album. Its really good better than Fairyland IMO.

Beautiful Fighters - 7/10
Very good song as well, although i really don't like the synthesized voice over and over.

Ladies Night ~Another Night~ - 6/10
I liked it but i prefer the original version more.

BLUE BIRD Harderground Remix - 6/10
Its ok, just another way of listening to BLUE BIRD w/out listening to the original version over and over.

Note: I probably rate harder than most people IMO Ayu has maybe 10 songs that i feel are 10/10 worthy.

Great! I think it's the best single since HEAVEN :yes

Indeed.

/highfives nmskalmn

BLUE BIRD is a lot better than Startin'

I still feel like someting's missing :shrug

i liked everything except for BLUE BIRD (the song, pv, and remix)