should have known that BALLAD would be rather traditional since it is the song for a chinese historical drama...

BALLAD sounds sooooo pretty!!!
It does sound alanish, I love it.

Looks like a great single, good ayu, good!

I just listened to both songs :) And I like you were more, I even continued to write romaji lyrics so I can sing xD lol But I'm pretty sure that I wrote few words wrong :D I just hope someone (who knows Japanese lol not like me from translations series etc.) will write them and translate soon :yes

You were... reminds me of Days and BALLAD gives me an "alan" vibe! :) I love them both! :D

I like the melody. Her voice, however, is a little... off-putting in BALLAD. It might be because it is a chaku uta-rip, though, as I like You were...

BALLAD it's something that I never expected from her, positively. I don't remember other song in that style. Even theme of a-nation '03 was more... pop-ish? I don't know how I have to call it. xD
I'm getting more and more excited~ Ayu, now we're waiting for good PVs! :D

I loooooooooooooove BALLAD xDD

I love all ayu songs with strong music arrangment like this >.<

Holy ****, I'm so disappointed in BALLAD. :weep It's not bad, by any means, but it's nothing like I had hoped it would be. :( I was expecting something sweeter, and catchier.... Maybe it'll grow on me a lot, like You were... did? I hope so, 'cause I love this lyrics.
But yeah, it totally sounds like a direct cross between GREEN and Will! :O

Funny, I thought I'd be very "meh" with You were..., but I love it now. And I thought BALLAD would end up being one of my favourite Ayu songs, without a doubt, but here it's very...meh, lol. >_> I'll wait to listen to it again until a HQ is available.

where have I heard this before... I swear to god I've heard the melody to BALLAD before ._.

I'm slightly underwhelmed. I love her asian sounding songs, but I feel like BALLAD would have been better... if it wasn't.

Maybe HQ+PV will make me love it more

BALLAD sounds like a very Chinese-ish atoan'03.

So far, I wasn't that overwhelmingly impressed as as I listened it for the first time.
Maybe HQ can change that.

i'm so happy that BALLAD isn't poppy! it sounds grand and gorgeous, just as i hoped. can't wait to see it in PV form!

I can't wait to see what the PV's will look like!! I can expect them to be very different!

I like BALLAD. I like the oriental influence

I'm so happy! I love both songs! BALLAD is really beautiful. Wonder if I'm the only one liking her voice in the song.

BALLAD sounds soooooooooooooo sad...
like a song someone would sing when the better half is passing away. plain sad.

Ayu can sing either of these songs in the year end shows. BALLAD = very very grand, YOU were... = Ayu-ish :p

BALLAD sounds gorgeous, right now I prefer it to You were...! :)

BALLAD is so slow and sweet and so full of feelings I LOVE ! one of her best winter single for the while !

To me, BALLAD has the same emotions in it as Days =/ None.

I'm so disappointed in Ayu and in myself for being so underwhelmed ;_;...

Have you ever been in the Days situation?
I didn't start to appreciate the song before I got in that situation and now it's one of my favourite ayu-ballads. I think it just transmits an emotion that is more or less rare.

You are not.
ayu's voice sounds normal as always (at least to me) and I like it a lot.

You have seen the light. ^___^~