Old Songs and Old Albums...Now?
 

Hey guys, just wondering.

I think they may have been past threads like this? But I didnt really come across them in the recent months, so here goes.

With Love songs being released just around the corner, all the new songs are getting so much hype. Of course, some songs may sound weird now. But have you actually felt this sense of strangeness with Ayu's songs in the past? I refer to the feeling that when you receive a new track to listen, you feel that it's not very appealing during that period. However, now, you;ve grown to accept that song?

So what are those songs? Or has that same song not grown on you at all?

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For me, I begun my Ayu journey with MY STORY. I adored the songs with PVs but the rest, well not so much even though I thought HOPE or PAIN was such a gorgeous track. I honestly found Liar and HAPPY ENDING very weird in how their melody goes but 4-5 years now, these are tracks with that Ayu-feeling in them and definitely grown on me much much more now.

your turn to share :)

There have been songs, which I didn't like at first listen, but later grew to appreciate, such as Sweet Season, You were..., Over, but there are also songs, which I loved at the beginning, but not so much anymore.

For me the song I really didn't liked at first but now really like is ASFXX. At first i thought it's so boring but now I love it!
One of the song I accepted is SEASONS. I still don't like it but I can listen to it

I never really liked girlish (from DUTY), but recently I've been listening to it A LOT! it's really grown on me and I love it :)

I usually love a song the minute I hear it or no matter how many times I listen to it, I probably still won't like it~

I can't really remember a song that I hated that I now like...X_X

When (miss)understood came out I was like "THESE SONGS ARE ALL SO WERRRD" but I love that album now. :love

I used to hate almost the whole Rainbow, now i love some songs. I also didnt like her old songs, and now her old albums are epic for me. With recent songs, i fidnt like the talkin 2 myself/decision single....until AT 2008

Bold & Delicious :P

Seriously, it was so odd back then, but now it feels like just another funky Ayu song.

Yeah. First time I heard it, I thought, "Wtf is this ****?...skip." But I grew to love it, especially because of her vocals.

I don't know any songs off the top of my head that I disliked and now like.

For me, I decide within a few days whether I love or hate the song - I can say that I always liked B&D (or rather, I can't remember disliking it lol)

I can't think of any I didn't like but now do.

Bold and Delicious was WEIRD lol

I mean, consider where people in 2006 were coming from. MY STORY was the last album...and it was different enough from her past stuff lol


A lot of her newer works take time to grow on me, because a lot of the melodies are just, so weird, and complicated, and they have a lot of parts, that repeat. They don't really build like her old songs do, but instead, hit you in different places.

I can't say I'm the biggest fan, but I've learned to appreciate them for how different they are from other stuff out there.

I just listened to MY SONG FOR XX, the album, thoroughly...arghhh...its relly really nice!! I think I'm gonna be hooked onto As if and FRIEND for sometime..

I started with My Story too. I still love that album so much. I also got I Am around that time too. Just the feeling the album (My Story) gave me made me love it. And because Inspire and Game were the first songs I heard. I gotta learn to love A Song For xx and Loveppears more but I think its just a case of getting to know that Ayu from that period. Still dont like the Lady Dynamite pv :s

At first i hated all of the Rainbow album!!!
I didnt get why people were so hyped about Hanabi ( i became a fan in the summer of 2009, so S/S time) until i actually like listened to the album
and i fell inlove head over heels with the songs, Over, Hanabi, WE Wish, Real ME, Voyage, Independent, Heartplace are some of my favorite songs, Hanabi is one of my all time favorite songs.

I used to not like criminal, In The Corner, Heartplace, fated, untitled ~for her~, still alone, rollin', Curtain call, Life, and Secret. but honestly now I can say most of these songs I love and are some of my favorites.

I remember how much I dislike GUILTY when it was released lol.
But after some listens, I've started to appreciated it a little more than before. It's still my least favourite album from Ayu (and I still think it's her most rushed and incomplete work), but I don't think it's that bad as before anymore :D.
Even with Marionette. I never get why most of people love it so much here I always thought was a nice song but nothing special, then I understand. I never listen to that song carefully because it's a really amazing song.

I didn't like Bold & Delicious and Startin' when I first heard them but now I love them very much. Their lyrics as well. And the latest example is You were.... I really disliked the chaku uta as well as the whole thing when I first listened to it. But some months later I was toally loving it!

I hated everything i Secret before, now they sound acceptable. don't ask me why, maybe it's time. but i still hate most the things in next lvl.

when i say hate i hate it :@

A Song for xx, Secret and NEXT LEVEL are the three albums I have hated very much. Now I really love the two latter ones. I have a neutral feelings towards ASFXX now; I don't really love it or hate it... it's just ASFXX. :D And Secret has one of the best intros I've ever heard, and NEXT LEVEL has Sparkle which is the best song on that album by far. :)

NEXT LEVEL as an album was just, I don't know, the arrangement was so OFF to me. Granted, I loved all the songs on there, I was just re-arranging the album like whoa back then. Still my least favorite album, but at least I don't hate it anymore. rollin' is one of my jams, man.

At first I hated the Sunrise/Sunset single, like lots of people. But a few listens later, I grew to love it.

Life was an "eh" song. It still kind of is, although I have come to appreciate it and I do love it when it comes on at the right time on my iPod.

Well.... most songs, I don't liked when I heard it first, i still don't like it.
For example: Girlish, Humming 7/3, Signal, Friend, Friend 2, PS2....
I never liked them.. and I never will like this songs.

Most of the time the first impression of a song is the lasting impression with me, if I like it the first time I will always like it. But I tend to over-play songs I like a lot and then I loose interest in them. On the other hand sometimes I really can't stand a song and then they grow on me and I love them. Most of the tracks on Love Songs I couldn't stand at first but they are growing on me fast which is a first for me, usually they grow on me over weeks of time.

Songs I instantly loved and still love

-Love Song
-Microphone
-RED LINE ~for TA~
-Sparkle
-identity
-Curtain Call
-LOVE 'n' HATE
-decision
-talkin' 2 myself
-(don't) Leave Me Alone
-Born To Be...
-JEWEL
-1 LOVE
-until that Day...
-Real Me
-HANABI
-my name's WOMEN
-GAME
-About you
-ourselves
-HANABI ~episode II~
-Because of you
-P.S II
-WHATEVER
-And Then
-NEVER EVER
-Endless sorrow
-evolution
-Dearest
-Daybreak
-A Song is Born
-M
-Connected
-Duty
-A Song For XX
-RAINBOW
-Ladies Night
-Pride
-rainy day
-STEP you
-is this LOVE?
-HEAVEN
-alterna
-Bold & Delicious

Songs I loved but don't care for as much anymore

-Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
-energizE
-rollin'
-GREEN
-Rule
-Together When...
-July 1st
-independent
-Heartplace
-Free & Easy
-dolls
-walking proud
-winding road
-Liar
-Moments
-INSPIRE
-CAROLS
-forgiveness
-ANGEL'S SONG
-Greatful Days
-No Way to Say
-Memorial address (take2 version)
-Who...
-monochrome
-Fly high
-TO BE
-Boys & Girls
-no more words
-I am...
-UNITE!
-SEASONS
-SURREAL
-Far away
-girlish
-AUDIENCE
-Will
-fairyland
-appears

Songs that I didn't like or couldn't stand at first that grew on me and I love now.

-Like A Doll
-Last Angel
-Virgin Road
-Do It Again
-November
-Sexy Little Things
-You were...
-NEXT LEVEL
-Marionette
-Mirrocle World
-BLUE BIRD
-Startin'
-teddy bear
Key ~eternal tie ver.~
-Over
-Naturally
-M (Loved it at first then had a time where I couldn't stand it, love it again)

Songs I still can't stand no matter how much I try (on a rare whim I'll be in the mood for some of these)

-MOON
-Lady Dynamite
-Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~
-Days
-fated
-glitter
-untitled ~for her~
-MY ALL
-GUILTY
-kiss 'o' kill
-Beautiful Fighters
-Secret
-momentum
-everywhere nowhere
-HONEY
-HOPE or PAIN
-Humming 7/4
-HAPPY ENDING
-end roll
-LOVE ~Destiny~
-vogue
-End of the World
-(Pretty much all of A Song for XX (sorry guys her voice was too young and high for my taste. I know most Ayu fans would call this a "sin" or say I'm "not a real Ayu fan" but that's not true))

Others I didn't mention: I'm pretty much neutral about them, don't love them, don't hate them

I honestly can't think of any. The first impression I get is the way that stays with me.

Fr me it was so: I heard a Ayu Song (Depend on you).
I ´d like the first album exept Poker face, You, Trust and the other singles.
But first I didn't like Ayu, first, I began to read her Article on Wikipedia (in Germany of course) and there, I began to listen to her music and realy it saws, that Ayu had made a great evolution!
And then I listened t Guilty and I was shoked, that she sang rocky songs, but I accepted the Music Style and now Guilty is my fave Album of Ayu *__*
Today I love ASFXX, too!
Honestly, all Albums xD
And the same it was with RAINBOW
So, I wrote enough xD

When I first heard ayu, I saw (miss) understood inna library! Keep in mind I'm in America, Its so rare to have foreign artists in a library. I picked it up and listened to it at home. I looked at the photobook and thought she's so pretty!
Her unique voice really caught me off guard. I was like, ??????? How weird bold & delicious... I didn't like it first but a couple of days I couldn't stop listening!

It's now my favorite album :)

I used to hate bold and delicious, and thought it was her worst song ever upon the first few listens.

and now....

I still feel exactly the same way about it.

Lets see.. my first album was Memorial Address and I have to say I liked all those the moment I heard them... the same goes with
I am...
Rainbow
Duty
Love Songs

the ones that had to grow on me are
Loveppears
My Story <- liked the singles first
(miss)understood <- liked all the singles but Bold & Delicious first
Secret
Guilty
Next Level
Rock n Roll Circus

Those last four albums i didn't really care for anything, lol. not even the singles, but after years I ahve to say they have finally grown on me, lol.

As for A Song for XX I cant seem to like it, lol.. i dont understand. I like some of the singles but I cant just seem to sit down and listen to it, i get bored! :thud

Every new album that is released, I feel her songs are strange. There's typically 2-3 songs that I instantly like, but the songs I love the most are the ones I hear and don't understand/appreciate at first, and years down the road, become my favorites.

I guess I don't understand the question, I definitely don't understand my answer.