Four years on, how do you feel about Glitter/Fated?
 

Otherwise known as "Gutter/Dated" by those that don't like it. I think this was the most debated single up to Sunrise/Sunset. I honestly love Fated but I've never really listened to Glitter much.

glitter is still my second least favorite upbeat Ayu a-side (next to Sunrise), and fated is one of her worst songs ever in my opinion. I thought the years might change it, but I still hate the single just as much as ever. It's too bad, because the rest of GUILTY is pretty good.

I only listen to glitter (not saying it's a bad song) if I'm listening to GUILTY but otherwise fated just stomps glitter to the ground, swings it around and chucks it away like garbage.

Love fated :)

I always loved it, amazing upbeat happy song and nice ballad and I always liked Secret too... not to forget epic covers! I think these are the most beautiful covers in her career. And I actually liked PV, Im not fond of love stories and such but this one was cute, and ayu's hair was so pretty back then.

I used to not like fated, then started liking it and now I absolutely love it. It's one of the few songs on GUILTY I can stand.
I don't like glitter because of her vocals, would have loved it if they weren't so grating since it's a catchy song.

I second this :).

always loved it, and still do

One of the best Ayu singles ever IMO. glitter is, along with Gaga's "Born This Way", the most uplifting song ever created. And fated is just amazing and beautiful, and it has one of the best lyrics ever. The PV is classy and amazing, and i love the covers

Can't stand glitter

I really like the beginning of fated, it's so beautiful. It's an alright ballad. I like the orchestral version just a tad more.

I really love the covers! But I find the songs a bit boring and I rarely listen to them.

I never really cared for the single outside of the covers. As for the songs themselves, I prefer fated to glitter. But the orchestra version of fated tops them both.

I really only love the covers~

I actually accidentally discovered Ayu because of glitter's PV, but not because of the song or the PV...but I just really loved her hair.

I think glitter is a normal pop song and fated is a normal ballad...They don't really stand out to me, but they're not bad to listen to sometimes.

I feel the same. Disdainful.

adore this single, i still to this day cannot begin to understand the hate for it!
Glitter is so good and fated (with the MV) is such a sad and beautiful ballad

Fated - Still one of my favorite Ayu ballads. I'm still procrastinating on doing a karaoke cover on this, because it's very singable for a contralto like me.

glitter - I still never listen to it.

Glitter is OK, I can listen to it but I definitly don't love it so basically, if it's not in a concert I never listen to it. fated I really love, it's a good song :)

I didn't care about this single that much, but this summer I started to like it :) IMO glitter is way better than Dreadful days which I will never like :laugh

:roflmao love it

Anything is better than Greatful Days but somehow I really enjoyed its PV... on mute.

I think I liked glitter more than fated... both are okay songs though

I loved fated to bits, and I think glitter was a VERY good song. nothing wrong with it~~~~

I became an ayu fan when this single was released, so these 2 songs were one of the first I listened to.

Four years on, glitter and fated still have the same effect on me it had back then. It's rare that after thousands of listens a song could do that to me.

i've always loved both songs so much! "glitter" is just so fun & "fated" is a beautiful ballad. love them, both. :heart

I can never understand the hatred towards glitter/fated o_O , the songs are great even though glitter does sound like a poor cousin of BLUE BIRD

I don't like the covers & I find Kyo Ai a bit over-rated for my liking but other than that , the songs are nice , even though it has been 4 years since the single was released

Still like glitter and hate fated, I barely even remember how the original fated goes! (i LOVE fated x MAKOTO though). Pv has it's cute moments but overall is still disappointing and I love the cd only cover :yes

Exactly how many songs have you listened to thousands of times? I've listened to my most played song ever about 250 times and I'm pretty much over it. Over a thousand is just ridiculous.

I always liked fated very much and i consider it among the underrated ballads.
Glitter..well.. it has never been pretentious song, pretty simple and upbeat, something typical for a summer single..In the end the song is not bad, i repeat, it's not pretentious and maybe the lyrics are a little bit poor but definitely not a bad song (at least not that bad).
Moreover i admit i loved the PVs project and they're still among my favourites.

I love them both, and I've always loved them.

I don't think they're in the top tier of great Ayu songs, but I still like them.

Glitter has an unusual melody, and is just pure fun.

Fated is just, one of those songs, like the rock songs from Secret and stuff. But that note at the end of the chorus saved it for me.

I quite like it, although I find the PV kind of typical and boring compared to her other offerings.

Both the songs stand well on their own, lyrically and musically so I can't complain that much xD Then again I love almost all of Ayu's stuff that even the abomination of Sunrise has grown on me.....hahaha

lol.. Gutter/Dated. The things I miss around here.

I'd say they're both okay. Neither are high up in my books in their respective categories ("glitter" for summer pop and "fated" for ballads). I listened to them a lot when GUILTY came out, but they're not songs I'll go back to when I'm in need of a serious dose of ayu.

Its still one of my favorite singles up to now! :)

I'll never understand why so many people seem to hate "glitter/fated" (the same with the "Secret"-album...it's freaking flawless, at least in my eyes!).

I've always liked both songs. When I'm feeling down, I just need to put on "glitter" and I'll feel better immediately.
I don't like "fated" so much (which says something, because I normally love Ayu's ballads!), but it's also a very beautiful song!

damn i never knew there was so much for glitter/fated. i loved the PVs, typical love story, but with Ayu, and her first on screen kiss iirc? glitter is such an upbeat song. and i love listening to fated live from CDL 07-08.

wow these 2 songs I hardly listen to them lol. They seem to be OK for me that's all. Not something that I will choose to listen them on my mp3.

I rather listen to Sunrise/Sunset! hahaha.

Being an ignorant ayufan was the best, getting to know how everyone trolled her works ruined it for me.

I didn't visit/know much about AHS back when this single was released, I was sooooo stunned by it, thought it was amazing and incredible.

it's okay. not her best summer single, imo. i could enjoy it if i'm in the mood.

Sometimes I wish the vocals on "glitter" were mixed a little differently (the chorus can be pretty grating, but the verses are cute). Otherwise, I still really like this single. It's not a ~classic, but both songs are pretty solid; they get the job done and don't overstay their welcome, I guess.

I still lovelovelove the CD-only cover. Unlike Sunrise/Sunset, it actually made use of the location.

Loved them both and remember that people in 2007 on another Ayu forum were critizising them heavily, I could not understand that. I actually still think fated is one of Ayus best ballads. So I still love them.

Really guys? I, on the other hand, like Greatful Days. Must say that I am not so fond of Ayu's summerish hits (BLUE BIRD as exeption of course)

I have never seen glitter/fated as a horrible single. I had dislike glitter for a while, but there were times I just needed the YAY YAY YAY happiness. I see this single as a typical Japanese production. My view of general JPop are cheesy love songs and ballads (as Days and fated) or very happy sounding melodies (as Glitter, Boys&Girls etc.)

And my opinion did not change after 4 years. But since it got released I never really listened to it anymore, so yeah.

I like both songs but I always skip them when I'm listening to GUILTY :D

glitter is a cute song, don't really listen to it though.

fated, loved it since Day #1 :heart

Glitter is really fun; I don't listen to it a real lot but I do enjoy it and it's not a song I find myself skipping.

Fated I've always loved and that hasn't and probably will not change.

The lyrics for both songs are really amazing to me so I cherish them, and the PV story is great too.

fated has always been beautiful to me, but glitter is just...there. IT's easily one of her weakest summer singles imo. The covers are gorgeous though, I even got the poster of it.

ironically glitter is my most listened to ayu song on last.fm, because that's when I started using last.fm and I always had glitter/fated on when it first came out :laugh

Honestly, I think glitter is pretty boring. The composition is nothing special at all and the arrangement reminds me of Dreadful Days way too much. It's definitely one of her weakest summer songs for me. I have to admit it can be pretty damn catchy though; I once had the chorus stuck in my head for a whole day and it was torturous since I couldn't get to listen to the song to get it out of my head and I didn't like it any more back then. :P

fated is easily one of my favorite songs from her though. It's a beautiful, subtle, calm and bittersweet ballad with a great melody, fitting arrangement, beautiful vocals and touching lyrics. Nothing here not to love. I only wish more people would love it too.

I watched the mini movie for the first time last week. That was... special... Anyways, I find that I'm listening to the two songs more now than I have when it was first released. "fated" doesn't offer much as a ballad but that's what I like about it; It's simple and calming.

I love the songs (especially LOVE Glitter) and the fated PV. Hated the Glitter Pv. I think the distant love minimovie should have been a DVD bonus and Glitter should have had an equally fun happy uplifting cute PV to match the song instead of that mess.

i loved glitter, is so cute and catchy, idk why you hate this song.
And Fated is good, not my favourite ballad, but is good

both song are good IMO. i love fated more > than glitter.my opinion is still the same even after four years have passed.

I think "glitter" is such a fun upbeat song and it's a nice listen.

I absolutely adore the beginning of "fated" where it starts off with the guitars and then it suddenly switches to the soft instrumentation. It completely makes the song for me. Besides that it's just an alright ballad though

I love both songs~

glitter really gets a lot of flack despite being a more than decent track. It's incredibly catchy and people are going to be yeah yeah yeah / no no no-ing because of it!

I loved glitter from the start. It was different - it was more "dance" orientated. It had very, very slight trance influences and an energy about it. I remember going for a run when it leaked - it made me want to run in the hot sun. I replayed it in my car while driving. I had a quote on my signature for a while by a member that said "the crazies who complain about glitter are probably the ones who get angry when Ayu releases anything that isn't alterna or something" haha.

fated... I hated. I thought it was absolutely boring and nothing special at all. Especially with that beautiful melody/sound that the PV opens with. I remember watching it with my sister and she was like "this sounds like a song I would like" and I'm like "well it sucks." lol.

4 years later... my love for glitter has subsided. Still nice to listen to, but overall I prefer fairyland and Sunrise. fated, has become a song I really do love. Maybe because I have come to accept the non-fierce songs by Ayu, and have come to love that genre in itself. It's nice to listen to in the rain, or when I am in the relaxing mood for Ayu ballads (Together When..., rainy day, untitled ~for her~, etc...) I think overtime crappier songs have been released so it makes me think "you know what, fated wasn't all that bad and I would take that over (insert other crappy song) anyday"

OMG... my friend (who was actually an ayu hater :innocent) turned out to like her more after she watched glitter PV because her hair there is one of her best hairstyles.. :D :D :luv2

Ughh, Glitter.. I just, never listen to it because I get tired as soon as
"KONO NATSU BOKU TACHI WA.." starts .____.

Fated is amazing though ^-^ Especially like the lyrics.

fated will always be amazing. One of her best summer ballads ever, and one she hasn't managed to top imo.

glitter I don't care for as much as I did back then, but I still get the urge to listen to it at least once every summer. Also, I enjoyed it's inclusion in that medley in last year's (and this year's, apparently) a-nation. :)

I love glitter.

fated is good but I don't like it as much as glitter.

I always thought it was a solid single. :)

glitter/fated was indeed a good solid single. I don't listen to glitter as much anymore (or fated.....or any of her songs pre-NEXT LEVEL for that matter, even though I love them more than her recent songs, strangely enough lol), but its still nice to listen to occasionally. I like all the glitter remixes better than the original, like the one on ayu-ro mix 4 and DJ Amaya's mix.

fated's still as epic as ever.....god that song gives me the goosebumps. Especially during and after the bridge. Wish she performed it more ):.

I used to dislike fated, then love the lyrics and now I'm in love with the melody. The song will always be an "okay" song, but I like the fact that she doesn't push it in every occasion (like she does with July 1st and whatnot)

glitter has got some nice lyrics and it does make me happy. It's fun :) I just never listen to it, but if it comes up with "suffle" I listen to it half way and then skip to the next ;)

I love fated but overall I wasn't that hyped for the single that much. despite her break up with Tomoya :D

Third to this!~ <3 Love 'em!

the pv is definitely a mess, but i liked both songs from the beginning.

fated is one of the best songs on GUILTY haha.

Together When... was hands-down the best Tomoya Break Up Song LOL.

oh well I like Together When... as a ballad but she had even more amazing & epic ballads pre-fated. like Dearest, the best ever for me, because the number of times I listened to it and cried is absolutely uncountable, as much as A Song for XX & Who...
for me fated & Together When...are like...on the same level :)
better break-up songs for me are still HANABI (both), Far away & End roll (although I don't know about what kind of break-up it is:))
but speaking about Tomoya, well, both Together When..& fated were good, but not epic as I've expected ;)