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[TeamAyu] 'Secret' SPECIAL INTERVIEW
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OH MY GOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH <3
Yoji Noi!? Naruya Ihashi?? NEW COMPOSERS!! :D It's going to update with the new songs every few days :D On the 2nd, five more songs.. and on the 29th, the rest ! :D TASUKU AND HAL! <3 CMJK! And it looks like the guy who did Greatful days' PV did the 1LOVE one. Hideaki Sunaga.. And it looks like the interludes might have words?~ |
wow a new composer, now i have even higher expectations of 1love, i can't wait for this album to be released
i wonder when the songs will be leaked |
LOL I guess some people are relieved fornot seeing the letters G. E. O. so far :laugh
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I don't think there's a reason for his return.. lol
After all, all the songs he did for Ayu were like, four minutes at the most >< Yoji Noi is a fairly recent composer for BoA. Nanairo no Ashita -brand new beat- and Your Color were his works.. And Naruya Ihashi composed some FLAME songs [boyband on Pony Canyon]. |
O.M.G. CMJK IS LOOOVE.
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I'm sensing a Catcher in the Light.. <33
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Coolness. So... tasuku is listed for It was. Has tasuku ever composed outside of interludes? Because we might have our second interlude otherwise.
Also, I wonder what people will say if CREA doesn't show? |
Yes, if I'm not mistaken tasuku arranged fairyland and Will.
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tasuku is the arranger for "It was." It's not the same as composing, since he doesn't come up with the general melody. He just uses the composition and creates the music :] Think of it like how he rearranged Ladies Night into Ladies Night ~another night~.
The composer was Naruya Ihashi. And about CREA: I think she might either come out for "Secret" or LABYRINTH. If she is not present at all.. then it'd be the first album in a while without even one trace of CREA :} |
Ohhh.... yeah... forgot there. D'oh.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see until everything else is revealed, then. |
EXCITED!! :D do i hear translations?
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thank you! but i dont understand japanese...anyone kind enough to translate?
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evolusean's probably doing it as we speak! Or in the future, as we speak! :D
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Saving these for some form of future reference in 500 years. ;x
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Woo! thansk!! XD...now XD *waiting for translation*... XD
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wow!! Until that day... is not has no introduction.. so can we assume that that is the interlude?? :D and i also saw "Over" with "It was".. are they some what related? thats my guess hehe..
someone pls translate them immediately!! :D so that all of us can understand what ayu wrote about her new songs!! thanks for the info!! :) |
I wonder if Ayu said that It was had a similar format to 'Over'..
Perhaps a lot of English? |
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I was going to relax all night and find more pudding to eat (my new love interest), but when I saw this, all those plans went out the window! I'm working on the translation now, but because for simplicity's sake I have to re-type the entire graphic interview, my eyes are killing me. I'm going to give them a rest, go take a shower, and then finish it up. Stay tuned -- it's a really cool interview, I love stuff like this! Ayu dishes a lot of neat trivia and behind the scenes info. |
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they are both about "regret" jugde from the chinese words i can see from it. lol |
for your info, the whole new album "Secret" is available for download at mu-mo.net
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^whole new album ??
just like how my story is available for download thru online?!!!! omg!!! i am sure we can hear the tracks soon enough!! |
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It's a shame I can't read a lot of the kanjis, but from what I understood it seems it's going to be a great album.
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I am sure it will be a great album.
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"...singing.. Zenkyoc delivery of arrival beginning of Secret with mu-mo" |
as much as I want to hear the whole album like NOW! but I dont want the whole album already available for downloads.
Hope the songs will turn out interesting...did she ever released information like this for her other albums? |
Yes.
It happened, but last year it was in the CD DATA magazine.. And the year before it was in some magazine too, and in 2003, it was in avex's free magazine 'Beatfreak'. |
So... basically... this... means the album's leaked or up, then, for real?
Hmm. Probably might leak this weekend, then, if that's the case. (I dunno, this all confuses me a tad.) |
Basically, it's probably up for download from the mu-mo chaku-uta thing via cellphone..
So, it'll probably be up this week? evolusean's so lucky to understand Japanese :] |
Okeeb, I have the whole thing written up in Japanese, and I'm working on translations. Here are the first two tracks for starters. I'm too tired to do a nice job, so I'm just gonna rest up and then I'll put the rest of the tracks up tomorrow, and probably edited versions of these first 2.
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words: ayumi hamasaki music & arrangement: CMJK Pretty much the album opening! I guess it's a flat-out question. I've encrusted the entire album with secrets... secrets of people... secrets which have various meanings of various assortments. And also, the miracle leading up to here. The term "miracle" is close to my heart... Finishing this album -- that has been a miracle = my heart. I didn't make this miracle happen, but I feel like it has happened because of various people other myself = the staff involved and everyone else related. Those 2 have been the base of this album. This opening song is really a question to everyone listening to these "secrets" and "miracles", asking if they will find them in the album. Quote:
02. until that Day... words: ayumi hamasaki music & arrangement: CMJK ayu: This was originally a song made by CMJK to be used as an instrumental. It was really short, but I really loved the feel of the guitar and the B-melody, so told him I'd love it if he could make it a full-length song. Ever since I first heard the song, I had in mind what I wanted to write about. The lyrics I wanted to express were in my head, so I was just waiting for CMJK's song. So I waited, but once it came, it was so hard to fit the words to it! (Hehehe) mister kaz: It's rattled off pretty fast, huh? ayu: Yeah. It was so hard to make the words hit right on the notes. I had something I wanted to say, but fitting the words to the notes, as well as having to always cut at a good spot for breaths, it was difficult. I made a kind of word puzzle at home. mister kaz: Like... you wrote down and combined synonyms with the same meaning as those of the words you wanted to express? ayu: Yeah! On pieces of paper, I would put down words I wanted to write, as well as synonyms for those words. Then, I'd line up the papers, and combine them as I changed around the order. I made this song very differently from the way I usually write. mister kaz: Like "This won't work because it has 5 characters..."? Ayu: Right, right! Like, saying "tanoshii" as 3 sounds = how would it be if I said a different 3 character word? So at first it was a lot of trial-and-error, but this time it got to be so that I just had to express what I wanted to express. It's most important to say what you want to say, but it's really hard to stick to that and still make the word-count match up. mister kaz: And the tempo is pretty fast, too! ayu: I hadn't had such a fast song that really kept more or less the same sound. In the world of lyrics, I really try to be positive, but when I heard the impressions of my staff, there were some who got really heartbroken or sad and cried! |
thank you for posting this! also thank you evolsean for your work at translating the first 2 songs' info^^ look forward to seeing the rest tomorrow! how exciting <3
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evolusean, you are awesome. :]
You must not let anyone tell you otherwise. Oh my gaw. |
Thank you evolusean for your hard work in translating :D !! so until that day..is a fast song with guitar...yay!
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Interesting. Can't wait to see what else we'll discover :P
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wat does HAL and CMJK composed
some of her famous osngs rite ~ |
Thanks for the translations and news and everything. *_*
They say "until that Day..." is a fast song. I hope it will be something with crazily fast lyrics like "evolution" or "Naturally". ^^ |
CMJK composed:
opening Run everlasting dream Over Catcher In The Light Are You Wake Up? And CMJK arranged: Naturally still alone Endless sorrow [gone with the wind] Real me HANABI everywhere nowhere RAINBOW ourselves forgiveness Liar HOPE or PAIN HAPPY ENDING CAROLS STEP you Ladies Night alterna Pride Startin' Beautiful Fighters HOWEVER: H/\L only arranged so far for this album. But here's their compositions anyway: Introduction Kaleidoscope neverending dream H/\L arranged: is this LOVE? Fly high immature appears Far away SURREAL AUDIENCE UNITE! evolution M WE WISH Free&Easy Dolls ANGEL'S SONG Greatful days Because of You No way to say GAME my name's WOMEN INSPIRE HONEY Replace fairyland BLUE BIRD LOTS of songs arranged and composed.. O_O And yeah, a lot of hits. |
Ooo ... Can't wait for Secret! I'm getting all excited with those translations! :)
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Yeah me too. I can't wait to hear some of the new songs!
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AGghH! XD all this is...getting everything so...anticipating >_> AHH!!!
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evolusean => u're the best
thx for translation !!! Can't wait to hear all that songs to understand what Ayu said speaking secrets and miracles and all those feeligns that you should have listening her songs |
evolusean, you're awesome! I can't wait for the other translations. :bshake Ayu sounds so cute and funny.
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Sean, you're the best ever :).
I must say that until that Day... will not probably be the song I'm awaiting the most. It sounds awesome. Very fast? Guitars? I can't wait. |
thank you very much for the translation
looks like SECRET will be a really GREAT album cant wait for another translation |
Thanks for the info and translations. Am unsure about the first few tracks now, am just expecting more over-synthesised arrangements, though I am more interested in 1 LOVE because of H/\L. Looking forward to reading more translations.
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Thanks so much sean :D I can't wait to here the rest.
I think its awesome Ayu turned an intrumental into a full song :P Now do that for Are You Wake Up? and tasking! :P |
Thank you so much for the translation! I really want to hear until that Day... now.
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^Same here! Oh man, I'm so excited now!
Thanks for the translations! |
it will be a so wondeful album^^
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I really can't wait to hear this album!
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omg i'm so exited! and thanks evolusean!!!!!
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Please Ayu, please. She should release an album on which she made all her instrumentals into full songs. |
Thanks for the translations!
Can't wait for the album... |
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I can't wait to get my copy...I paid ems from cdjapan. Early Christmas for me! :D
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Okay, here are the first 5 tracks. I will try to keep up with each song as the interview gets updated, and then I'll get to the big introductory blurb at the top. I think we'd rather hear all the song-specific info first, anway.
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words: ayumi hamasaki music & arrangement: CMJK Pretty much the album opening! I guess it's a flat-out question. I've encrusted the entire album with secrets... secrets of people... secrets which have various meanings of various assortments. And also, the miracle leading up to here. The term "miracle" is close to my heart... Finishing this album -- that has been a miracle = my heart. I didn't make this miracle happen, but I feel like it has happened because of various people other myself = the staff involved and everyone else related. Those 2 have been the base of this album. This opening song is really a question to everyone listening to these "secrets" and "miracles", asking if they will find them in the album. Quote:
words: ayumi hamasaki music & arrangement: CMJK ayu: This was originally a song made by CMJK to be used as an instrumental. It was really short, but I really loved the feel of the guitar and the B-melody, so told him I'd love it if he could make it a full-length song. Ever since I first heard the song, I had in mind what I wanted to write about. The lyrics I wanted to express were in my head, so I was just waiting for CMJK's song. So I waited, but once it came, it was so hard to fit the words to it! (wry laugh) mister kaz: It's rattled off pretty fast, huh? ayu: Yeah. It was so hard to make the words hit right on the notes. I had something I wanted to say, but fitting the words to the notes, as well as having to always cut at a good spot for breaths, it was difficult. I made a kind of word puzzle at home. mister kaz: Like... you wrote down and combined synonyms with the same meaning as those of the words you wanted to express? ayu: Yeah! On pieces of paper, I would put down words I wanted to write, as well as synonyms for those words. Then, I'd line up the papers, and combine them as I changed around the order. I made this song very differently from the way I usually write. mister kaz: Like "This won't work because it has 5 characters..."? Ayu: Right, right! Like, saying "tanoshii" as 3 sounds = how would it be if I said a different 3 character word? So at first it was a lot of trial-and-error, but this time it got to be so that I just had to express what I wanted to express. It's most important to say what you want to say, but it's really hard to stick to that and still make the word-count match up. mister kaz: And the tempo is pretty fast, too! ayu: I hadn't had such a fast song that really kept more or less the same sound. In the world of lyrics, I really try to be positive, but when I heard the impressions of my staff, there were some who got really heartbroken or sad and cried! Quote:
words: ayumi hamasaki music: Kazuhiro Hara arrangement: CMJK ayu: We did the recording for this song in New York, but the sound in the studio was so good it was so easy to sing. There are a lot of people who have an image of "Startin'" being from dancing with the dancers during a tour or a-nation, but it was originally made to be a band-only song. I've done rock songs like "GAME" or "is this LOVE?", but this is the first time I've challenged myself with a vocal style like "Startin'"! While I was singing, I felt "You can sing like this too". What really brought out that new vocal style was doing the recording in the New York studio with such good sound and nice atmosphere. mister kaz: The PV, too, has a strong, new CG feel like never before, doesn't it? ayu: Yeah it does. I've known Director Ishii (Ishii-chan), who did "Startin'", since around high school, but even though I knew he was a director, we had never worked together. I was a little at odds as to how he would go about it (wry laugh). And even after knowing eachother so well from long ago, because it's work, you can't just go with it the way you normally would. mister kaz: And like, your relationship in that case is that of artist-director! ayu: Right. So that made it kind of... too... humble? So I guess it was a little awkward; it felt like a relative had come to work. mister kaz: What sort of person is Director Ishii to you? ayu: He gets it without me having to say it. So it was really easy to do, and I have confidence that we were able to make something really good. It was almost entirely CG, so there was a lot of performing in front of a green screen (to combine the images), but I felt like because it was Ishii-chan, we could do it! Because he believes in it, we could do it! Quote:
words: ayumi hamasaki music: Yoji Noi arrangement: HΛL ayu: This is another new vocal style. I don't think I've had such strong vocals until now, like yelling... I didn't make a conscious effort to, but the music (=melody) and words pulled that kind of vocal style out of me. I made the new discovery that I had that in me. The lyrics are really driving, edgy, and really powerful. But I think that up close it's got a subtle heartbroken sadness to it. mister kaz: The rock arrangement for the song was HAL, but it was a surprising! Also that Mr. Sunaga did the PV direction... Kind of like your inner Mr. Sunaga imagined making something that had a bright and fun side to it, like "Greatful days", but also a surreal side. ayu: Yeah, maybe. You felt surprised?? I had a feeling that Mr. Sunaga would come up with something, so I asked for something extraordinary. Then, after we finished, it turned out to be a really awesome PV! But! The pole dancing hurt (tear). The next day I was covered in bruises! (laugh) mister kaz: Really?? You seemed totally fine during the filming! ayu: When I was actually doing it, I was, but during the filming I was fine because I was concentrating on something. I didn't feel the pain... But the next day it hurt (laugh)! Oh man, it was so hard to get out of bed. I'd try to get up, but my neck and back hurt, and I couldn't move my body at all (laugh). Even at the time, I had never really done so much tossing of my head and bending of my body. mister kaz: What hurt the most? Your neck or your back? ayu: No, it was the palm of my right hand, which was holding on to the pole! From the morning of the filming to the next morning, I was holding the pole only with my right hand to support my body... oh, it got bright red! I reconsidered how amazing pole dancers are! Quote:
words: ayumi hamasaki music: Naruya Ihashi arrangement: tasuku ayu: This was one of the songs we had gathered up for the (miss)understood album. I didn't use it then, but of course I really liked it and had tasuku arrange it. I felt like I wanted the lyrics to not end very clearly, or like I wanted to make lyrics which ended on a confused note. There were lots of different ones, but now I feel like... no, we went through several before getting out a (rough) ending, but it seems like it's still confused. Sometimes people people drag around certain times and mistakes, and sometimes there are things that people regret, aren't there? I wanted to write of a world that seemed to smell of real people. Everyone's got to have those kind of feelings, so I felt I wanted to share that emotion. mister kaz: In a sense... life is a string of regrets, but people have to go on living. By the way, this song has a similar, but different ending from "Over". ayu: That would be because it properly "puts and end" to it. mister kaz: But as far as life is concerned, there is more confusion and regret like in "It was", rather than as in "Over". ayu: But it's not always going to be pretty, and you can't always just suck it up, can you? There are more times when, no matter how bad it looks, no matter how pitiful it is, you have to go on with your life. But "It was" isn't just about regret, but it has a "do your best to be positive" side to it! As far as life is concerned, rather than worrying whether to regret or not to regret, or worrying about being cool or uncool, I think it's more important to try to be positive! |
thank you for the 2nd half!! I'm so excited for this <3
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Thanks Sean.
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Very interesting that It was was supposed to be featured on (m)u. |
Thanks a lot!!!! I can't wait to watch the pole dancing! I've seen girls on tv and it's really difficult.
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I bet there were other songs on Secret that were meant to be on (m)u, but GEO smacked them off..
OMG EXCITEMENT. |
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i think the like yelling part is pretty interesting... i wonder how that will be like. either way its cool how ayu experiments with different styles^^ |
Someone on the A!L!A! BBS said "It was" reminded them of "monochrome" while Until that day... reminded them of "evolution". BIG EXPECTATIONS, especially for "It was"
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Mmm. :]
Again, translated by SunshineSlayer, the ALA 'comments' of the mu-mo downloadable Secret: Quote:
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Whoa, this is exciting.
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I'm very excited. Are the other song interviews available or are we just going to get these five? I really want to see them.
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SO EXCITED!
I want an album leak already...from what I'm hearing, it's sounding like a great album. Although for some reason I had foresaw that she was going to have some of the stuff from the original (M)U album put on this album and I was right :D |
We're gonna get the next batch of five songs on the 22nd.
Then on the 29th, we get the last four. |
ooo thank you for posting the info.!
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Hopefully someone will post them. |
Is there any translation on the first part of the interview (The intro)?
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I think that evolusean was still working on that when the board died.. :<
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omg thanks for the translation evolusean!
and wow so many fast songs in the album! i relli like Ayu's "kool" fast songs but i get tired of them quickly xD |
Yeah, maybe it's posted over at AYUNITE, but I don't think so. I didn't check through the entire thread there.
We should get it by tomorrow anyway :). |
I'm very curious to hear how fast is "until that Day..."!
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lol. I like GEO though... Ladies NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT... xD
I want Ayu-exclusive GEO songs! |
really cant wait
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But the album would be nice too. And hey, I loved the GEO compositions, especially once Ayu helped work her magic on them (I assume she handled a lot of the touch-ups). Thing is thought, I rarely pay mind to who composes her songs. Long as I love the end result. |
thanks for sharing.....................
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Thanks for sharing, words look foreign to me lol.=p
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wow, thanks for sharing! you know, I wasn't feeling excited for this album at first, but now I absolutely am!
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I hope CREA's gonna be one of the composers....!
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i really like her explanations for all the songs, thanks for posting pic~!! (^-^v.
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But c'mon, Ayu, give us something even faster than evolution. |
It'd be like DDR.
"FASCINATION MAXX"~ Fastest song in DDR.. D: 300BPM++ |
^That'd be a tad Extreme ;).
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Lets see what it is she has come up with. I hope that in a future live of it, she'll stumble over the words. |
I dunno bout it being impossible to sing live. I understand OutKast manages pretty well with what they perform.
On the flipside, she can make the slowest song ever. Until someone beats her record, because you can never make a song too slow. She can sing like a syllable every half hour. |
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Sill does sometimes. And nah. Extreme would be a song where she sings a syllable every year. |
Actually, she just needs to spit words out easier.
I mean she pulls off evolution at all the concerts, I'm sure she can do faster.. MUCH faster. |
ex, we all seem to have our own definition of extreme :D.
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Well, she can still DO IT, so w/e. :P
I mean especially during a high-energy setlist of like AUDIENCE / independent.. she is still able to.. :o |
I think Ayu can no longer pull off evolution well because of her voice change...
you know how people with annoying high-pitched voices always seem to chatter very fast? xD I oddly can pull the off the chorus', but always run out of breath during the verses O_O Where are the breaths?! |
I think she had huge lungs.
Either that, or she's not human. O_O |
Maybe it takes more air to produce the lower tones. I think evolution sounds a lot better now, though. Only that she gets out of breath a bit :).
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Hey, uhm..
Should this be labeled part one, since there'll be another 'piece' to the interview released soon? And then later on when no one really minds, a mod can merge the threads? |
the 2nd part of the interview is out!! and there are interviews for all the songs now ^_________________^
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Thanks for posting!
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