A Song for...who?
 

I'm sorry if there's already a thread like this!! I couldn't find one.

I've read mixed things about some of Ayu's songs being written about certain people.

Such as:
A Song for xx (for her mother or father?)
Teddy Bear (for father?)
Memorial Address (for father or grandma?)
MY ALL (for friend who died?)
Untitled ~for her~ (for friend who died or grandma?)

As i said, i've seen different theories to all these songs, and I'm wondering if there's any actual interviews / articles / translations where Ayu talks about these songs or what was written for who?

even if you don't have the link to anything, but remember what was said about any of the songs, i'm really interested :yes

I think it was on her TA blog or something she said that Untitled ~for her~ was for a friend who had died.

There was a lott of discussion on A Song For XX before and I think most came to the conclusion that it was for her mom. One reason being XX is the chromosome for female

I really think that Teddy Bear and Memorial Address are for her father, ASFXX for her mother, untitled ~for her~ for a friend who died/killed herself, and MY ALL for fans.

yaya....
untitled~for her~ is for her friends
MY ALL for her fans
A SONG FOR XX is for her mother
Teddy Bear is for father
hmm,no idea for memorial address

yea i'd seen some people say MY ALL was for her friend, but i thought that didn't make sense cause i always thought it seemed like a song to her fans telling them what she thinks her career is all about.

thanks for the answers so far! ^^

My All = Fan's song

A Song for XX = the "x" here is not the letter, it's a japanese symbol that means "fill this blank with whatever you want", it's like "A song for..." When she performs it at TV, it's even anounced this way, without the xx. But she said once that her blank is filled with her mom.

Untitled ~for her~ = friend who passed away

she said once it was for her mother... I would not say A Song for XX was for someone who suported her considering the lyrics

who is for grandma

Yeah, Who... is written for her grandmother. I know it's been said somewhere but I don't remember where...maybe somebody else does? Anyway, it's also fairly obvious if you read the lyrics.

A Song For xx - adults who didn't believe her or whatever when she was young... and mainly her mother, imo.

Who... - grandma

teddy bear - dad

Memorial address - dad

untitled ~for her~ - dead friend

MY ALL - fans

Others:
Together When... - Tomoya Nagase
HONEY - Tomoya Nagase

Other suspicions:
SCAR - dad

That's all for me, imo.

Wishing-her best friend Natsuki



from masa site
http://homepage2.nifty.com/morimasa/allnight.html

I thought who... was for fans :thud

thank you, i never knew about that song!

I thought Who... for fans and ever free for grandma

No, but it is now, kind of...like when she sings it live, instead of:

Korekara mo zutto kono utagoe ga
Anata ni todokimasu you ni to
(I wish for this ever singing voice to reach you (right?))

She sings this live:

Korekara mo zutto kono utagoe ga
Minna ni todokimasu you ni to
(I wish for this ever singing voice to reach everyone)

Anata - personal
Minna - general

So I believe that though Who... was originally written for her grandma, it now is a fan song.

MY ALL is a song for her fans, as well as her staff it seems to me.

ever free is about her grandma.

A Song for XX is aimed at her mother, but I think it's also how she felt when moving from Fukuoka to Tokyo, as people have said, XX IS indeed the female chromosone, but when written properly it uses the symbol for batsu batsu which as someone else mentioned means insert here.

teddy bear is about her father, or a lost love maybe.

Also Memorial address seems to be either about her father or grandmother, perhaps both maybe...

untitled ~for her~ is about her friend whose dates were printed in the GUILTY booklet

Also when A Song for XX is sung, isn't one of the words changed also?

Yeah she change the lyrics from," People always used to say." To "you used to always say..." To make her lyrics more honest.

It should be noted that untitled ~for her~ and Wishing were written for the same person - Natsuki committed suicide in 2007. D:

^ No way, Natsuki recently celebrated her birthday, Ayu attended and there were photos. :P

We need the liner note for her albums :yes Here's an interview I read a while ago at ayu-mi-x that talks about A Song for XX. It was translated by Delirium-zer0:
http://www.ayu-mi-x.com/modules.php?...iewtopic&t=669

But it was huge news a few years ago... I remember reading articles on it. But I just looked up the party photos, I hadn't seen those. Maybe it was a different Natsuki? idk. Bizarre.

I think that the friend who died actually had the same name as Ayumi, I heard that rumour...or my head is playing tricks...but I'm sure that it was just speculation that it was Natsuki. We have no idea of really knowing who died and how...which is a shame cuz I'd like to know but let old spirits rest, eh? :)

huh....she wrote untitle~for her~ for her commited suicide friend?
i thought her friend pased away due to illness

^ We don't know whether it was illness or suicide, but the suicide speculation come from the lyrics, and how she says the friend "chose" to walk alone.

i see,furashubakku...
hmm,guess we wouldn't know the exact answer except ayu herself and the family member of her friend

as far as I know, her friend that died was called Ayumi as well

That's true. :)

I knew it couldn't have just been me who heard that. I remember hearing all sorts of rumours about the song though. But now we can rule out it's not the legendary Natsuki.

Natsuki, died or alive?

^Alive. Ayu even attended Natsuki's birthday party this year.
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90494

I think most people agree that Aneki in untitled ~for her~ is Ayumi Ogata

^ I knew she was called Ayumi something. :P

^ Yep. :)

indepedent was written for baseball. :)

^ lol really?

^ Yeah, if you go on the English version of her website and go to the special part, there's a RAINBOW director's notes part and it talks about it being inspired by baseball or something. :)

i heard a lot of times before that Memorial address is for her father who died without personally knowing him or something.

and i think the date of his death is all over the Memorial address album. i forgot. i need to look at the scans again.

that could explain why she performs this song so emotionally.

^ And why she performed it after teddy bear.

^of course.
i hadn't put much mind to that before.

woaahh...her father did die? I thought she stil didn't know if he was dead or alive.

^ Well we don't *know* it for definite. I don't really know what to think. It's just speculation really, but it seems like he's dead from Memorial address, but of course she could be talking abstractly.

^ oh ok ok. i've always thought of that song as her saying "you're dead to me" (i know the feeling -_-), but that's just my take on it.
There's no specific person Heaven's about is there?

well, probably all her..."personal" sounding songs are about a specific person, but we mostly simply do not know about who

^ Yeah, it's sometimes better that way, if she tells us why, who, how she wrote it, we might not be able to relate as easy. :)