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actually, I rated A Song for XX as her worst album, but it's harder to write something about sth. you don't even want to listen to freely, lol.

so, I am...

01. I am...
really great track, nothing wrong here
5/5

02. opening Run
never got the sense of this interlude... it's not original or... interluding... it's just boring sound between two songs. x_x
2/5

03. Connected
I prefer the extended version of this, but it also was the very first ayu song I ever heard and it's extremely catchy. and at that time I was quite into trance music.
4/5

04. UNITE!
it sounds so dated. people always claim that this sound was new and fresh at the time, but I never really got into the squeaky voice/guitar sample/overtwisted beats kind of thing. the song makes me nervous, and there was a time the chorus really hurt my ears.
2/5

05. evolution
UNITE! part 2. or better to say UNITE! was part 2 of evolution in terms of her discography. squeaky, guitar-driven madness. I always play the intro of the song, because it starts as nice ballad and then... it begins. live appearances with the dark wow yeah! make me shudder.
2/5

06. Naturally
love. I totally overplayed it by now, but it is really wonderful. totally catchy in verse and chorus. belongs stylistically to a separate album with Connected.
4,5/5

07. NEVER EVER
as evolution it starts quite calm and the chorus arrangement just ruins it.
2,5/5

08. still alone
it's in exactly the same vein, as NEVER EVER is. lot of copling in this album, you see. but for some reason, I like her squeaky voice in this one a lot.
3,5/5

09. Daybreak
never liked it, never will. just not the melody I can get into, not to mention the arrangement...
1/5

10. taskinlude
no special interlude either, but listenable
3/5

11. M
this song totally saves I am... it's amazing in every aspect, especially after the guitar solo
5/5

12. A Song is born
I don't really have any particular opinion on this song... I only listened a couple of times to the MY STORY Classical arrangement. it doesn't really exist for me. therefore, no rating. I wouldn't miss it, however.

13. Dearest
mediocre ballad. I like the piano synth in interplay with the guitar, but melody of the chorus is... piercing, to say the least.
3/5

14. no more words
very nice and long introduction. lovely melody and in some parts of the vocals ayu sounds like singing french. I like that very much. sadly, I don't play it too often, because I don't play I am... very often...
4/5

15. Endless sorrow ~gone with the wind ver.~
wrong, just wrong. arrangement is horrible. the single version was so much better. but the lacking arrangement can't hide the extremely strong melody, which is soooo sad. but you hardly feel it, because it's ~gone with the wind~. meh.
2,5/5

16. flower garden
dear God...
1/5