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Old 18th December 2003, 05:16 PM
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Btw, I suppose strongly that her father passed away on June 30 this year. The reasons are ---

1.This lyrics clearly shows that someone very important to her died in the beginning of this summer. And many phrases in this lyrics reminds me of her father.

2.There is a photo with "0630" written on a mirror in the leaflet. In the photo, she lies in a black dress with her eyes closed. Also, "Memorial address" is a rather strange title for a common album, isn't it? And though it's the title of this album, she didn't show the lyrics of the title song in the leaflet intentionally.

3.Here is my partial translation of "Tokyo Walker" interview (Dec 23 issue). I believe "teddy bear" was the only song she had written for her father. And so, this song will be for him, too.

(Interviewer) Hamasaki-san tried to make an mini-album for the first time. Why did you want to make this album, "Memorial address" this time?
(Ayumi) I was going to make something like a Christmas present last winter, but couldn't do it after all. So I wanted to do it this year. The release of a single CD might be OK. But I felt like doing in some other way and decided to make this mini-album. Another reason is that if I hadn't released it this year, it would have lost its sense, to me personally.
(I) I hear this title means like "a funeral speech". Why did you think you needed to release it this year?
(A) Since around the time before the release of "&", the song "teddy bear" always sounded in my brain. I pretended I didn't see such part of my heart and mind, and made songs and held concerts. But I felt I could not end this year pretending so. I made this title song to express the feeling like "teddy bear", and this album came to look like "Ayu of this year". That's why I wanted to release it this year.

Last edited by masa; 20th December 2003 at 07:25 AM.
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