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Originally Posted by emiko
Melrose is gonna say what he's gonna say.
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Maybe Melrose should start offering alternative translations. I'd be interested in comparing them. Heaven knows the art of translation is subject to the translator's skill and perspective.
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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
Thanks for translating. I just think the lyrics are OK because she reused a lot of phrases that she has used several times before. It seems like she is kind of running out of ideas to write about.
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This is a criticism that I see cropping up time and again, and I will always disagree with it.
I don't see how reusing phrases is a bad thing since she's placed them in a different context thus changing their meaning.
Throughout all these years, it's not that Ayu is running out of ideas to write about. It's that Ayu is revisiting ideas, exploring them again, and either saying something new about them or re-emphasizing them, reinforcing her beliefs, or reconfiguring them. There is such nuance in her writing, such small but vital changes, that it's easy to see it as mere recycling.