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Old 16th July 2009, 09:03 AM
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We need the liner note for her albums 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

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Would you mind telling us the meaning of your album's title, "A Song for XX"

Ayu: The "A" in "A Song for XX" is both the "A" in Album, and the "A" in Ayu. As for the "XX", listeners can insert their favorite thing, the name of a person they care about, something like that. All that matters is that listeners imagine something there. Inside Ayu, there is only one meaning applied to the "XX". But, since everyone who listens will have different ideas as to who that song is about, I didn't want to limit the definition of "XX" by specifying its meaning to me, so listeners can themselves attach a meaning to it easily.

01 A Song for XX

When making the album, this was my #1 choice for the opening song. I always consider the melody in my head first, and once I know it then I write the lyrics, but this time, while I wrote the lyrics, I had the overall sound of the music in my head, but I couldn't write it. As I wrote the characters down the song became very real, but it took a long time to get started.
As for the lyrics, I looked back on things in my childhood and wrote about that, my questions and uneasiness during that time, and the theme of the song was those feelings. Because I am older now, if I wanted to hide then I can hide, and I feel bad for my past self, and now I can put that into prettier words. But I didn't want to write a lie, and probably if I did write lies, I wouldn't have made the album at all.
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