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Originally Posted by orbitalaspect
Well, you can screw off in your own right too. Since 2006, any Utada track has been significantly better written than almost anything Ayumi has put on a record since Secret. You can't discount Utada's Japanese works for what she did on a very experimental English record. Ayu's talent as a songwriter has gotten worse, whereas Utada has significantly improved.
And to hammer this point home: How many of Utada's songs since ULTRA BLUE have been about love or relationships or breakups? ...Now, how many of Ayumi's songs since Secret have been about love, relationships, breakups, missing someone? My point is that Utada is not only a better songwriter today, but she's also a more diverse songwriter.
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Lol like most of them, what are you even talking about? In fact, I find a lot of the lyrics from Ultra Blue and onward to be similar to ayu lyrics and approach similar things. I do think they are great. But not necessarily more diverse. And the quality more on par with ayu. Only a few songs lyrically are what I would consider superior to ayu's as opposed to more on par. Also, I always wonder what is lost in translation.
I remember the lyrics of Beautiful World reminding me a lot of something ayu would write and I frequently think that when going through hikki's lyrics just due to some of the themes she touches.
"If I can be granted just one wish,
Please let me sleep next to you. Any place is fine.
Beautiful world
Without regrets, my eyes are only on you.
Beautiful boy
You don't know yet, just how beautiful you are."