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Originally Posted by bluegie
No no no. For most of the time, c/w songs are B-SIDES. alterna is definitely a B-side for sure. If alterna is an A-side, then the title should be fairyland/alterna. instead of just fairyland. is this LOVE?, on the other hand, is definitely an A-side. If you say all the c/w are A-sides it will definitey kill the purposes of writing the titles STEP you/is this LOVE?, Bold & Delicious/Pride, Startin'/Born To Be, etc. Why bothering writing Pride out when it's an A-side??
The only time I've seen ayu promoting a B-side on music show is GAME, which is quite weird because it seems to me that she sang GAME more than INSPIRE somehow. Have you ever seen ayu singing Will or alterna on musicstation, music fighter, etc? You can't say they're second A-sides because they are included on the albums. Some artists put B-sides into albums as well. for example, hikki has all her B-sides in her albums. You can't say B&C is an A-side because it's on Movin' on without you single and later on First Love album rite?? You see the pattern tho, that ayu didn't start putting her B-sides into the albums until MY STORY era... I dunno why she does that... probly she thinks her B-sides deserve for a place in the album..
Btw... ever free do have pv... it's a practically no-ayu inside pv (except probly the last 10 seconds... ayu's there..  ) |
You're sure you know what the heck you're talking about? She hadn't done double-a-sides much before MY STORY, so you can't say 'she only started putting b-sides on during MY STORY'. Have you even seen what other artists do when they have B-sides? They don't give them instrumentals or PVs. It's sort of like..
1. Title track
2. Other song
3. Other song
4. Title track -instrumental-
The 'other songs' never make it to the album because it adds a sort of incentive to buy the single. For Ayu, it's usually remixes or something though. [do other artists even do c/w much?, at least in the OBI/posters?
Also, having tie-ups is a common thing for a-sides to have.
Quoting from Wikipedia:
With the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A side/B side differentiation became much less meaningful. At first cassette singles would often have one song on each side of the cassette, matching the arrangement of vinyl records, but eventually cassette maxi-singles, containing more than two songs, became more popular. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the remaining dominant medium, the compact disc, lacks an equivalent physical distinction. However, the term B-side is still frequently used to refer to the "bonus" tracks or "coupling" tracks on a CD single.
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Significance
B-side songs are released on the same record as a single to provide extra "value for money". There are several types of material commonly released in this way:
a different (e.g., instrumental, a capella, acoustic, or remixed) version of the A-side
another song from the same album, which the record company does not want to release on its own
a song not considered good enough for the album
a song that was stylistically unsuitable for the album
Since both sides of a single received equal royalties some composers deliberately arranged for their songs to be used as the B-sides of singles by popular artists, thereby making a fortune literally off the back of the A-side. This became known as the "flipside racket".End quoting.
For your argument however, have you considered that Avex just wanted to do it like that? That her double A-sides were to just be called as they said, because the titles would be really long otherwise, so they probably just balanced it out by doing STEP you / is this LOVE?, fairyland, and HEAVEN along with Bold and Delicious/Pride INSTEAD of doing STEP you/is this LOVE?, fairyland/alterna, HEAVEN/Will, Bold and Delicious/Pride. She's done one double A-side I can recall, and that's poker face c/w Friend, which made it onto ASFXX. The only b-sides Ayu's ever really had are the ones that Rody mentioned, ever free, Two of us, and theme of a-nation03. [BTW that video does not count at all as a PV, it's just a concert video >>] Anyways, b-sides are usually guaranteed to not make it into an album at all, which can be seen with Do As Infinity's two collections. Do the A-side and Do the B-side. The B-sides having never been on albums at all, but they'd accumulated enough to create an album based on b-sides alone. Ayu however only has what, 3 of them.
...also, about your 'music performances' thingie.. She probably doesn't get to say 'I want to perform alterna' or 'I want to do Will.' The thing is that Avex probably allows her to sing what they want her to sing at those kinds of performances. Ayu did Pride too.. MANY TIMES. She did is this LOVE? at a-nation... she's probably either saving alterna/Will for her tour, or she's sort of not confident in performing them.
Also, for Utada's song thingie.. I think she 'redid' the song, since they call it an album version.. [remember, that album doesn't seem to have many songs in the first place.. so.. yeah.. and she was 15 o-o]