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Originally Posted by yaten

Interesting thoughts...

You must be talking about your own, because yes, they were .

Well I will start out by saying this is certainly not, by any stretch of the imagination, her best album. However, it does interestingly enough have some of her very best work.

This is an interesting line, to which I completely agree. I believe most people can interpret that line in their own way, but it fits my view of this album, too.

until that Day... is is so hard to classify, isn't? That 80s beat, that riff (that i think someone attributed to AC/DC) and the unrelenting chorus. The fact that the song is so cohesive and all over the place at once probably has a lot to do with CMJK having finished this as its own interlude before ayu came along and made it... well, what it is now. Excellent excellent track.

It's funny that a large amount of people around this board complained quite some about that the tracks of this album would sound rushed, because it was finished so late. Can't say I ever agreed on that viewpoint, but anyway, this is most certainly one of the tracks she finished last, the same goes for kiss o' kill. And great they are.

and kiss o' kill... as the penultimate song on the album, it certainly is the best. The dichotomy in the lyrics comes through in the varying composition and arrangement, not to mention the title itself. All-in-all, this song is very self contained. It has its own story to tell, and it is very unforgiving matter-of-fact ayu at her best. The wailing at the end is what really pushed this one from tied with until that Day... to over the top

Good way of putting it.

1 LOVE probably had the most promise for me before i heard the whole album, but... uhm, no. I dare say this song is very deritive of koda kumi's ??? (Which, to be comepletely fair, was a song completely deritive of Because of You). Granted, ayu owns this style of music, but her vocal technique at the end of the chorus is far too reminiscent of the kuu track for my liking. Aside from that, it is a decent song... just not all it could be.

I doubt it'd make any difference to my liking of the song, but sometimes I feel slightly happy that I've never listened to Koda, or any other jpop artist.

Same for Beautiful Fighters, which is again out of place... anyone else think of aqua when they hear this one?

Now that you say it, I'm just smiling. Yeah, it is slightly reminiscent of the sugary beat-pop that Aqua pushed out tons of back then.

;-; i had too much to say

At least I'm happy .