Titles that sound epic but fall short in sound...

[CHE.R.RY]

So are there any songs or even albums that have really awesome/cool/interesting/mysterious/beautiful/dazzling titles, but are just not that great once you listen to them?

I actually experience this quite a lot with other artists more so than with Ayu, but just to name a new...

evolution - Man oh man! I was so thrilled with that title when I first saw it, and I was just itching to hear the song. I was expecting something extraordinary and beautiful...or maybe edgy and intense. While the song IS rocky and upbeat, it just feels really random to me . I don't like the music nor the vocals, and seeing the way it's become a concert staple makes me like it even less.

a song is born - I found this title to be very beautiful and peaceful sounding. Yes, the song is fueled by ideas of peace and love...but I just don't like it. I respect the message...but I really don't care for the song itself (especially the version with Keiko).

Free & Easy - I was really expecting something kind of laid back and chill...or maybe something like a mid-tempo dance-ish pop song. But nah...to me this song is just weird. I can't help but feel that its arrangement is a bit haphazard.

NEXT LEVEL - Now I was seriously ready for some edgy and fierce pop song...like Startin' or something. While I don't entirely dislike this song, nor do I find the composition to not fit the title, I always feel that it leaves much to be desired once it hits the chorus. It's like the song is anti-climactic yet it has so much potential to turn into a fun, summer dance song or something of the like.


So what about you guys?

[waterballoon]

NEXT LEVEL
THE introduction

[kumikomishitate]

I second The Introduction. I mean... COME ON! And GUILTY, especially since it is the title of the album. I expected GREATNESS and got nothing; Ayu didn't even bother doing a live performance of the song.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

most of her interludes, specially Not yet and Disco-munication

I really wanted those to be full songs! their names are cool

[chloeM]

The introduction... it brought me down a little bit~

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Although I really love the song, I agree with NEXT LEVEL. When I think about this title, I think of it as it trying to be something revolutionary with such a name, or at least something completely different, but maybe that's not what was trying to be accomplished in the first place.

[love in music]

Definitely THE introduction. That's probably the only one.

[Deep snow]

THE introduction. I was definitely hoping for a LOVEppears' Introduction-y introduction, you know, the full-throttle trance cut, or something like Koda Kumi's Step In To My World; a 2-3minutes track or something. this song feels too...monophonic to me. now I've grown to like it though

that's the only thing I can think of right now

[y_nathz]

NEXT LEVEL
I though it'll be a Sparkle-ish song

[2Hurt]

NEXT LEVEL

[Cherry Dynamite]

THE introduction - THE is even caps that's why I was expecting something awesome.

[dayumi]

I agree with everybody on THE introduction.. I want something more, I really thought it would be something like Cather In The Light, Mirror, Bridge to the sky, Not yet..

[Aderianu]

NEXT LEVEL and RED LINE ~for TA~

[Ayumiko]

Originally Posted by waterballoon

NEXT LEVEL
THE introduction

second this.

[gallowsCalibrator]

Hm... So we don't neccessarily have to dislike the song, we just had high hopes for it?
Mkay, probably THE introduction because it didn't sound as epic as I imagined.

[NintendoHTF1242]

Lady Dynamite

[rian_hamasaki]

The Introduction... but
all song at Rock'n Roll circus sucks
sorry....

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

Last Links - I'm really disappointed with song.. I thought it would be another epic Asian-sounding Ballad, but it's just the typical pop-rock Ayu's song... ==' so boring...

NEXT LEVEL - same with CHE.R.RY...

rollin' - I thought it would be Sparkle Part 2, but Ayu was screaming A LOT in this song ==' and the vibrato is quite annoying... =='

[untitledforayu]

THE introduction - There are so many better ones

count down - I just found it so underwhelming

NEXT LEVEL - I kinda expected it to be GAME ~ep 2~, but I still really like it

[Mirrorcle Monster]

NEXT LEVEL, DISCO-munication and THE introduction