Thoughts on is this LOVE?

[Love Appears]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

Her voice is SO emotional in this song and the backup vocals really kill that, the same way they killed "still alone" (on top of the album mix itself getting too poppy and not as raw as it sounded in the Takanoyuri CM).

A bit o/t, but out of curiousity . . . do you have that CM? I've never seen/heard it and would like to get my hands on it.

[baby_cinnamon]

I actually like it better then STEP YOU.

[elepop]

I'm listening to it right now and i'm loving it! I knew i won't be dissapointed for this one even though the covers suck. LOL!

I don't think it sounds like anything at all from MY STORY. It has a Memorial Address/Because of you sound, which i really love!

God, i'm so happy, hehe!

[PURIN]

Yeah I agree with the Memorial Address / BOY flavor.

But I like it alot, and judging from the preview i think this one sounds better. But Ill have to listen to the full STEP you song first. Can't wait to see the PV for this, since the caps looked good in the VIVI article!

[ImpactBreaker]

It's quickly growing on me though I honestly was pretty deceived when listening to the full track for the first time. I can always blame it in the bad quality of the file anyway. Now I'm listening to it with more attention and it does sound decent.

[Rickumi]

It IS already sounding the same.. I dunno... But still, there´s something with this songs..that keep us hearing... isnt that true?
I liked it... very much. But they are gonna thing a lot ifthey want to keep ayu on top... because it almost like any other song.... i mean, weare fans,we like it.... but.. and the "casuals ayu-fans"that buy cds and stuff? ... dunno

[Love Appears]

Honestly, now that I've given it a few more listens, it has a lot of unrealized potential.

The melody itself is worthy, but, as some have already mentioned, the vocals are far too backed. And it really irks me the way she's been doing this lately. She did the same thing with my name's women, GAME, INSPIRE, and About You. That's part of why they sound the same. Multiple vocal tracks "numb" the power of the song. She also typically repeats a chorus once per song sans her backup, or takes it a pitch higher. There's no real variety other than that.

For her to have sung this song with a pre-RAINBOW sort of confidence would have been lovely. I just don't think it's necessary to have eight Ayumi Hamasakis singing in unison.

[kristen]

I think it sounds a lot like Because of You, which is my favorite Ayu song, so this is definitely an awesome song to me ^.^b good job Ayu!

[Syphex]

is this LOVE?

yes. yes it is.

[gogirlanime]

The beginning and ending are the best parts, I don't like the middle chorus that much, but I'm quite impressed, I love H/\L's work, when I heard he was doing this song, I was very happy! Yay! I think this new single is gonna be great!

[evechoco]

i totally love it

[Peachilicious]

Originally Posted by Love Appears

A bit o/t, but out of curiousity . . . do you have that CM? I've never seen/heard it and would like to get my hands on it.

You can download that CM from http://www.ayutv.net in the Takano Yuri section.

Anyway I really like "is this LOVE?"! It does sound like a lot of her rockish songs lately... but oh well. It's something nice to listen to.

[Calico]

This song had me hooked when I heard the "Woah woah yeah yeah"s. It reminded me of a style from Moments, which really is pleasing to the ear. I have to admit that this song is more "Ayu" than some songs that came off of MY STORY, albeit it sounds similar to other songs mentioned. If anything, the melody in conjunction with the arrangement sounds more like my name's WOMEN than any other song by her, so I guess it's fitting that that song should have a PV now too.

I'm still mixed about the song overall...but so far it's going good with me.

[hiro]

I think the song works really well with her voice, yeah and i really liked that whoa whoa part at the beginning with her voice fluctuating up and down.


But the weakness is in the arrangement. I wished they made the song less "intro-verse-chorus-verser-chrous-bridge-verse-outro" format that we find in almost every Ayu song. Songs like Surreal and girlish had strange non chorus based formats and they were great!

[PsyGen]

I just heard the full version, I have to admit the preview of it doesn't really do the song justice - it's a nice tune. However I find it a bit similar to previous songs like GAME and the latter. And yeah I also think the beginning and ending parts are the best.

I don't think I'll be buying the single though.

[bernardation]

could this song be better ??
no ! what an amazing surprise !!

[apples]

Lumix is kind of right, is this LOVE? sounded like some of the My Story CD. I guess Ayu really is starting to love rock. I like it, too. The radio rip was good, it convince me to buy the single. IMHO is this LOVE? I think will be a better song on the album version, and so will STEP you. I'm worried that Ayu is boring some people, but I don't think she should go back to her old ways, this is better.

But if I were Ayu, I would add some jazz or something of the sort, because I love when she mixes different types of music together. Take the album 'I am...' for example. People really like that album because it has variety.

Those are my two cents.

[Coelacanth]

My first impression is that it's really generic. It has a good melody, vocals, guitar solo. But, too much Peco, I can hear that hag. Ayu can do much better than this. I hope STEP you is better.

[ll moments ll]

wow. totally different from what i expected to be.
i thought it was going to be a ballad!

oh well. it's pretty good. i pretty much like Ayu's rock songs.
i think it's better than GAME. and up there with BoY.

[zeroshin888]

I think it's a pretty okay song... except for the whoa yeah yeah yeah part.. in which some of you like. i think that part's weird. but if i listen to it a couple more times, i'd probably like it
well, reason i say it's an okay song because i think i'll like Step You better~ nonetheless, it's not a bad song