Memorial Address - Ayu's Mom?

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

^ Yeah.

I dont understand why everyone thins everfree is for anyone in particular. Its only purpose was to complement the trilogy.

[Lchang_87]

watch this clip if you want to see how ayus mother looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uD_4cKX0gk

[Chibi_Venus]

Thank you, xiaou-xijiang, for stating the correct lists (once again).

Originally Posted by Nippon

I dont understand why everyone thins everfree is for anyone in particular. Its only purpose was to complement the trilogy.

It's just that I read somewhere that it was dedicated to her grandmother. I could very well be wrong, though. I'm not a reliable source ().

[fanmail]

Originally Posted by InoriNoUta

Is that so? I always heard part of it was addressed to her mother.. or was that just a rumor?

i think the re-recorded version had slightly changed lyrics that were directed at her mother... i think. =|

[Aga-chan]

^Didn't ayu say in the All Night Nippon interview that "A Song for XX" is about her mother? I think she did. And she also said that people can put whatever they want in place for "XX". Maybe she wants the listeners to put as "XX" whatever they relate the song to.
As to her changing the lyrics of "A Song for XX", maybe she was too shy to address the person directly while writing the lyrics? Or maybe she did notice only afterwards that she wasn't talking about people around her, but this one particular person?

And I think saying things like "obviously" etc. isn't often appropriate. Because as long as we don't know what ayu herself thought or felt while making a song, we can only make assumptions. Maybe some songs were written about a particular person, but it has become universal afterwards. Just because she changes "you (kimi, anata)" to "you all (minna)" doesn't necessarily mean it was meant to be like this from the start. Otherwise she probably would have written "you all (minna)" to begin with, wouldn't she?

[AyuHamasaki01]

Originally Posted by AyumiBest

Memorial Address...I think it was for her dad...



That person is right. Women have 2 X Chromosomes, and men have XY.

But I think the X's stand for anonymous. But thats what I think.

Yeah, I also thought that.

Originally Posted by apple-pi

A Song for XX, you don't pronounce the "XX" because it is a variable. I heard the song was written for her mother, but if it wasn't it's probably for someone she never met. Like, "I'm waiting for someone to come I can confess these things and ask these questions to", hence the variable.

I always heard Memorial Address and teddy bear were for her father. But is he dead? I believe Ayu said in an interview "I don't even know if he's alive or dead".

And I can't believe you people are saying those things about "Who..." o___0 that's one of the most obvious songs-for-the-fans she ever wrote. When singing it in concert, she even changes the lyrics - everytime the world "you" appears in the lyrics, she sings it as "you people", "all of you".

And that fishing story is REALLY interesting... and REALLY sad.

Yeah, I believe she also said that about her father.
But teddy bear is obviously about her father.

[Aga-chan]

^Didn't she say "I don't even know if he's alive or dead" during the TIME interview? This was in 2002, darou? Maybe ayu or her mother got to know about his whereabouts? That ayu hardly knew anything about him doesn't mean that it stayed like this until today.

-edit-
Yes, it's TIME interview

Originally Posted by TIME magazine

How about your dad?
I have no idea. I don't even know if he's dead or alive. He left when I was so young, I barely remember him.

[AyuHamasaki01]

I don't know when but I do know she said it.

[kirei_ayumi]

Originally Posted by Lchang_87

watch this clip if you want to see how ayus mother looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uD_4cKX0gk

they share the same eyes

[panda♥]

Originally Posted by Melrose

Who... was for her grandmother! O_O

I thought Who... was for her fans lol

[Maemi]

i thought Memorial Address was for her lover or smth D:

[crea_spain]

She wrote A Song for XX to save herself

A Song for "X"Ayumi "X"Hamasaki

[k21sh3n]

it's kinda oot, but Nippon where did you get that avatar? Is that really Ayu??

[ayumu24]

Memorial Address is for her father. I hesitate to talk about this issue because this is private things of ayu, but let me tell.

her father may have passed away on 06/30/2002. The number (0630) which ayu writes on a mirror in one of the pictures in the album "memorial address" is thought to be the day when her father passes away. The lyrics of memorial address says that the sky kept on crying on that summer (means it was raining a lot). The summer of 2002 was, I remember, very cold and we had a lot of rain even on august after the rainy season. So, that may be about 06/30 of 2002.

This may be a coincidence, but we also need to remember the song July 1st. The lyrics say "if its sunny tomorrow, let's go to that sea. I'm gonna change the tears I had yesterday to the tenderness." The "yesterday" of July 1st is 06/30. She says she cried on 06/30 and now singing on July 1st.

Is this the coincidence? Or she does mean?? But July 1st was released to the public before 2002. It is also possible that her father passed away before 2002. No one knows the truth other than ayu and her family.

[AyuHamasaki01]

But July 1st was released before Memorial address.

[Aga-chan]

Originally Posted by ayumu24

Memorial Address is for her father. I hesitate to talk about this issue because this is private things of ayu, but let me tell.

her father may have passed away on 06/30/2002. The number (0630) which ayu writes on a mirror in one of the pictures in the album "memorial address" is thought to be the day when her father passes away. The lyrics of memorial address says that the sky kept on crying on that summer (means it was raining a lot). The summer of 2002 was, I remember, very cold and we had a lot of rain even on august after the rainy season. So, that may be about 06/30 of 2002.

This may be a coincidence, but we also need to remember the song July 1st. The lyrics say "if its sunny tomorrow, let's go to that sea. I'm gonna change the tears I had yesterday to the tenderness." The "yesterday" of July 1st is 06/30. She says she cried on 06/30 and now singing on July 1st.

Is this the coincidence? Or she does mean?? But July 1st was released to the public before 2002. It is also possible that her father passed away before 2002. No one knows the truth other than ayu and her family.

I actually wrote about the exact same things in another of those "Memorial address" threads.

I think if her father died, it was probably in 2003. Because there are no hints about this on the "RAINBOW" album, while it seems that both "No way to say" and "Memorial address" may be about her father.
By the way, one should also consider the 0630 picture is coupled with the "Greatful days" lyrics in the booklet of "Memorial address"...