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Old 11th April 2017, 03:52 AM
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The song choice IMO was probably the 'better' part of this. I mean TO BE and ourselves (first time on MS) after years of mostly SEASONS/M/evolution/etc.?
Ourselves was great, that's one of my favorite songs of hers and the arrangement was fresh. TO BE's chorus was way too distracting... while the song choice was good, I would've loved if we got something like Shape of Love or the song where she's in a house and there's a winter backdrop (the name escapes me).
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Old 11th April 2017, 05:17 PM
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Ourselves was great, that's one of my favorite songs of hers and the arrangement was fresh. TO BE's chorus was way too distracting... while the song choice was good, I would've loved if we got something like Shape of Love or the song where she's in a house and there's a winter backdrop (the name escapes me).
Sweet scar. (such a good soooooong)
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Old 11th April 2017, 05:37 PM
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I think Sweet Scar would make simple and fantastic performance. Imagine her doing that just like in PV. I keep coming back to the song.
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Old 12th April 2017, 11:53 AM
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I'm still surprised that Sweet scar got so much love. Never liked it, it felt second hand, like a mixture of several songs she already had in her discography.
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Old 12th April 2017, 06:11 PM
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Sweet scar is so underrated. Though sometimes I heard this song in the shops which made me smile. It should have been released as a single.
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Old 12th April 2017, 06:46 PM
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Sweet scar is a beautiful song, one of the only tracks from LOVE again I still listen to often...
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Old 12th April 2017, 09:47 PM
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I'm still surprised that Sweet scar got so much love. Never liked it, it felt second hand, like a mixture of several songs she already had in her discography.
Lol it pretty much was secondhand cause it was a leftover she declined and decided against at one point but them pulled out to repurpose when she became desperate. But I grew to accept it for what it is.
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Old 12th April 2017, 11:36 PM
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Never understood the love for Sweet Scar.
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Old 12th April 2017, 11:37 PM
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sweet scar is by far the best track on love again
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I am fairly certain all the DAI tracks we got after 2006 were leftovers from prior sessions but I don't think she 'declined' them at any point, just never used them until she needed songs. Dai Nagao pretty much disappeared from J-Pop in the mid 00s. Sweet scar is a very haunting Ayu track IMO. Quite different from anything else she's ever done.

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Old 13th April 2017, 01:13 AM
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I love Sweet Scar! I prefer her softer ballads to the grand sweeping ones sometimes because her voice really gets to shine!
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Old 13th April 2017, 02:58 AM
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Sweet scar still so bland/meh to me (as is most of LOVE again)
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:25 AM
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Sweet scar still so bland/meh to me (as is most of LOVE again)
Same here. That song just blends in with the rest of them on that album for me.
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:59 AM
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Wow Sweet scar is one of my faves from the past few albums. I think it was extremely well made haha. Different strokes I guess :-p
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Old 13th April 2017, 06:06 AM
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Yeah Sweet scar is great, so is Ivy. If she wouldn't have released LOVE again and the other two as singles it would have been such a great release.
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Old 13th April 2017, 06:29 AM
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Sweet Scar!
How could I have forgotten?! It's such a nice and simple song. That and Shape of Love would be the direction I'd like Ayu to go.

Now that we're talking LOVE, Song 4 U and Missing are really good songs too. Even Again has good songs, it's just that LOVE again felt like a cheap trick to resell fans two minis of songs and the album tracks weren't TOO amazing-save for Petal.
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Sweet Scar!
How could I have forgotten?! It's such a nice and simple song. That and Shape of Love would be the direction I'd like Ayu to go.

Now that we're talking LOVE, Song 4 U and Missing are really good songs too. Even Again has good songs, it's just that LOVE again felt like a cheap trick to resell fans two minis of songs and the album tracks weren't TOO amazing-save for Petal.
there was never a doubt about the songs.
The cover destroyed everything. EVERYTHING.
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Old 13th April 2017, 09:29 AM
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Sweet scar has a great instrumental track. if sounds different from her other ballads
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Old 13th April 2017, 01:31 PM
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Sweet Scar was always one of my favorites! I was really into LOVE and again...but not Love Again. But I love everything about Sweet Scar...the song, the video, the way she looks so amazing in the video, etc.

I agree that Ivy is very much in the same line of song. I never cared for Ivy until TA2016 when she sang it, and then I fell in love. They're both so simple and elegant. And I love that she's not using her Days cutesy voice for them.
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Same here. That song just blends in with the rest of them on that album for me.
I think there were a lot of great songs on LOVE again. The problem is they don't really work well together as an album.
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