Oh Lord, here we go~

Comparing Ayu to Lady G is silly, we all know when you throw another big name into the conversation fans from both sides get heated so let's just drop it, please.

Haha, Lady G. I like that nick name:
but yes, i think there is no need for comparing. (although I do think a full version of ayumi's song would kick so much more *** then Lady G's music, in general.)
Both the ayumi and ayumi's song are good in their own ways... :yes

comparing a short preview of a song to an album? makes no sense.

Ayu's first single after an album is almost always left overs. It's a good thing I love her albums so I don't mind. I'm sure single #2 will be outrageously different.

^That's pretty true.

glitter would've been a lot better in Secret than in GUILTY, Mirrorcle World is a given since it was already in GUILTY as Mirror, Sunrise was electro diarrhea from NEXT LEVEL, MOON sounded very RnRC-y, and now from the looks of it, progress sounds like it would've fit perfectly well with Love songs.

Aahh, ok, I understand the lyric much better now. And also why it's titled progress. :D

Thanks for sharing!!!!

New translation:

^ Thank you Misa!

Thanks Misa!!

I can't stop listening to this preview!

Thank you misa-chan. The lyrics are so beautiful, powerful & inspirational. I'm loving them so far and looking forward to the full song even more!

I like the album for the bigger part. She is a musician and the isthisLOL! only gave an example of what they thought was random-sounding or whatever. It's the same way people bring Ayu up whenever they discuss sales and pretty much anything else. Don't really see what's wrong with that :)

Good for you :)

And Misa-chan thanks for the translation!!

Woowww.....

Love the song so much....
Can't stop listening......

Hope they will release the new single soon
must get this single

thanks misa-chan for the lyric translation..
it's about progress to move on? haha~

I agree with the group who said it sounds like "Sending Mail"s chorus with "blossom"s verses—a promising combination, but so far I'm just into the chorus...

I don't know, these verses are REALLY iffy at this point, but I guess only the full song will either make or break it...

And everytime someone bring Ayu uo to discuss sales, things go wrong too... Why keep comparing when we all know it only brings stupid AHS drama? I can understand it on a thread about a comparation, but really, this is about Ayu's news song, not about how random Gaga's album sounds...

Thanks Misa for the lyrics!!

this song is totally growing... I keep listening and listening :D

Holy **** discussion o.0

I was saying that melodies on Gaga's album sound random, that was NOT a quality statement. Random does NOT mean bad in this case. If I like the album or not is another thing. Random notes are a stilistic device in, for example, trance music. And clashig notes, which tends to happen if something sounds random, are used in some rock, metal and classical/neoclassical music on purpose to create an effect. See "Art of Life" by X-Japan for that.

I was simply pointing out that "progress" follows all the traditional rules of songwriting to the person that called it random. And if something follows rules it is not random. There are 2 possibilities. Either "progress" is random but just happens to have all notes be harmonic(highly unlikely) or it is NOT random.
While some songs on Gaga's new album do not appear to do that, I was not saying either one is bad. I used Gaga's new album because it is one of the few pop albums I can think of that have that and are popular and new enough for people to remember the songs.

And Ayumi has had clashing notes before, mostly in her CREA-era, doesn't mean the songs were bad(though for some IMO it amde them worse), it just showed that she was an amateur songwriter, a VERY talented one, but amateur.

Oh GAWD, apparently Gaga is the new Kuu for everyone to compare about.

Wouldn't it be awesome if the PV for progress had some action in it? Kind of like how Rule was slightly thematically like Dragon Ball.

Then why didn't you just compare Ayu to Ayu instead of Gaga in the first place if you wanted to make a point? Any time you compare Ayu's music to another (popular) artist, it's going to start trouble even if you didn't intend for it to be a negative statement on either part lol. We either have a bashing thread for the mentioned artist or we have a "this artist is better than Ayu" thread. Either way the fans get *****y so it's best to leave Gaga & Co. out of this.


So what example do you have of clashing notes from CREA's works?