My friend who only likes "Dearest" due to InuYasha, thought that Ayu's voice in "My Way" was insanely good. When we got into my car, I told her to go to the track with SOL (she's a huge BIGBANG fan) since I had the m-flo album in the stereo, but she went straight to "My Way" and said, "After this song."

<3

Am i missing the full song of that somewhere???
I didnt see it for download.

Awww :love
Here's the link: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119848

I'm loving My Way on the first listen! Quite surprising, since almost all of her recent songs need sometime to grow on me. She needs to sing more of simple song like this<3

oh coolness, thanks!!!
Cant believed I missed that. I had heard pieces of it from that preview with the TV show its attached too... might I add thats going to be AMAZING!

EDIT:
Nevermind... I just realized I know this song already and love it... LOL

I love My Way....Sooo much. That's my jam walking to class every day lol. Makes me all confident until I ball up in a corner when I look at my test scores lol.

In the meantime, I'm really excited to introduce one of my new good friends here to ayu. Not even sure what to start with but since she's interested in hearing more japanese music and Ayu is my fav she wants to hear it. And Utada later since she knows her some.

Her voice in "My Way" is so clean, I love listening to it.

With the release of Amuro's ballad best, it pains me even more that we've yet to get an A BALLADS II. :(

It deserves a second one.

^
Totally.
Tons of amazing ballads to have fun rearranging, not to mention the possibility of another lovely cover and a new song! <3

I'd absolutely love a new ballad best-of with some rearrangements... maybe bring some of the GREAT melodies from older ballads into this decade a bit more. SEASONS and Dearest would sound great with a more modern arrangement that leans a bit real-instruments and less synth, you know? And a less cheesy version of Voyage.... >_< I love the lyrics & melody of it but the BG vocals and bombastic disney soundtrack arrangement don't do it for me at all.

I agree 100%!!!!
I think a new A BALLADS would be great if they rearranged some songs or re-recorded kinda like they did it with A Song for xx. The way they changed up songs and made them sound so different was great, I loved it!

I do have the same problem with voyage but I've only seen positive comments about it on here. I think the lyrics are nice and the melody is sweet but the arrangement kills it for me, it's just too much, I tend to skip the song whenever it come on and that's sad, because it is a nice song.

You have no idea of how much I feel you with this one.
You just summed up what Voyage is for me: a great, powerful classic, yeah, but... a tiny bit less Disney feeling, plese? lol

A BALLADS II. And a proper studio version of Haru yo Koi as the last track *i'd melt

I was watching some extra ancient ayu lives and looking at some old but not as old photo shoots. Or more like, all of them and it's just weird looking at everything again while ayu is not new to me.

Like her voice was really bad in those lives at times, just a lack of any singing technique. But I still enjoyed it because there was some emotion. And then I realized that's how I always feel about her voice when it's awkward or just plain bad.

And then looking through magazine eras, I can't even say that she ever had a good era aside from 2000 and now. Ironically. Everything in between had something off about it, and something different each time lol. I could jokingly blame her continuous decline on her magazine shoots throughout her career. It's weird though. I don't expect everyone to look perfect and be the perfect face of beauty. But I guess I've seen the beauty of ayu so looking back at everything is like meh. What was going on? And who actually liked this? Like, I can't imagine being a fan in 2004 and looking at that granny style and saying, oh wow, this is flawless.

Still, I love her, and her music, and her lives. And specific selection of magazine shoots. I really like what she's done this year and part of last year. Finally found a bit of a decent place.

^ I agree with you so much on this one you don't even know omg \m/

Biggest problem with magazines is that the excecutives have literally no clue on how to work with retouching photo software. Obviously, that's not disturbing the target group; I believe, fans want the photos to look blatantly fake.

I hated this period..the 2003/2004 soft lesbian look..
http://img48.photobucket.com/albums/...th0923/002.jpg

That was one of the first Ayu mags I bought hahaha.

I guess 2004 was the year I became a fan so that style is what i remember :-p I thought she looked cool. And she exuded style to me.

But everyone's going to have different likes and dislikes. RnRC was one of my least favorite style eras.

Really? I love the Rock'n'Roll Circus era. That haircut really suits her. I also love the Love Songs and A Summer Best/LOVE again era.

I also dislike the 2003-2004 era in term of style. The pink hair in Party Queen era is so annoying.

Yeeesssssss.

I really don't understand what you're talking about, lol.
Going through her past magazine scans is one of my favourite pleasures when on the computer. She always had this way of rocking all kind of styles.
Except for some bits of Party Queen. It wasn't the pink hair, it's just that sometimes she was like...No. But she was still riding that unicorn for LANDS OF Eden flawlessy.