Yes we all love life in some way :rolleyes:rolleyes.

I definitely get emotionally when I listen to Secret. How about no more words? It is another nice song.

Guys I made my piano version of Beloved

check it out



hope you like it

Thank you for the explanations! I'll look for it!

beloved is muchhhh more beautiful than I thought
The two new songs are so unique it isn't similar to any of her songs

yeah.. even though I haven't heard any of the new stuffs yet, but I believe this POWER of MUSIC really inspired her songs on FIVE, can't wait for the full release! :D

this mini-album's gonna be epic!

See, I'm different. :P Though I do agree that AUDIENCE is an ear sore.

Personally, I always felt like between each album, every song was close in quality. Like, for example, while Born To Be... is my least favorite song on Secret, I don't think it's really a bad song or very much a worse song than my favorite songs on that album, either. I just don't really like it as much.

NEXT LEVEL was the first album where I stopped thinking that the songs were all ~good~ even if I didn't love them all equally, and started thinking, "This song is good but that other song is just plain bad."

Love songs though, which I adooore, brought me back to my old thinking of "all the songs are so good whether I like them or not!" and it's sort of sticking for FIVE. Because, while I don't love beloved, I'm not going to like... go around saying it sucks because I don't think it's a bad song, just one that bores me a lot.

I love no more words. I don't cry when I listen to it, but I do feel...ah, how should I explain it? Not exactly emotional, but it touches me like her other songs don't....

Oh, now I need to hear beloved! The first thing I think of when I hear "beloved" is Yoko Shimomura's "Dearly Beloved"...which is probably why I have that theme in my head right now. :D

wow..how can i missed that performance...
somebody has a high quality version of that performance?
please upload it..please...

beloved is sad + warming at the same time. the lyric is encouraging but the melody is a lil saddening. and this song reminds me a lot of meaning of Love.

PS: i love Secret too! it is not boring at all. i love how her voice sounds in that song.

Beloved is awesome!!!!! Can't wait for the CDs!!!!

See that's the thing though, AUDIENCE and girlish are songs that I, myself, really enjoy, they cheer me up no matter what. AUDIENCE is one of my favorite in concert, it's great and gets people moving. But that's just my opinion.

Some songs others seem to think are so great, to me come off as boring. I think it's something to be expected now-a-days, not just from Ayu, but anyone and everyone else, other artists, there are bound to be songs we'll like more than others...

As someone else said, NEXT LEVEL, to me was the only album I found myself not skipping a song after listening to it none stop, even now.

And I agree ASFXX is an ear sore all around. Ugh, someone give me ear plugs!

Oh I see. Well for me, there have always been those ayu tracks where I'm like "wtf why does this exist when ____ and ____ exist on this same album and are 1000x better". But I don't feel the need to complain much since the majority of her music from album to album these past 10 years impresses me. I agree with you about Love Songs & beloved. Lately, even her worse songs aren't completely bad to me, which is good, but I'd still rather have more songs like progress. :yes

Yeah, it's all about different taste. Like for me, I LOVE Sunrise & a lot of people seem to hate it with a passion and wish it didn't exist & etc. I actually love a lot of NEXT LEVEL as well, I really can't think of it as her worst album, though a lot of people think so.

For me, it starts really good, it gave me expectation of a uplifting song a la Who... But then that fake violins make their appearance, and the melody went down hill along my hopes. It turns boring as the song continues.

Don't take me wrong, I liked it, but the only part in which I thought "amazing" while listening, was the beginning. Her vocals were great though.

is anyone has upload this pic..

http://i51.tinypic.com/2lk3dox.gif

someone messages me in youtube n confirm it as a picture for progress pv

^ so the images they used for promotion of Ayu's Pachinko are from "progress" PV ?

Cant be true, cos progress was shot recently, and pachinko is way older and has the pv for end of the world

Her vocals sounded good but instrumentation was so bland I only listened about one minute before getting bored. D: Oh well, her vocals sounded beautiful and clear which is good. Beloved as a song is nothing special, much like meaning of Love on RnRC (but for some reason I worship meaning of Love anyway o.O).

Yes, I was curious about this song because there was so many good reviews that I had to listen a small part of it. I will listen to the full thing when album comes out though. :)

THAT'S NOT TRUE

http://www.fields.biz/catalog/bphma/index.html -> demonstration

pv for end of the world??

Beloved is very pretty. Not my favorite ballad, but I think it will grow on me.