Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - Why the english titles?

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Misa-chan

1st November 2006 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 (Post 931532)

But Humming 7/4 isn't IN 7/4. The intro and bridge are in 6/8, the chorus is in 2/8 and the rest is in 4/4. x_x

Ooh, but there are 7/4s in it ;) Listen carefully!

There are 2 sets of 7/4 (or was it 6/4, 4/4, 4/4?) directly before the first chorus.
Another 6/4, 7/4, 6/4 before Yo-chan's solo.
The ending is hard to catch, but it's 4/4, 4/4, 7/4 repeated. And since 7/4 is basically 4/4, 3/4, the simplified sequence is 4/4, 4/4, 4/4, 3/4. ^^

sexysaucestar

1st November 2006 05:58 AM

We've had a discussion about this before (about 7/4). The song IS in 7/4, but uses different patterns of 7/4 throughout it (as Misa-chan points out, too).

Delirium-Zer0

1st November 2006 06:47 AM

Hmm... I'm sorry but I'm still not finding ANYWHERE where counting to 7 seems natural, even for only one measure... I guess I could be wrong but. I dunno. I'd have to see the sheet music.

I always thought of the title as basically meaning marching to the beat of your own drummer, since 7/4 is so rarely used. *shrug*

thinkingoutloud89

1st November 2006 05:31 PM

may express the meaning of the songs better...for example the titel for one song is "Real me" and its only said in the end....may it expresses much better whats going on in the song...just an suggest

evolusean

1st November 2006 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monkey_D_Ruffy16 (Post 932199)

may express the meaning of the songs better...for example the titel for one song is "Real me" and its only said in the end....may it expresses much better whats going on in the song...just an suggest

That's true, although Real me does have the title in the lyrics (other than the vocoder effected line at the very, very end)

Quote:

a woman could be having fun
a woman could be like a nun
in order to survive
Because you see
The real me.

Many, if not most, of Ayu's songs have the English title expressed in Japanese within the lyrics.

Partino

1st November 2006 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corybobory (Post 931066)

Lots of Japanese artists do it, as do other nationalities. English is considered fashionable in Japan and in pop culture, which I atribute it to.

i second that. english is really modern in japan culture. of course it has something to do with the western style and of course with the closeness to america and austrlia.

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