Loved it, loved it, loved it, loved it, loved it!!! *heart*

Okay, I have done XD
I really love You were... (well, the prieview of it), it's just very Ayuish and I loooove these kind of winter ballads <3
Can't wait for the rest of the songs XD

I really fear that at least half of you are going to be sick as hell of this song by the time it comes out..... ;_;'

You were... is set to become one of my fave ballads, right up with HEAVEN and Days... *__*

I've only listened a few times, it will kill me waiting til my CDs arrive to hear the proper HQ versions though! >_<

obviously about You were..
musically is finally something more classical and less experimental.
The lyrics include a new deep strenght, it's maybe a sort of new self-consciousness and awareness.
The voice confirms this sort of feeling.

i have high hopes for the You were... PV, considering the clip. but i keep imagining that she'll pop out another JEWEL or something. i hope it's as dynamic and clamactic as the song.

I love BALLAD! So simple and "stripped", but yet somehow very emotional and mellow . Sounds really wistful to me, and I love that. The final notes really surprised me, so powerful! Some compared it to Will, GREEN, HEAVEN etc but I don't think it sounds much like of any of those. It does have a theme of a-nation feel to it though, except more sorrowful. I love the arrangement. Especially the wavering sound of the violins.

This single is looking pretty freaking amazing to me atm. :yes :love Can't wait for Red Line and the HQ versions!

It sounds really grand. Sounds like one of the songs that can belong in MY STORY CLASSICAL hahaha. Yes it is OOZING with chinese flavour but i actually really like it. the vibratos were as bad as I thought..it made the song feel so ethereal and gentle. I think the chorus was wonderful. Really climatic and emotional. About her voice, the ending portions felt sooo raw..definitely distinct Ayu vocals of this period of time..

I don't wish to compare it to You were... because I think one song is more contemporary, one song is really more period..and it's cool in this way that both songs are contrasting with each other.

This single is great. I just wonder how the PVs will be. They MUST be epic gosh. I dont want the same fate to happen to BALLAD like it did for GREEN.
i think people will need time to get used to BALLAD though. (im so happy she made a ballad like this haha...slower and more grand...very alan too )

I hear the preview of Ballad now. I really like it. Sounds so "chinese". Really good.
So.. that will be a really good Single. I also love "You were".
So.. I can't wait for the PV'S... and also "Red line".

i love BALLAD. her vibrato did bug me a bit at first, but it's really not that bad. the song has some surprises in it that i wasn't expecting and it is in no way bland or boring for me. it reminds me of songs on I am... or Duty - it's like the vocals aren't perfect, they're flawed, but it doesn't matter because of the emotion.

I wanna waiting HQ previews for judge them but I'll write my thoughts already.

You were...

Classic ballad from Ayu, at first I wasn't impressed but after it's grown on me. The guitars are amazing (sorry I always repeat it lol) her voice isn't awful like Curtain Call but powerful than her latest ballads. The lyrics are touching but is a sort of Ayu's trademark :D right? lol.

BALLAD

This song surprised me. It's kinda unexpected lol.
BALLAD sounds ethereal and more traditional than GREEN. Her voice isn't powerful as Yw unfortunately.. it doesn't bother me but it's just ok (as her vibrato). Like Yw that songs needs to grown on me.

Now I wonder how it sounds Red Line! But overall Yw/BALLADS seems her epic single so far :yes

BALLAD sounds a bit like GREEN, in terms of the older Asian sound it has. I do love that, and it sounds like it'll fit well with the Japanese-Chinese drama that'll air next month. It also reminds me of HEAVEN, because of how quiet it is, and then how it slowly builds up.

I love both songs, but I prefer You were... more. For now, anyway. Hah.

ballad>you were definetely reminds me of alan....which is great. Ballad sounds great

hopefully...red line>ballad>you were

alan would never make a ballad as boring as BALLAD imo.

BALLAD is pretty, but it's INCREDIBLY underwhelming

So far I prefer You Were... But both are pretty songs. Ballad might really get boring after a few listens I feel. I doubt we will be getting any tv performances of it.

I am seriously worried about her vocals though - it seems like it is getting to the point that it is impossible for her to sing without a "breathy" tone to her voice.

have you listened to all of the ballads on "my life" besides the last 3? they're all boring as hell and have no emotion whatsoever.

what ballads? Nobody knows but me, Mitsumetitai, my life, and BALLAD~Namonaki Koi no Uta~ are the only "ballads" on my life. The rest are pop songs.

i thought there were more? or maybe some songs were just so boring i mistook them for ballads. i think it's odd to say alan wouldn't create a ballad as boring as ayu's "BALLAD". i don't even see it as boring, and it certainly isn't as boring as a lot of alan's ballads. don't get me wrong, she has some epic ones but the boring ones definitely outweigh them.

I can't think of one alan ballad that's boring =/ I'm just stating my own opinion, it's very blah.

I agree alan does have some boring ballads...but her epic ballads are EPIC!!!! they are freakin amazing

Ehm....from the preview it sounds boring. BUT, it's just the preview, and it's LQ. So we'll see. :)