Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~ (Post 1507406)

....for some reason, I thought I saw the making-of Passion before. :think

Did u try dailymotion?

Originally Posted by Melrose (Post 1507472)

1. You're kind of contradicting yourself there? If Utada is her first name, how can it be her last name? :P But I understand already. Ayumi Hamasaki just turned her two names around, so Hikaru is actually her first name. And Kumi is Koda Kumi's first name....


2. Hmm. I think the lyrics fit the music.. But maybe that's just me. IMO Passion isn't an upbeat/happy song at all lol.

3. And yea I know about Ayu's recut songs, but they're all remixes and PoL isn't. ^^ Though I kinda forget about the quiet version on the single so forget about that hehe~

4. Actually it's not too hard, IMO. Just grab a grammar, verb and words book and start translating? XD I can pretty much translate songs. It's funny how some words have more meanings, and it can mean something entirely different from the translation.

Originally Posted by AyUta (Post 1507474)

^ I mean high school junior :laugh I'm 16 :D

Originally Posted by Amai Yume (Post 1507503)

^:yes

It's an excellent song so I'm glad she used it to make Kiss & Cry!!
I also think it's cool how it goes Tippy Toe + Hotel Lobby - I don't know but those songs somehow are like the twins of the album for me :D

Originally Posted by bluegie (Post 1507511)

I think we've just seen a few photos of Passion (making of). I still dun understand why kiriya (or hikki or Toshiba) didn't include the making of..



1. I think it's just the personal preferences for the Japanese artists to write their name in the alphabets. For artists like ayu or ai-chan, they want to write it in the proper English way (first name then last name). For hikki and kuu, I think they just turn their names into romanji.

3. It doesn't really matter whether the songs are remixed or not. As long as they are released after the album, the songs are classified as recuts. Oh mind you First Love wasn't remixed either :P (of course you know hehe.. jk jk)

2 & 4. Emmn, it's not about translation. It's more likely about the construction of the sentences. Let's say:
a) He has fallen into dirts;
b) He broke his wings and sank into darkness.

Those two sentences describing a boy is entering a wrong path, destroying himself blah blah. But with different words and constructions, the feelings could be so different. I know that some of us can grab a Japanese dictionary and translate the lyrics into English. But probly the feeling of particular words have already lost during the process of translation. Also, let's say there are more than a few characters for "flower" in Japanese (I'm just making example.. I dun even know if there're more than one words for flowers in Japanese), but probly one or two of them are prettier in writings, while the remainders are slang/not that good to be used in poetic way. When we translate it into English, it is just "flower" anywayz. We dunno if the artist wrote it in a good or bad way unless we really understand the language.




You sound much maturer than I thought... I thought you're at least in college.. LOL :P

Originally Posted by Melrose (Post 1507472)

Hmmm.. strange way to put it. I would say the music was made first, and the melody later. Not the music first and then song later lol.

Originally Posted by bluegie (Post 1507619)

I dun really know if Passion is a or b LOL. I was just using that as an example :P. We know what the lyric means, while the Japanese could see the construction of the lyrics (probly more surreal than we thought). I guess they're thrown off by the weirdness of the sad lyric + the strong beat of music in the end... :D

Originally Posted by Ayulover_06 (Post 1508660)

Originally Posted by Amai Yume (Post 1508840)

Hikki songs that have made me cry:
....
Hikari [not crying but it's like that feeling of such happiness that it feels like you might cry]

Originally Posted by Hanabi_surreal (Post 1508869)

the Utada songs that makes me cry are:

FINAL DISTANCE
Be my last

the memories are bad friends XD