[2004] "my name's WOMEN" title discussion
 

LOL I'm still intrigued with the name of the song. While I could just think it is some stupid engrish with no care for doing the proper correction, sometimes it also occurs that maybe the title was made that way mostly intentionally than wrong. First of is the fact that they use caps for the word WOMEN.

LOL I know she probably didn't read this text but by reading it it makes me more comfortable with that title since it was already used in an "correct" english text LOL: http://www.oglethorpe.edu/faculty/~j_bohart/Menotti.htm

perhaps they used women instead of woman to include all women as opposed to just ayu. or perhaps ayu feels that she is a part of all women. or something. pieces of women maybe? at any rate, women seems to include all instead of woman which only includes herself.

"I am woman" is a saying too.....o.o

hear me ROAR. *rawr*

what's there to discuss? it's a horrible title that puts Greatful Days' engrish to shame ;) ;)

the title makes me think she has like multiple personalities..who are all women o.O

lol i'm over it by now. at first i was like holy freakin hell whats up with that! but the song sounds incredible regardless of the title. and the more i think of it, the less of a deal it is to me. i can almost bet on it that the lyrics are going to have hte same message as "real me" just from the title. :shrug...and the song..i must say again ROCKS! i'm so excited. my faith in ayu has recently been renewed from taht utter dissapointment before when inspire was released. i believe in her now! :)

With the respect of "my name's woman'' = i am woman, i can safely draw the conclusion that my name's women = i am women... correct? ._.

In that case, i'm guessing by saying 'i am women' ayu's probably projecting herself as an idol or symbolism for women in general.

Ayumi changed her name. =p
It's now Woman.

._. i take it back!

Oh, that wasn't directed towards you, it was a comment on the title.

The title pains me.

Ouch.

When I first saw the title, I was caught a bit off guard as well. It is a very strange title for an ayu song, but once I thought about it, it seems logical and it IS correct grammar. I think the meaning of the title is that she sees herself as being not just a single woman, but including herself with all women. It's highly possible the theme of lyrics will have to do with strong females and a very "girl power" oriented song. (I don't like using the term "girl power" because after the Spice Girls used it so much, it became stupid.)

wait..what?

oh ok that makes me feel better ^^;

Good. :)

yeh, i think with that title it includes all women. I am woman is too, well, self obsessed in a way for Ayu. To say that she is women is basically showing that although she's famous etc... she's still the same as all other women in the end.

maybe i'm reading too much into this though... evil medication ><

I have nothing to say about the song's title because i haven't read any translation of the song. I think that the lyrics will explain more about what is it about and why 'my name's WOMEN'. We'll have to wait.

my name's women....my name is women or my name means women? but that don't make any sense or
ayu have a strong feminism and want to let people know that she is a woman*
and can do anything(Real me?)and she represents all the women out there
or as aiko hoshi said...ayu have different "women" inside her like a multi personality
there a cute ayu....a drink and smoking going tothe bar ayu and a muiscian ayu?
x.x i dont know...

Maybe she's saying she's a woman and she's proud of it. xD

I AM MEN!

I. R. Baboon.

OMG I REMEMBER THAT SHOW XDD

http://freespace.virgin.net/m.nash/T...on/baboon6.gif
:yes

Curious about the lyrics, btw.

"Hi, my name is...
What, my name is...
Who, my name is...
WOMEN!"

then there was 'i am weasel'.

omg those were the days. i'm so sad they took that off cartoon network.

I was surprised by the major English error.

Obviously, the title shoudl be "My name's WOMAN", at the very least.

Surely someone at Avex should know what's correct. o_0

OMFG xDDDDD
wo0t...^.^;; <-tis a baka

:roflmao

omg that show was so messed up. that baboon was gross.

LOL I R FAT.

wait..wuts that from..><.....Cow & Chicken..o.o??

It's a horrible title -_-

I hope its not like another 'girl power' song... 'Real me' was enough...

:eek Yes! Omg, that show was crazy XD

i think it is from i am weasel. a spin off from cow and chicken

close enuf..:-P

The title could mean two things.
It probablly means "I STAND FOR ALL WOMEN!" like she's standing up for all women. In japan women and men aren't REALLY equal. (well they ARE equal but not considered equal) but ayu thinks both men and women are equal. That's why she uses boku in a lot of her lyrics.

Wait.. O_o Oh yeah. Wasn't that all in the same show though?
Oh whatever ^^;

lol i forgot to say what else it could mean! It could also mean "IM JUST A WOMAN TO YOU" but women because its all women.

I got bored so I looked up all the words..

My - belonging to someone
Name - a word or words by which someone or something is known, addressed, or referred to
is - exist; be present
WOMEN- adult human females

I think what she means is that she belongs or exist in the WOMEN group. She is WOMAN.

a word by which Ayu is known is present as 'adult human females"..:yes

Title might be a bit awkward, but the song sounds really good. :yes

^I agree. REALLY akward but REALLY good.

Yeah, at first I was like "what the hell?!" But now that I think of it, it's Ayu, and in a way some of her stuff is cheesy, but always in a good way, cuz let's not kid ourselves, it's Ayu for goodness sake how are we not going to like it eventually at least

agreed. =]

the title "my names women" makes her sound stuck up
but if we actually read her lyrics it'll make more sense

she better change the title.

She should change the title to... 'No my name ain't baby, it's Ayumi, Miss Hamasaki if you're nasty.' xD

and thats happened like.....once.

sepia would of been a nice title tho

There was a song about to be titled 'sepia'?

Ayu needs to take some English courses and improves her English.
-.-

endless sorrow

wasn't it gonna be sepia skies?

Sepia Skies was either going to be the song or the single...or they were the same...I don't know, something like that. :laugh

I like endless sorrow better :)

wth chris :laugh

it would match the cover well..

my thoughts exactly :)

wew... i think that the name is not so ayu.. but after hearing the 30secs... omigod... i think its like ourselves...

yeah the title is bad.....but hte song is good though. i actually look forward to this one

As mentioned before by many, I believe that Ayu is standing up for all women out there, you can see that from seeing the PV...somewhat.