why And Then is named And Then? Moments is named Moments?
 

I can't find out the relation between the title And Then and the song,can someone explain? also moments is the same.. :no

A wise guy told something to ayu. She couldn't understand that when she first heard it but "And Then" one day all of sudden she realizes and can now see the invisible things that were all the time around her, the important things of life we usually ignore. That's kinda how I interpret it.

As for Moments thie Chorus of the song is strongly attached to the title and pretty much sums up what Moments are:

A Moment is a transient part of your life in which you live certain situations.


The translations on the the lyrics in the quotes are from "masa"'s translations.

Great explaination Impact!! I enjoy different interpretations of Ayu's work, cause I'm strange and have no life haha

impactbreaker, could you also explain free & easy and heartplace

and then my fav song.

Thanks for the interpretation, Impact ^v^

I personally don't like to speculate... well- at this point in time I don't want to speculate. Because I'm lazy. But I like to read other's explanations!

I wonder who the 'wise guy' is in 'And Then' hehe, Max Matsuura? I'd hope not... that bastard, Gawd I hate Avex...

? bastard? why?
me don't understand :no

any1 has more interpretations?

interesting, i think there should be a sticky thread where ppl explains the interpretatioon of the song/PV :D

Thanks for the interp.! What about 'A song for xx?' Why does it have that? Is it ' A song for..." or "A song for ex ex?"

According to masa ayu made this song for her mother. 2 X because you use X in math as something "unknown", so ayu wanted to hide who was this song actually for, the first and second X are the name and family name. If you watch the CMs they always say only "A Song for......" and leave the rest blank, making it clear it's a song for "someone that can't be mentioned". To know why the song is for her mother you have to read the lyrics and read masa's article about the A Song for XX album in his website
( http://homepage2.nifty.com/morimasa/ayu.html )

I could be wrong, but isnt XX the chromosome order for a female? It would make a lot of sense especially if the song is for her mom. Its like... A Song for a Female.. or a mom. Especially since your mom is what gives you your 2 x chromosomes...

I think it would be really weird if she had put X as the chromosome...yep XX is the chromosome order of female. "appears" and I even joke with the name of the song sometimes saying "A Song for XY" ahahhahah. But I don't think ayu thought of chromosomes to make the title of the song...However I'm not ayu so that is a possibility to take into account since I don't think she ever mentioned officialy that "oh the XX means this" but by the way they mention it in the CM is more like "A Song for "??"", for who??, the X sound more like incognites (is this an english word? lol), something unknown.


EDIT: Since A Song for XX is such a negative song the X could also mean like someone went and marked the name with a X to show how they didn't like the name that was supposed to be mentioned. By the lyrics of the song ayu didn't seem so happy with her mother so the XX could be like when you mark something you had written and want to remove it but can't erase it so you draw the X. I dunno..... Just a bunch of speculation...


One of the X chromosomes come from the father. There are 2 germinative cells and they both carry half of the chromosome content, so, in a female, she received one X from the mother and another X from her father.

Isn't it suppose to be XY (chromosome-wise) if we want a safe birth? When it's YY or XX, it will be Down syndrome. haha (or is a extra chromosome?.../me checks medical site)

XX marks unnamed noun, that's my thought also, it's the general practice.

I think in Free & Easy she's talking about liberty, freedom. The cover of the single with ayu ready to fight, the PV and the lyrics make me think that. However I'm not kquite sure what the expression "Free & Easy" means, is it really something like freedom? They also put Free & Easy near Heartplace in RAINBOW a song that talks about freedom and such, so I guess both songs must have a connection? I don't know. I need to interpret Heartplace better though because first of all "Heartplace" is not a real word and if I think of "a place in the heart" or "Heart Place" I still need to see a better connection with the titles and the lyrics so I'll read it much further.


hah this is getting OT but so interesting
Y is the chromosome responsible for determining the sex.
If you are:
XO - a female (turner syndrome)
XX - female
XY - male
XYY - supermale - violent, you can find a lot of those in jails
YY - hydatidiform mole, no human being is born out of this combination. Causes a molar pregnancy which can progress to a malignant tumour in certain cases.
The more extra X's you add, the worse the mental retardation, the more extra "Y" you add the more violent and psycho
Down syndrome and many other syndromes are disturbs in autossomic chromosomes, not sexual ones. Down syndrome is when a person has an extra chromosome 21, meaning they have 3 chromosomes 21 in their non-germinative cells, a trissomy.

I highly doubt the XX has anything to do with genetics. O.o
XX is just a symbol you use to indicate 'something', I've seen it used in Chinese as well. So Ayu didn't make it up herself.

A magical O chromasome? :P

or does that mean no chromasome...

what happens if you have only a Y?

or you get YY?

or XXYY?

or you get XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Well Free & Easy was basically written, and the whole 'Joan of Arc' theme done, to show Ayu's fight for freedom from the evils of Avex. They tried to destroy her, especially with the whole A Best thing, so Ayu put into lyrics her feelings towards Avex and that she would not fall to them. Well that's what I think ^^;; I need to think about it more, but yeah I just think it was her way of expressing her need for freedom and to rid herself of persecution from the damn record company. I never really thought about how Free & Easy and Heartplace are put next to each other on the album though, thanks for pointing that out haha. I wonder if her next song will be a power ballad as well.

^^... dunno... coz moments is talking bout a some moment...
n and then is talking bout some suggestion.. i guess the title is like "and then what you say?" ^^

I will try to interpret again all ayu's lyric

*laughs* down syndrome is where someone has 3 of their 21st chromosome.

^^;; anyways, the genetics was just a speculation. I did notice that Appears has A Song for XY in his sig lol

LOL. but if that happens, the child will have some serious disorders, which is no laughig matter.

A Song for XX
(Spoken: "A Song for...") Yeah, XX is just a generic thing to represent an unknown. They use it a lot in Japan; you'll see "XX Year, XX Month, XX Day" a lot. Sometimes they'll use other letters or even shapes. I don't think XX is just one person, myself. Maybe it was initially, but by the time A BALLADS came out, and Ayu changed the lyrics a little bit, she started singing to people in general as opposed to the person who originally made her feel that way. (changing "anata" meaning "you" to "mawari" meaning "everyone [around me]")

Moments
The whole song is about doing anything for or being anything to someone, even if it means you can only be together for a moment. In the first chorus, she says if she was momentary as a flower, she would bloom beautifully with this person just to make them smile for as long as she could before wiltering and scattering away alone. In the second chorus, she says that if she could soar like a bird, she would give this person her wings so he could fly away from his fears and pain. This means he would leave her, but they would still have that moment, that exchange together.

Free & Easy
To be free and easy means to be at ease, to be comforted. The song says that Ayu has been struggling for so long and it got to the point where she wondered when all the trouble would finally just stop. But this one person was able to show her the good side of things, and ease her restlessness. While she was stressed and anxious, this person could make her feel free & easy.

Heartplace
The only explanation I could come up with is a literal translation from Japanese. When you use words having to do with places (like "where" or "place"), it sort of means "about" in Japanese. For example, you can say "Datte kare no doko ga kirai na no?" ("What about him [lit. what place of him] do you hate?" "Suki ja nai tokoro wa tabun, shaberisugiru koto darou." ("What I don't like about him [lit. the place of him I don't like] is probably that he talks to much.") Using this concept, to say Heartplace (in other words, "place of the heart" or "the heart's place"), would be "kokoro no tokoro." Translating this less literally would be something along the lines of "about my heart" or "how I feel" or "my feelings." It's still a very general title that could apply to most songs. But Heartplace is a very direct-to-emotion song; it's a sort of confession.

Alternately, you could say "Heartplace" could mean "home". The song could also be seen as a tribute to her "comrades" who fought along side her. Maybe wherever she goes, they make it home for her. Just a thought, also.

And Then
I'm really not sure, there's no strong suggestion in the song itself. But "and then" is such a common, relatively meaningless phrase that it might be hard to pull from it.

not helping much...and this is out of the blue...but...
Vogue....
my guess on vogue, would be its about someone in their glory days, whos living the perfect life, but that would all end as they got older and more mature. (this was based on the chorus)
You Bloom Fully,
A beautiful open flower
After that your petals
Will just silently fall.
that pretty much tells about some whos beautiful and full of life who soon falls apart as maturity comes.


translations from....Wataru

They did that for A Film for XX, too. ^_~

Hmmm, I thought that the whole thing was about the type of career Ayu has, and who's popular one year might be so popular in the future. They bloom at the height of their careers and then they will just fall like other acts have. If you look at the title of the song, 'vogue', that says it all. Something or someone who's in vogue is someone or something that's extemely popular or the thing of the moment, there's a fashion magazine with that name :yes

well maybe yur right. i didnt consider the title with it cuz sometimes songs dont have anythign to do with titles....:rolleyes

why is people saying that AVEX is evil ?
i tot AVEX is a good company :S

I think they say that because they think of Avex as pushing Ayu for releases and working her hard :P if thats true st00pid avex!

oh yea? whatabout doing that tour,(Concert Tour 2000) when she had a cold? dispicable....*bites avex* grrooowl.....