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Originally Posted by Uemarasan
^See above. I edited my post.
I'm not saying that Hikki is a bad lyricist, but using the term "poetry" to describe her lyrics is misguided. They seem poetic, but are ,in fact, not when you read them closely. I'd rather say that Hikki's lyrics are more "playful" as opposed to Ayu's more "introspective" lyrics.
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She still is awesome at using rhymes, rhythm, metaphors and neologisms... her use of english on her japanese lyrics, where the english lines contrast with the japanese ones making some of her sweeter lyrics sarcastic or bittersweet... and the stuff Sunshine Slayer said that are missed on translation that i had no idea until this topic. her lyrics are playful and most of the time make room for more than one understanding... As far as I know, poetry is not about what is being said, it's about how is it down on paper... it's the aesthetic use of the words...
about the Colors line: u read it on the most straightfoward way... What if she was using the chessboard image to say that against all possibilities they just met by chance (as u said, chess isn't a game where u get things by chance)? I'm not saying that ur reading is wrong and mine is right (we don't have Utada's number in the end of the day, so we can't ask her in person
), but.. there are more than one way to read everything...
As I said before: IMO Utada lyrics are close to poetry, and far closer than Ayu's, u can desagree with me, we obviously expect different things from our poetry and depending on the way u read the same text, u can or can't find the same quality others didn't... Does that mean that Ayu is a bad songwritter? Not at all... Cuz I can relate to some of her lyrics on a level I can't with Hikki's...