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Originally Posted by isthisLOL?
Where did you get that Memorial Address was about her grandmother? It seems weird to write a song like that - an angry song even, considering she loved her grandmother and grew up with her around - 5 or so years after her death. And the way she so emotionally performed it with teddy bear the first time she sang it just made them being about the same person very clear to me. It was just those two songs blending together almost like one with no show involved and Ayumi doesn't do things that make no sense lyrically - at least not when it involves songs that are obviously meaningful to her.
And I don't think It Was was about her father, I see no indication for that, when she is writing about her father it's a mix of sadness and anger but in It Was there is no anger. There is just a feeling of sadness following the end of a relationship. It's so vague it could be about any type of relationship(romantic, friendly, family...) and seeing how it's a left-over from (miss)understood(or at least I remember something like that from an interview about Secret, so don't hold me to that) I doubt it was very important to her.
And Ayu's fans haven't been like that only around a-nation, that's just when everything peaked and Ayumi showed how pissed she was, she may or may not have worked on FIVE with that in mind, but I am convinced that FIVE is Ayumi's way of saying that she doesn't try to please her fans anymore. Because quite frankly she took just about everything(especially international) fans want and did the opposite on it and to promote it and then even ended it with such a track - and with goodbye in a variety of languages.
The way I see it almost every Ayumi album is arranged so the songs fit lyrically and tell a story first and foremost(how they fit musically comes afterwards, which is why there are some seemingly random transitions on albums like NEXT LEVEL, but they make lots of sense reading the lyrics) and looking at all of FIVE in order it tells a story of having been through alot with your fans, loving your fans(at least beloved is pretty much confirmed to be about fans I think) but needing distance from your fans at the same time. And having to be yourself rather than doing what they want because there is no pleasing them.
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I can't find links with proof ATM, but I will look for them. But Ayu said frankly that she wrote the lyrics for "Memorial Address" after the passing of her grandmother. "Memorial Address" is about death and passing, Ayu doesn't know for sure if her father is alive or dead, so in all the songs about her father, it is left open ended, almost hopeful, in case they should meet again. "Monochrome" and "End Roll" are both open ended, without even addressing where the lost person has gone. In "Memorial Address" it is made clear that they will never meet again, and that the person in dedication has gone to a place where she cannot, implying death.
I want to be totally clear, I totally agree with your assessment that "Brillante" is about her fans. The only reason I didn't see that way is because the line about two becoming one, becoming two again through me off because I was seeing it as though being a single entity was the problem, IE it meant she was alone. My boyfriend explained that it also means that two entities became one, much to the same point as "Part of Me".
With that said, however, just because two songs are sung together in sequence at a concert doesn't make them related. I heard a rumor that "Memorial Address" was "Teddy Bear" 2.0, but I never heard Ayu say this, nor did I ever read a credible article that stated she did. She sang "countdown" and "Memorial Address" in her Rock 'n Rock Circus tour nearly the same way as she sung "Teddy Bear" and "Memorial Address" back in her Arena Tour '04. We can agree to disagree about "It Was", but until I see her say otherwise, my impression is was written with her father in mind because it's that same pessimism, reluctant hope, and open ended uncertainty that plagues all the songs we can both agree were written for her father. I still don't understand the idea that the topic of her father is some how now taboo after Memorial Address mini album.