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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
You're not the only one with those theories, but I just don't see that. I feel like those theories are coming from people knowing the "goodbye" part of the lyrics but not any more of the details.
Just so everyone else here understands where I'm coming from...
"I'm writing this with you in my heart...
For the last time, I've decided."
"For just a little too long, I've remained in the darkness, but
now it's time to go."
"What had been two became one.
And then became two again. That's all there is to it.
All we've done is return to where we started, right?"
"The road that continues from here is too narrow,
so I can't walk down it aligned with you anymore."
The protagonist here is an insecure, introspective woman trying to stop herself from overanalyzing what could have possibly gone wrong in a past long-term relationship that ended. She's been at it for years, writing and thinking and trying to sort out her feelings and figure it all out in the hopes that it would be cathartic or therapeutic and would stop the pain. But it never did. So in this song, she's saying "fine, I'm done thinking about it." Whether or not her resolution holds remains to be seen.
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Her relationship with her fandom is far longer than her relationship with Nagase, it also lasted longer (when BRILLANTE was composed she was already married and had broken up with Nagase for 4 years already) and 2010 and 2011 were years filled with what she wants/what her fandom wants kind of shock, also, all the twitter related problems...
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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
I, like many of you, am hoping for a very, very big 15th Anniversary. Ayu's 10th Anniversary was FUN. A COMPLETE, ayu-mi-x 6, the long-box singles, the limited edition postage stamps, the TeamAyu stuff, and oh man Ayu10th.com. That site was fun.  At least in its first version. But yeah that whole year was great. I'm really hoping for the 15th anniversary to be a real event. And after the last few years, a big 15th Anniversary would definitely do her some good. I don't really think it was the plan from the beginning for that to happen (it would be WAY too huge a risk to lower her sales on purpose beforehand, the market is extremely momentum-based), but it would be nice if things went on an upswing next year. |
I don't think she was expecting sales drops, only to be a little more low-profile... FIVE sold well and she barely appeared on TV last year, for example... While PQ had low sales even with a good tie-in for example... Appearing less IMO was a plan, lowering sales a consequence of a risky creative choice (the whole PQ project)