[mimika]

thx for the translation~

i think over the years we have seen ayu growing up...i'd say the defining line would be the "I am.." album, also around the time when her relationship with tomoya was made public ( i know many wouldn't like this news ) but i truly believe that ppl and things have happened in her life and changed her from the lonely lost girl back in "a song for xx" who always wanna run away and had quite a negative world view as most of the things she saw were negative; to someone today that values life and the world, that see loves and have dreams....back when she had her interivew with the TIME magazine back around "I am..." she used to say that she had no dreams......over the past few albums, from RAINBOW to Memorial address, we can see a change of style in her lyrics, but now in INSPIRE her lyrics say strongly that everyone needs to have dreams and that most importantly, SHE has dreams

even in the ntv special interview 2004, she was willing to take reporters back to fukuoka, her hometown where she had unhappy memories as a child, a lonely childhood lack of love....she was willing to reveal her unhappy past, in A Ballad, the theme was the present ayu forgiving the past ayu, her unhappy past she is leaving behind not because she hides it beneath her memory, but she has learned to accept that, and let it be part of her life, for ayu there's no need to run away from that and feel lost anymore, "ibashou ga nakatta (i got not home) does not apply to her anymore, she now has dreams, she has love, and she has forgiven/accepted her past and all her unhappy memories

ayu had definitely grown up~