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I really enjoyed "Melody" a lot more than I thought I was going to! I thought it was going to be a really basic ballad, but was surprised at how...cute it sounded. It's like a few people have been saying, I could see this potentially being one of those end-of-concert songs. I suspect it might be in the encore, if not the last song, for this year's CDL.

I'm still slightly disappointed with "Song 4 U". It's definitely a good song, but there's something incomplete about it. It reminds me of how I feel about "NaNaNa" - great song, but it just kinda ends. There could be so much more, but there isn't. There's almost more of a completion feeling in the Orchestra version, which is HEAVENLY. I almost wish the two versions had been combined - the mega effect of strings in the OV, plus the rock feeling from the regular version.

And I do like "Missing" as well. It does remind me of "momentum", but each are their own songs. It's the composition that is similar in some spots. (But with Ayu's extensive discography, of course some songs are going to sound similar.)