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Old 19th June 2014, 09:04 PM
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Feel the Love 10/10: I love this song. I love the melody, love the arrangement (so what if it's "outdated", it gives me everything I want), love Ayu's voice laced with tenderness and thrill... Love love love I feel the love.

XOXO 6/10: This song is average candy: it tastes sweet and sometimes it's a great treat, but you won't really remember it and keep coming back for more when you could have chocolate instead.

What Is Forever Love 8/10: This song just keeps growing on me! I'm a huge fan of DAISHI DANCE and at first this song disappointed me because it's not really his best work... but it's still a solid track, which I keep discovering whenever I come back to it. The melody in the chorus is dangerously infectious and the vocals are reeeally good!

Hello New Me 3/10: It's been a looong time since I've wanted an Ayu song out of my ears so much. Pretty much everything about this song bugs me. I love a good sunshine song, which this one seems to try being, but it sounds soo phoned in and uninspired. At least Ayu's vocals are nice.

Pray 7/10: I want to like this song, it's quality work and so on but... she's done this song better before, and this time it's just a bit too slow and unmemorable and lacking in big, recognizable characteristics.

Angel 6/10: Another case of "I want to like this more but...", this time because wow could this song use some more production, Ayu's voice sounds like it's just awkwardly hanging on top of the arrangement, which I think is too sparse. The melody is really nice, but this song still sounds like a demo.

Terminal 10/10: I kinda feel like I should maybe give this song a slight point reduction because I'm still not best buddies with the weird changes between the gentle vocal sections and the hard-hitting instrumental sections... but what the hell, this is still the best song on the album, Ayu's voice is just unbelievable, the melody (when it shows up) is amazing, the emotions it brings, ugh.

Merry-Go-Round 9/10: I really enjoy every part of this song, and I'm not even getting it mixed up with JASMINE's HERO in my head, yay!

Lelio 8/10: This song doesn’t do that much for me, but damn it goes hard, I do like that.

NOW & 4EVA 6/10: Wow, Ayu is really going through them motions. At least she sings this with some passion, but the arrangement does nothing for me, and the song sounds more like a cheap GUILTY leftover than anything worth paying attention to.
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