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Old 12th November 2014, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN View Post
Did someone use google translate and get recut...? I didn't see the text myself. But I think it's possible that the meaning is just "a single" she released that ended up being on an album.
That's always a possibility, I suppose. The literal Japanese text used in the Sponichi article was シングルカットされた代表曲.

From the Japanese wiki for the term シングルカット:

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「シングルカットされた曲」とされるが、実際にはリカットと同じように、先にアルバムに収録された楽曲を後 からシングルとして販売する際に使われることが多い。
Basically, the term is often used for songs that previously appeared on an album and were then later released as a single and can be interchangeably used with the term 'recut single'.

I wish they would just give us the damn tracklist already, lol.