"progress" Preview

[jbrat2219]

Oh Lord, here we go~

Comparing Ayu to Lady G is silly, we all know when you throw another big name into the conversation fans from both sides get heated so let's just drop it, please.

[TeamAyu2004]

Haha, Lady G. I like that nick name:
but yes, i think there is no need for comparing. (although I do think a full version of ayumi's song would kick so much more *** then Lady G's music, in general.)
Both the ayumi and ayumi's song are good in their own ways...

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

comparing a short preview of a song to an album? makes no sense.

[jbrat2219]

Ayu's first single after an album is almost always left overs. It's a good thing I love her albums so I don't mind. I'm sure single #2 will be outrageously different.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

^That's pretty true.

glitter would've been a lot better in Secret than in GUILTY, Mirrorcle World is a given since it was already in GUILTY as Mirror, Sunrise was electro diarrhea from NEXT LEVEL, MOON sounded very RnRC-y, and now from the looks of it, progress sounds like it would've fit perfectly well with Love songs.

[Misa-chan]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Roommate wrote the lyrics he could hear from the preview:

あの時にあの場所に居て
戦っていた自分が
全ては今を選ぶため
だったとしたらなら

ano toki ni ano bashou ni ite
tatakatteita jibun ga
subete wa ima o erabu tame
datta toshitara nara

向きあえず置き去りなまま
目を反らしていた過去を
許したと思うのは
許されたいからなのかな

mukiaezu okizari na mama
me o sorashiteita kakkou o
yurushita to omou no wa
yurusaretai kara nano kana

僕らがただ自由で
いられたあの頃は遠くて
無邪気な笑顔だけじゃ
この頃は過ごせないけど

bokura ga tada jiyuu de
irareta ano koro wa tookute
mujyaki na egao dake jya
kono goro wa sugosenai kedo

僕らは進んで行く
それでも進み続けてく
何かを信じられる
心が見守ってるから

bokura wa susunde yuku
sore demo susumi tsuzuketeku
nanika o shinjirareru
kokoro ga mimamotteru kara

wow wow wow
wow wow yeah

Aahh, ok, I understand the lyric much better now. And also why it's titled progress.

Thanks for sharing!!!!

New translation:

If in that time, at that place
I was fighting
And my reason for doing so
Was because I chose to be here now

I used to avoid facing my past
Not referring to it, leaving it behind
Did I then forgive such a past
Because I wished to be forgiven myself?

That time when we were free
To be ourselves, is far gone
And though we can’t live through
This time with just innocent smiles

Let us move on
Even so, let us continue to move on
As long as we can believe in something
Our hearts will watch over us

wow wow wow
wow wow yeah~!!

[jbrat2219]

^ Thank you Misa!

[*hearT_Place*]

Thanks Misa!!

I can't stop listening to this preview!

[love in music]

Thank you misa-chan. The lyrics are so beautiful, powerful & inspirational. I'm loving them so far and looking forward to the full song even more!

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^It's not like i'm in love with Gaga's new album... but really... Why saying Gaga's news music is bad when she is not on topic? I find it very annoying everytime someone brings some random artist into the discussion with no reason at all... We know there's tons of fans of the girl over here, that's no need to bring her up for criticism on a topic that isn't even about her in the first place...

I like the album for the bigger part. She is a musician and the isthisLOL! only gave an example of what they thought was random-sounding or whatever. It's the same way people bring Ayu up whenever they discuss sales and pretty much anything else. Don't really see what's wrong with that

Originally Posted by perfectodub

IMO any song of BTW album is better than this.

this song is just ramdomness

Good for you

And Misa-chan thanks for the translation!!

[stivenoto]

Woowww.....

Love the song so much....
Can't stop listening......

Hope they will release the new single soon
must get this single

[AyUmIXx]

thanks misa-chan for the lyric translation..
it's about progress to move on? haha~

[DA1SUK1DAY01691]

I agree with the group who said it sounds like "Sending Mail"s chorus with "blossom"s verses—a promising combination, but so far I'm just into the chorus...

I don't know, these verses are REALLY iffy at this point, but I guess only the full song will either make or break it...

[koumori]

Still liking it!

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

I like the album for the bigger part. She is a musician and the isthisLOL! only gave an example of what they thought was random-sounding or whatever. It's the same way people bring Ayu up whenever they discuss sales and pretty much anything else. Don't really see what's wrong with that

And everytime someone bring Ayu uo to discuss sales, things go wrong too... Why keep comparing when we all know it only brings stupid AHS drama? I can understand it on a thread about a comparation, but really, this is about Ayu's news song, not about how random Gaga's album sounds...

[dzinup]

Thanks Misa for the lyrics!!

[ayujarl]

this song is totally growing... I keep listening and listening

[isthisLOL?]

Holy **** discussion o.0

I was saying that melodies on Gaga's album sound random, that was NOT a quality statement. Random does NOT mean bad in this case. If I like the album or not is another thing. Random notes are a stilistic device in, for example, trance music. And clashig notes, which tends to happen if something sounds random, are used in some rock, metal and classical/neoclassical music on purpose to create an effect. See "Art of Life" by X-Japan for that.

I was simply pointing out that "progress" follows all the traditional rules of songwriting to the person that called it random. And if something follows rules it is not random. There are 2 possibilities. Either "progress" is random but just happens to have all notes be harmonic(highly unlikely) or it is NOT random.
While some songs on Gaga's new album do not appear to do that, I was not saying either one is bad. I used Gaga's new album because it is one of the few pop albums I can think of that have that and are popular and new enough for people to remember the songs.

And Ayumi has had clashing notes before, mostly in her CREA-era, doesn't mean the songs were bad(though for some IMO it amde them worse), it just showed that she was an amateur songwriter, a VERY talented one, but amateur.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Oh GAWD, apparently Gaga is the new Kuu for everyone to compare about.

Wouldn't it be awesome if the PV for progress had some action in it? Kind of like how Rule was slightly thematically like Dragon Ball.

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

And Ayumi has had clashing notes before, mostly in her CREA-era, doesn't mean the songs were bad(though for some IMO it amde them worse), it just showed that she was an amateur songwriter, a VERY talented one, but amateur.

Then why didn't you just compare Ayu to Ayu instead of Gaga in the first place if you wanted to make a point? Any time you compare Ayu's music to another (popular) artist, it's going to start trouble even if you didn't intend for it to be a negative statement on either part lol. We either have a bashing thread for the mentioned artist or we have a "this artist is better than Ayu" thread. Either way the fans get *****y so it's best to leave Gaga & Co. out of this.


So what example do you have of clashing notes from CREA's works?