Your Opinion about Pray

[channy]

I like the raspy "Far away" pitch in Ayu's voice during 5:25 to 05:29. However, I wouldn't consider this song as J-Pop; it sounds eminently westernized.

Moreover, I'd still insist on having a brighter (artificially attained) pitch in Ayu's studio voice like Avex did with earlier albums. Her studio voice certainly got closer to her real voice the last couple of years, but frankly, I liked her shrill, sharp sounding vocals better. That's why I have something for "LOVE again". Songs like "SAKURA", "Ivy", "petal" and "Gloria" fortunately had a bunch of ear-nourishing high-pitches, especially "SAKURA".

I wonder if we are meant to end up with a studio album containing "Tell All", "Feel the love / Merry-go-round", "Pray" and of course seven to eight additional songs. Would be a weird mixture.