The Trilogy

[Delirium-Zer0]

Having become a fan around the time of the Trilogy's release (and since the story behind these three songs is one that made me a fan), I can tell you what I remember:

Ayu did say that the three songs were about looking at herself, as she'd been in the past, from the "front, back, and side" (just a way of saying three different angles, i suppose). She's not singing to or about a man in any case, it's to herself. ("ever free" is about her grandmother's death, not about herself, but ayu said herself that it belonged with the other three songs as part of the trilogy. It was kind of the keystone that held them together; perhaps because it's about a real loved one who died, and ayu has to think about that death to make sure she doesn't regret anything she does in her life before her death. That's conjecture, but it makes sense.)

The Trilogy is kind of her own response to re-considering retirement after the A single (which was her plan).

Basically, vogue is Ayu talking to her past self, who has made mistakes, and making predictions (rather dire ones) about her future in the entertainment business. Far away is about her regret that she sacrificed love and close friendship for the sake of going her own path (and the fear that it won't go anywhere, that it will all have been for nothing), and the first half of SEASONS is her talking to her past self, and the second half is her kinda talking to her new singer self (or perhaps her career), going again into the prediction in "vogue" that her blossom (fame) will quietly fade, wilt, and die.

After the A single, you see, she'd written these rather depressing songs and didn't really think about how sad they were until afterwards. She probably thought how the situations she wrote about in A, though in the past now, are feelings she still has, only on a different level and regarding a different aspect of her life. To sum up, A was personal-life stuff, and The Trilogy are songs about professional-life stuff. Plus, she was about to stop singing after A, but then LOVEppears took off and she became huge, and realized she had fans and a responsibility that came with the power. She had it, and KNEW it was going to fade and die eventually, but still went forward with it, doing what she felt she had to (which is also where the album title "Duty" comes from).