Rate the new songs!

[Yoake]

01 Feel the love: 5/5 Great song with a nice arrangement that plunge me in a zen attitude. The sound is fresh.

02 XOXO :3/5 Well, when I heard the previews I thought that the song would be funny and dancing in spite of the chorus that are totally generic. Now that I heard the full version, I find it weak. There is a lack of energy. This song is far away to be as good as Wake me up for example. Maybe, it'll be better in live.

03 What is forever love: 5/5 Really wonderful. It's how a song that is elaborated by differents artists should be. This song is Ayu-ish but you can hear the signature of Naoya and Daishi Dance too. The balance between the piano and others instruments are really well-done. The whispering gives a plus to the song. The dialogue in the lyrics are well done.

04 Hello new me: 5/5 Pretty ballad as Ayu can do it. The arrangement is fresh, light and radiant. I particularly like when the guitar punctuate ayu's sentence in the verse. This song is like a sunlight that warms you after a hard blow.

05 Pray: 5/5 A splendid ballad with a true strength. It's really hard to find words to describe the beauty of this song. It's more than a masterpiece.

06 Angel: 2/5 Well, the full song is better than what I thought when I listened to the preview. The verse is nice but the chorus...omg it's just boring and too repetitive. It's surely the less inspired song that Ayu wrote in her career. Seriously, she couldn't find someting else then those words for the chorus? Moreover her voice is too modified in the chorus and too unnatural. Near the end of the song during the last I wanna be an angel, she just sounds as a haywire robot.

07 Terminal: 1/5 I never thought that one day I would said that for an Ayu song. Of course there are songs I like less than others but it doesn't bother me to hear them when I play my cds. Terminal is not only the worst song of this album, it's the worst song of all her discography too. The arrangement is awful, amateurish and old as time. The sounds are rambling. The only thing that saved this song from the bubble is the melody that Ayu sings. Yes, this melody is really nice and It's a Shame that it received that kind of arrangement. I really hope that Ayu'll do another version as she did for Ladies Night in the past. A progressive rock arrangement could make this melody epic! Or I just hope that she'll choose it for her next classical album and will give the arrangement that this melody deserves.

08 Merry-go-round: 2/5 Well this song is ok but I really miss the Ayu sound. So generic and impersonal. And m-flo/VERBAL should go out with its bad rap.

09 Lelio: 3/5 not good not bad. The song is ok to let your hair down. However it becomes quickly tedious and somewhat repetitive. It's why I can't play it again and again. Sometime I don't really like the way she sings. As for Angel, her voice is sometime too modified.

10 NOW & 4EVA 5/5 perfect light pop-rock song from Ayu with beautiful and meaningful lyrics. The arrangement is meticulous with piano violin and guitar.


Overall this album is really weak mainly because of the generic edm western songs. For me, it's even weaker than NEXT LEVEL. I was proud that Ayu didn't jump in edm train and now I'm sad. It's really a genre she doesn't know to take over. Or maybe she should work with people who are really able to collaborate with others without move aside the style of the other. After all, what is forever love is a good collab in which you can hear the signature of the three artists. I'll also ask to all american singers to go out of Ayu's body.
I'm really thankful that Ayu got a realisation in Paris and that she decided to give us song as Hello new me, NOW & 4EVA and what is forever love. Those songs save the album a little for me.