'Feel the love' short ver. preview from YouTube

[brener]

Originally Posted by Aisha_Angel

VERBAL is super creative linguistically (the way he manipulates several languages in a single track is just phenomenal), and the m-flo duo as a whole is pretty good about staying true to the style of their fellow artist as opposed to converting them to their style. =)

yeah, i think this song has everything to be great, even greater than Feel the love (please, top it).

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Originally Posted by Aisha_Angel

I think it'll be great, though it was something she should have considered back in 2005-06 during height of the m-flo loves era.

VERBAL is super creative linguistically (the way he manipulates several languages in a single track is just phenomenal), and the m-flo duo as a whole is pretty good about staying true to the style of their fellow artist as opposed to converting them to their style. =)

I do like VERBAL...sometimes. It's usually hit or miss for me. I've heard songs with Namie, Sowelu, Crystal Kay, Nicki Minaj, Miliyah, and Thelma Aoyama, and I've only liked a few. I just wonder if this song is gonna sound like really hip-pop or what.

Did we get a description of Merry Go Round besides that it will feature him?

[truehappiness]

Maybe she refused back during the "loves..." era?

I believe it'll be good. Ayu tracks for the dancefloor? Sign me up!

[truehappiness]

Merry-go-round is a 'prime dance floor' track, whatever that means. Whatever it is, it'll probably be heavier than Feel the love, which is an 'uplifting tune' which fits very well. I think it'll be closer to Sparkle than You & Me.

Also mesmeresque@Tumblr translated the lyrics of the short version so far...

It sounds like she wrote this as a way to deal with her relationship with Maro/Mannie (kind of) and her current(?) relationship with that Caucasian guy.

feel the love…
you and me…
night ‘n’ day…

feel the love, feel the love - we can dance all night
feel the love, feel the love - we can dance all night

when I turn down the next corner
I’m gonna let out the biggest smile and laugh
worry shakes me deep inside
and it feels like my spirit is about to break, but

I’m gonna follow the wild beat of my heart
why can’t that be most important right now?
feel the love, feel the love - we can dance all night
feel the love, feel the love - we can dance all night
you and me, you and me - we can feel the love tonight
you and me, you and me - we can feel the love tonight

I don’t say “told you so” or anything
but I often hear things like
"isn’t it time you developed better judgment"
really now, what is ‘proper love’ anyway

is there anybody out there who isn’t straying from it?
there still exists memory to save the past, so

http://mesmeresque.tumblr.com/post/6...ve-translation

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

^awesome, thanks for that! Now, just wish we could get a HQ cover of the A BEST LIVE DVD/Blu ray...

[gogirlanime]

I dunno how I feel about this, it sounds like a remix version. That said, since I love her remixes I don't mind this song, but it sounds like a remix and I feel this yearning to hear the "original" but I'm not going to complain it's a new release in godly-forever. This is the best she's done since the release of "again" because the "LOVE again" album-only tracks in my opinion were the worst in her career (just my opinion sorry... I NEVER listen to them) so it's nice to see some new upbeat and techno-y songs from Ayu again. This redeems You&Me because I hated that song too.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by gogirlanime

because the "LOVE again" album-only tracks in my opinion were the worst in her career (just my opinion sorry... I NEVER listen to them)

I suggest listening to them more. They are growers and don't really catch attention at first listen except maybe Bye-bye darling.

[Livey~]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I suggest listening to them more. They are growers and don't really catch attention at first listen except maybe Bye-bye darling.

Just like Feel the love~

[pimenta]

I think people are overthinking about this song. I don't think Ayu was trying to do her best nor release a masterpiece (if she was, she wouldn't have worked with DJ Hello Kitty to start with), I think she just trying to have fun. She got this silly and catchy melody, then got the opportunity to work with DJ Hello Kitty, and I guess she just thought it would be a fun experience, and it was, we have a silly yet very catchy pop song that is not at all hard to get into. You just have to forget all this idealism about wanting Hamasaki Ayumi to only release masterpieces, and listen to this song more open minded and without thinking too much about it. Why can't she have a little fun? She's not a built robot designed to be the empress of pop who shall only release epicness even after 15 years... Sometimes I think people idealize Ayu's image way too much >_<

[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by pimenta

I think people are overthinking about this song. I don't think Ayu was trying to do her best nor release a masterpiece (if she was, she wouldn't have worked with DJ Hello Kitty to start with), I think she just trying to have fun. She got this silly and catchy melody, then got the opportunity to work with DJ Hello Kitty, and I guess she just thought it would be a fun experience, and it was, we have a silly yet very catchy pop song that is not at all hard to get into. You just have to forget all this idealism about wanting Hamasaki Ayumi to only release masterpieces, and listen to this song more open minded and without thinking too much about it. Why can't she have a little fun? She's not a built robot designed to be the empress of pop who shall only release epicness even after 15 years... Sometimes I think people idealize Ayu's image way too much >_<

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[AyUmIXx]

Originally Posted by pimenta

I think people are overthinking about this song. I don't think Ayu was trying to do her best nor release a masterpiece (if she was, she wouldn't have worked with DJ Hello Kitty to start with), I think she just trying to have fun. She got this silly and catchy melody, then got the opportunity to work with DJ Hello Kitty, and I guess she just thought it would be a fun experience, and it was, we have a silly yet very catchy pop song that is not at all hard to get into. You just have to forget all this idealism about wanting Hamasaki Ayumi to only release masterpieces, and listen to this song more open minded and without thinking too much about it. Why can't she have a little fun? She's not a built robot designed to be the empress of pop who shall only release epicness even after 15 years... Sometimes I think people idealize Ayu's image way too much >_<

well said!

[rainbow_smile]

I think every Ayu album has at least one "not masterpiece", so I don't anything bad in releasing songs like this once in a while as a single, especially considering that Japanese public seems to like this type of songs.

[Maraschino]

Actually, it is over my expectations.
I love the arrangement, it saves the dumb melody!

[Earth_maiden]

Agree with everything pimenta said. It's easy to understand why people have such high expectations of Ayu, but as was already said, not everything she releases has to be a masterpiece. I still don't care for CAROLS at all and I don't understand all the hype around it, back then or now.

[truehappiness]

There is no need to worry.

[brener]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

There is no need to worry.

u looped this even when u were sleeping and not using your computer/ipod right? because if my numbers are right, in this 8 days we get the song you should've listened 24 hours a day IN FOUR days to get that mark. '___'

[Benikari47]

^Damn.. how can you even manage that lol?
I think my most played song has around 200-250 plays, i can't repeat a track that much without getting bored and uninterested. Everything that gets over 50+ plays is major success to me

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Benikari47

^Damn.. how can you even manage that lol?
I think my most played song has around 200-250 plays, i can't repeat a track that much without getting bored and uninterested. Everything that gets over 50+ plays is major success to me

I am very picky about music to begin with. It's basically like... if I really like an artist, I can probably loop their tracks endlessly, haha. Depends on what else is around really... It was hard to run through LOVE again much since it was a whole album, but I came close to about 100 plays-per-track on that album before I switched to Tell All.

Namie's Contrail has a few hundred plays (400+) atm after I discovered it about a week after Feel the love. I actually play the tracks simultaneously so they sort of mashup, haha.

[truehappiness]

No, I was around the entire time when listening to it, haha. I'd say I've had it since the day after release on iTunes and haven't really stopped playing it since then. I can sometimes hear the song mashed up with Contrail even when I'm going to bed... (I put my computer to sleep)

I just really like the song and it feels like it's been ages since we had something upbeat like this. (I know You & Me wasn't that long ago but the chorus is wackadoodle addicting)

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I'm only at about 120 plays...lord lol