Ayu's Twitter/Weibo - Discussion #36 - Page 18

!Lawi! · #1 1st July 2015, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ayumasing

^Rumour was that 6/30 was the deathday of her father (which is why Memorial Address is for him?)...but again, rumours!

Yep, I think that's it! That's what the "tears of yesterday" part in July 1st refers to. As you said, I don't think anything has ever been confirmed but it's sounds possible!

jpt8923 · #2 1st July 2015, 06:00 PM

I read somewhere that Ayu said Memorial Address became a song that was important for her like how Teddy Bear was. I'm pretty sure that, with the lyrics alone, Teddy Bear is about her mom and therefore it would make sense for Memorial Address to be about her dad

Pieces_of_SEVEN · #3 3rd July 2015, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jpt8923

I read somewhere that Ayu said Memorial Address became a song that was important for her like how Teddy Bear was. I'm pretty sure that, with the lyrics alone, Teddy Bear is about her mom and therefore it would make sense for Memorial Address to be about her dad

I thought teddy bear was about her father also?

Hm...more people making their avatar a pic of themselves...I like it. cute pic. lol

Aderianu · #4 3rd July 2015, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by artcika

could this be from one of the PVs?

I see mark. Tragedy in Sayonara PV?

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Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

more people making their avatar a pic of themselves...I like it. cute pic. lol

sometimes I think that is one fake person under all those accounts

ayumasing · #5 2nd July 2015, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by !Lawi!

Yep, I think that's it! That's what the "tears of yesterday" part in July 1st refers to. As you said, I don't think anything has ever been confirmed but it's sounds possible!

Holy crap, I never even thought of that! It is possible that he passed away during the RAINBOW era, though I wonder why she didn't write MA until after it happened then? Maybe she was finally able to express the pain in words....

But Ayu seems to have a "tears of <X amount of days>" thing going on, so it's possible that it could be her saying something like that too. XD

Delicious n Bold · #6 1st July 2015, 04:11 AM

She's soaking wet but she's still channeling the essence of the Elusive Flammable Chanteuse.

Aderianu · #7 1st July 2015, 08:35 AM

"July 1st
Let's go to that sea today"

tokyoxjapanxfan · #8 2nd July 2015, 12:49 AM

^ oh my god. I neeeever made that connection with July 1st's lyrics.
Just got chills lolol.

Andrenekoi · #9 2nd July 2015, 01:56 AM

July 1st is about a friend she could only see on that date for some reason. It has nothing to do with her father.

AyUmIXx · #10 2nd July 2015, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

July 1st is about a friend she could only see on that date for some reason. It has nothing to do with her father.

did you mean 0630?

!Lawi! · #11 2nd July 2015, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

July 1st is about a friend she could only see on that date for some reason. It has nothing to do with her father.

Oops, sorry for starting "rumours" then! I always thought it was too much to be a coincidence!

tokyoxjapanxfan · #12 2nd July 2015, 09:11 AM

Do we have concrete info on the friend theory? Just wondering where/when it was stated!

truehappiness · #13 2nd July 2015, 09:25 AM

I believe it may have been mentioned in an interview from that release period... let me see if I can find it.

Got it! It was in the 2002 Zappy. masa featured it in one of his analyses.

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　There are two usual summer events to me. One is the party held every year on June 30, the birthday of the owner of this bar (in Tokyo), when many old friends of mine I can't usually see gather here. To me, that is the one and only unhealthy night of the year, from June 30 to July 1st. (Laugh) ...(omission) ... And the other is the event of watching fireworks after gathering at the shop of my acquaintance near the sea in August every year ... 　　("Zappy" Aug. 2002)
　This article makes it clear why the second song is titled strangely as "July 1st." But the scene sung about in this song is not the party place at night but the sea in the daytime. Why? -- In fact, there was one more thing which lead her to make this song. In the interview of "Hamasaki Republic", she and the interviewer were talking as below, looking at a photo of the sea in a magazine.
　O: How do you think about the sentence? ("If it's fine tomorrow, let's go to the sea.")
　A: Nice. I'm glad to hear someone tell me so, for example. A family member or a friend or a boyfriend. Because if someone tell me so, I'm in his or her future. I'm in his or her tomorrow. I'm glad of that.　　("Hamasaki Republic")
　The sensitiveness of her heart to feel the human warmth in a commonplace sentence. Maybe the photo and the sentence remained in her memory then, and revived when she was going to make "July 1st", a song of friendship. When the two things which apparently have no relation but are substantially close link together, a poem is born. This is what many poets have related as their own experience of making poems, though she doesn't know it maybe. Her poetic quality is seen well here, too. It can be said that "July 1st" is the type of song she made for the first time as well as "independent." As she herself described it suitably as "though the lyrics are bright, there are some minor parts in the melody, but never lacking in released feelings", I think it's a beautiful song with a thread of sadness in the brightness.

Japanese fans seem to have picked up on the 'tears of yesterday' for some time now. It does seem possible that the anniversary just so happens to also share a similar date with the mysterious 0630. I am thinking perhaps Ayu at the time had two meanings to the song, one that was something she could share to magazines and one that was a bit more personal. There is a theory that Memorial address tells the story of when she found out about her father divorcing her mother on June 30th which in turn leads into July 1st but of course, we've only got so much to go on.

Andrenekoi · #14 2nd July 2015, 01:53 PM

Well, "tears of yesterday" or something close to it is a pretty common image on her lyrics, isn't it? I can't say for sure, but I believe it appears on a lot of her songs... Just like the crossroad, the hard path to walk, the one winged angel, etc...

BlackSilence · #15 2nd July 2015, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Well, "tears of yesterday" or something close to it is a pretty common image on her lyrics, isn't it? I can't say for sure, but I believe it appears on a lot of her songs... Just like the crossroad, the hard path to walk, the one winged angel, etc...

i actually have a feeling it's in the culture, because i've seen other artists use the same references.

Uknow! · #16 2nd July 2015, 02:03 PM

^ Yes, progress for example.

Gustavopc · #17 2nd July 2015, 02:13 PM

I love these discussion on ayu's songs and their meanings, I always learn a lot cause I wasn't a fan back at the time and the songs get much richier by understanding what's was going on at the time and what ayu wanted to share from her life.

Minttulatte · #18 2nd July 2015, 05:22 PM

These speculations of Ayu's songs are awesome. I can't take a part in those because I don't "know" the Ayu from 2002 so well, but I always follow the discussion.

Aderianu · #19 2nd July 2015, 07:56 PM

lately I translated into russian A Song for XX songs and beatfreak interview about them
they are perfect in term of lyrics and meaning, and I adore all this songs even if I don't like how they sound
I miss track-by-track interview...

***koumori*** · #20 3rd July 2015, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Aderianu

lately I translated into russian A Song for XX songs and beatfreak interview about them
they are perfect in term of lyrics and meaning, and I adore all this songs even if I don't like how they sound
I miss track-by-track interview...

Slightly off-topic, but are the translations into Russian openly available?