Ayu: Anything Goes [XXII]

[jean-baptiste]

After 5 years, I'm realizing now that track #13 on "Party Queen" is "Serenade in A minor." I've been reading it as "Serenade in A mirror" all these years. I thought it went well with the concept and everything. Like she's learned to love herself towards the end of the album hence it segues into "how beautiful you are."

Wow. Totally mind blown lol. That also shows how little I revisit the album 'cause I'm sure I would've noticed sooner otherwise.

[truehappiness]

Officially, yes it is the longest.

And wow, I thought we had the title right in all the news leading up to PQ! lol

Reminds me of Load of the SHUGYO which is supposed to be LORD I think.

[sitara]

Originally Posted by jean-baptiste

After 5 years, I'm realizing now that track #13 on "Party Queen" is "Serenade in A minor." I've been reading it as "Serenade in A mirror" all these years. I thought it went well with the concept and everything. Like she's learned to love herself towards the end of the album hence it segues into "how beautiful you are."

Wow. Totally mind blown lol. That also shows how little I revisit the album 'cause I'm sure I would've noticed sooner otherwise.

Hot damn, i never noticed either

[LONJJONG]

Originally Posted by jean-baptiste

After 5 years, I'm realizing now that track #13 on "Party Queen" is "Serenade in A minor." I've been reading it as "Serenade in A mirror" all these years. I thought it went well with the concept and everything. Like she's learned to love herself towards the end of the album hence it segues into "how beautiful you are."

Wow. Totally mind blown lol. That also shows how little I revisit the album 'cause I'm sure I would've noticed sooner otherwise.

I've realized this but I also initially read it as A mirror. The uppercase "A" made sense.

[Evan Odinson]

Surprised to see so many people read it as "mirror", not weird tho, if you read it fast it looks like "mirror" haha but I always knew it was minor and I thought it was a reference to Edward Elgar's serenade in E minor

[truehappiness]

The more you know with people and how they are perceiving titles... are there any others you guys have seen differently!?

[Aderianu]

for long time I thought "M EP" is song title

[hud]

lmao I never misread any of her titles

[RealLight]

Well, not reading tho. I always thought I should say A Song for xx as "A Song for eks eks", it was just until I saw the CM I knew the double x isn't spoken lol.

[pedronekoi]

Originally Posted by RealLight

Well, not reading tho. I always thought I should say A Song for xx as "A Song for eks eks", it was just until I saw the CM I knew the double x isn't spoken lol.

Yeah! When I discovered this song I wasn't good with english so I just read it half in english and half in portuguese, so it's something like "a song for she's she's" lol Even nowadays I still read this way. But I was also surprised when I saw the CM.

And I still don't know how to pronounce "Mirrorcle" the right way so I just say "Mirakuru" just like they used to announce it on the TV.

[attractive nausea]

I used to read the XX in french too, actually i still do sometimes lol
Same for all her "A" releases, A BEST, A BALLADS etc, i used to read the A the french way lmao, or the way english people would say "a dog", not the A letter.

[Darkifrit]

Since when Ayu didn’t attend Kōhaku anymore ?

[attractive nausea]

The last time she performed was in 2013, she sang INSPIRE.

[Darkifrit]

Thank you. Was it her decision?

[attractive nausea]

^ Well... if you look at this article, what Ayu said is that both her and NHK agreed to this, but after all we don't know if it was her decision to begin with (she didn't feel like performing there and wanted to focus on CDL) or NHK's (Ayu wasn't popular anymore so they wanted to cut her out of the show).

[~angel*ayumi~]

It´s so strange that there is no Ayu counting down to midnight this year o.o

And it seems that this year when I decided I ant to buy it again, there is no Happy Box ._.

[Xianghua]

Originally Posted by ~angel*ayumi~

It´s so strange that there is no Ayu counting down to midnight this year o.o

And it seems that this year when I decided I ant to buy it again, there is no Happy Box ._.

I feel weird too! It's like New Years has been cancelled.

[attractive nausea]

Originally Posted by Xianghua

I feel weird too! It's like New Years has been cancelled.

Exactly! Today really doesn't feel like the last day of the year for me if i can't "celebrate" the new beginning of 2018 with a new ayu concert, that has been my routine since like 2010.

It's way past midnight but nothing on social media yet from her, i guess she's busy partying lol or she must be tired from the concert and is already sleeping, i wonder if the lack of CDL is making her sad.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

It's kind of nice and different, too, though, for her to skip out on doing a countdown live.

Her last few CDL`s have been pretty lackluster to me... save for her performing Kanariya last year.

[maxikot]

It feels weird to me as well. Since I have been a fan meaning circa 2006 each New Year's Eve was the time for excitement connected with Ayu's Countdown's. Sometimes more sometimes less but I always anticipated the setlist, costumes, some fancam videos. Well, here we have a slight change this year and that's fine too. Hope she had a fantastic New Year's Eve party : >

On another note, one day I was bored and sent to some youtubers links to Ayu videos so they can "react". I find such videos funny but also interesting, don't we like to see how people react to different things xD? Also it kind of, even in a tiny way" promotes more current Ayu. Two reacted to the "Warning" performance from 2015 tour.
https://youtu.be/fYgbEr1mnoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiRGoYcBYtg