Rate the new songs!

[holy_arrow]

Angel : 8.5/10 : Yeah such a sweet/sad melody and her voice is good too. It’s better than my expect from the preview version. And yes, the only disappointing thing is the simple PV. Ayu is pretty, she will be better with the long hair... the background is cool but the dancers with the simple repetitive dance are unnecessary, I wish they only appeared in the second and the last chorus ! It would be nice if there was the wing sounds after the end of the song.

Feel the love : 9/10, the song is very good and from December, I can’t stop to listen to it. The performance in CDL made me say “WOW”. PV is my disappointing again. The single version is fun but I need to watch her with DJ hello Kitty more; the album version is meaningful and not bad but i can’t love it !
Hello new me : 7.5/10 The beginning is sweet but the chorus are annoying , I think I should say thanks to Ayu for not making PV for this song caused I can’t image how more terrible she would be in the cute style... LOL

Lelio 9/5 : I can say this song is the masterpiece of the album. I love this song although it’s repetitive. The PV is not bad with the colors-changing background. Her white outfit is ok, nice but the black one should be changed
Merry-go-round 10/10: Yeah, Beside FTL, I really love this song and PV from the single released. With the new PV version, I can’t stop loving this song. The song is depth , Ayu is so beautiful with the white short dress (she used to wear it on the Song 4 U performance in Heyx3 2012) , I can realize the meaning of the lyrics from the PV. The appearance of VERBAL, the city at night shot is nice ...

NOW & 4EVA 8.5/10 : Classical Ayu as someone said before. This rock song grew on me on the first day I heard it. It reminds me Return Road and is this LOVE

Pray 8/5 : It’s good but the song is too long that I get boring when enjoying so many times. The melody is very classical and I can’t believe that Ayu skipped this song in the PV-making list and the live tour setlist. Hope for the performance in a-nation 2014

Terminal 7/5 : Ayu singing part is good but the song is too long with ONLY music. It seems to miss the lyrics ... I wonder what Ayu would do in the performance of this lyrics-lacking song

XOXO 8.5/5 : How good is this song. One of my favorite track. On the first time, I really want to dance . But the PV make me dieeee. Ayu is so terrible, I wish she and Licco could change the outfits. The outfit from PV Lady Dynamite is better so far. I hate her sexy dance but love her funny fight with Licco.

What is forever love 9/10 : Naoya and Ayu is the good partners, their voice are great and the song is wonderful. The piano melody is nice and I wish to have the PV even if that is the remade from ANother song. Hope for the appearance of Naoya on the final day of tour and the DVD/BD

[brener]

XOXO - 4/5
Angel - 4/5
Lelio - 5/5 best track on this album!
Terminal - 5/5 this is so old-school yet so fresh, luv it
What is forever love - 4/5
NOW & 4EVA - 5/5 same thing I felt about Terminal

[toLOVE]

Feel the love - 2/10
XOXO - 3/10
What is forever love - 4/10
Hello new me - 1/10
Pray - 1/10
Angel - 7/10
Terminal - 10/10
This song slays the whole album. I wouldn't mind if the album sounds like thing.
Merry-go-round - 7/10
Lelio - 3/10
NOW & 4EVA - 10/10
Throwback Ayu

And just when I thought LOVE again is my least favorite album...

[Andrenekoi]

Feel the Love 5/5
XOXO 3/5
What Is Forever Love 4/5
Hello New Me 3/5
Pray 5/5
Angel 5/5
Terminal 5/5
Merry-Go-Round 5/5
Lelio 5/5
Now & 4eva 3/5

[Kacku]

Feel the Love 10/10: I love this song. I love the melody, love the arrangement (so what if it's "outdated", it gives me everything I want), love Ayu's voice laced with tenderness and thrill... Love love love I feel the love.

XOXO 6/10: This song is average candy: it tastes sweet and sometimes it's a great treat, but you won't really remember it and keep coming back for more when you could have chocolate instead.

What Is Forever Love 8/10: This song just keeps growing on me! I'm a huge fan of DAISHI DANCE and at first this song disappointed me because it's not really his best work... but it's still a solid track, which I keep discovering whenever I come back to it. The melody in the chorus is dangerously infectious and the vocals are reeeally good!

Hello New Me 3/10: It's been a looong time since I've wanted an Ayu song out of my ears so much. Pretty much everything about this song bugs me. I love a good sunshine song, which this one seems to try being, but it sounds soo phoned in and uninspired. At least Ayu's vocals are nice.

Pray 7/10: I want to like this song, it's quality work and so on but... she's done this song better before, and this time it's just a bit too slow and unmemorable and lacking in big, recognizable characteristics.

Angel 6/10: Another case of "I want to like this more but...", this time because wow could this song use some more production, Ayu's voice sounds like it's just awkwardly hanging on top of the arrangement, which I think is too sparse. The melody is really nice, but this song still sounds like a demo.

Terminal 10/10: I kinda feel like I should maybe give this song a slight point reduction because I'm still not best buddies with the weird changes between the gentle vocal sections and the hard-hitting instrumental sections... but what the hell, this is still the best song on the album, Ayu's voice is just unbelievable, the melody (when it shows up) is amazing, the emotions it brings, ugh.

Merry-Go-Round 9/10: I really enjoy every part of this song, and I'm not even getting it mixed up with JASMINE's HERO in my head, yay!

Lelio 8/10: This song doesn’t do that much for me, but damn it goes hard, I do like that.

NOW & 4EVA 6/10: Wow, Ayu is really going through them motions. At least she sings this with some passion, but the arrangement does nothing for me, and the song sounds more like a cheap GUILTY leftover than anything worth paying attention to.

[orangeakira]

Originally Posted by orangeakira

I give everything 5 out of 5 except
Lelio: 3/5 the song is cool, but her voice is exceptionally annoying
Pray: 2.5/5 boring and extremely typical
Angel: 3.5/5 It was going somewhere with the slow dubstep breakdown during the chorus, but it was still really boring. Idk it's not just enough.

Alright going back and watching the music videos, and enjoying the album as a whole since it's been officially released on itunes I'm giving everything a little bump that I didn't give a 5 out of 5.

Lelio: 4/5
Pray: 3/5
Angel: 3.5/5
Hello New Me: 3.5/5

[visionfactory]

I haven't listened everything and don't think I will

Feel the love - 2 stars
XOXO - 2 stars
Angel - 4 stars
Merry-go-round - 5 stars
Lelio - 5 stars
NOW & 4EVA - 2 stars

[Jwiz]

Only like Terminal (Favorite), Lelio and What Is Forever Love (But why duet?!).

[pimenta]

Feel the Love 4/5
XOXO 3.5/5
What is forever love 3/5
Hello new me 3.5/5
Pray 4.5/5
Angel 2/5
Terminal 5/5
merry-go-round 3/5
Lelio 5/5
NOW & 4EVA 4/5

Something like that for me, my only problem with this album is Angel, and I still like it, just not much...

[waterballoon]

Angel: 5/5
XOXO: 5/5
Lelio: 5/5
What is forever love: 5/5
NOW & 4EVA: 5/5
Terminal: 4/5

I love 'em all.

To rate...

Angel > XOXO = Lelio > What is forever love > NOW & 4EVA > Terminal

[~kashifaita~]

1. Feel the love - 8/10
Awesome dance song! And I'm totally in love with the dance breaks. It'd be so awesome if it was on DDR, lol.

2. XOXO - 6/10
I like the instrumental but...idk the engrish just doesn't suit well for me here. It's an okay song that definitely could've been approached better.

3. What is forever love - 7/10
Gosh the piano at the beginning of this is epic. And Ayu's vocals at the beginning and the whispering were great too. But I feel it would've been better off as just an Ayu song instead of having Urata Naoya feature in it. Their vocals blend really well together here though. Much, much better compared to the last two songs they did. I gotta say, it still kinda irks me how Ayu never put "feat. Urata Naoya" lol.

4. Hello new me - 5/10
Verses are good, but the chorus is meh. I got tired of it after a couple of listens. A very typical Ayu song that could just as easily been inserted into LOVE again.

5. Pray -10/10
Ohoho yaasss. This is the ballad I've been waiting for. It's just so raw and emotional and powerful. And that ending, ufff. But seriously, this song just gives me so many feels. It certainly has that "old ayu" vibe to it and her vocals are just superb.

6. Angel - 7/10
Like XOXO, I love the instrumental but I think she overkilled on her vibrato in this song. It's still nice though, and I really commend the high notes Ayu hits towards the end.

7. Terminal- 10/10
BEST. SONG. ON THE ALBUM. Holy crap. Words cannot DESCRIBE how I feel about this song. Sure, the beginning may be a little redundant and long. Sure, it may be another generic EDM westernized song and sure, it sucks that more than 85% of the song isn't her vocals. But the lyrics. The tone of her voice, the emotion she screams when she belts out "irenai." Wow. As I've seen someone mention on this thread, Terminal is a very, very dark song with a theme and atmosphere that can be easily overlooked if not heard closely and read in between the lines. "Terminal" itself means the end of something or something leading ultimately to death (not just an airport LOL) and Ayu's vocals with the instrumental make the whole song sound almost painful and as if she's in agony. God, I can write essays on analyzing this song lmfao, but TL;DR: It's on the verge of epic. Best dance song from Ayu probably since Connected.

8. Merry-go-ground - 9/10
I always loved, loved, loved MGR when it came out. It's very melancholic and Verbal's rap added a very nice touch to it. Like Pray, it gives me a whole lot of feels.

9. Lelio - 7/10
I think the chorus is what really turns me off from Lelio. The song has so much potential but I just keep hearing "achoo" and it won't leave my head...

10. NOW & 4EVA - 7/10
Song is lovely but it's something that, again, could've been inserted into LOVE again. Ayu's goal with this song was to bring back her old style though, so I commend her for it.

OVERALL I think the album is pure awesomeness. Not as great as her oldies of course, but Ayu's definitely on the right track. 8/10 for me.

[perfectodub]

10/10:

1. Feel the love
2. XOXO
3. What is forever love
5. Pray
8. Merry-go-ground
9. Lelio

5/10

4. Hello new me
6. Angel


4/10

7. Terminal
10. NOW & 4EVA

[NintendoHTF1242]

What is forever love and Merry-go-round are flawless; the other songs are irrelevant.

[orangeakira]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

What is forever love and Merry-go-round are flawless; the other songs are irrelevant.

I really want an acoustic version of mgr with just that guitar strumming and maybe some violins, or something ethereal like the opening and guitar part of Namie Amuro's Alive.♥

I still wish they did a stripped down version of Last Links. The orchestra version wasn't bad but it didn't do the original song any justice.

[chikocchi]

Feel the love - 3/10
XOXO - 7/10
What is forever love - 4/10
Hello new me - 6/10
Pray - 10/10
Angel - 2/10
Terminal - 6/10
Merry-go-round - 8/10
Lelio - 7/10
NOW & 4EVA - 8/10

[Luther10]

Feel the Love - 8
XOXO - 10
What is Forever Love - 10
Hello New Me - 8
Pray - 9
Angel - 8
Terminal - 10
Merry Go Round - 10
Lelio - 10
Now and 4eva - 9

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by orangeakira

I really want an acoustic version of mgr with just that guitar strumming and maybe some violins, or something ethereal like the opening and guitar part of Namie Amuro's Alive.♥

I. Would. DIE! That sounds absolutely gorgeous! The reason I was so drawn to Merry-go-round was because of that guitar strumming omg!

[kalikagai]

Originally Posted by kalikagai

Terminal - 10/10
What is forever love - 7/10
Lelio - 9/10
Merry-go-round - 8/10
XOXO - 6/10
Hello new me - 6/10
Pray - 7/10
NOW & 4EVA - 10/10
Feel the love - 8/10
Angel - 8/10

So, after listening to this album many-many times I've changed my mind a bit.

Feel the love - 8/10 for studio and 10/10 for live version.
This song is really fun and catchy, it'd stuck in my head for a while. But! The real pearl this song becomes when it's performed live! PVs suck though

XOXO - 5/10.
I have mixed feelings about this. Her Engrish doesn't bother me at all, but I can't help feeling this entire song is just a third-rate leftover. It's not the appropriate song for the artist who has "Sparkle" in her discography imho.

What is forever love - 6/10.
It's nice and flaws well but... is there anything else I can actually feel about it? Period. It's better than ANother song, but worse than Why...

Hello new me - 8/10.
Ooh, it grew sooo much on me. It's gentle and delicate, a song "Love songs" could have.

Pray - 8/10.
Heartful ayu-ballad, nuff said. I just lack a bit of epicness or a pinch of grief in it.

Angel - 9/10.
Her vocals here seem weird to me sometimes, but I enjoy it much overall coz' it's a fresh-type ballad from the master of ballads. I'm looking forward to "Angel" live perfomane hoping to rate this song 10/10.

Terminal - 11/10.
Here comes the DOOM, the HEARTBREAKER, the SOUL CRUSHER! It's so dark, it's so emotional, it's so adultly sorrowful I can feel real physical pain in my heart. Ayu, how can you slay me so brutally?!

Merry-go-round - 8/10 for studio and 9/10 for live version.
I wish there're none of those awful and useless rap inserts...

Lelio - 9/10.
Hey, what's that - an awesome piece of ayu-lyrics? Wait, no, it's not... An example of beautiful and sensate melody? Nope... Ah, I get it - it's a meaning-empty radiokiller catchy as hell.

NOW&4EVA - 10/10.
This song is a quality mark.

Overall "Colours" turned out to be a pretty solid album and refreshing experience in ayumi hamasaki discography, it's a pity there's no proper marketing campaign. I'm just a bit sad and disappointed with lack of creativity within this release (PVs, covers, coherent delivery included) so I can't call "Colours" album a work of art like "Rock'n'Roll Circus" almost was.

P.S. Why don't we play the last surviving song game anymore?

[Corvina]

Feel the love - 4/10
Not my kind of EDM. Though catchy and I can listen to it compared to You & Me, which I totally dislike.
XOXO - 8/10
Fun and catchy. The break is too short. And quite bad Engrish, but nevermind.
What is forever love - 6/10
Such a nice melody and vocals, but it's kind of cheesy and repetetive.
Hello new me - 6/10
Biggest case of wasted potential. The verses are great, but the chorus....
Still quite nice to listen to.
Pray - 5/10
Suffers its length. And I actually can't remember how it sounds. Though it's calming, that I still know.
Angel - 2/10
Hm, I just can't seem to like it. The composition is pretty simple, but Ayu's voice isn't able to carry the song.
Terminal - 10/10
Just perfect for me, especially melody and her voice!
Merry-go-round - 7/10
Hm, I like it, I like the atmosphere, though it's something missing for me to be great. Don't know what.
Lelio - 9/10
Another great song. Her vocals aren't that good, but she's having some attidue. Love!
NOW & 4EVA - 8/10
Biggest grower on the album for me. I just don't like the break that much before the end.

Overall, even with the songs I don't like, the album is well produced.
I appreciate that. And there are a bunch of songs this time I'm going to replay a long time for sure!

[NintendoHTF1242]

Okay so after spamming the album for quite some time

Feel the love - I didn't think this song was all that the first time I heard it. But it gradually grew onto me. This is an EDM sound that I don't think anybody else in the music industry could pull off. That's why I like it so much. It's catchy and DJ Hello Kitty knew exactly what he/she was doing with the production work. 4/5

XOXO - Even though this song has the typical RedOne flair going on, Ayu still takes it and owns it. Very catchy song and the production work is top-notch! 4/5

What is forever love - I love DAISHI DANCE's productions. So I knew already that I was going to love the shit out of this song. Urata and Ayu sound PERFECT in this track! I absolutely love Urata's vocals in this song. He needs to make more music like this. Perfect track. 5/5

Hello new me - I can't stand this song lol 1/5

Pray - This song grew onto me a lot! One of Ayu's most gorgeous ballads. Love the part near the end that sounds like the piano chords in HANABI. 5/5

Terminal - LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT! But Ayu's vocals are a little unbearable at times... But holy shit when she sings, "Kimi ni..." <3 4/5

Angel - My second least favorite song on this album. It's pretty much Wrecking Ball but with different vocals and music layering. Ayu's voice is just unbearable at this point. I do give her some credit because the chorus is catchy. 2/5

Merry-go-round - This song sparked my interest back into Ayu when it was first released last year. Gorgeous, flawless song. Acoustic version soon, plz Ayu. 5/5

Lelio - This song is on fire! And I constantly fucking sing it every single minute of the day someone send me help. 5/5

NOW & 4EVA - Run-of-the-mill Ayu pop song. Really bland, tbh. It's a good album ending though. 3/5

I ended up loving this album a lot, which doesn't surprise me because I was really interested in all the producers she decided to work with on this album. It was a great change-up from that peach pastel + ballads bullshit she was putting us through. Ayu should definitely look into making more tracks and maybe even re-use some of them (looking at you Armin and DAISHI DANCE).

My only complaints are Hello new me/Angel; and the transition from Pray into Terminal is awful.