Life, one of the most underrated Ayu songs ever?

[truehappiness]

I think the reasons why Life is underrated is that she didn't promote it as much, same goes with most of the songs on the list. Only ayu fans will know those songs, cuz if you're not a fan, why would you get the MW cd to listen to life? It's because not all of her songs get equal promotion, that's why they're underrated in that sense.

Well, the opinion among [most] Ayu fans seems to be that Life is rather bland and etc. No one who casually listens to Ayu would've probably spotted it or theme of a-nation '03 or ever free because they probably buy her albums only. The underrated opinion imo stems from seeing people constantly talk about how ______ isn't up to par with -insert some othe song here- and not just one person, but many individuals expressing their disdain for a certain song. I should go to bed or something, hah.

[TeddyGrahams]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Well, the opinion among [most] Ayu fans seems to be that Life is rather bland and etc. No one who casually listens to Ayu would've probably spotted it or theme of a-nation '03 or ever free because they probably buy her albums only. The underrated opinion imo stems from seeing people constantly talk about how ______ isn't up to par with -insert some othe song here- and not just one person, but many individuals expressing their disdain for a certain song. I should go to bed or something, hah.

But that's only coming from her hardcore fans. You know that they don't reflect the majority right? Like how a lot of hardcore ayu fans love Talkin' 2 Myself when it did so poor even with all those promotion.

I just think that Life is not performed enough to make it well known for most fans. I'm sure a lot of casual listeners would like a laid back song to listen to, but by your logic, they can't either because they would hardly spot this song. Seeing how it was performed once or twice in 10th anniversary tour, I can see how it's underrated. She just need to perform it more, like everywhere nowhere & Hope and Pain, two which I love since PDCL.

Haha it's almost 2 am here too, since we both live in cali. I should go to bed too.

[truehappiness]

It was only performed once, but still. A song doesn't have to be performed for people to like it. MW has been available for people to listen to since April 2008, so I imagine that a good amount of people have heard it and formed opinions about it..

Key words: "Forgettable, lame, boring, bland, typical, etc."

You don't really have to be a hardcore Ayu fan to say things like that, and tbh, the majority of people who had listened to MW from what I've seen people say online said very similar, if not the exact same words.

[ayumixfan]

^ OMG I so agree. ALL those songs u listed are SO underrated : ( ~! Its a shame because I love those songs LOL. I seem to have the opposite taste of most people on this forum sadly >_< Especially Beautiful Day and Beautiful Fighters D= Beautiful Fighters is one of her greatest accomplishments to me because although I'm not a women, I liked how she like supported them. I think thats great. And Beautiful day is such a fun and happy song. born to be is such an inspring song and Life is a nice relaxing song. They definitely are underrated.

[zyoeru]

I love Life. Seriously it is very underrated.

[SolarAngel]

I would say it's her best B-side which didn't appear in any album and i sincerely wished it was in NL. NL needs some serious boosting with more substantial tracks and Life is a decent enough song. That being said, not one of my favourites but a nice song.

[Maemi]

WINDING ROAD. Such a nicely arranged songs with beautiful lyric - but most people find it boring.

[TeeMo]

Well everybody has their own opinion... So... I don't care. I just love this song.

[rakeru]

i think it's too early to list any NEXT LEVEL songs as underrated. but my list would have to include:

still alone
no more words
Naturally
Liar
Replace
PS II
girlish

[truehappiness]

i think it's too early to list any NEXT LEVEL songs as underrated.

It's definitely not too early. People have already seemed to form their opinions about the album and they usually don't change them.. lol.

[truehappiness]

There might be some songs out there that are truly underrated maybe because the mainstream media made it look terrible and it influenced its viewers by bias (or other reasons). Though in this case, I don't think anything like that happened and the ratings was fair.

Is it possible that in this case you don't think anything happened like that because you yourself are part of the group that is very "MEH" on the song? Aha.

[ArchangelLegend]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Is it possible that in this case you don't think anything happened like that because you yourself are part of the group that is very "MEH" on the song? Aha.

Actually I'm mostly either the "WTF?" person or the "Hell yeah!" person. I think the "MEH" person has the sissy approach in forming an opinion about a song. xD

In the case of Life, I'm the "OMG! I spent money on this!" person because I really wanted this song to be better. ^_^

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by identity

it just doesn't catch your attention or anything, it reminds me of some of the songs on MY STORY.
it's okay, the lyrics are amazing

I pretty much agree. It sounds a lot like the songs on MY STORY. Life didn't capture my attention and I rarely listen to it. Partially because it never seemed like Ayu herself was interested in the song, it got little to no promotion what so ever and was never performed, not even in PCDL. Wasn't put on an album or a compilation of any kind. And it's truly a shame because it's associated with her 10th anniversary single but yet it was completely ignored.

But I actually like the song on the rare occasion I listen to it. Very easy going, but not memorable in my opinion.

[truehappiness]

I tend to usually believe that the songs that end up like that are the ones she holds closest to her heart, and thus they aren't performed. If that logic [that she ignores songs that aren't promoted] were to hold true, then Will / In The Corner / SCAR / alterna / countless other songs would be part of that "group of songs that Ayu doesn't like" but really.. it's just that some of them just don't get attention because there's no time/whatever for them. -sigh- It's sort of like saying that just because an artist ignores a B-side, they dislike the song.. it's like why would they even make the song then?

[waterballoon]

Honestly the songs that she never performs or rarely performs are the ones that I feel are the most personal.

- Liar
- It was
- criminal
- GUILTY

Very emotional songs to me.

teddy bear; performed in CDL 00-01 and AT 03-04. Twice, but it's still very personal.

[douggn]

Life doesn't do anything for me sadly, maybe after a good live preformance of it, I did try to like it but just couldn't but I don't hate it

[truehappiness]

I feel as though the people coming in here simply saying "Oh, this song totally doesn't do anything for me.." are just reinforcing why I even thought so in the first place.. haha.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I feel as though the people coming in here simply saying "Oh, this song totally doesn't do anything for me.." are just reinforcing why I even thought so in the first place.. haha.

Hmmm... in the end, what is "good" or "bad" still being just a matter of opinion... I would pick GUILTY or forgiveness any time as some of her best underated songs and don't even remember Life...

[dreamland2.0]

I don't really understand the disdain for GUILTY???
A lot of her title tracks sound like it, not overly fancy, but certainly not boring. I think GUILTY is quite powerful. It reminds of other album tracks such as (miss) understood, Secret, Memorial Address, appears, Duty.
From the moment I heard it, I've liked it.

[truehappiness]

Hmmm... in the end, what is "good" or "bad" still being just a matter of opinion...

This is true, but hey~ most discussion starts with a disagreement so.. whoo~