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Old 8th April 2021, 09:21 AM
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Question Songs you'd hoped to see on A BALLADS 2...

...but weren't included!

I don't mean this as greed, criticism, or lack of gratitude for A BALLADS 2. Just, what songs would you have included if you created the tracklist yourself?

I would have liked to see:
  • Will
  • GREEN
  • Last Links
  • crossroad
  • BRILLANTE
  • Sweet scar
  • Ivy
  • Pray
  • Last minute
  • Shape of love
  • The way I am

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Old 8th April 2021, 09:56 AM
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I think the track list for the album was really well rounded. Unlike others I’m glad they included songs like Curtain call and untitled ~for her~. But there are four tracks that should have been on there:

Ivy
Shape of love
Walk
Sweet scar

Easily some of her best ballads post 2010.
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Old 8th April 2021, 12:49 PM
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HANABI ~episode II~
crossroad
Sweet Season
Sunset ~Love Is All~
FLOWER
Missing
BRILLANTE
Will
part of Me
blossom
Summer diary
Winter diary
GREEN
Do It Again
Last minute
Why...
Mad World
Return Road
The Gift
Walk
ANother song

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Old 8th April 2021, 05:13 PM
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in chronological order:
  1. HANABI 〜episode II〜
  2. Will
  3. Pride
  4. Marionette
  5. GREEN
  6. Don't look back
  7. BRILLANTE
  8. crossroad
  9. do it again
  10. Return Road
  11. Walk
  12. Pray
  13. WORDS

I get that some of the songs she included like meant a lot to her or something, but that doesn't make them good ballads

at the same time, I can draw another list of "songs I wish weren't in A BALLADS" or "songs I'm glad aren't in A BALLADS" but I digress
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Old 8th April 2021, 07:54 PM
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The biggest one for me has to be November, it's such a fantastic song!

And then probably criminal and Hanabi episode II, if they classify as ballads?
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Old 8th April 2021, 08:39 PM
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Pray, sweet scar and shape of love.
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The biggest one for me has to be November, it's such a fantastic song!

And then probably criminal and Hanabi episode II, if they classify as ballads?
November may be my favorite song in general, but idk if I would call it a ballad? Looking at some lists here it seems lots of folks have different definitions for what a ballad is though...

And I can’t believe I forgot HANABI ~episode II~. The fact that it wasn’t included has me shook.
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November may be my favorite song in general, but idk if I would call it a ballad? Looking at some lists here it seems lots of folks have different definitions for what a ballad is though...
I love that song too. It's probably right on the border of ballad and mid-tempo. I imagine this song is painful for her now though (or maybe at best irrelevant?)
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Old 9th April 2021, 02:01 AM
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Will, Pride, GREEN, November and Sweet scar and probably some more of her creative ballads I just forgot right now. This release is still a big disappointment to me and I can only tolerate it because it gave us the georgous cover of Haru yo, koi I waited for since forever. The cover of Haru yo, koi is the only song I care for lol. It's perfect. I love love love love the original A BALLADS to death but I can't even stand the tracklist of A BALLADS 2. I hate the flow and it's so boring and repititive I can't. It sounds as if she's some kind of Kana Nishino - her most beautiful ballads which still make me cry don't deserve this.
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Old 9th April 2021, 02:34 AM
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November may be my favorite song in general, but idk if I would call it a ballad? Looking at some lists here it seems lots of folks have different definitions for what a ballad is though...

And I can’t believe I forgot HANABI ~episode II~. The fact that it wasn’t included has me shook.
Right that might be why! For me it is more ballad-y than aeternal for instance but it might just be that my definition of ballad is wrong
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Shape of love, one of my favorite ballad.
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Old 9th April 2021, 02:38 PM
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Wil
GREEN
meaning of Love
November
Sweet Scar
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Old 10th April 2021, 11:32 PM
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November may be my favorite song in general, but idk if I would call it a ballad? Looking at some lists here it seems lots of folks have different definitions for what a ballad is though...
Isn’t Love song also mid-tempo? I never considered Love song a ballad song.
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Old 10th April 2021, 11:59 PM
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A ballad, again, isn't defined by its tempo but by its lyrical structure which makes songs like Love song, Memorial adress, last Minute etc. Ballads.
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