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Ayumi Hamasaki: The Rate - Part I [Greatful days]


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NOW we're done. :angelo:

 

40. Memorial address - 8.094
39. Greatful days - 8.156
38. CAROLS - 8.177
37. WHATEVER - 8.206
36. July 1st - 8.318
35. my name's WOMEN - 8.35
34. Dearest - 8.353
33. Far away - 8.379
32. Boys & Girls - 8.432
31. HANABI - 8.435

30. End roll - 8.441

 

 

TOP 30 29

 

A Song for ××
Depend on you

 

Fly high
Trauma
And Then
immature
TO BE
too late
appears
monochrome
Who...

 

Duty
vogue
SURREAL

 

Connected
evolution
Naturally
NEVER EVER
M
Endless sorrow

 

Real me

 

Because of You
ourselves
No way to say

 

About You
GAME
Moments
INSPIRE

 

RAINBOW

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The literal single RAINBOW song is killing me :rip: 

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Expecting evolution, M, NEVER EVER to get the sabotage next before the top 15. I would say appears too, but that's a fave amongst the J-Gays

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1 minute ago, Kyle-x said:

The literal single RAINBOW song is killing me :rip: 

The debut looking at her:

 

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I'm at the point when I'm fine with everything left.


Depend on you
immature
TO BE
Duty

vogue
SURREAL

Connected
M
Because of You
Moments

 

Top 10 in my delusional mind.

 

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A Song for ××

And Then

immature

Who...

Duty

vogue

SURREAL

Connected

evolution

Naturally

Because of You

ourselves

GAME

Moments

RAINBOW

 

Manifesting top 15 placements for these girlies, but everything is so good :jonny: 

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I think I underrated GAME a bit, that was a proto-GUILTY moment. I blame whatever Nishino album I was listening to before that. Curaga sent his kiss of death to NEVER EVER, but it'd be nice to see it snatch despite that.

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10 minutes ago, Suilen said:

I think I underrated GAME a bit, that was a proto-GUILTY moment. I blame whatever Nishino album I was listening to before that. Curaga sent his kiss of death to NEVER EVER, but it'd be nice to see it snatch despite that.

Curaga said NEVER EVER will NEVER EVER reach the top 10

 

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Thinking about adding a director's cut to the ending, leaking a version of the results with no Curaga scores... for science. :giraffe:

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i'm just now realizing that dolls is already out

 

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anyway, GODappears reigning supreme as it should :clap3: 

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Im busy helping my neighboor with some things :gaycat6: so, i was not able to attend this rate sadly
 
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but i will give my thoughts-opinion of the songs once im free :gaycat2: 
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thanks to the good sis grave for these amazing graphics

July 4th. What an uplifting masterpiece you are :gaycat2:

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16 minutes ago, Graves said:

Thinking about adding a director's cut to the ending, leaking a version of the results with no Curaga scores... for science. :giraffe:

It will be interesting for sure. Curaga we LOVE & HATE.mp3 you for bringing the kiis and drama though so thank you for your service diva :gaylorcat2:

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This is so fun to watch, I am rooting for the lonesome underdog 'RAINBOW' track 

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12 minutes ago, Graves said:

 

 

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whew her best album

 

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NOT BOYS & GIRLS BEING OUT 

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1 hour ago, Graves said:

 

 

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Ready for the next rate. "Step You" will stomp.

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:heart:this masterpiece

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6 hours ago, Graves said:

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6th Single
Track #10 on LOVEppears

 

HIGH SCORE: 10 x 7 (Graves, Kyle-x, Invisibility, UrMom, blueberries, Maresia, AMIT)

LOW SCORE: 3 x 1 (AvadaKedavra)

HOST SCORE: 10

 

I dunno about you girls, but to me WHATEVER has always been the centerpiece of LOVEppears. Perhaps it isn't the biggest hit on the album, nor the most remembered, but it is the most artistically sound. Look, I get some of you find her vocals annoying at parts of this song, and I don't say that you're wrong! ...but, those little issues just don't bother me enough to not enjoy everything else about this marvelous track. That nasty sounding synth that bounces underneath the entire track is everything, and the rising inflection on the pre-chorus gets me so hype every damn time. Turn the lights down low and just bump to this song like you were meant to.

 

LOVEppears is a dance album first and foremost, and no song on the album represents this more than WHATEVER, in all of its seven minute club mix glory. Yes, I rated the album version and any of the girls with taste did too. The '90s was the decade in which all of the popgirls were begging remixers to give their singles the club mix treatment - there was an art to these mixes. The fact that this mix was done by a Japanese DJ too, Izumi 'D.M.X' Miyazaki, gives it a more full and legitimate feel than a lot of the tinny "club" tracks avex gave to their other artists during the decade. WHATEVER was a real club track, not just a cover of a bad Eurobeat song.

 

WHATEVER was Ayu's first foray into the top five of the singles chart. It came out only a month after her debut album had been released too - talk about a sudden switch-up. Though not one of her biggest hits, WHATEVER is a very important moment in Ayu's career. It was an early example of her ability to be a genre chameleon and a risk-taker. The video also... exists. I don't know that the straw bangs and the straitjacket was her best look, but I digress. Ayu doesn't seem that fond of this one? At least the Version M. She has only performed the (inferior) Version J in every outing since 2000. Ew. What's up with that, Ayu?

 

 

Suilen: too many variants, this is entering the Taylor Swift territory. Anyway, I think I liked the album version the best.

Kyle-x: The way she stuck this 7 minute version in the middle of the album and still made it work whew. The switch up with this single is crazy, I know the girls were shook when she dropped this as the lead single. It's good they opted to use "version M" as the definitive version, even though "version J" is still quite good. This is where the random white kids being in her videos started… but it was very interesting PV anyway.

Invisibility: Version J is a cute girl, I appreciate the opera rock kinda rework. But Version M.... oh *****... An electro/dance/trance diva was BORN. A legion of Ayupans dressed as astronauts and Avex buying Armin van Buuren studio time/demos for remixes decades before Terminal was even conceived... I LOVE this song. The dramatics, the woo's, the relentless, pulsating beat and the strings fading into and out of existence. It's one of the most unique songs in her discog in the best way.

Curaga: This instrumental is an absolute lightning strike. I really love the verses, but the "wow wow wow" part kinda ruins it for me... Still, I put it relatively high on my list :keir:

AMIT: version J has always been my favorite, but the album version is good as well and grew on me in no small part thanks to miss suilen.

Fevesy: Deduced a .5 cuz the WOooooooWs were kinda annoying.

 

 

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Ayu Rate voters... mental institution... crazy... b****es need straightjacket

 

WHATEVER is in no way, shape or form the 4th worst proper track in LOVEppears, what's going on!! 

 

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The way my lowest five scores remaining are all from LOVEppears. Much like Alex trying to recoup the Lady Dynamite video budget, I lost! 

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17 minutes ago, Invisibility said:

The way my lowest five scores remaining are all from LOVEppears. Much like Alex trying to recoup the Lady Dynamite video budget, I lost! 

Good. I was fine with its domination up until this point, but it's time to become even with other albums.

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6 hours ago, Graves said:

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Not me leaving before the biggest gag of the rate so far for me :rip: I truly thought Boys & Girls was going to take it, so much so that I considered giving it my 11 just for the sake of securing its #1 spot :deadbanana: The way I am always so bad at predicting the winners ahxdfaksjdf. "Wasting my 0" as a certain squirrel would put it. 

 

  

6 hours ago, Graves said:

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Her vocals on End roll, whew :duca: So beautifully sung! I definitely prefer the dance tracks on LOVEppears, but I never skip this one. 

 

  

5 hours ago, Graves said:

Thinking about adding a director's cut to the ending, leaking a version of the results with no Curaga scores... for science. :giraffe:

This would be interesting to see actually... The way 11/20 of my 10s have dropped off already, it makes me feel like my individual scores don't affect the rankings that much and only serve to entertain y'all/dig myself into a hole :mummy:

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Manifesting my top 10...

 

A Song for ××

Depend on you

Fly High

And Then

immature

too late

appears

SURREAL

Because of You

ourselves

 

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5 minutes ago, Curaga said:

I truly thought Boys & Girls was going to take it, so much so that I considered giving it my 11 just for the sake of securing its #1 spot :deadbanana:

Well, I thought that too, but from a different angle. Maybe it's no. 1 in the results without Suilen.

 

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7 minutes ago, Curaga said:

Because of You

The way I 100% thought you were going to drag that, maybe there's some hope for you

 

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