Yea! Finally got hold myself of YUI’s latest album (4th)- MY SHORT STORIES. This album compiles all of YUI past B-side single with a new song’ I’ll be’. Many peeps out there still had no idea what A-side, what B-side.
Well you see in a single, there are usually 2 songs if you don’t include the instrumental version. The A-side is the song that the company heavily advertises on, i.e. on commercial via anime/drama/movie-tie in , while B-side is so called the ‘filler’ to the whole single. So is A-side always better? Yes usually, but not always some B-side of YUI songs stand out more than A-side, e.g.her 10th single,’ Jam’ stand out more than ‘Love& Truth’ and ‘ I wanna be’ stand out more than ‘Namidairo’ in her 11th single.
the lovely cover
the back cover
some of the photos shot
this look real cool!
and the sticker!!
Anyway, this album is really worth it, cux it contains many of YUI’s street live performances, where she started her career as a street-performer initially (or rather practice in the street), that I not too sure yet. What’s more, it even came with a sticker, LOL! I mean who in the right mind would tear out the sticker and paste?
2 fellow dudes are heading for NS soon, that a farewell party was thrown @ BaliThai in the heart of that don-know-called-what fountain.
Warning: don’t even order a sour drink like calamari at Thai Restaurant, cux Thai food is already characterized by being hot & sour, with the sourness of calamari; you will only get stomach stir like me (too acidic!). I was like aching throughout the journey when the group decided to head from Suntec to Esplanade to Clark Quay. ZZZZZZz. Then we landed ourselves in this little bar ‘Eskimo’ (I think).
Was reluctant to order a drink; my tummy was still stirring, but in the end still order a ‘Screwdriver’ that taste literally like a bitter orange juice. Interestingly it didn’t worsen the stir in the tummy BUT a stir in the head that I decide ‘OK Kaijie it’s times to get home’ [I can actually feel the heat rising from the neck too, poor drinker =/]. I guess another cup is enough to make me go bonkers, LO!!! So I head straight to 7-11 to buy this ‘O-long tea’ as a meant to counter the alcohol I’d consumed not long ago… it helps
Look @ the spread of THaiFood!!!
@ The BAr [all pics 'cope' from hua's blog]
Kai Take care 桜 & 恋 =’
YUI's latest single SUMMER SONG [her 13th] out soon!!!!! [limited edition ver.]
[regular ver.]
usually i dont spend $$ on single, but this single look so cool la, maybe i might just buy it!
Finally grabbed my hand on YUI’s 3rd album ‘I LOVED YESTERDAY’ on the day before! Guess what? The store gramophone ordered only 2 copies of it and I was lucky enough to get it! The package comes with DVD clip of YUI’s MV and even her live performance at BUNOKAN (the grandest place 1 can perform in Japan!). Talk about money so worth spend la! The album only recycles 3 songs from her singles and the other 10 are all brand new tracks! More importantly there’s a lot of insight in lyrics penned down by YUI!
The photo shots are much better in quality as compared to her previous 2 albums! The previous 2 were rather plain and boring. The moment I opened it was like WOW!
The springy feeling of “Laugh away’ opens the album perfectly. I really like the bridge part when YUI sang ‘Never mind never mind’.
‘My generation’ was from YUI’s 9th single which talks about her dream as a singer at the age of 16. I inferred the lyric as her generation is all about schooling getting certs then a proper job but she believed her ‘own generation’ can be changed by choosing an alternative path at tender age of 16 (so mature right>). However I wasn’t really a great fan of this song; I preferred the acoustic version.
Ah, ‘Fine me’ is really something fresh! The track opens really sloppily but slowly built up when the chorus hits in. The interlude of YUI’s duo vocal during the chorus is what made me drawn to the song! This song is about lost and about desiring the love one to ‘find me’ soon~
“Namidairo’ (the 1 and only YUI’s non- English titled track) was form YUI’s 11th single. This is another of YUI’s typical acoustically-sang song. This song takes a couple of listens to really love it. there’s lots of emotion pumps in. ’In front of you I’m such a liar you know … I hope that you would realize this because I’m not in the least that strong at all’ I guess girls sometime pretend to be strong, when they want their partner to at least notice that hey ‘I not that strong after all, don’t you notice that?”
The track immediately transit to a muchx3 faster-pace song ‘Daydreamer’, which is rather sudden. Well the song really cant compared to YUI’s other faster paced song like ‘Jam’, ‘Rolling Star’, “LIFE’, ‘Merry Go round’, ‘How Crazy’. However the lyric, GOSh, beautiful! Again is about ‘change’. She don’t want to be just a daydreamer but wanting to translate those dreams into reality; ‘I want to shine more realistically'. I really like the part when YUI sang ‘I change me’, telling us only we can really change ourselves for the better! Only YUI can write something like that!
‘No way’ like ‘RUDIO’; that sound like a random short interlude which lasted 1.14. “Your tea has turned cold’ to the ‘My feeling have been damped too’. perhaps the guy had been cold to YUI that she lost that warmth and is saying ‘NO way’ this going to continued; I’d enough and sayoranna!
‘Love is all’, a song which many without any Japanese knowledge will easily assumed it oh another of those lovey-dovey song. I checked up the lyric translation and boy! She was ‘shooting’ those paparazzi in this song! She question them ‘isn’t it troublesome to collect real things and fake ones and then labeling them a price.’ There some anguish in the song ‘Being told off everyday, I cant get anywhere.’, I guess those paparazzi had being saying bad stuffs about her. ‘Tell the person who loves to compare with words that are filled with a little more love’; she telling that straight to those paparazzi! LOL take that! There a lot of ‘dragging/straining’ of vocal at the end of each verse; I can picture YUI’s trademark ‘constipation look’ when singing this song LOL!
constipation look
Finally comes a ‘true love’ song- “I will love you’. The whole song is easy to listen, very soothing. It tells about the beginning of love, starting to understand each other more, even by just a little bit, ‘I will love you’. This song is a complete contrast of “Namidairo’, ‘Namidairo’ talks about sadness in love~ This song like ‘Namidairo’ sounds boring at first but after couples of listen, will really love it especially after understanding the lyric!
‘We will go’, yet to find the lyric translation, this song gives me the feelings of no matter how much obstacles out there, ‘we will go’ and conquered it and believed it!
‘Oh yea’ is another of those chirpy songs that made you beating to its beats! The song is about anticipating every new day, each day itself is filled with hope. We must however remember yesterday; as today cannot happen without yesterday! ‘My friend’ is another soothing song that made you sway with the melody. It talks about the dream YUI had with another friend of hers, about how he taught her a new song and even now still nostalgic. That song is perhaps another reason why she is striving towards the dream as a singer as well. ‘Love and truth’ had to be 1 of her most complicated song to date. The song introduces lots of ‘classical’ strings in it. At BUDOKAN live, YUI sang together with about 20 band members and the whole feeling was so grand la! An unrequited love? ‘Let me listen to your love song’, but the truth is he is singing to someone else. ‘I want to touch your smiling face’ but the truth is I know that there's someone you're gazing at.
The album wrapped up ‘Am I wrong’; with YUI questioning herself is it wrong to continue a meaningless relationship.
The album as whole consists lots of easy to listen tracks. However many YUI’s fan had commented sometime it’s hard to differentiate between each tracks, as some of the melody really sound alike. As for me I can’t differentiate ‘Love is all’ ‘My friend’ ‘Am I wrong’ until the chorus comes in. 'Find me' and 'I will love you', the opening sounds too similar~
YUI’s 21st birthday! Was like wow so another year had just past like that. I still remembered vividly lots of my close friends did mentioned since 24th Dec 2006 ‘Aiya soon you’ll forgot this idol of yours one la’ (since I’m like so fickle to them) but hey hey this one gonna remains as long as she’s in the industry!
her strawberries mountain cake~ source:yupeh.livejournal.com
Wonder how she celebrates her birthday this year? for some reasons i still thought it falls on 25th, hmm. . .
YUI's 3rd official album - I LOVED YESTERDAY (as hinted in Laugh Away PV) due 9 April-WOOOt
Track List:
1. Laugh away 2. My Generation (single) 3. Find me 4. No way 5. Namidairo (single) 6. Daydreamer 7. Love is all 8. I will love you 9. We will go 10. OH YEAH 11. My friend 12. LOVE & TRUTH (single) 13. Am I wrong?
So we have 10 more new songs from YUI!!!!!!!!!! =]
If I'm lucky enough, i can get the limited edition which comes with DVD consisting some MV and some live images of YUI's First Budoukan live! Doubt if the limited edition ever be imported here? @___@ order online hmmm?
I jux check it cost 3750yen (GST+SHIPMENT) for the limited edition~ which is about $50, WOOOT @__@
Officially start work net week?
Kai takre care 桜 & 恋
wanted to swim these few days but it jux kept drizzling ZZ
She's back in her cute/pure kinda look after trying to feature her rocker side, which obviously doesn't suit her. Most YUI's fans like me will rather her cross-legged, strumming guitar image. This PV kind of remind me of her in 'Feel My Soul'
Simply love the chorus of the song! Made me smile away, repetitive playing jux wont feel sick. Cant wait for her New Album due 9th April!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT SMILEZ AWAY~
YUI is incredibly talented to pronounce those tongue twisting lyric since 'Life', 'Cherry' 'How Crazy' & 'I wanna be' Sugoiii, I wish i have that kind of tongue @___@
**Every time i tried my tongue jux got twisted; SAD**
some tough luck in getting job @__@ starting work soon~ finger cross, may everything goes well =] meanwhile singing YUI's songs to pass time! Kai takre care 桜 & 恋
kai.. simple...
can be really blur and yet serious at times, look innocent ;ahem; but actually nt @__@
at times can become Philosophical. .
love chocolat range frm extremely swt to tremendously bitter
Love YUI
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