《Part of Me》, 2007
Youtube version(Official, 1.5 minutes):
That is
my other retro favorite for the Japanese stylish ballad, referring to an interview
of Ms. Hamasaki, she handed in this song “few days after the deadline(laugh)”. POM was produced in 2007 spring, the period when she released her album《A Best 2》.
For the 《A Best》 3.28 collection in 2001,
it was not released under her own will, she was too much a superstar at that
golden time, and Avex seriously had it need and control to bush up sales record.
Finally came out as Ayu v.s. Utada Hikaru(Both topped an impeccable history,
over 4 million copies are sold by each).
(Year 2001)
Ayumi thought that an album should
summarize a singer’s bests, and she was far from that at the moment (humble
kid…). As rebellious as she was, that was why she had a tear-drop cover in her《A Best》, showing she was manipulated by
the “A-factory”.
(For
more, view her ”浜崎あゆみ: 光と影25岁の绝望と决断(Ayumi
Hamasaki: Light and Shadow, 25 years old’s despair and determination)”
interview)
(Year 2007)
At the
time 2007 Ayu was no longer controllable. The 《A Best 2》of course was released under her concepts
and well arranged. She was more laid back at that time, and she well planed the
things in the album. 《A Best
2》is divided into “white” and ”black”
discs, “white” concludes the happy songs and the “black” have the darks songs
from Ayu.《Part
of Me》is the only new song for the whole album, allocated
in the “black” disc.
The
enchanting 《Part
of Me》PV brings audience a retrospective
story, which is very pleasant to watch the poetic graphics(sad love story
though).
The whole story is about reincarnation and inter-crossing karma. (I think)Life is somehow like a flowing river, on the one hand somethings may flow merge into, and become 'part of you'; on the other hand, there are things that would leave eventually, and you can just let it go(let it go~ let it go~~).
Ayu acts
as a kabuki or princess in the ancient time (Meiji?? Or Showa?? I don’t know much about Japanese History, I am an engineer graduate!:-) With the enormously gorgeous kimono, she was waiting under
the sakura tree for her lover. A dramatic change in the era she is standing,
and lonely she is abandoned.
She takes put her hairpin and died from this
(forget about the logic!). The fallen princess is like a butterfly in the
narration, and this little insect is captured by a mantis (I hate this
organism!!!! Just searched for the correct vocabulary of it and its images come out!!!!!!
So ill I knew it is not grasshopper!!!!!!!!).
In Mandarin
language, there is a phase ”use mantis to stop a carriage”, meaning that this
move is useless, and telling one is too arrogant to doing something bold. In some ways it matches the concept that the doom is inevitable.
The killer mantis, under his(or 'its'?) karma, is later suffocated by a snake. The fallen Ayu is then decomposed and nourished into a big tree, new lives begin and continue.
[To comfort saddened audiences, Ayu is awake in another beautiful kimono. She meets Shuya(the male character) again in a dreamy place. ]
Other POM performance in 2011 Power of Music :
I watched Ayu singing this song in 2007 Hong Kong Coliseum too<Tour of Secret>. She sang this song with a 4kg kimono, had been a great 9-anniversary(She debuted for 16 years now btw...)!
(copied from online)
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