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CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION:

LYRICS
T.M.Revolution - Hot Limit
Gackt - Dears
Gackt - Last Song
w-inds. - Kawariyuku Sora
Hitomi Shimatani - Destiny ~Taiyou no Hana~
TVXQ - Love in the Ice
TVXQ - Bolero
Yui - Summer Song

RECORDINGS
Ayu - Because of You
w-inds. - Shiki (full version take 2)
TVXQ - Mirotic ~Jumon~
Yui - Summer Song

"CAROLS" has always been high on the requests list, since it's such a beautiful Ayu ballad. We finally have an English version available for download. I hope you like it, since I sang it with all my heart for the person I love. Although it's sad that Ayu's former love for whom the song was written is no longer with her, the sentiments that she expressed will live on, and people like us will forever use songs like "CAROLS" to represent our own feelings.

On a side note: HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY AYU!!!

Another section that's been updated is the "Members" page. We have a new member who is a talented singer, songwriter and guitarist (see the member page of Waka). Just for fun, I added some Simmish caracatures of the band members - I think it's more interesting than real photos, besides the fact that some of the members don't want their photos displayed for everyone to see.

While I take a backseat for a while, because of illness, Rosa and Waka will be creating some new stuff for you to enjoy. They're looking forward to recording their own musical arrangements soon, as well as writing new English versions and fulfilling some requests. It will be very interesting to get a male voice on some recordings (if we can persuade Waka to sing for us lol).

I hope you will all keep visiting us and supporting our work. Thank you!

Hello everyone, sorry for the very long sleepy period!

The lack of updates is due to some complicated circumstances. I'm the main writer and organiser of The Way to Say, and this year I've been very ill. I'm afraid my long-term condition makes it difficult for me to do much writing or singing these days. Meanwhile, Rosa (our talented female vocalist), has been writing some of her own adaptations of various Jpop songs. The artists she is focusing on include T.M.Revolution, Hitomi Shimatani, Gackt and some J-Rock bands. She is planning to make some recordings soon, so I'll upload them when she does. (For those of you who are not sure which one Rosa is, she's the soloist of "Who...", while I am the one who sang "Jewel").

Replies to Guestbook questions:

Can I use your translations/recordings for my own projects/website?
Please feel free. Permission is open to everyone, but please credit us!

Can I request songs?
Yes, you can post your requests in the forum of guestbook.

Why don't you sing Utada songs?
We feel that Utada doesn't need any help with reaching English speakers. She is fluent and does her own English songs.

Thank you all so much for your kind praise and comments. I'm so happy that we've had such good feedback. I'm sorry that updates and song requests are going to take a long time, but please bear with us.

Hey all well I got bored and decided to work up a new website and here it is. New forum is set up so go join and leave all your feedback there (don't forget about the guestbook though ^_^).

If you previously had an account on the forum you will need to resign up. A bunch of spammers pretty much destroyed it all before. The main changes are the
    New forum
    Adding voting (thumbs up or down) for songs
    From the listen now/playlist it will load the song lyrics.
        -I just know you wanted to sing along :).
    Added downloading of a low quality version of the MP3
        -Much smaller it is the one used in the online play.
    Bunch of code changes to make things load bit faster.
        -Complete rewrite of most of it.
    All the admin section is now a ton faster and more simple
        -no guests don't get to see that part :p.
Thats about it, sign up to the forum and let me know what you think.

Matt.

p.s: due to the new coding it auto encodes the lower quality version. If this version for some reason sounds really bad or you think it might not be how it should, post on the forum here.