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Heavenly marks the *intersection/U-turn-point (*delete according to own listening preference/inner rocker) along L'arc's route to fame. Before that point, they could have either stayed with the old sounds of Dune, or proceedeed to pop-dom by churning out Blurry-Eyes-like songs. The songs in Heavenly clearly showed their decision:

• Time to Say Goodbye -- cutie-pie-pop as ever (see left-side image), the only lip service to notoriety being Ken baring his lower posterior (sorry Ken fans this is a Haido tribute, so no pixies of his buttock here)
• Cureless -- as good as it may sound even to non-pop advocates, no one who has listened to indies-day Kioku no Kakera (original version, probably same chord structures, especially at the beginning; different overall arrangement and lyrics) coold sing along with Cureless without wishing that L'arc had kept the original instead.
• And She Said -- ditto. Nostalgia stuck in mind long after its newer (and tamer) version is forgotten.

When a band mutilates their indie-days song to come up with a softer, more universally palatable version, it is time for the less *goth/rock/metal -inclined fans to rejoice, and time for the more *goth/rock/metal -inclined ones to look for new objects of adulation (* again, delete where inapplicable).

Personally, this has never posed a problem for the author, who is happily genre-blind (except when it comes to rap/hip-hop, which she detests). So long as Hyde is in it, she is prepared to idolise it (E.g: MoonChild, even though Gackt was in it too).

The cap on the right probably comes from a Heavenly '95 tour, I'm not sure. All I knew was it was heart-breakingly difficult to get a clear cap ('clear' as in people would know and say "aha there goes Hyde", instead of "who's that monkey?") from the video. The author hopes to get her paws on the DVD one day, but in the meantime she'll enjoy her WinMX-sourced .avi files.