Аюми Хамасакинің "Маусымдар" хиті

2000 single by Ayumi Hamasaki

"Seasons" (capitalized as "SEASONS") is a song by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki for her third studio album, Duty (2000). It was written by Hamasaki, while production was handled by Max Matsuura. It premiered on June 7, 2000, as the third single from the album. The song is the final part of a trilogy from Duty; the other two singles being "Vogue" and "Far Away". Musically, "Seasons" is a Japanese pop song. The lyrics highlights theme of the hopelessness, describing Hamasaki's future. Upon its release, the track garnered rave reviews from music critics, who praised Hamasaki's songwriting, the song's composition and selected it as an album and career stand out track. It also achieved success in Japan, peaking at number one on the Oricon Singles Chart and on the TBS Count Down TV chart. "Seasons" has sold over 1.367 million units in Japan, making it Hamasaki's best selling single. The accompanying music video for "Seasons" was directed by Wataru Takeishi, and leads on from the videos of "Vogue" and "Far Away"; it features Hamasaki in a black gown in the middle of a post apocalypse city. Both the music video and the song has appeared on several compilations by Hamasaki, including A Best (2001) and A Complete: All Singles (2008). For additional promotion, the song was featured on several concert tours by Hamasaki.

Listen|pos=left|filename=Seasons (Sample). ogg|title="Seasons"|description=A 30 second sample of "Seasons". A J pop song that was cited by her fans as one of her most lyrically heartbreaking songs to date. Based on her song writing, she described her feelings after the writing all the tracks from Duty as "unnatural" and was constantly "nervous" for the final result. A staff reviewer from Amazon Japan noticed that the trilogy set had a "healing effect" that was absent on Hamasaki's two previous studio albums. "Seasons" was written by Hamasaki, while production was handled by Japanese businessman and musician Max Matsuura. The song was composed by long term collaborators Dai Nagao, whilst arrangement was handled by Naoto Suzuki. The maxi CD of the single contains the original composition and its instrumental version, plus nine remixes. As a single from the Duty trilogy, which included Hamasaki's singles "Vogue" and "Far Away", the singles were released as a DVD single and VHS. It included the three mini music videos, alongside the making of videos and a TV commercial. The CD and digital cover sleeve have an image of Hamasaki holding a polaroid of the cover artwork for "Far Away". The song's title, "Seasons", is present on cover. The standalone CD cover was used as the digital EP cover for the iTunes Store and Amazon. com.

"Seasons" received favourable reviews from music critics. Alexey Eremenko, who had written her extended biography at AllMusic, highlighted the song as an album and career stand out track. Morimosa from Nifty. com complimented Hamasaki's songwriting in the song. Hamasaki hosted an online voting poll for fans to choose their favourite tracks to be featured on her Ayumi Hamasaki 15th Anniversary Tour Best Live Tour. As a result, "Seasons" was included on the list. In early 2014, in honor of Hamasaki's sixteenth year career milestone, Japanese website Goo. ne. jp hosted a poll for fans to rank their favourite songs by Hamasaki out of thirty positions; the poll was held in only twenty four hours, and thousands submitted their votes. According to their separate review, the website commented on its win; "'Seasons' was an instant classic Fans cite the song's heartfelt and resonating lyrics as some of her best."