Oh, we did...?
-did not know-
I saw the other ones...
-runs to ViVi/blog-
thank you (:

Oh, I see those photos! I thought those were from a different PV, for some odd reason...
It looks relatively boring D: Although I'm excited for the bloodstained wall portion! haha~
I was really hoping for the veil portion to be Don't Look Back... it really fits with the theme.
Oh welll...

You siggy made me laugh so hard! :laugh Even though you broke down anyway xD

Is it 4/14 yet? It feels like I've been waiting forever!

It will probably be in the tour for Don't look back. It's usually VERY obvious how she'll place songs.

Like Sexy little things will probably be in her white bunny eared wig... etc.

^ I blame all of you! I have a very weak resistance/will...

^ So do I! I don't even try to resist...For me, Resistance is futile, in the case of Ayu leaks.previews.
:yes

haha, I tried not to listen to any of the previews or leaks but I'd failed......big time

Thanks to AHS (Ayumi Hamasaki Syndrome) :thud

I'm surprised AHS hasn't been crashing at all for me @_@

oh my I watched the Microphone PV and seriously I couldn't breathe for that 4.5 minutes. omg.

I'm starting to see get my own interpretation of Microphone's PV, and the ending... I think I know why it's linked to Sexy little things. All I need is Slt's PV and I probably will be more sure of my thoughts~

It was down for most of the day this morning.

I love Duty. vogue is ok. INSPIRE is pretty cool.

But from the preview we had of Don't look back in the Lumix CM, the arabic feeling was different. Like more bollywood/hindi or whatever and I really disliked it. I just don't find that style entertaining. I'll set my expectations for the album a lot lower than they were and hopefully I won't be disappointed.

The Hindi/Arabic feel got turned up like 300% in the full version, haha.

:eviltongu BOO!

Lol. Ugh... maybe it'll turn out better than I think but right now I'm imagining it as something I'll absolutely loathe so that when I do hear it, it'll surprise me!

I thought Ayu said this album was "back-to-basics" style. So I had this whole image of just classic Ayu headbangers/hits and it seems this album is very experimental.

Most people's reactions to Don't look back have been: "I love this... but then I hate it. BUT I LOVE IT."...

I'd say you might like it. But if you're totally turned off by that sitar, I don't know...

How do you feel about the sitar in this?

I love it in that song! Damn! Or how Ku uses it, but even with Ku's I always had to warm up to it. With Ayu, I just don't associate that with her. It's like, I'd rather have a really good song without it. I don't know how Ayu can do this style... it just doesn't work well in my mind and the preview on top of it was yucky. Lol.

The ethnicity did get bumped up in the HQ version, hah.
I like the backtrack more in the better quality version, but I'm still not feelin' this one, in general... Sorry, guys. :X Still, I do suddenly have hope for it to grow on me some, hah. We'll see......

Ayu's had sitar-ish sounds in vogue and INSPIRE though, and it worked just fine there, haha.

Back to basics seems to have meant "Back to the way she was before" where she'd choose songs from all over the place and still make them work together as an album, haha.

Oh yeah? That makes sense, I'm in school in the morning from 7:30am to 3:30pm. I wasn't in the annoying clutches of AHS crashing, thank god :laugh.

Hitomi kind of kicks Ayu's (and most other's) ass at exotically-themed pop songs.... Falco is AMAZING. I do like DLB a lot, but it definitely cannot compare with it. While not perfect, I must embrace the idea that Ayu is trying new things. We're always complaining that we've heard so-and-so song before and that she should explore jazz or whatnot. Yet when she does, people are upset that she's not sticking to her roots.

Overall, I love ethnic songs, and I honestly think that the Arabian style of DLB is the main thing that makes it beautiful to me. :)

That's because Shimatani is amazing at symphonic/ethnic pop. PERSUEUSUSU.

I'm gonna go get BEST&COVERS now thanks.

Ayu's stuff is more typical pop... not symphony/classical or ethnic really. But she's starting to cross over into that territory with Don't look back.