I like the CD only version. Not too crazy about CD+DVD.

Ayu looked like she's drinking water from an invisible cup on the CD vers XD

The guys from BRILLANTE are actual K1 mixed martial artists, lol.

lol. Guys, just be happy that the font isn't something boring like Times Roman XDD
I like the font, it fits perfectly imo.

+1 :yes

IMO, Brillante = Don't look back + INSPIRE + Wonder Woman.

I am truly curious about what other meaning FIVE has. Abbreviation of some phrases??

Woah, the bit of beloved on Sukkiri sounds SUPER uplifting and hopeful for a ballad. I want it in full!

You can see a clearer version at the Facebook page with the username AyuFanPage.

oh the HQ covers are great.

I love the photoshopping...seriously, I'm not being sarcastic lol

And the second one looks much less like Madonna now, cause everything's so much softer.

Very very nice. I don't mind the font so much, I think they did a good job with finding that particular one...but I think it might have been better if it wasn't so plain, like if there was an effect of some kind...a glow, or something, but then, I'm sure they fiddled with it, and this was what looked best.

There is no such thing as a good or bad font (usually). You have to find a font that fits the image and the mood you want...and that can be an art in itself.

Fonts can be so difficult and this could have gone down much much worse.

The better quality preview of beloved sounds really nice. =D

ugh beloved's preview.. sounds like another generic ballad.
Oh well they're just 47 seconds lol I'll looking for a long preview.

If you look at where both her hands are placed, it looks like she's about to twist and break her own neck.

absolutely gorgeous! she's rockin' her new look as usual <3

just listened to the higher quality preview of beloved and I'm not really impressed. It sounds kind of boring so far, but it's so short so hopefully the rest of the song sounds better.

beloved sounds nice but it's still too short.

where can I hear higher quality preview of beloved?

It's on a Facebook fanpage. Kinda hard to embed or rip it here, but you can find it at www.facebook.com/AyuFanPage.

wow Beloved sound great on higher quality..really touching and emotional...
love it

Beloved is going to be interesting.

The song sounds like... something Ai Otsuka would sing?? Or I'm just saying that because it reminds me of AI's pv, I don't know.

It sounds nice, I'm looking forward to hearing the whole thing. ^_^

thanks. It's too short to say anything. I hope we'll have the pv soon!

Is it best cover? I dont think so! I think this cover have a taste same with crossroad / L single. Not different with shimo-kun style. My prediction, maybe booklet this album have same concept with NEXT LEVEL, a concept about 'simple & modernity'.

If L 's cover have meaning hold a face mask. So, Five 's cover have meaning "i will opened my mask" LoL~ L & Five cover can be continue photo episode *giggle*

I hate tasteless background looks like this. Just 1 colour.

I still cant find beloved in better quality, on page th posted I found only ULQ clip

edit: Oh I got it lol, didnt realized it at first, such a shame its so short but it reminded me on Days,
but more powerful, it will be a beautiful song

NOT saying that Ayu is copying Madonna, but the CD only cover totally reminds me of Madonna's True Blue cover. I love that pose a lot though!

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/259...limited.th.jpg

i think costume from this cover used 'white bunny' costume RnRC Tour 2010 7 days special

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/3559/at10o.th.png

am i right?

Yes you're right =)

It was ment to be that way^^

True Blue is one of the best album covers ever, imo. haha, so the comparison is a good thing in my book xD

video from facebook
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkc...8-04_lifestyle

beloved preview
http://www.sendspace.com/file/swwusu

I am beloved :love:love.

I love how leslie kee spends so much times to work on ayu..

Haha...and the whole theme of the covers for me seem to emulate the "Vogue" feel. There's so much speculation on what BRILLANTE might turn out to be, but I'd LOVE the song if it was vogue-esque.

beloved preview sound good!!I can't wait to see the full version ^_^

Thanks Aderianu for sharing the preview =))

beloved seem to be a good song for me, thanks

ahhhh beloved sounds so amazing! :) i am so stanning for this song.

I don't like beloved for the first time I listen to it. But when I heard the one Aderianu posted, I kinda think, it will make it through in my favorite songs list :yes

I liked the colorfulness of the PV, but the song itself so far sounds pretty bland.

^I try not to listen to it until we get a full version, could you or someone else describe roughly what it sounds like ?

Just seeing the covers and holy ******* they look AMAZING. :luv2

Fierce, ferocious, fabulous, fantastic, flawless. :heart

"beloved" sounds so pretty, can't wait for the full version :)

Also, and I checked the first post and didn't see anything, but are there any first press items for FIVE? Besides the limited edition cover, but I'm not too fond of that...

All that we know is in the first post

I hope she'll add the poster...

I just found the first press items, must've skipped over them originally. A poster would have been nice! Maybe CDJ or HMV will add it, hm.

Can't wait to hear beloved and PV, this will be a ballad song！

That dailymotion-Link don't really works for me. (-.-)'''

after a long time finally i like the covers!!! *-*

wish it would be entirely a rock mini album...

I just having 2 hope for this album.

1. There's posters for preorder.
2. The PV for progress isn't gonna like Hikki's Beautiful World.
end.

She was filming two PVs when ANother song was being filmed, so she probably just hasn't mentioned anything about it.

i jus saw the covers. AWESOME!!! :)

I hope the PVs are good. Making 5 at once, she hasn't made so many for one release in a while, hope the quality doesn't suffer as a result.

wow beloved sounds really nice!!!!

and the PV looks great..that angle is beautiful :)

cant wait!!! 3.5 more weeks!

The "beloved" PV preview immediately reminded me of this...



The song sounds nice though~

sounds good....n__n

Well actually they've already stated the bonus for the first press of CD+DVD: serial number to access a video streaming site (system requirements unknown) (source: CDJapan)

Her face in the CD+DVD cover is somehow like the combination of NEVER EVER + talkin' 2 myself covers. :)

OMG love this! xD

beloved's chorus' first two notes sound like NEXT LEVEL's chorus and the song sounds like it would suit a concert ending...im totally pumped for this!!! im sure people will complain at how bland and generic the melody is though...but..to me, such melodies give me a sense of nostalgia :)

Usually they announce another first press bonus that is external, like a poster or some sort of lottery goodies.

In this case, it's kind of like how singles had download codes for a preview of the next single (48th/49th/50th) as as internal first press and also were bundled with posters when they were actually released.

why is 1 of the guys pinching another guy's nipple? omg..lol..

IDK if I like the CD+DVD anymore. I love how she has that "fierce" look but the more I look at it, the more I think she looks like a boy. A Japanese male with very soft features (like some anime boy).

@ Zeke. - I agree with you. The pose does look "fierce", but that short hair just doesn't work at all (for my tastes) letting it come down like that. Maybe the shot was just a little too close-up as well. The CD-only cover is love though, as the hair just "works" being tossed back like the way it is.

to be honest...im spazzing here just thinking how awesome the Booklet photos will look!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE REALLY SHOULD HAVE HAD A PHOTO ALBUM WITH LESLIE KEE FOR THIS!

the cd+dvd makes ayu look like jae joong from tvxq... or this is just a feeling?

Jesus! I see it now!

I guess that's why I just loved the cover :thud

YES!! lol i thought of that right away too

FINALLY managed to pre-order this :)

Hope the booklet is amazing :love

I had a dream FIVE came out and it was secretly a full album where half the songs were named after countries (like Morocco), one was called Cinderella, and three of them had Japanese titles. I was like "wtf is going on here :weep" and rushed to upload it to AHS.

Can´t wait to the album!!!Loving the covers so much!!!We need a good wallpaper!!n___n

full beloved
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2731525

^omg thank u!!

Thanks for uploading beloved !

After listening to beloved, I have made my conclusion, beloved is a nice song could fit in Secret album that have Together When's essence in the song imo :D

i'm so loving "beloved"
it's really a very nice and touching ballad <3
love her vocal there as well.

I'm trying to resist... >_<

I love beloved. (*_*)
Her vocal is much much better in beloved than in progress imo.

beloved is so beautiful!! Sounds like an Angela Aki kind of thing, I love it =D

It shapes up to be a great mini-album!

3 songs to go

I'm going to refrain from listening to the full version of "beloved" until I get my album, but I like what I'm reading in this thread. :luv2

I'm not sure how I feel about beloved yet. It is really pretty and her voice sounds good, but like halfway through the song, I forgot it was even playing. XD The way it progresses kind of reminds me of Virgin Road.

beloved starts so nice, and then it turns into one of the most boring Ayu's songs EVER.

her vocals are so strong in "beloved"! I wouldn't say it's really an epic ballad or anything, but it's very sweet and pretty and I love the piano intro. I'm kind of bothered at how cheap & generic the instrumental sounds though. I think her voice really saves the song from being like a bland meaning of Love or something. I'm more looking forward to the orchestra version now

^I'm glad to hear her vocals are sounding better than in "progress," but the "cheap & generic" instrumentation is troubling. D: Ayu's consistently awesome arrangements is one of the main reasons I still love her music.

Yeah, which is why I'm looking forward to the orchestra version. Don't know why she picked this song as there's nothing so special about it imo, kinda like Days, Sunset, Sweet Season & meaning of Love though like I previously said this one is a bit better to me since I really like her vocals.

Wow it's really unexpected, isn't early ?

I guess it's normal, she probably had'nt had her vocal training when she recorded progress ! (though I'm not sure of when she recorded beloved...)

beloved has a really good chorus. The back vocals near the end shouldn't be there. The verses are alright. It's a grower.

for me Beloved is more like untitled~for her~ the vibe and the piano really remind me of that song,the bass makes it different though :)

It's not the grand ballad I was hoping for but her vocals.... WOW O______O is this what we've been missing out on all these years? xD; Anyway very very pretty song. I can hear her emotion in it as well. :yes

I love the beggining, but the rest.. don't know, is too generic (the BIG problem I see in ayu's music). It isn't bad, but we have 5645643546 ballads that sounds in this way.

I'm tired to say/hear "it has a HEAVEN taste" or "a Together when.. feel"; I want NEW music, NEW ballads, something that don't make me think in any old song.

It's a cute song, as most of ayu songs, but I think she should daring to do new things. Mirrorcle World or Sexy Little Things are good examples, I think. Or even Microphone!

But well, the song itself it's pretty nice and relaxing!

yea agree, i was hoping for a more powerful and catchy chorus but it's ok just nice and her voice :love

Has anyone seen that tweet? It seems to be a lyric part from ANother song
https://twitter.com/#!/ayu_lyric_100...20912751165440

Actually I think this was recorded last year, wasn't it? She had the song then, and I thought she recorded the song and both the composer and Ayu said it's gonna be great, like Who 2? To me her vocals are nice, but it sounds like last year's vocals, especially in crossroad and Virgin Road. I think this was also recorded before vocal training.

But anyways, I love this song. hahahaha. It's so nice and sweet and great. But it's nothing like Together when... or Heaven, in my opinion...

And by the way, the tweet is from ANother song. I'll translate for you~

"悲しいくらい愛していたよ どうしようもなく愛していたよ あの夏の日はもう遠いけど 君に届けと歌う ANother song"
"I loved you so much it was sad, I loved you so much that there was nothing I could do, that summer's day is now far away, but I'm gonna sing so that it reaches you, ANother song."

This has been recorded after Manaho-sensei's vocal training. I can recognize the way she sings, some parts and vibratos are pretty similar as what I listened at Power of Music 2 weeks ago ^_^

I mean, "Progress" voice is more similar to Love Songs voice than this one because it was recorded after the CDL when she stayed in LA

^^ Hmmm, really? Well she did sound great then too in my opinion.

beloved is a really beautiful ballad!!!but it isn't my fovorite...

seeing as her last album was mostly ballads i honestly thought i wouldn't be into beloved but now that it's out i LOVE it :yes

Thank you very much! The lyrics are nice, I wonder what it will sound like!

I Cant wait to see the Pvs!!!!

beloved features Ayu's prettiests vocals either since "Dolls" or ever for me. And I was JUST thinking how her studio recordings rarely have really beautiful vocals last night haha

Her vocals are really nice, but the song is not really impressive , it's OK

She sounds great, but the song is average <3
It'll probably sound better live!

I'm sure, Orchestra version will be better. because original has... fake sound

beloved is AMAZING:thud i love how sweet it sounds!! its so easy to listen to:heart

I don't know who already posted this or not. But I uploaded 'beloved' on Youtube for someone who don't want to DL.

I've already decided to replace it on the my playlist with the orchestra version when FIVE comes out! :laugh