Omg now were talking, the album is slowly coming! <3

I haven't read the ViVi myself, my Japanese roommate in Japan just told me. I think if this is true the lifestyle book will be pushed back? Which could be why we haven't gotten any more info?

^^maybe, but all the sites still say it will be released on 12.28?

What if she just like...DROPPED an album out of nowhere...like oh hi guys, it's in stores today, go get it! lol that would be kind of awesome.

But then in the article about the tie-in it says: 楽曲は来年２月から配信を予定しており、あゆは「幅広い世代の方々に共感して頂けたらうれしい」とコメントを寄せた。

The song is planned to be released in February. So I don't know lol. None of the Chinese sites have the ViVi yet?!

I think they will push the book back.
So maybe we will get an album announcement after the CDL.

Hmm...a drama tie-in!?

Now I know that the last time Ayu did a drama tie-in was for an NHK daytime drama in 2010 (BALLAD, recorded 2009), but I'm not sure about a tie-in for the primetime dramas...

I hate these little tidbits of news! I need more!! LOL

I want new album in Feb, so the news will spread in Jan :> so close.

The Vivi's are out :/

the title is too long in my opinion haha in the old times she would have said "what a beautiful you are" :P

I hope the book isn't pushed back. I've already pre-ordered and YesAsia will probably keep emailing me about splitting my shipment again, haha.
But to say it's supposed to be released shortly, there's no news about it; no cover, no promo info on her website...
Seems likely it will be pushed back.

The single's name is cute though. :)

http://news.walkerplus.com/2011/1221/3/

how beautiful you are is arranged by Yuta Nakano.

So little info, but I'm soooo excited!

CANT WAIT!!!!!! OMG :) I love it when we start getting tid bits of info like this makes so much anticipation! X) and yay a drama tie in! :) hopefully it'll be a SUPER popular drama (unlikely but i can dream)

It's kind of an ~adult~ drama which is to say that I don't think it will be as immensely popular as you might think. You never know though!

oh, thanks aura! when i heard about the song being used in a drama i just assumed it was "Happening Here!" i'm glad we have a little more news. :yes

aaaaand, i am THRILLED to see more Timmy!

that has to be a typo on their part...there is just NO way its possible.

"1st" official song and its a medium ballad. Yay. just yay...

oh god... :dead2

i didn't think about that.

here we go again! :grumpy

Yay for pieces of news! The excitement is building...

Then I listened to the HQ 1:29 of "Happening Here".

Ok. I know this is kind of song that everyones hates but they secreatly shakes there bums to it when nobody's watching.

But 2 things:

Ayumi + english = NEVER WORKS.

Wt* is this backround sound like a cheap keyboard bought during last minute of black friday in 2$ sale? are you kidin me? the arragments weeps for help.

Her raps are cute though, I guilty-pleasured them. They sound just like in Fly high. Besides her english, her vocals are pretty amazing.

^
omg. the rap is juuuust like Fly High; she totally channeled that. The melody of course is not bad, it's the arrangement - it sounds like something someone messed around with on a computer fake piano and threw it in there like "here ya go just throw it in there." cheaap!

But the melody, vocals/rap are good.

My friend just pictured this song completely

"OMG its sound just like some opening to Family Feud or sth. We just missed the "Uerukomu!" part and audience applause!"

yeah, it's sound very cheap.

I usually don't judge previews but.. omg.
Ayu's voice sounded so low at the beginning, like when I'm singing at karaoke :laugh. And during raps or whatever they are, the music goes too much fast so she sound like in hurry. Her vocals sounds quite good but the arrangement it's so cheap.

If she will gonna include this cover song in her next album, I hope it will be a bonus track or a ghost-track at least.
As I said I don't usually judge previews so early :no but I don't like what I heard. I'm still looking forward the full song though.

NEW SONG!!! if a tie-in's in Feb then..I guess we would be getting a NL/RnRC timed release...
AHHH i cant wait >.<
how beautiful you are
(gives me You're so beautiful vibes by Kuu...and then there's SHAKE IT lol!!!)

lol the TRF cover sounds like it could be on Nothing from Nothing.
i don't get why people are so pissed and losing hope for the new album because of this song tho. it's just one of those lame covers she does every now and then.
looking forward to the new Timmy song!!

I smell another sweet season.... Smh

all I can hear in the "Happening Here" is "dance in leggings"

I am glad that ayu is getting another drama tie-in. It's to bad that it's an adult drama. Does anyone know if the one for sunrise and seasons were tie-ins for adult drama??

which is sooooo weird to me since her speaking english is not THAT terrible.

i guess it just doesn't matter that much? i don't know... its weird to me that she doesn't try pronouncing her english more properly in her songs. :shrug

They were pretty much standard dramas.

I just meant that it was an 'adult drama' in that it seems tailored towards an older audience than usual. I guess we'll see how it does! It's also billed as an 'adults' youth drama (大人の青春ドラマ)'.

It might have something to do with the English being sung alongside Japanese? I thought her White Christmas was pretty good.

THAT! xD

I can't wait to hear how a Timmy ballad sounds like. I don't think we can expect 'something' in particular since BRILLANTE is the only reference we have xD

And as 'Happening here' is been released digitally on iTunes I wouldn't expect it in the album... She decided to cover it as tour theme song one year ago for the original HOTEL Love songs, so it doesn't have anything related to the new album... I hope! xD

Oh I see that clears things up for me! thanks for the info!

When crossroad LQ preview was out everyone **** a kitten and then shot it, and now a lot of people like it! It could still be good.

Can't wait for the new medium balladn how beautiful you are.
I hope the song is also as beautiful as the songg title.
It's a very different title song from her past singles.

No it can't. Stop giving people hope. They're gonna be devastated.


In other news, I wish the medium ballad would just die. But I see it's here to stay.

I don't think we'll have another Love Songs though...idk why I think that, but it doesnt feel the same.

lol I was one of them.

That's why I'm looking forward the full song, maybe it will turns out amazing. Who knows :laugh

Timmy has a certain sound though I think. :yes I think BRILLANTE showed a lot of growth from him, but he used to have a music video on youtube as well and honestly, it reminded me a lot of BRILLANTE. to me it seems like he does darker and more mysterious sounding songs.

i also have a song of his in iTunes called "song for a friend." :yes

plus on his youtube channel he has a video of Canterbury Te Deum (which makes me think of the chorus singing in BRILLANTE) and he subscribes to EWQLTutorials. anyway, i guess we can kind of get a feel for his style, even though we don't know for sure what his new songs will sound like.

EDIT: actually, i found clips from Tim's EP "Waiting For The Sun" and if you listen to them...i think that even though the release is older, you can definitely get a feel for his style! now i'm even MORE excited!!!

http://most-entame.com/tim

No !!! :no
If this new song is a medium ballad, i hope is like crossroad or even MOON

We already know about Shake it guys :laugh don't be spoiled.

How beautiful you are sounds like an empowering song, I want it!!

yeah, 1st 'official' song is Shake it.
How beautiful you are sounds sweet as Just the way you are by Kana. I hope its Sweet Season like lol.

Just saw this on tokyohive then I rewind to read some of the posts in this thread...

So I guess we have to wait till 2nd week of Jan for the preview?

We also seem to have rather upbeat-ish PVs this time around... I wonder if how beautiful you are's PV was done in London already?

I can't really see it being any of the ones they filmed there... (factory with robots, night club, partying in an apartment)

Waiting for the Sun is not bad...i can kinda see Ayu singing that. It has that very j-pop melody.
btw is that him singing?

(the other songs are kinda...meh...lol..and Akatsuki totally has that BRILLANTE thing going on)

I've read someone saying the life style book was pushed back to 31st January? Then it would make sense what has been said that would be released at the same time and the info about releasing the song in February!

Do you think this means a single in February? Or just a way to promote the songs for new album in February?

there was something about the new album coinciding with the release of book right?
im gonna laugh if its called HOTEL lol!!..
with all the news about AT12..its gonna be hard to say for sure now.
but i dont think avex will put it within that time period...
(there's kuu and ayaka..with all due respect for them)

from now, we're looking at a mid feb release but with the tour which may start then, probably a march/apr release.

maybe the new song's gonna be a digital single.

I would not cry if the album would be called HOTEL to be honest. It's a good name for a non-cohesive album. And it reminds me of Ladies Night PV lol.

I dont Know about that title, lol.
All her other titles had meanings to her and her career at the time...
Hotel cant mean anything but that... hotel... lol.

I still would love to see the center stage and a bed in center of it and she just performs from that... lol. Classic. A hotel bedroom theme stage....
All the good ideas must be taken, lol.

HOTEL could symbolise a place people from all over the world visit for relaxation after recreation. it has to be comfortable and widely accepted. Hence, it would mean an album for the worldwide audience. A hotel also houses many types of people hence, going by that, could also mean an album with different stories and perspectives, different styles and genres.

that's how I see the word. I think its really meaningful and unique :)

^HOTEL is also where Ayu usually gets to meet her fans! :yes

Please no digital single :'( I want physical copy to buy!!!! X) I hope she does release a single! I miss ayu's singles

maybe there is a secret message on the word "HOTEL" (like FIVE)

no, I don't like the title "HOTEL"! it sounds so cheap :thud

maybe this could also be reason why she covered a song called Happening Here?!

Will "Happening here" be on the Album to, or is it only for the tour? Sorry.. but I really dislike, what I heard until now.
But the new song sounds promising. A new mid-Tempo Ballad... that's good!

we don't know yet, but i doubt it will be on the album. i might be wrong though.

I doubt the title will be HOTEL, or even a longer title with the word "HOTEL" in it... I just hope she won't include Happening Here in the album...

But the fact we got that song so quickly after it was announced makes me confident about a release in January / February for the upcoming album !

HOTEL is a bad title, and personnaly I would like HOSTEL better :P

A simple word or letter is enough to change the whole meaning or feeling:
before the Rock'n'Roll Circus album announcement, there was a rumour about the title CIRCUS. The word itself is shallow and meaningless to me, but add "the" in front of it, and you get an epic title. The Circus sounds more powerful than Circus alone. :)

She's had ballad-song, and the title is BALLAD
She's had album with many Love songs inside, and the title is Love songs...
So, why not HOTEL?

lol xD

I will laugh if it will be HOTEL, I will be then a psychic (j/k) it's almost of the obvious titles but it can be something completely different too :laugh

Actually I thought the same thing but didn't think it worth a mention, lol. Maybe we have telekinesis.

It can be, indeed! When Arena Tour 2010 was announced, we knew his name (Arena Tour ~ Rock'n'Roll Circus) before the new album and in the final, both of them had the same name!
So, why not? lol

but I will laugh loudly if she choose a "obvious" word within the Hotel - sth like "Crazy Hotel" or "Love Hotel" or even "A (symbol) HOTEL". The last one would be nice though.

Yeah xD
I really wonder though...
I really hope we get an announcement soon if it's going to be released on the first week of February (because of the drama a week before) or something like that...

I really hope she doesn't choose Love Hotel :laugh

Maybe A Hotel.

oh my :laugh Love Hotel. Well if Shake It were true, would make sense then :roflmao.

I think Shake It is confirmed from people who actually worked on in the PV though?

A Hotel is nice and sounds very jpop

I just wished Ayu released something called pregnant zombie dinosaur invasion... am I asking for too much?!

my thoughts exactly

finally someone agrees with me

I hope we get some truth from her soon!

sounds like a MAA title.

I think that would be an amazing title. Especially for Ayu.

if only

"A HOTEL" is perfect! :luv2
But "Shake It" sounds fun too.. :yes

I don't really like the title Hotel for anything tbh, it sounds so flat.

i will be very upset if the title of her new album is HOTEL...

and i don't like Shake it to be the title as well. it is too common and many used it before.

I don't think she'd apply part of a tour's name dedicated to Love songs to her next album but I guess anything's possible, really.

I remember when the Rock'n'Roll Circus tour name came out, no one believed it was the title when it was the real deal. However, this was before we ever knew about the album's title unlike HOTEL Love songs being a leftover from this Spring.

or maybe the tittle is HOTEL ~Love songs~ xD
I really like A HOTEL,it would be amazing!!!!!But i think that the tittle won't be anything related to HOTEL...
Please don't worry about the tittle i'm sure it'll be awesome,it's an ayu album guys!!!!!!

:roflmao
We just need some capital letters inside like "PreGnaNt ZomBiE diNosAuR INvAsIoN" and here we have an ayu title. Love it. Of course the main song will be EGG (pregnat dinosaur xD)


Maybe the theme of the tour will be "come to my Hotel in order to see me" like when she visit Europe or America :innocent

Let's leave the message to Ayu...
We want "A Hotel" for the new album title!! if "Hotel" will be used ...

Hahaha. XD You guys are hilarious. :D

Of course, "PreGnaNt ZomBiE diNosAuR INvAsIoN" would be too awesome as a song title. XD

https://twitter.com/#!/ishiiluis/sta...21348531798017

Luis Hernandez, director from some of ayu's PV is now in London at Langham's hotel... maybe when Ayu finishes CDL, she will go back to London (as she said on weibo) to make some new pvs?

Im loving your idea, let's tweet ayu about this, maybe for a live she can dress up as a dinosaur, or come out of the dinosaur egg

And then people will say she copied Lady Gaga cause she's coming out of an egg... XD

Then maybe instead there should be a huge T-REX in the centre and then have it start vomiting and out of it's mouth slides ayu on the tongue like a water slide and starts singing the single from the album "Dino Dino Vomit"

Lol @ those freaky title songs. I smell a collaboration with MAA. To be honest, would be her best collaboration to date :laugh. Wishful thinking guys though :D. Don't take it seriously.

Really? Oh well, we will see. We haven't many infos about this release.
Just one song confirmed (maybe two with Shake It), no covers nor tracklist. :weep if I'm thinking that some other artists will release their album in February and all the infos about are already out.. I'm dying lol.

shake it IS confirmed... theres pics of her shooting the MV, stylist talking about it and dancers from the MV posting info about it :P

where did this hotel tittle come from?

hotel pfff

Luis is probably there location hunting as usual, He seems to always be there with Masashi Muto to scout (he was around for the PVs in LA for Love songs).

Makes me wonder if she's filming the how beautiful you are PV there after CDL.

Cool!
I wonder we get 6 PVs (and 6 makings) to complete 12. unless if she records more songs.

:D woah cool.
Sorry I really thought were a rumor, maybe I read it wrong ::laugh.

haha np :P yea these threads can get confusing knowing whats real or just rumor T_T forces me to stalk these non stop lol.

Best comment ever.

somehow I want the album cover to be blue... not like Rainbow "all over" but blue-ish I mean... with lightning or sth. or maybe blue clothes?

i'm happy that a new song has been announced! i like the title. :) and it's good that it'll have a drama tie-in, too. great news. :D

I think I just want a cover done in a studio a la FIVE which was glorious.

However, it looks like they shot the album cover in the UK somewhere in a field with tons of shrubbery and greenery so we might be getting a very ~EARTHY~ cover.

Um, this is what we got when Ayu shot her cover in Bali...

http://jpopcdcovers.files.wordpress....08/cd-only.jpg