Don't you dare on comparing the beautiful SCAR with this :eviltongu /jk

You KNOW people probably thought the same thing about SCAR way back when, haha.

Someone please catch the lyrics and translate it...

:laugh

What the hell! I wrote Scar but I meant Sweet scar. My bad xD

I wasn't around during the Duty era but fans probably did think the same of it. Love both SCAR and Sweet scar :love

I absolutely adore SCAR... I adore anything SCAR related, SCAR, sweet scar! If the full version of Pray is anything like those two I will adore it as well! :yes

This song NEEDS an epic PV. Something like "part of Me" :3

yes i'm waiting for the lyrics~

With a pretty blue or green color scheme <3

IT SONDS SO GOOd

The arrangement is absolutely horrid and the production sounds so bad. Which is a shame because the melody could shine if the instruments sounded better. Instead it just gets drowned out below the wall of noise.

Hoping this sounds better as a full track but I doubt it will. It sounds on par with most of LOVE again's terrible production quality.

^ let's wait for the full version first.. shall we..

I am waiting (and hoping for the best), but I'm allowed to speak my opinion in the meantime.

I do not judge, till full version!

Wall of noise? You mean like the sounds of the trailer? -shrug-

And LOVE again's was good compared to Party Queen's. Party Queen had probably the least polished 'production' of any Ayu album ever.

yes you are allowed to speak ur opinion, but i just found it's weird that you could give an opinion about the song's arrangement being horrid and production sound so bad just based on a movie trailer, it's not even the song HQ preview, it's a movie trailer with noisy sound here and there which makes the song sounds unclear in some parts.

I am sorry, but you can barely hear the music in the background...

yeah true I just can hear a very low sounds of strings there, what do you expect to hear from a movie trailer, of course the sound effect and most important the cripts they choose the best for the best/epic scene in it,its not an official CM for Pray its for Buddha 2 movie trailer

gonna wait untill the full version out, gotta be so patient xD

Try listening with headphones, it may not be the highest quality but it's very clear what kind of sound the song is going for. Like I said, I hope for the best and don't consider it to be a horrible song or anything. It just isn't promising is all.

I hope the PV will be traditional !
Ayu wears the beautiful dress and sit on the grass. The background is the meadow , full of green and flower !!! Oh let's hope for the incredible PV !

something like BALLAD would be great

Ballad's color is dusk. I hope the fresh green with the sunlight of morning or afternoon ! :)
Just like PV Green a live _ YUI

i need english translation

why this soon!?? Ah ayu, you're definitely back to haunt my days (of checking out AHS every hour hoping there's an extended leak for a song). Loving what i'm hearing so far.. i just hope for a sadder verse and a build up like HEAVEN.

thanks for posting this :)

OMG totally in love with the preview!! this is wad Ayu is best at.

I beg your pardon? SCAR is perfection.

Am I the only one who thinks of "You were..." with the preview? XD

It reminds me a lot to that song, and... it's not one of my favs at all. :S

The very final line of the song is similar to the final line of You were... I think.

You misunderstood. I'm just stating my observation. That's not my opinion. I like SCAR (and Sweet scar), but I meant to write Sweet scar :D

OH MY GOD YES T___T EPIC BALLAD SINCE HEAVEN I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR YEARSSSSSS AYUUUUU

It was playful anyway, lol! :D And you have very good taste!~

That album made me cry. And not in a good way.

I thought LOVE again had a handful of top quality songs, whereas Party Queen... I only listen to Shake It.

The strength of this song will depend on how it begins.

I've pretty much deleted Party Queen from my mental library... it's sad but true.

Pray sounds really interesting so far, not what I was expecting though. I thought it'd be a bit more...delicate? haha

I enjoyed Party Queen. I go back and listen to the tracks every once in a while.

However, it makes me sad because it hijacked the HOTEL Love songs tour and also somehow ended up with one of her most unbalanced live tour recordings ever...

BALLAD pv is one of my ultimate favorites, ayu looks perfection

That's what I used to think, but that concert was just so much fun and I wouldn't change a single thing about it. Even Happening Here was so awesome and I wouldn't change a thing. Maybe replace Ladies night with Another night? But that's it.

About HLs, I only know that Return Road was cut.

And it's not good.. :o

The concert was very focused, but I think her vocals were the shakiest they've been for a tour on most of the album tracks from Party Queen.

Excluding the Next LOVE and Eyes, Smoke, Magic!
Those two songs where the tour highlight for me
I still remember the day when i first listened to ESM
I was dancing all day long to it and i even pictured a concert perf for it xD

um guys i suggest u to not have ANY HOPES OF INCREADIBLE PV, so if she doesn't have one none gets dissapointed lol i do hope the song is more interesting and rich in full.

Finally~
So glad she did't forget to sing an emotional ballad song lol
She might gonna release it as a digital single like TgW. But the date would be too close with FtL/Mgr.

Well, I'm sure people know that by now after the last few years...

yet everyone is still HOPING.... well i guess having hope is better than giving up lol

I think it's just nice to expect something pretty. We're not going to get a Kouki Tange or Hideaki Sunaga (Don't look back) directed PV most likely, but we could at least hope for something simple and gorgeous like what Tetsuo or Wataru are capable of.

I still wonder to this day why Together When... was released as a digital single. I'm sure fans have discussed it here in the past but I wasn't around then.

I wouldn't mind Pray being the next digital single. I just want it ASAP! It has been stuck in my head for the past few days at work.

Hope will die last. At least with me, lol.
And it's really hard not to hope with Ayu, because, you know, she's all about epic twists and destroying our certainties, be it with music, PVs or news. So, yeah, never say never with her! XD

I made a piano version of what I could hear in the trailer. It sounds fanmade but I hope you like it

Ahh..so it's your work. I discovered it yesterday on youtube and I really like it. Good job>

thanks for the preview!
I need the full song in my life!

Really? I thought on the DVD at least the vocals were great.

THIS.

I'm tired of people expecting epic PVs and ending up disappointed because the real deal is obviously different than what they expected every single time...

For me, I'm happy as long and the PV ends up being better than ANGEL'S SONG's or crossroad's PVs, I hate those two >.<

I thought ANGEL'S SONG was really memorable and hilarious, lol.

ANGEL'S SONG was amazing, lol! Silly(yetwomanpowah) Ayu at her finest. Crossroad was a little bit boring, but I still think it's perfect. Some things are flawless even if slow or hard to finish (much like The Lord of the Rings books).
Song 4 u, instead, was really hard for me to digest.

Song 4 u needed a few more scenes of the chess pieces in different environments.

^
I found it so very static, thus not moving or comunicative at all. I kind of get the idea behind it and it was so cool, but the development was... bleah. The song is so powerful and full of emotions!

Have always loved your piano covers omg this one is no exception

Sounds great! thanks for sharing

I hope she will just shoot this PV in Japan, tired of LA already and the result is not that good either =.=

^ I thought you lied M3rry g0 R0und tho

:irked whatttt??? I LOVE reminds me and Return Road!

Omg you're sooo good!! Are you capable of making sheet music?

I so need to hear this completely. It's so moving and touching and perfect. ayu, be wise. with the right promo this could become the new dearest..

seriously tho it sounds a lot like it's been taken from "LOVE again"...

the song finale reminds me a bit of Ivy's one now that I think about it...

Maybe when we'll hear the full song it will surprise us (in the good way)..really HOPE!! She may perform it at CDL 13-14 in encore section..

Yes it's my thought since the beginning but it's not a bad thing, it just sound familiar to me ^^

can't wait to listen to the full song. LOVE AYU's BALLADS~~~

didn't think about that :eek

I thought at the end. With her la sound her voice sounded very love songs.

^Nice !

I'm really hoping for a non "real life" PV this time. I don't know if it's clear, I mean I hope for a clip a la Don't look back/part of Me/... as opposed to Love song/Merry-go-round/You&Me.

Is that a fanmade cover or the real one? in any case I love it, yeah

At first, i was not so into the preview but after listening to miki_beland's piano version, i gave a second try and i love the preview <3

I also hope the PV will have a non "real life" PV... Long time since last one!

It's a fan made from For"A"ver Club =)

ohh thanks for letting me know. Still so beautiful tho

We usually get the release date first and 3 weeks later we get the covers

wonder when will she announce the single

Huuum I think it won't be a real single but rather a kind of digital single ?...
( I doubt that Pray will have a PV :( )

It depends....

If it is an album coming in early 2014, it will be like how beautiful you are. If not, we'll get the usual single release.

I'm hoping for physical release... japanese people usually love ayu's ballads nd with the right promo this could sell decently

I hope the fact Feel the love/Merry-go-round is doing just fine (I suppose) brings her to release Pray as a single too (I just hope she keeps releasing singles in general. Give me singles.)

same feeling italian fellow, same feeling.

I wonder what she will do this year… she usually needs to release a new album before the tour starts so that it has new songs, but this time around she got plenty of songs coming from LOVE again which were not performed… so I wonder if she is actually going to release a full lenght album this time or just some other single or minialbum before the tour.

This song DOES NEED to be announced as a single for February 12th, two days before Valentine's Day :heart It would sell amazingly.

THIS


Ps: oh hey there italian Ayufans :D

oh yes please. I know the Japanese love her ballad :luv2

Pray would be a nice single, or an album title!!! :D

hi there!! We're more than I thought XD Why is it that I can't find anyone who knows her in real life x.x

wo! this would be amazing!

they do indeed, ayu gooo goooo. niu singuru PUREI in storz nau. I can already see this. HHHAMASAKI AYUMEIH eibex trex

PERFECT :roflmao

lol :laugh

I just love the CM guy LOL XD

i keep on repeating this song...i hope for more clearer and longer version very soon!

I was thinking about that too ahaha all I get when I mention Ayumi is 'what's the matter with you listening to chinese singers?' :thud

And OMG the CM ahahah I love that too!

LOL!
(We just need to start going around with Ayu t-shirts or something, really, lol.)

Pray San Valentine's single needs to become real.

^ I will buy myself one and start wearing it everyday. RLY.

btw, just passed by to say I can't wait anymore for this single. I NEED THIS. cmon ayu drop a preview at least on your utube channel.

Great! I like it! Thank you so much! :love

That is really nice. Nice enough to make me want a piano collection again. :innocent

Relating to the song, I am unable to judge based on such a short clip but it sounds okay. We'll see when it gets released I guess. :D

Just beautiful. Ayu's ballads are always so powerful.

When I heard first few sounds of Pray I thought some Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack started to play, I really like the bridge of the song.

It's something between those two...

Thanks! Piano version is very nice!

Ayu´s ballads are beautiful, sweet and powerful.