omg she looks so beautiful :smitten and I'm SO excited for the album sdklfjldsfgksamndlkçsamnflçksdnklngfdlkgndf

I think Ayu looks gorgeous as well. She almost looks gyaru!:luv2

Ayu is looking hella good. Kinda reminds me of Jennifer Aniston in later episodes of Friends, when Rachel sports a longer, straight hairstyle. Probably my favorite look, and Ayu looks twice as good!

She's having a meeting since morning and that meeting includes the final confirmation of the new album.
Plus she's confirmed for Music Fair on 08/11 with what she recorded some days ago. It's a "Music Fair Hamasaki Ayumi Special".

Ok, saw Ayu's original post and she changed O.A to "on air".

^yayyyy!!!

Ah, I see. Not listed for FNS but for an upcoming Music Fair episode! Interesting - a dedicated Ayumi Hamasaki episode for Music Fair...when was the last time that happened?

Wonder if she really gonna sing a new song, not the regular with different arrangement or whatsoever...
Kinda hope she spoil cover album at the show.

Oh my god YES MUSIC FAIR how long has it been!?!?!

mmm Sunrise/Sunset time was the last?

It feels so weird hearing how she’s been have so many meetings related to this album.

I don’t remember that ever being the case before lol

Should we expect from this album something unusual? Special package, album+live dvd? Or maybe she had all such meetings before, but just didn't tell us.

I wish they'd make as much effort as they did with NEXT LEVEL when it comes to versions and packaging. Content wise too. I would definitely go for an album + BD of Just the beginning + BD with PVs.

NEXT LEVEL USB is awesome T_T I'm afraid we'll never see something so cool again

I guess that first/final meeting is stuff is like they will confirm and settle down official plans for the album for the first time cause probably she's just finished recording it, or almost, so now she and her staff can properly develop their strategies.

Give us that new song and album queen. I so wasnt used to waiting for more than a year for a new ayu album

I hope it means that Avex is taking a more active interest in it. As mentioned, I don't recall this happening before or at least Ayu didn't talk about it before.

It's just my own wild speculation, but with Namie retiring, Avex does not want to lose that audience; they are probably scrambling to think of ways to try and retain that income stream.

I think the same. Kuu has an upcoming album and she's doing a very different promotion than usual now that she has an instagram account and all. I guess they finally realised they can't depend on just one big soloist.

thank god! I hope they'll give them all the attention they deserve.

Pretty sure she just shared a bit more about the production process this time around ^^ I'm sure she has many meetings for each album, she just never told us about them