tempo is the amount of beats per minute. so that's where they get a 'slow' 'medium' or 'fast' from - depending on how many beats per minute a song has.

The preview sounds pretty good; I can't wait to hear the whole thing :D

Someone mentioned a "planets" theme earlier in this thread. That would kick-ass. Somebody contact her creative consultant.

I think that was me.

CELESTI(A)L, haha.

That would be funny. You could ask Ayu about it directly via her Twitter, haha.

I'm so excited to hear this song~ I hope it really is soon like she said! ^_^

It might be a month or two though. She IS on tour now. Still, Ayu's always been SO incredible at like everything, so I guess we won't know 'til they say something officially.

@amorphose: I totally love your avatar and signature. They look awesome.

Someone asked her on twitter....when we'd get the full ver. of MOON?... I was soooo scared!
That preview it's suppose to be JUST for TA, right?

This person asked in english D:
I was like: she got us! xD
But she answered without realizing this, I guess :laugh

I listened the preview once...and I won't listen to it again until the full...
So I hope it is, at least, a side-b in a summer single? ^^

^it was amorphose hehehe

and yeah.. I don't think she thought aout the fact that MOON is only for TA.. you know... she knows I am in TA and a french girl too... so she isn't surprised we can get those things...

I was scared whan someone tweeted:

Ayu come and visit www.ahsforum.com/forum is an international forum about you!

like... WTF? LOL

^"tweeted"? i dont get it.... that a new way of text messaging or something?

^ verb "to tweet": to send a message through Twitter.

LOL

hehe

ayu has twitter now, and everyone is sending her messages through twitter ^^

^What's Twitter?

It's a site where you can post information and things...

http://twitter.com/ayu_19980408

omg who did that? what an idiot. might as well say: HAY AVEX COME CLOSE US DOWN

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...90b40abfa2efd6

Seriously?

Do you really not think Ayu and Avex already know about AHS? ... Search for "Ayumi Hamasaki" on google, and AHS are among the top 10 hits. :P

I thought someone might have the full thing by the time I got on in these past three or four days @_@ I was hoping ;_;

I know its easy to find us, but doing stuff like that only makes it easier.

I doubt many people have heard the full song outside of Ayu / staff members / Max, haha.

I think that it's different in each countries because when i used to search about Ayu in google.es (Spain) I could find few references but now im in UK for some months and I can find the forum more easily... maybe because this country is English spoken

And I think that in Japan websides is going to be more difficoult to find AHS

Is that good? Is it bad? hahaha

Wow...hahaha...now THAT is scary Dx

As Tony_G said, that was a person asking Avex to close this forum...Dx
IT IS diferent for each country when you search something on the internet... as Unai said...it depends on the language :yes (the country)
So Avex don't have to necessarily know about AHS...but if they checked that link...and saw the download section....:dead2

That's just wrong... not just because Avex "might" close the forum.... but...AYU would see that her inter. fans rip her material "to share" with those who don't (can't) buy it U.U''

I mean... I know these rips and everything are the only way many of us found out about AYU, and many others might find out about her too....but still... :( it's wrong... and we shouldn't shout at her that we "share" her work...

Hope she didn't see/pay attention to it .__.''

I download Ayu music always, but then i buy it, and she has to understand that we can't see her PVs for example on TV everyday so we have to download and the same with singles/albums etc.

But I know that it's no too fair

anyway, AYU if youre reading this message I LOVE U !!! hahaha

Yes, I know ^^
I didn't mean to offend... I myself download things :laugh
It's just the fact of telling the artist that we do that...that I don't like xD

But yeah...
AYU, we just download, know about you and then buy your work!
Because we all here LOVE you! :yes

Getting into this thing about the downloading, I personally download everything before I choose whether or not to buy it, including other artists besides Ayu. Downloading's also how I find out about even more and more people. Sometimes I'll find a download of someone I'm not familiar with and download it to give it a try. The honest truth is that even if you live in the home country of that artist you WON'T hear an entire album on TV or the radio. They only do certain songs that are either extremely popular or that are promotions for the latest release. But I could hear only the two best songs off the CD and not like any of the others. And I really see no harm in simply just downloading once, taking a listen and then deleting it making your decision as to whether or not you'll purchase it.

Yeah...wishful thinking, wishful thinking :cry.

I was in the concert in Osaka today, and I heard a song that was not Last Link or Meaning of Love in the Encore... it was completely new, and I think she mentioned it being Moon :D The song was really nice too, sweet ballad but with an little rock edge in the chorus or something

^omg! So lucky!!

rock mellow ballad?? so great!!

I attempted to tweet Ayu about this song, if this is ever going to be released:

omg,omg soo lucky and yes from the preview i really love it,come on realease it :D

Yeah, I've been hearing a lot that she performed it during the encore. I can't wait to hear the full thing!!

Mhm, I'm also SO very curious about this song, because besides Ayu's rock songs, I love her ballads most!! :heart

And "dark mellow ballad" sounds GREAT!

I also wanna listen to it. I think, it will be a greate song... the raifrain is so good.. I really like it.,

Dark mellow ballad!? Like the HANABI's!?

oh it's not dark at all, I think. not too bright and happy as well, but more positive in emotions then the HANABI's, which just felt really sad. Like I said in another thread, for me it was like meaning of love with a little more rock (just a little, not too much). I hope my memory is correct though haha

So a bit Endless Sorrow?

^ Endless sorrow has a bit sad, poetical lyrics... If it's similar to meaning of Love, it's seems to be calm rock love song I think...

OMG just not another meaning of love, that ballad bores me to death.

HANABI II FTW !!!

^there is a HANABI II. It's called "HANABI ~episode II~"

sad? Endless sorrow is INCREDIBLY hopeful. What lyrics are you reading o_O

hope can still bring sad emotions. endless sorrow can make me cry. i could get into this more but i dont think anyone wants to hear that


anyway i cant wait to hear MOON then :)

Hopefully someone'll record it. =P

I don´t like Endless Sorrow so much....

I hope it's something like HANABI or Endless Sorrow. I love those songs ^^

by the short preview, MOON doesn't sounds powerful as Endless Sorrow to me.
But well it's just a very very low quality preview lol D:

If it's like Hanabi, then I'll be really happy :heart

i can't wait to hear the full song

well about endless sorrow, I don't really know Japanese so to be honest I don't know the lyrics. but the original endless sorrow sounds very powerful and sad, and MOON didn't sound like that for me. it's not HANABI-like too, since HANABI seems very sad too. again, I don't really know the lyrics, I'm just basing on how I feel ayu snigs those songs (again, very subjective, my own opinion).

I hope someone recorded it, wanna listen to it again, and so you guys can have an idea how it sounds too

Partial MOON lyrics from a user on livedoor. Looks like they tried to remember as much as possible?

Gosh I knew that o.O I meant that I want a song like that ^^

^ XD

I'm not expecting much from MOON, especially since I have a feeling it's moL-ish, which I really dislike. I like power ballads, not... untitled ~for her~ types of songs.

We'll see.

Since there are some missing parts I couldn't translate them well :).

^ woooo *-*

beautiful~~ <3

the moon part remind me of Who... XD

Ooo, they sound beaufitul :heart.

Sorry to bump this up but ayu said something about MOON and "CD" in her most recent tweet 5 minutes ago:

She just mentioned that on Masato's blog there's a blog dedicated to why people are so desperate to hear this new song, because it was made by the composer of A Song for XX. This song MOON is getting a lot of attention at this point, and now with Twitter, people keep asking for the song. It's really surprised her! ahaha. She just asks you to read the blog post.

EDIT:

Ayu posted 3 new twitter posts. This song is really important to her.

"A Songという、この曲をこえるものに出会う事はこの先二度とないだろうと思いながら歌っていたほど、私自 身にとってモンスターのようなあの曲を創ってしまった星野さんの、あれからの10年。。。そして今回まさが 、「この曲聴いてみて」と突然渡してくれた、MOONのデモ。"

How can I translate it... ahaha I can't think of the english for it, but it's like well, she thought that there would never be a song that could overtake the monster like feeling of A Song for XX song, and while singing that song, she thought there would never be a song like it, and the person who created such a song was Hoshino-san. And ten years from that, Max told her that she had to listen to this song, and it was the demo for Moon.

"あえてなのかは知らないが、星野さんの作曲だという言葉は添えられていなかった。けれど、私は聴いた瞬間 なにかとても懐かしい、昔の浜崎あゆみを感じ、まさに即答した。「この曲、絶対歌いたい。」あんなにも惹か れた理由は、今となっては言わずもがな。である。"

If it was by some pressure she didn't know, but anyways the demo didn't have any words like "created by Hoshino." But, in the moment she listened to it, she got very nostalgic, and she could feel the old Hamasaki Ayumi, and she answered Max. "I want to sing this, definitely." The reason why she was so drawn in, there's no need to say that now.

"私達はまた手をとりあい、確実に歩き出したのだ。ぎこちなくも、しっかりと前を向いて。ここで指す私達が 誰であるかは、読み手の方に委ねよう。やばい、真面目な事を書いてしまった。今日はこれでおわり。長野に着 いたよ。"

We are still holding each other's hands, and certainly we started walking. Of course even if we are clumbsy, we are moving forward. I'll entrust the question "Who is it that chose us at this point?" to the reader. Ah! I wrote something so serious! Today, I'll end it here. I arrived in Nagoya.

Obviously, MOON means so much to her, so I hope it will be great for everyone too.

In my booklet there was also an paper with steps and an code/ serial number. Is that to dowload Moon wenn it is realesed?

it's to download the MOON Chaku Uta only if youre a TA member

It seems that as time goes on, it could mean a new single could be coming up soon! What do you guys think after what Ayu posted on her Twitter (and what maikaru translated)?

I just recieved those other posts as well. Thanks for translating! I want this song so bad, you have no idea x___x"

The song must be really good!!!
Hope the singles manages to sell more than 200k!!!

wow MOON sounds more interesting now D:

The most important song to her after ASfxx, with similar meaning and feeling? OMG it's going to be pure epic. I'm sure it's going ho have her old works' feeling and sound. I'm getting excited :luv2

I can't wait to hear it as well!! I'm glad the song's such a big impact :D

Wow. I was online on twitter when she posted this but I had no idea they were so serious. google gave just a bad and not understandable translation, as always. Thanks for better translation!

The song really is important to her, that's good. I am looking forward to it!!

I wonder if she titled it as though the song/herself = the moon. Always watching over people and such, haha.

^or maybe she just really likes SailorMOON:P j/k

Or it could be that the title came along with the composition~

I dunno about that. Titles are usually decided on by Ayu unless it's an interlude.

But she did pretty much keep the majority of titles that went with GEO/Jade's songs ^_^ It's different when she writes the lyrics first and then gets the music written, or well maybe you're right.

Those were already titled though. Bold&Delicious / Pride had the titles in the lyrics and she kept those in the lyrics anyway, and In The Corner was sorta... unreleased.

Thank god she didn't keep Beautiful Girl or Every Step, haha.

THANKS 4 THE INFO!!!!!
I hope a summer single with MOON and other song

someone ever told me the new <moon> shall be released as a summer single? is that true?

Did you guys see this?



It's in the DL section~

^^^ love it!!!

I can't wait for it! It could be coming up for a summer release as she tries to continue her streak!

wow.i love it!it look more clearer in this CM

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember her stating in an interview when she was promoting A Song for XX, that the producers picked the song titles and she just went with it.

The song doesn't really fit with the CM and her outfit etc, but she just looks so hot.

OMG Ayu is so HOT in this CM!

Finally they made a new CM. XD

So it has a Sparkle and Microphone tie-in!
Probably a 2nd A-side lol.

Great great song it sounds.
The cm is gorgeous.

Did they seriously think a ballad's gonna fit in a car commercial? :rolleyes

Anyway, Ayu is gorgeous but too bad I couldn't catch much of MOON :(

Maybe the lyrics fit to it.
Sparkle and Microphone's lyrics really fitted to the CM. xD

I LOVE THE SONG SO MUCH!!!
so emotional...i hope it will become ayu next hit

Cool sounding song, but I agree that it doesn't really fit the cm. However, after Sparkle "CM mix", everything sounds kind of dull in a car cm! =P

MOON sounds nice so far but Ayu lately has been servicing less than stellar full packages... :/

this is unexpected haha~

but the CM is just ok~~the one with the Eagle is better.

got this info from AyuChina

New Single?

this cm is AMAZING, MOON sounds even better in HQ

What's their source?

I somehow have SEVERE doubts that MOON is going to be the main a-side.

it MIGHT be possible, but her Honda commercial songs have either been the b-side (Sparkle) or not a single at all (Microphone)...

but isn't that a little too early for a single announcement? supposing that's real then the MOON single will be released in July or so... whoa.

after listening to cm ! I officially love MOON ! so awesome !hope that Japanese'll appreciate this song!

sounds like it'll be good. bit different than i had mentally pictured, but i like.

I need to hear more to tell! but so far it sounds exciting!

I'm hoping she is NOT going to wait until the end of the year to release it, like she did with GREEN... gosh no xD but it will surely be weird releasing a ballad-song as an A-single for june/july??

I dunno I guess you guys know more about other singers releasing ballad singles in summer LOL

She is always surprising me, even that I always expect the same from her. She always comes up with different stuff which is good! :yes

I'm already wondering about the pv of MOON (if it has any xD).



The CM looks good! I actually believe the song suits it... is kinda soothing :) and she looks gorrrrr :inlove

can't wait!!

^ let's hope she broke free of the "standard" release pattern :)

Please, please let it be true, SKYLINE is such a great song name *.*

By the preview from CM, song sounds good... And Ayu looks hot as usual. <3

MOON/SKYLINE...i love the title
hope it's true

It's probably fake.. but I do like the title SKYLINE

hmm the thread on Ayuchina about MOON/SKYLINE is locked and then deleted...guess that it's FAKE..
goshh i wish it's true though~ SKYLINE is a perfect title!

The songs amazing. I think it could be her TOP single from the last years, this is the ''next level''!

I LOVE the new song sooooo much.
It's not a sweet ballad, but a darkish one and I like this very much! The title is simple, but very nice!

I'm looking forward to hear more of it. And I can't wait for the single to come out!! :heart

I really really like it!