Oh, I know that. But, since you phrased the question in such a way that sounded like Kuu in person, I was was replying in the same way to just say that "The reason that Kuu always gets brought up is the fault of the crazy fans".

lol fanbase wars.

btw I remember when NL was released and people was so disappointed by so many interludes. But then most of them loved that album anyway (for me as well). I don't want to compare NL to Party Queen, but I think there's a possibility it will happen again.

I still hope the tracklist it's not confirmed though.. just for Smoke, Eyes, Magic ;_; best Ayu title so far. Such huuuge disappoint if it will turns out as interlude.

Well, if it's an amazing interlude I don't think there's a problem there, haha. I still have hope that it's going to be a full track though!

If you have doubts about the album, it might be better to cancel the order until the album actually comes out and then purchase it if you like it. What would you do with the album if you ended up hating it and it was too late to cancel the preorder?

Agree with this...

C'mon guys, we look like some crazy k-pop fans comparing artists on youtube XD

lol everyone hated next level.

I never really understood where the hate came from..
They have two different styles of music...
And people act like if you like one, you cant like the other...
::whisper:: it's like republicans and democrats... lol

Everyone hates Ayu's current release but will love it by the time she releaes the next album. Everyone hated NEXT LEVEL but then loved it when R'n'RC came out, everyone hated R'n'RC but then loved it when Love songs came out, etc. etc.

Everyone will hate this one, then end up loving it.

I didnt care for the arrangements. They were too messy for me.

And I felt the compositions were lackluster, but I thought her style of electro was interesting.

I kinda wanted her to do another album with it though, to see how it could grow.

haters (on anyone) need lives. I love both of them. Of course I love ayu more. But still...they are very different. yall need something better to do

Could these be the covers? I'm not sure, I sure as hell don't recognize these pics.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...50427616_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...85110190_n.jpg

credit: Jeweled_Ayu @ AHN

^^NO WAY.

Dear god.

And wtf @ that tracklist.

^well the tracklist is nothing new...lol

if they're real, they're cute...even though they don't match the title AT ALL.

:no please be fake

With a title like "Party Queen" the covers that are shown don't seem to be reflective of the theme at all. Ayu's covers also tend to be a bit more creative than this to say the least. If these are the covers, this looks to be quite a step back from the "how beautiful you are" cover, and that was just for a digital single. Did this person source where they got this information from?

If there's psychopathic nonsense going on in here it should cease and desist lol. I don't know why people insist upon starting up flame wars between artists. Actually, I don't even know if that's what's actually going on since I'm having trouble keeping track of this thread. :laugh Sometimes the posts aren't even legible...

Anyway, I'm still horribly disappointed with the tracklist. Honestly, my paranoid schizophrenic cat couldn't have come up with worse song titles. That's really harsh, but I don't know what happened to her ability to create unique, good song titles. I don't think I've liked a song title since (miss)understood. "a cup of tea" is the only song title I like. :( I'm really setting the bar low on this album. : / ESPECIALLY if that's the cover. O_o

Although I'm almost positive those photos came from a photo shoot from last year. Yeah, I'm almost 100% on this...

EDIT: found it. http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayum...006fd.jpg.html It came from this photoshoot. I'm actually pretty proud of myself considering how out of touch I've been with her photoshoots in the last two years lol.

Scawaii October 2011 :cool

Nevermind, I remember seeing them now that I've stared at them long enough. SCawaii, October 2011.

http://zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayumi-mags/SCawaii/25/

EDIT: Thanks, pommy :)

it's fake. that's a photoshoot !!

I'm glad to see that the covers are fake but thank you so much for posting this. It seemed to stop some of the foolishness that's been going on in this thread for a second as people were more focused on trying to figure out if these were real or not. This thread started becoming a three ring circus with all the trolling, spamming, nonsense and Ayu sushi (that was just strange). I'm not gonna lie, it was a bit entertaining but it's just really unnecessary to be going on racking up pages and pages of pure foolishness. It's amazing how the wait time between an album announcement and release brings out the nuttiness in people, lol.

thank goodness! I was about to cancel my order... lol
Horrible covers!

The type was -especially- bad, lol. Ayu's had some bad stuff on her covers in the past, but never that bad. Plus we already kind of know her style for the shoot and that's not what we saw at all in those 'covers'.

I think the titles will just take some getting used to like all other Ayu titles. It's easier to stomach the titles when you come in after they're established, I think, but if you're a fan when they're announced it gets harder to digest them. If you look at any thread where the titles were revealed (I think AHS' current incarnation goes back to RAINBOW) there are always people saying "WTF ARE THESE" since they're so 'new'.

It's also rather nice looking back at so many people being excited about the album regardless of the titles, haha.

^^^For the record, only one post was reported from this whole thread, and it was reported just an hour or two ago. : / No one (i.e. of the mods) had any idea there was anything bad going on.

There's a report button on every post. It looks like a little exclamation mark. Just FYI BBs. :cool

Best post ever.

You know.. it's always just one person...
But this whole trolling thing is stupid...
If you ignore them, they go away...
just saying! :shrug

EDIT:
as for the covers... still blah!
And I think I might be one of the only ones that has no problem with the title or song titles?
I said it before and I will say it again...

I think it is a little tackie, being that she went through a divorce, but besides that... lol.. Who cares... it's just a title..

I take it back. I guess there were three reported posts, but they were all within the last few hours and all reported by only one person.

I hope not hate me. But I ordered the album :)! <3
ayu is all ~

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These weren't even a good attempt at trolling! :no


"I am your cowgirl queen!" :laugh

They were also really badly pasted together with the preliminary track order. Come on now, Ayu never has the CD tracklist in the same order as the DVD unless we're talking Memorial address or FIVE.

For a moment there I was like WTF? when I saw those covers XD

Shouldn't we take those out of the thread so that no one browsing thinks they're real?

these covers are too simple for an album titled Party Queen!! I'm glad it's fake

Probably.

Lol I see your point. xD But it's just my thoughts so far. :P Naturally (as I also said quite clearly) I will wait and see if the album will turn out great. This is naturally what I hope for! I want to fall in love with it! ^_^ But so far, with the songs we already have (and songs that I feel like is songs I won't listen to again if possible) I'm feeling quite... unexcited for this album. I'm not feeling it at all. And I have always feelt super duper mega excited over past Ayu albums before. R'n'RC for an example. I thought my mind would blow of excitement. And (while it really didn't for many of you who got disapointed) my mind was blown. I loved it sooo much.

I actually think that with these low expectations I already have, the album can only get better than I think right? ;) At least, that's what I'm hoping for. :yes

haha i'm gonna crying out loud if those pics are the covers for the album~~~ XD
i'll be disappointed if there will be 4 interludes, coz i want eyes, magic, smoke will be a full track.. but then... with 8 new songs, i won't complain later on. coz it's brand new songs we never heard before. so I'm anticipating!

LOL Good thing those are SCawaii. Too boring for an album cover if you ask me.

I don't think Ayu would ever do an album cover like this... A BEST II was as close as it got to "no background" cover. Wasn't it ?

10 pages of outcry over a rumoured tracklist posted on a Facebook page, Kuu vs Ayu and a fake cover "leak".

AHS, I love you but sometimes I hate you xD

^ At least it keeps things interesting... :rolleyes

I think we have to do something when we're waiting for news lol.

uhm, nope? :shrug
I often read here people who loves NL, of course not everyone :laugh but some people love it.

I obviosly knew that was from Scawaii, lul, at least someone should try put her face onto diffrent clothes XD

But for Ayu, I am not afraid for "casual" covers, she never does that. They might be very simple but they are not "casual"...

Not to be nitpicky, but you said "most of them loved it", implying it was all around well-loved. AHS actually considers it to be her second worst album overall apparently:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107180
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104350

The 'fake cover leak' could have been avoided, to be honest. (Plus it was very obviously fanmade and was apparently found on Facebook. Why did they go through the trouble of badly copy-pasting everything together and not even making the right amount of covers? There's also a PV that is still being made.) If covers do come out, we usually get them here first (or Ayu's team would tweet about it) and new information in general never pops up on FB first.

And the 'rumored tracklist order' is from a Chinese forum that gets information directly from avex at times so there's a possibility that it is true. It was reposted onto the Facebook page without a source and in a strange format which is how a lot of people saw it. Instead of actually posting the tracklist order, all they did was say what was a full song/interlude.

Lol sorry you're right, maybe I used the wrong word. I should have use 'some of them' instead :laugh.

Nevermind so :roflmao well I bet there will be people will love it anyway.

The cover looked so fake, I can't believe some people fell for it


Next Level is a good album for me I like it and I don't mind the interludes

^
I think she's referring to a previous post where I really said 'most of them'. Although most doesn't mean all o_o I guess.

Anyway nevermind, seriously I don't want to start a war over a word :laugh. Just ignore my latest posts.

most doesn't mean everyone that's all I was saying but
you're right that's why I changed my post.

NEXT LEVEL is to me the album which is the easiest to listen to. It flows pretty well, and I love that the ballads come right at the end lol :innocent

It has to be my favorite ayu-album right now :yes



I hope Party Queen is like that too, but who knows!

It would not be too much if we get 2 more songs,I think the problem is not the number of interludes,it is the number of NEW full songs.

to be honest, I don't mind interludes like disco-munication, Jump! or sth rockish like Load of the SHUGYO, Are You Wake Up?, taskinst or even the awesome Bridge to the sky, Mirror, tasking or Catcher in the light. But I seriously skips all the interludes like KALEIDOSCOPE, Pieces of SEVEN, LABIRYNTH, reBIRTH, or the Love songs "classical" ones, they are all very pretty... but they just fills the place for no reason...

When is the overseas version released?

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. Hope those interludes will be worth listening to.

too true, too true..
If we were doing My story or Missunderstood with 17 tracks and 16 then it would not be a problem for me whats so ever!
And next level was amazing! :D

LOL those fake covers!!

Bridge to the Sky and Mirror are the best ayu interludes ever! I hope she has something that can catch up the epicness of those 2 interludes. :D lol @ people falling for the fake covers. *WHAT if those are the real covers o.O

^ bridge to the sky was amazing... I don't think she will ever be able to top that...

SURREAL__RAINBOW > haha, you're using my graphic from ayumihamasaki@tumblr as your ava :D that's nice ^^

BTW:
I had a dream again (yeah, I have them like, a lot really, when Ayu is realesing an album, I have 2-3 dreams about it) It was like I came to someone laptop to check facebook and there was a leak from Party Queen - it was a bonus track called "mad eyd" (yeah, eyed without an "e") and it was a alternate-remix ver of "Like a doll". The sound of it was creepy, the lyrics was the same as Like a doll, but the voice was slower-down with this creepy deep voiced, and the music was diffent, instead of "Like a doll" she was singing "Like a mad". And it was a youtube video with PV shooting (from ViVi preview) where Ayu was dressed as a pierrot , very similar touch to alterna pv, with heavy white make up and black eyeliner. It was creepy as *******, like Ayumi Hamasaki from hell o_O

lol omg sorry if i didn't ask for it, I don't have a tumblr :cry

It's gorgeous *o*

^ no problem, you can use it without crediting :) here at ahs, everyone can use my graphics as they like, I get mad when someone is taking my gifs at some portugal-out-of-nowhere forum and credit them as theirs >< xD anyway, enjoy!

There's a Portuguese Ayu forum?

thats yours? thats my fav ayu tumblr, PERFECT graphics, PERFECT, I always like and reblog them, please never stop making them ♥

I don't remember, I think it was portuguese. It just randomly pops up on tumblr (some of my tumblr friend reblogged it) 3 gifs made by me - and it was a source link - this forum (it was AyuxKoda forum) and there was all my gifs in the topic without credit...

yep, it's mine ^^ thank you, i love making graphics for this tumblr, and rebloging gifs, cause i am not that good at them ;d

and sooorry for spam ._____________.

that is indeed a pretty avatar picture

It must be brasilian.

I have searched for a portuguese forum (from Portugal) and had no luck.

I'm looking for portuguese ayu fans.

^ yeah, maybe ._. it was something around brasil/portugal or maybe french. i can't remember.
i know that feeling, we once had a great ayumi poland forum, but it closed now :( and it's hard to find a hardcore ayu fan like me in poland.

At least there's the internet and worldwide fanbase.

you can tell its fake because the track Party queen doesn't have a capital Q, to which the covers have how the song is written

The album title is written with the capital Q while the song itself has the lower case q instead ;)

The interludes of RNRC are the worst interludes I've ever heard. I can handle JUMP!, but the other two remind me of cheap 80's sci-fi flicks. I can't stand them. But RNRC is an amazing album none-the-less. Next Level's interludes are a mile ahead in comparison, and DISCO-munication is personally one of my favourite interludes ever. Especially the AT09 vid that goes with it. MARIO AYU!! :luv2

So is Party Queen's interludes are nothing like RNRC's, I'll be ecstatic. :P

^I can't handle JUMP!

I just can't. :P

Me neither, from the first listen till now, just horrible.

How can you handle either of Jump or Disco-munication? Jump! - she sounds like a banchy screaching - Yay yay yay! yay yay yay! yay yay yay! It's terrible. Disco-munication is so annoying as well - it is the only interlude from NEXT LEVEL I just cannot listen to - the rest I truly love. I thought the composition of "THE introduction" for R'n'R was really great. I mean, yeah the arrangement/synthesizer they chose to use to portray that melody was not the greatest, but it certainly is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

^I agree.

And I thought the album was going to be amazing after that intro...and then it was just messy and bad.

I don't like JUMP, I can barely tolerate it. But its the only interlude on RNRC I CAN tolerate. I detest "THE introduction" and "montage" more than I detest any other Ayu track. :innocent I think I'm the only person on AHS who feels that way about those two tracks as well, everyone else seems to adore them. But every time I hear them, I expect a badly animated purple tentacled space monster to come slithering across the horizon or something.

Disco-munication is so ********** cute and bouncy, it makes me happy. :heart

EDIT: Just listened to both interludes, and yes, I still detest them, wholly and completely.

This just blew my mind.

Disco is okay... but much better than JUMP.. I don't know why i just feel like it is a lame rip off of Humming 7/4... lol

please please please be fake. those covers are horrible

They are fake.

^ ohh thank GOD

Disco-munication is one of Ayu's best interludes. Loved the 8-bit/chiptune influence. you people have no taste!

I really like Disco-munication too. It's one of my most played interludes haha. High-five for good taste. :)

So people are thinking is 4 interludes to this album now? Why 4 and not 2 or 3?

^there was a report from someone that they have 4 confirmed interludes. I don't know who, I think it was a Chinese forum who are affiliated with avex or something? Can someone else elaborate? :innocent

Amen! :heart

It's all over here. :)

People don't know for sure but it points towards it.

so it's mid of February. I need something more than just a tracklist XD ayu-chaan, how about covers?

^I'm starting to get antsy for covers too, considering there's only 28 (or 29; idk, is this year a leap year? XD) days in February.

5 more weeks!!

really??It's very soon for covers,i think.We might get covers the first/second week of march or even later...

there'll be 29th ;)

but February is always very fast, so I hope to see covers very soon :love

I would love covers.. but I would also loved to be surprised!

imagine Timmy'll be featured on the cover too!!! :laugh

^
oh my :laugh I only could imagine the drama.

To be honest, as much as I like Timmy I don't want him on the cover :shakehead but I hope for a colorful cover though.
A cover like HYBA would be quite strange for Party Queen imo lol.

I would love a cover as colourful as the booklet pics of RAINBOW album :luv2

Browsed a Japanese BBS and found track times. I wonder if this is what the Chinese forum found?

Lots of shorter tracks this time around it looks like, but again... unconfirmed!

I adore Disco-munication. At one point, it was even my alarm.

Me too +w+ !!! COLORS! Bright colors for this cover~~~

If it's real, there's definitely a hidden track !

oh, eyes, smoke, magic is quite long for a interlude (if it's true)

i think hbya cover will be included (the same photosession) in the booklet just like together when... photoshoot in GUILTY/GUILTY photobook ^^

It's been my experience with ayu that shorter trqcks tend to be faster tracks!

this album won't be as long as Love songs X) which is a pity because the longer the better :P but either way its quality not quantity (lovesongs was just both)