of course it will...

lol why wouldn't all three of these songs be on the album...

If she even put songs like RED LINE, decision and Will on the albums, I do not see why she would left any of these out of her next album

Cute lil affair? Are you serious? Last minute is the best song she's done since Letter. Of course the whole single will be on the album. This is Ayu after all.

I keep going back and forth on whether I like this single or not... :S

I like the premise of it but then there are some little things here and there throughout the songs that gets on my nerves. It's as if the quality just isn't as good as I should hope...

Aside from that, Walk is my most favorite of the three. I like her voice the best there and it somehow sounds more complete to me...

I would have agreed with you, but the mixing on Last Minute is just terrible. I cut Love again a lot of slack. That album sounded quite cheap in parts but it wasn't that unbearable and I quite liked it in the end. But Last Minute is an entirely different story. It would have been the ayu epic of the year but that breakdown with the drums and guitar is just garbage. It's intolerable. I can say that I have really great headphones and that breakdown sounds like junk in them. It sounds like the quality dipped to like 64kbps and you ripped it from YouTube using some bootleg website you googled and clicked to page 394 or something and found the website to convert it there. It's quite unpolished and I'm really disappointed. Everything was going well until the breakdown. Ayu sounded epic and I loved her voice. Then boom headshot. The other two songs are good though. They're standard affair but sometimes you want the old faithful. In the end though, I'd rather listen to kana nishino/yui on repeat than Last Minute. What am I saying I'd rather listen to Last Minute. The junk breakdown is more epic than any of their songs.

...o______o

Letter is such a random song to pick for that tho

I can't even remember how Letter sounds O_O

Yeah, Letter is SERIOUSLY just as atrocious as Call.

Letter is my favorite song in Party Queen, so beautiful.

Last Minute on the other hand I guess I'll only listen to live versions of it (the MS SUPER LIVE performance was amazing), the mixing on the studio version is just terrible.

Letter is a very emotional and nostalgic song. One of her best in the recent years.
Saying it's atrocious doesn't mean much when it comes from the people who stanned for Days. Her most generic ballad to date.

This single is so good :D


The more I hear the songs the better it gets :love

lol my first thought was "Letter? That's not Ayu's but Utada's song."

Zutto has grown on me. I still love Last Minute but I still wish the rock part wasn't so loud (is that was you guys mean when you're talking about 'bad mixing'?)

Generic isn't really bad by default, and lbr Letter is her most generic Joan Osborne "What If God Was One of Us" ripoff to date anyway. I mean she's only got about 80 million of them at this point.

wow, different strokes for different folks. Letter is fantastic. I've always viewed it is as the 2012 version of 'immature' (also one of my favorite songs). raw, introspective, minimalist, nostalgic. much prefer this style than the recent wave of disingenuously overproduced "epic" songs like Return Road and Last minute that are desperately trying to recreate the magic of songs like Free & Easy and Memorial address.

don't even care that it rips the Joan Osbourne song, it doesn't sound like it in any other part besides the guitar riff anyway.

I love almost everything Ayu does so I can't complain :laugh But I really liked Letter back in 2012, it is not her best song though IMO

I love letter. It's raw, it's nostalgic, and the lyrics resonate deeply with me.

They're both my favorite Ayu driving songs. :weep

I'm all for nostalgia, my friend even teased me and said for my birthday I should get a giant back-piece tattoo that reads MR. NOLSTALGIA, lol. But, Letter to me didn't sound like an ayu song at all. It felt like it was meant for another artist or something. Just like call is such a Michelle Branch reject from the 2000's. The b-side Life on the other hand, I truly adore. THAT's nostalgic and true Ayu.

call and Letter are pretty good songs. Still, Last minute is on a whole other level :P
I kind of hope Last minute gets an orchestra version.. could wind up being pretty kickass.

Reminds me is way better than all of those songs imo lol

+1,000,000 :yes

I like it too for those reasons tbh, it's just SUCH a random song to latch onto as like the best of the past 18 years of her career lol

That song is so amazing but it breaks my heart.... D:

Reminds me is the climax of Party queen to me, I love everything bout that song. Last minute ain't got that much power but I still appreciate it

I did not say it was her best song ever, just that I consider it to be among her best works as of late. Its well written, well produced. It doesnt sound like any other song in her discography either.

hm if I had to pick 5 songs to "save" since the release of FIVE:

• Wake me up
• Letter
• XOXO
• Tell all
• BRILLANTE

Interesting that 4 of those songs are from oddball composers (Phrased Differently, Katsumi Ohnishi, RedOne, Timothy Wellard)

oh! who mentioned Life? one of my faves! :luv2

Oops lol. My "18 years" comment was an exaggeration for everything since FIVE/PQ, though rereading it it does sound like I meant her whole career. But I didn't. :

It sounds like all her other mid-tempo "What If God" tracks to me though. HOPE or PAIN, Life, etc.

Y'all have got me listening to Party Queen now. :laugh call-Letter-reminds me are just 3 back-to-back amazing songs.

Party Queen is such a jewel! I love everything about that CD, even the cover because is a great irony...

I really enjoy it a lot after the first three tracks. They make such a bad first impression lol. I love that it's not really cohesive throughout. And the cover with her in front of a mirror is awesome, except for the seemingly missing arm lol.

The best thing of those 3 first track is that all start like a crazy party but then comes pure magic on the next songs. Is like you want to go party but in the inside you are so full of sadness and emotions to express.

Letter looks really bad. Considering it's followed by reminds me, return road, and Tell me why.

Does anyone know where to input that code from red card included in TA edition?
I read somewhere it gives access to Zutto... PV or some other video.
Also the christmas, signed card was nice. Too bad all the writings are printed.

Can't wait to receive my TA edition and music cards! Using Tenso for the first time. Also ordered the ayu X Vans since I could. Yay!!

ayu's channel released lyric videos for the single haha
(without background vocals)

Walk's music is beautiful and moving :')

people who received TA version
you got code for making video?

Yes... but nowhere to insert the codes zzz still waiting...

^i see...


Instrumentals from Youtube
https://www.sendspace.com/file/x7mtxx

Someone know where to enter the serial number for "Zutto ..." video clip making streaming please?

another video at ayu youtube channel


CD scans
Scanned by HULUFan
Shared by AYUFAN.COM
Regular edition
http://i.imgur.com/1jMRx6S.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/a6uPIvYl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pQicJkPl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bQxDdVnl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gLvJFaQl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6hde7yTl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X0EfyShl.jpg
TeamAyu edition
http://i.imgur.com/cyn7mFyl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/it14K7rl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3RQ3OG4l.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BTYYMg2l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7AALbZPl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iCABfZ7l.jpg

dat back coverrrr omgawd *.*

interesting...its like a link video

its so beautiful. the whole package. best single !!!

Someone know where to enter the serial number for Zutto...including in the teamayu edition?¿?¿

It might be in the teamayu website somewhere

Ok...where???? Jajajajajajajaja

only thing I don't like about this package is that "ayumi hamasaki" on the OBI was written in romaji =(

Damn! now that you mention it.....:no:no:no

*looking at the shelf*
Bold & delicious and Step you also has "ayumi hamasaki" on obi

even colours don't have the 浜崎あゆみ name i think. I'm afraid it'll be romaji from now on

She always had "ayumi hamasaki" written in the cover, I can't get why they were using the kanji name for the obis...

^ Colours does have 浜崎あゆみ writte on its OBI :yes

For Ayu's releases, it's normal to have her name written in romaji on the cover of the album and in kanji/hiragana on the other. She's only had her name in all-romaji on a couple of releases.

When you put it in a store shelf it's easier to read this....

浜
崎
あ
ゆ
み

than this...

a
y
u
m
i

h
a
m
a
s
a
k
i

and you also get more space for the release title

^ Well, thats a good point :P

actually all of the releases had ayumi hamasaki on their obi since Daybreak to Bold & Delicious / Pride

Only the singles' releases have this treatment.
Albums are always with 浜崎あゆみ on the OBI.

^ just checked and terminal has the name in kanji on the obi tho!

RAINBOW, Memorial address and MY STORY had 'ayumi hamasaki' accoding to ones i have in my collection :yes i'm not sure about A BALLADS because i have only first presses which didn't had obis

but Zutto... / Last minute / Walk is the first single to have its name before ayumi hamasaki

Zutto... / Last minute / Walk ayumi hamasaki
ayumi hamasaki Bold & Delicious / Pride

Oh yes you're right, I totally forgot about those... And for A BALLADS, there's also her name in romaji. I think it was her trend between 2002 and 2005...

Has anyone tried to write to TeamAyu customer support about Zutto... making of?

^I wrote to Ayu

Cool! I hope they'll pay attention now:-)

Any news about the code?
I sent an email to TA support, but got no respond.

Japanese fans wrote to support too, it seems nobody has information...

Thanks.

They'll probably apologize and make something else available on the site.

I don't understand why they can get the strings group but not a drummer. They at least had tasuku on non-synthesized guitar.. I think. Basically, this is probably what Memorial address would be like if Ayu hadn't recorded it with her concert band.