Well, this is exciting! Although I'd be even more excited if there were sources...

I love the song titles as well! GRAVITY makes me think of Maaya Sakamoto. :laugh

hah. i have a feeling you're right.

anyway, yeah i have a feeling "Now & Forever" might either be a ballad, or it's going to resemble "Born To Be..." or "fairyland." Usually Spring songs are like that.

Yea, "GRAVITY" reminds me of Luna Sea's "GRAVITY". And "Now & Forever" makes me think of a Luna Sea's ballad - "Forever & Ever"...
I am guessing "Gravity" a rock song (somethin' like Game and Because of you) and "Now & Forever" ballad. :yes

I hope this new single can be very different from her previous ones.

gravity could be a rock-ish song? Sounds great, because I like that type of songs.

Thanks for the news. Hope this becomes true. I'm really looking forward to GRAVITY. ^_^ Maybe this'll even be a CREA single.

I hope so too, though I doubt it. We are getting less and less CREA compositions these days. With the tour and everything going on right now, I'm not sure when Ayu would have time to compose. I wish that after the tour she would take a month or so off and just use that time to work on her composing because I always find her compositions to be the most memorable. (and I thought this before I found out that CREA was Ayumi herself.)

Anyways, I like these titles! I hope this turns out to be true.

Those are only a few songs though. The vast majority of her songs the last fews years have had the exact same structure. I do wish she would start using more intricate and a greater variety of structures.

Sounds like trustworthy titles.
I would guess NOW & FOREVER be a ballad, or hard rock sad rock song,
and GRAVITY to be a outer space-ish rock song..
I dunno.

Oh god, I hope this is true. Gravity is such a cool name for a song by a female artiste. Hope they come with respective DVDs and bonus content for being her 40th single.

Hopefully people aren't all disappointed by the time of release.. if this single is even real :\

~_~ /digs fairyland

Interesting title. I do hope it's true indeed.

the song titles sound okay! so hopefully it's true!!

i am relli looking forward to it!

oooh, the title GRAVITY reminds me of m.o.v.e's REALITY

i like the title 'Now & Forever', think it's gonna be a ballad, it should be a good one! the 40th single! wow... in 8 years... that means approximately 5 singles per year, aren't you tired hamasaki-san?

however this is certainly a good news, i wonder will there be any concert to promote the 40th single? they did the 30th single collection for the (not-that-worthy) forgiveness, how about this one?

i'm so excited! and about 'GRAVITY', well, sounds heavy, and i think it's gonna be rock-ish,

finally ayu's titles are ...well... getting back to normal! yay! thanks for the news, can't wait until May (and right now i haven't even bought Startin'/Born To Be... *sigh)

It looks horribly fake.

Too bad... most people here are so excited... they also make me quite excited :tipsy. So yeah I will tune down my excitement a bit so that I won't be shocked (in a negative way) in the end.

I wish Now and Forever will be a ballad. The last time she released a ballad during summer was back in 2000 (SEASONS). I hope this single will be a big hit like SEASONS did. BUT..., first I hope the cover will be more creative. Secondly, I hope the pv won't be so bad. LOL.

About gravity.. I thought it would be a ballad cuz it reminds me the anime, Wolf's Rain, ending theme... but since most of you guessed it'll be a rock song, so probly it will be a rock song... haha.. :mischief

huam... wow....... I am waiting for a huge breakthrough for her.... to gain what she has had... :) hopefully the 40th does.....

Actually yeah. Kinda. Ok, a lot. Very. I don't think they'd put "NEWS!!!" like that at the top without special font. And the number 40 icon thingy is just weird. Her 30rd single didn't have anything like this did it? But lets be optimistic and keep hoping. Timing is good so far, as it seems to coincide with the two new Panasonic and Morinaga endorsements.

cool, cool interesting news!

:dead2 I don't care how the songs are, AS LONG AS SHE LEAVES THE ANNOYING CHANTING CHOIR PEOPLE OUT!!!

I DON'T want more people chanting "BOOORN... To be FREEEEE!!!" or "BOOOOOLD & DELICIOUS!!". It seriously RUINS her songs.

Hopefully, IF 'Now & Forever' is a dance song, it will be more like anything from the LOVEppears/I am... era. Well, I don't care, as long as it's not slow, like both born to be... and fairyland was. :dead2

sounds promising :)
really looking forward for this
another rockish song would be great