yeah, oh but i was making screencaps for red cliff yesterday...and i must say~ alan is gorgeous in it...and i think it's probably her most artistic PV yet

a summer song from alan would be nice x3

that would be...too bad the single is a ballad @_@

yeah, and September isn't really summer xD we shall wait and see, maybe the ballad will be so great, that we'll be praying for more ballads from alan xD

Lol, but just what quality as a ballad? When I think of a ballad, I think of it as slow...GnT in my mind doesn't feel like a ballad

neither in mine.
eh, two months waiting...

http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/up...399-Bidoof.png

HAHA j/k. I think a unicorn like what noidea has said, or an antelope/gazelle... graceful and elegant like alan.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...ry/gazelle.jpg
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~sdb/Safari-200...%20gazelle.jpg

And yay new single!

If I understood what you said, alan'll release a new single? *.*

Nandomo was like her 3rd single I think? It was right after Soba ni iru ne, and that was sort of not a ballad (I think...) but I have to agree with you. :(:P After

Soba ni iru ne --> Nandomo --> Mamoritai mono --> Daikkirai, demo arigato -->The LOVE!! album (full of NEW ballads like Suki desu.) --> Todoketai...
They're all ballads!!!

Thelma needs to release something more... upbeat?

just like alan XD...

waterballoon, you made me LOL so hard xD Bidoof FTW <3

I actually really like ballads xD

the only J-pop artists I like upbeat songs from are Namie & Kuu

The rest like Ayu, Mika, Hikki and now alan, I prefer slow songs :yes

LOOOOOOL
I was thinking of bringing this one, but I didnt xD

i adore ballads too :luv2
i dont mind if she makes more :P
the more "magnificent" the better!! :D

well for us it doesn't matter, but alan can't survive in the music industry if only we like it, and as already some people here have said, she have too much ballads, so she's going to lose fans if she sticks with ballads only, have 2 upbeat tracks on an album while the rest is mostly ballads....isn't good @_@

im pretty shure she'll have up-beat songs more often in the future, its not a fact but it is possible ;)

Her ballads aren't really SUPER ballad-y though. I mean technically most would be considered ballads but they have something unique-ish about them to make them good. It's not just piano ballad after piano ballad after piano ballad :).

yeah, when i think about a ballad, i think more slow, i don't think...songs after megumi no ame are ballady

oh great....

alan's Chinese album: Heart in the East
01. 天女
02. 爱看得见 (Chinese version of Gunjou no Tani)
03. 飞行志
04. 细节
05. 加油！你有ME！
06. 三生世 三生路 (Chinese version of Sakura Modern)
07. 明日赞歌 (Chinese version of Ashita e no Sanka)
08. 心．战～RED CLIFF～ (Chinese version of RED CLIFF~Shin Sen~)
09. 赤壁～大江东去～ (Chinese version of Kuon no Kawa)
10. Sign (Chinese version of Sign)
11. 爱就是手 (Bonus Track) (Chinese version of Shiawase no Kane)

DVD
01. 爱看得见
02. 明日赞歌
03. 飞行志
04. 加油！你有ME！
05. 心．战～RED CLIFF～
06. 赤壁～大江东去～

:O yay for FP "deluxe packaging" o_O
i hope to hear a bunch of wails >:]
cant wait for the cover! :D

the album looks really, really good, all the chinese versions of songs I really enjoy(Gunjou no Tani, RED CLIFF, Ashita he no sanka, Shiawase no Kane and Kuon no Kawa are actually my favorite songs xD)
Im quite sure i will buy this, chinese albums are really cheap, arent they?

uh yeah, they should be :)

i wonder if the first track is the same like in VoE.....

ah! hopefully they'll reshoot some of the PVs, and not just dub them

Chinese albums...in the stores sell about USD $12-15, how much does yesasia sell them for?

wow, thats a really cheap price, yesasia will probably sell them for around the same price then
chinese albums cost like 50% less than a new album costs here in Germany xD(and japanese double the price a new album costs here LOL)

So the album is basically like a cover album?

yup, all her chinese albums are

well we may have 2 new songs

True but couldn't they spend any money to find some songwriters to write new materiel for her album? I do understand why 心．战～RED CLIFF～ and 赤壁～大江东去～ are on the list but come on like Avex.

woha, I can't wait to hear all of these songs! :D

i think track 3 is the chinese version of sora uta....

^I hope so! I think before VoE was released, she had a video up on her blog that showed her recording a Chinese version of "Sora Uta". ^-^

cause the track name talk about flying~

i never had high expectations for this album, i knew that avex was just gonna put chinese versions of her japanese songs~

10th july? thats in a week!
and my birthday is the 18th of july, so ill have no problems gettin that xD

am I the only 1 who's not that excited about her chinese album ? T_T

i hope that they'll import it to taiwan @_@...

Sora Uta talks about the same thing... So yeah! XDD Track 3 is Sora Uta in Chinese. :P Who wants to bet that Megumi no Ame is also in there? XDD

I wish I could say the same. Most likely I knew the RED CLIFF songs would be on there but I expected original songs not language covers.

Anyone has Idea - this album is coming out in japan too? Beacouse I want the DVD iso so badly XD

Argh, I just noticed that I wont be able to buy it as of now o.0 My paypal was hacked, so I had to close my account o.0
Well, Im in London at the end of the month, I hope they have a store selling J-Pop and C-Pop there xD

If they do release it in Japan, you'll probably have to wait like a couple of months.

will JP press still be as expensive? if the original version is released in hong kong?

could somebody please translate the tracklist?

oh my...i'm gonna faint

alan said that the original single was gonna be a summer single, but now it's a fall single @_@

......maybe the original song was upbeat :thud

there definitely must have a reason as to why the summer single in question was scrapped T_T

she just keep saying the music is very good..

So the single they postponed is the single that's coming out in the fall? Or is it a different single?

it's the 10th single, so the one that's coming out in the fall~

Whoa new album! Chinese album... interesting. And eh, I don't think alan releases songs in like season style... that is, if the song was meant to be upbeat, I don't think it'll change just because it's released in autumn.

well the original melody is changed, that's why it was postponed, they waned to create better music

if its gonna be released on the 10th in HK, when is it gonna be released on mainland/other places?

i was hoping for this!

ofcourse brand new songs would be awesome, but i'm probably gonna love the chinese versions of the songs more than the original :heart

i seriously can't wait

「夏の海」 |Ayu|Ayumi3 J' ]+ V) s7 |+ P3 V2 |, I
発売日：2009年09月02日
レーベル：エイベックス・マーケティング
＜内容绍介＞
2009年第3弾SINGLEは、ロングランヒットとなった「久远の河」に続く、超大型映画の主题歌タイア ップ付きSINGLE！

「久远の河」に続く2009年第3弾SINGLEは、全国上映馆数が330馆を超える超大型映画の主题歌タ イアップ付きSINGLE！　
映画主题歌が决定している「夏の海」はalanが呗い上げる壮大なバラード楽曲。
カップリングには、昨年5月に起きた四川大地震の义援金活动として配信限定リリースした「幸せの钟」を新た に取り直し、「幸せの钟 -2009 Version-」とNHKエコプロジェクト「地球エコ 2008 SAVE THE FUTURE 2008」のイメージソング「懐かしい未来 ～longing future～」の新レコーディングバーション、「懐かしい未来 ～longing future～ -2009 Version-」としてパッケージ初収录。DVDには「夏の海」のVideo ClipとMaking Clipを収录。

【CD+DVD】
¥1,680(税込)
AVCD-31709
【CD】
¥1,050(税込)
AVCD-31710

＜CD収录内容＞
1.夏の海 !
2.幸せの钟 -2009 Version-
3.懐かしい未来 ～longing future～ -2009 Version-
4.夏の海 (Instrumental)
5.幸せの钟 -2009 Version- (Instrumental)
6.懐かしい未来 ～longing future～ -2009 Version- (Insrumental)

＜DVD収录内容＞

・ 夏の海 (Music Clip)
・ Bonus Movie

i got this from ayuchina, have this been posted before?

ah it was posted 2 hours ago on alan-china

but really @_@ why can't they ever put the source for it!

the title sound upbeat, too bad it isnt'~ oh so both shiawase no kane and natsukashii is on it~

only one new song :bawl

^ could anybody tell me what that means? lol, so a new song with 3 kanji? no in the middle? thats everything i get out of that xD but what does this ayu stuff mean?

^yah i was wondering about the source too @_@

i hope it will be a summer ballad or sthg like that. quite curious about the bonus movie :shimmy

noidea: the song's name is natsu no umi which means the sea of summer/summer's sea

i think the bonus movie is just the making of

and there's nothing about ayu

the first line says something about some ayu o.0
「夏の海」 |Ayu|Ayumi3 J' ]+ V) s7 |+ P3 V2 |, I

@ prussian blue

thanks for the romanization, I cant read kanji^^ so that helped a lot

yeah i know, sometimes when you copy from a chinese forum, a bunch of other text is copied along...idk why, but i always have a headache copying from alan-china

「夏の海」
発売日：2009年09月02日
レーベル：エイベックス・マーケティング
＜内容绍介＞
2009年第3弾SINGLEは、ロングランヒットとなった「久远の河」に続く、超大型映画の主题歌タ イア ップ付きSINGLE！

「久远の河」に続く2009年第3弾SINGLEは、全国上映馆数が330馆を超える超大型映 画の主题歌タ イアップ付きSINGLE！　
映画主题歌が决定している「夏の海」はalanが呗い上げる壮大なバラード楽曲。
カップリングには、昨年5月に起きた四川大地震の义援金活动として配信限定リリースした「幸せ の钟」を新た に取り直し、「幸せの钟 -2009 Version-」とNHKエコプロジェクト「地球エコ 2008 SAVE THE FUTURE 2008」のイメージソング「懐かしい未来～longing future～」の新レコーディングバーション、「懐かしい未来 ～longing future～ -2009 Version-」としてパッケージ初収录。DVDには「夏の海」のVideo ClipとMaking Clipを収录。

【CD+DVD】
¥1,680(税込)
AVCD-31709
【CD】
¥1,050(税込)
AVCD-31710

＜CD収录内容＞
1.夏の海 !
2.幸せの钟 -2009 Version-
3.懐かしい未来 ～longing future～ -2009 Version-
4.夏の海 (Instrumental)
5.幸せの钟 -2009 Version- (Instrumental)
6.懐かしい未来 ～longing future～ -2009 Version- (Insrumental)

＜DVD収录内容＞

・ 夏の海 (Music Clip)
・ Bonus Movie

thanks for the tracklist ^^
EDIT
it seems like a summer single xD
Natsu no Umi? Summer Sea? xDDD

Ah nah, now it's a fall single, maybe they just changed the music, but didn't change the lyrics...or the title

I guess youre talking about my post a few pages back xD

I went to the police and changed my paypal password, but its really complicated, there were many things happening and so on...well, at least i only lost 15 euros because i didnt have enough money on my bankaccount for them to steal more :thud

thanks for posting the tracklist of her upcoming single & also at the title of it , Seb & Jasmine

Natsu no Umi ! is a weird single title o_O

wait wait

Ashita e no Sanka
Shiawase no Kane
Kaze no Tegami
Megumi no Ame
Gunjou no Tani
Kuon no Kawa
Natsu no Umi

:thud

sorry Jasmine but why are you listing all these singles ? :shrug

I don't get it :dead2

7 singles that have "no" :P

Also, another single that has a nature form in it... "ocean/sea". Haha. Considering it's Summer Sea! with an exclamation mark... this might be a really upbeat song! No one said autumn must have depressing songs lol... so I'm looking forward to this! And no no no at the "bonus tracks"... there could AT LEAST be another new theme instead of a 2009 rehash of Natsukashiiku Mirai ~Longing future~...

oh I get it now LMAO

sorry this's what happens when you had to wake up at 7am on a SAT MORNING @_@ :dead2 (because of Finance makeup tutorial)

I should get some sleep soon xD

it was said that it's an "excellent ballad" ^^'

oo i think it also said it's a magnificent ballad too haha

oh, maybe it was magnificent x"D

oh man. first time i've seen a ballad with an exclamation mark on its title lol

...is it me or the tracklist seem kinda fake? there's no ! for the instrumental or the PV, and it misspelled kane, it should be 鐘

well I don't know Jasmine , it looks official to me

besides even if someone were to lie , they wouldn't have gone though the trouble of writing what's alan's new single all about & etc

i just find it weird with the number of typos in it...at least someone should make sure it's spelled right @_@

lol come to think about it now , you do have a point

but at least now everyone knows what the title of her new single's :yes

It would be great if it was fake cos tbh I wasn't exactly impressed that there's only one new song...

well thinking about her past singles, it's mostly one new song, Gunjou no Tani, Kuon no Kawa~

& for me I'm glad this time round I'm not going to buy Natsu no Umi ! :laugh

I will download it though xD

cant w8 4 preview. its gotta nice title :)

I can't wait for the previews. I want to hear how the 2009 version of Natsukashii Mirai ~longing future~ and Shiawase no Kane sounds. And of course Natsu no Umi.

lol I think everyone all echo the same thing as you , Mishelle :friends

yay the title of the new single is cute!! :D

hopefully will keep that summerish beat??



AND OMGGGG the chinese album (L) i want ittttttttttttt
xD

whats the title of the album called in characters?

edit:
does it REALLY mean "heart in the east" ?

心在東方

or heart at the east

oooo Shiawase no Kane is being released!

oooh.. I saw 心的東方 somewhere @ __ @

haha that's wrong, and it would sound weird, the heart's east XD

or it can be heart within the east, but heart in the east sounds better imo

im kinda sad cuz there's only one new song... i dont know... im still happy bout this tho.
:( but really expected somethin more.
i love the title, cant deny.
cant wait for the covers.

i love the title so much. i can't wait to hear it

oo alan will be having a mini fan concert in china on july 25th...~

^ so its something well never see o.0
well, thats what she was rehearsing for then
its good that shes collecting a little concert experience before the does her big concert in december

^ :lech you know chinese fans love to fan cam :lech

i hope they'll record with high quality cameras..:roflmao

ah i would love to go~

i hope that her chinese album get an OS press...since taiwan is overseas from china, lol, i asked on the avex taiwan forum, one guy said that he already emailed avex..hope he get a reply @_@

omg shes looking soo cute!! :D (like always xDD)

thanks for posting the photos of alan , Genie

I think she looks super cute & doll like