I won't mind if she covers the rest of the paper with a gigantic autograph. :D

lady dynamite. i hope she explodes in the pv. XD

After reading Ayu-chan's diary entry yesterday, I knew that she would let us know about the tracklist today...here it is and I LOVE it!

I'm really, really looking forward to hear the songs "count down", "Last Links", "meaning of Love" and "Microphone". The titles sound awesome!
I'm getting more and more excited! Can't wait until I finally have my version of the new album!

And the idea with the lyric sheets is new and sweet (ahhh, I WANT one!!! *.*).


And don't you think, that ALL of the new titles sound like the songs will be fast and rock-like?
I don't know why, but they all give me this impression...not that I'm bother by it! ^.~

Telephone and Microphone are the same stuff?? Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~
i think maybe something happened on your acknowledge

Namie wasn't the person who produced the word, the rule of grammar and the structure of English language
why Ayu can't use the language which did not produced by Namie

haha so bored with ppl who try to link ayu with the other
Anyways,i'm PROUD that Ayu still unique in her music

I'm not gonna over think the titles, I just hope the SONGS themselves will be more "ayu style" rather than super experimental... !!

Honestly, I think the words chosen as the titles are ALL really powerful. I mean...even THE introduction sounds super strong!

Somehow...if montage was a ballad, then Jump! would probably be a better interlude to break the slower/mid-tempo section with the fast pace songs...

issit really confirmed that there'll be 3 interludes only?

and seems like my avoidance of AHS would come so much earlier than i thought..LOl.

And it seems like Sexy little things LEADS into Microphone..and not the other way round...hmmm makes it more interesting coz I thought the army would march in to the scene but...now Ayu's the one that joins in wearing that avartgarde outfit

OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome
i love this Lady Dynamite ^^ looks like ladies night...awesomeeeeeeeeee

This album is perfect :heart

I don't know why but Lady Dynamite makes me think of Ladies Night too n____n''

I'm excited to hear what this song sounds like~

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...microphone.png
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http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../telephone.jpg
???????

Can I have some of what you're smoking, because obviously it's so destructive to reality that this makes sense to you?

^ lol :roflmao

all this news is making me so impatient >.<

Me too!
I'm dying to hear the album and watch the new PVs already. XDD

LMAO. Pretty much what I was thinking when I read that comment. But then again that user is always bringing up Lady Gaga so...

I love it. :thud

Don't forget thateven ballads can be rock... GUILTY? criminal? Duty? Not rock rock, but those aren't sweet ballads, but dark and powerfull ones... I can't wait to know how they sound.... and I can't believe that Microphone full song is on the radios and clips in the news and we still got nothing... LOL

For me the interludes are: THE introduction, count down and Jump!

montage and meaning of Love ave to be full songs *-*

And I'm impressed of how fast we are guetting everything... may it be because of the tour starts earlier??

I don't know but I'm sure that airing microphone clips and that this of the 12 lyrics sheets they are catching people's atention, even those who wouldn't knwo about an ayu's new album!!

I hope THE introduction is the only intro :mischief

I don't like the titles, but.. I almost never do. Then they end up growing on me anyways lol

Feels like going to be a great album ever, still looking forward to it, thanks for sharing^^

Sweet heavens this album is just getting better and better everyday I pop in here! O.o And the songs are'nt even out yet!

I love the tracklist but I must admit that Last Links sounds very interesting...xD I don't mind how many interludes there will be. 3 or 4...it's okay for me. :) Of course I hope they are good but I have a feeling that they will be. ^^ I just want some previews soon because this album looks promising and I'm very happy that I preordered it. <3

sounds so cool, i cant wait for hearing those!

10.Lady Dynamite
11.Sexy little things

Those titles are pretty interesting and I got no idea what I'm supposed to expect xD

meaning of Love, Wow, so sweet!

well,you loved, I didn't ;)

AH!! this is so cool! i am so hyped up!! :)

thanks for the news. i got a feeling Lady Dynamite is gonna be something like my name's WOMEN.

I really hope she dances in one of the pvs...lol something nice like Real me or INSPIRE

He can't deal with -real- people who dislike certain things that Ayu put out, so yeah...

Anyway I seriously can't wait to watch all the PVs and listen to all the songs especially Lady Dynamite and Sexy little things!

thanks for the info, we'll hear how it will be...^^

well I'm sorry...

and yes I do think that Gaga might've stolen Poker Face from ayu.. :D

and I love them both (even if you didn't ask for it.. ROFL)

^ lol. oh well...

:thud Lady Dynamite :thud

Wow. She's turning into Xtina :laugh j/k

This will proabably be the epicest album ever :)

& yay for 8 PVs ~breaking the traditional 6~ ;)

I just hope that Sexy little things is the ****ty Kuu-inspired song that we have been waiting for ;) :lech

Meaning of love sounds so good. I think.. it will become a good ballad!

For me they don't sound fast and rock-like at all!
For me they mostly sound like calm and quiet Songs/ Ballads.
I think this Album wil be very calm, but I'm open for surprises *haha*
I think that Microphone, Jump!, Lady Dynamite, Sexy little things and Sunrise will be upbeat Songs ( Microphone may be the only Rocksong ), the rest will be slow, calm Songs or Ballads.

But when those Songs are great produced than I'm happy with everything

its like..
My STORY ~episode II~ when id saw the tracklist and the song genre...

The songs looks me vey interesting are:
-Lady Dynamite, trought pictures in her diary that are probably from this PV remind it me a bit to Sparkle
-Jump! I think it would be an interlude with energetic music that isnt rock at all but more like rollin
-Last Links, i don't know if its gonna be an interlude but i think there are faster and slower parts in it.

While reading some of the posts, I noticed a lot of people complaining over theories that there will be 4 interludes... Um...we won't know until the album is released, guys! Can't we just be positive for once? :laugh

And seriously...is four interludes really the End of the World? (couldn't resist :P) Interludes can be fun and catchy songs, too! :)

^
interludes aren't that bad, they make a good transaction between songs.
Especially when it changes from a fast song to a slow song.
But 4 are too much for only 14 tracks for example imo.
I can tell that in RnC those interludes doesn't bother me atm, especially because there are 15 tracks lol

I hope the songs don't sound like any of her past songs and that this album is not an "insert ur favorite album ~ part 2"

Let the past stay in the past ¬¬

^ when the past stays in the past some fans complain thats its not like her and her old stuff lol

i hope its different too. the preview for Dont Look Back for instance sounds different to me.
^___^ i cant wait to see the lyrics too

I Like her "mature" voice and i really hope shes using it nicely on this album. I dont mean that her very old songs are not great, i just like her current voice... Deeper and imo more....sexy

Probably the best LIVE sings are from CDL 08-09 (End of the world & Heartplace) imo

its just more interludes = less new songs :P

i like the tracklist but I really really hope microphone isn't the only rock song. come on....!! it's ROCKIN' ROLL CIRCUS!

last links, lady dynamite, montage, sound really interesting

and Im super excited for the remake of red line cause I love that song..I was not expecting it to be on the album

why that?
that not logical at all
leaving off an interlude does not mean she will make an extra song

moreover she can easily fit 20 tracks on a CD if she wanted to

Yeah, but there is 15 tracks on this album. The more interludes she puts the less amount of new songs will appear on the CD... What's not to get? :headache

^because if she leaves of she interludes we would just have an 11 track album. what is the difference?
as said, just by leaving them of would not mean she puts on full songs instead.

But since she's releasing an unreleased song via Chaku-Uta that's not on this album with this album, we know there's at least one more track. and instead of it she chose an interlude

nooo
thats what I'm saying
she could have easily put this track on the album if she wnated
the disc has space for up to 20 tracks


she is not choosing and interlude over a full track
thats bull ****

if she wanted it to be on she could have put it on

I dunno, this situation is a lot like RAINBOW or Startin'/Born To Be... as she'd finished both Startin'/Born To Be... at the same time as the (m)u tracks but released them months later and with RAINBOW, she'd planned on putting it on the A BALLADS compilation....

What if the new song has nothing to do with the album and wouldn't fit?

thats interesting insight there. . .hmm. . .

CRAZY thought: What if THE introduction is a full song? :O

^ it would be the most ironic thing XD
but i love irony

The lyrics will be:

"Ah ah ah aha!
You you you you thought!
This was gonna be an interlude?

Now now now now-ow!
I I I I will
Let you see everything in this~

THE introduction yo *****es!
Think you got me fooled
But uh-no this is a full song y'all!"

The lyrics repeat around for about 2-3 times. :P

:roflmao

That would be the BEST thing ever!!!!!!!!!

Damn, what a tracklist! This album is looking hot!

LOL :roflmao

I think these will be the instrumentals:
01.THE introduction
03.count down
06.Last Links
07.montage
09.Jump!

I'm REALLY hoping that meaning of Love is like a is this LOVE part 2... that would be cool

I hope JUMP! is an interlude, because if it isn't... it'll probably be another EnergizE style song, ugh. But I shouldn't judge a song by it's title.

^ And we know Last Links must be a song, "●TBSテレビ系全国ネット『報道特集』エンディング・テーマ (Ending theme for a news show whose opening is Utada Hikaru's Fight The Blues...)" from the first post <3 :D

edit: if we go by there being 12 songs, the PVs and the theme song annoucement -

01.THE introduction
03.count down
07.montage
09.Jump!
13.meaning of Love

are the possible interludes, my money's on the first 3 being interludes. D:

That would be the best song ever :D

I'd be really happy with that! I love that song and especially love the video for it.

LOOL, there won't be so many interluds.

And Last Links won't be an Interlude because it is an Tie-In

and meaning of Love ( when it's a full Song ) it won't be heavy rock, it wouldn't fit when you have Track 12. Sunrise which is an Popsong, than Track 13. meaning of Love a heavy Rocksong and then Track 14. You were... a Ballad.

...But i remember that she did it on the Secret Album...Track 12. BLUE BIRD a Popsong, Track 13. kiss o' kill a Rocksong and Track 14. secret a Ballad...

But I don't think that meaning of Love will be a full Song ( I really hope it isn't, it sounds so Ballad-like, and I don't really want so many Ballads on that Album )

I wish possible interludes were more obvious, like Load of the SHUGYO or Pieces of SEVEN. ç_ç

Well, as far as I can see, they did make them obvious with the lower-case titling, haha.

Though one of them might be a trick.

meaning of Love might be the trick, haha.

Not saying you're wrong, but that may just be a coincidence.

I'm wishing for count down to be a rock song; when I saw the title I thought of HYDE's Countdown. If it was a song anywhere near that it'd be awesome. I find it odd that there'd be only one definite rock song. Ballads can also have a rock twist, but the other songs sound more like pop/dance stuff.

Could be. But usually the interludes are really obvious in one way or another...

NEXT LEVEL's were all kind of... split between split-words/capital letters?
Disco-munication / Load of the SHUGYO / Pieces of SEVEN

Ugh! I just really want montage to be a song D': Even though I think it's the most possible interlude. Every time I see it, I sing モンタージュもいない~ from BUCK-TICK's song Montage xD;

Oh that would be nice! just 3 interludes ^^
I like them...but I prefer AYU's words...

Yeah, I suppose there's a pattern. I'm hoping there actually isn't one this time; it'd be an awesome surprise. Some of the songs people think are going to be interludes are actually the ones I think may be rock songs, which is...somewhat unnerving lol She's definitely got me guessing with this album.

I want Sunset to be an interlude LOL.

If a track people already know about bothers them, they can simply skip it, pretending it's not there. I'm not a big fan of Sunset, but I think skipping it everytime when playing the album would be like missing out on something because albums are great at telling a story. Just skip it if it bothers you so much; if it wasn't there, you can't guarantee she would've put another song in its place anyway.

LOL! I was joking xD; I don't mind Sunset at all, though out of all the songs from the singles, it's my least favorite. In fact, I took someone's advice and listened to Sunset and BALLAD back to back and it sounds perfect. :yes

I think many people seem to think that if she excluded RED LINE / Sunset / an interlude, she'd make another song to replace it...

But I think that's just extremely wishful thinking. If she did that, then the album would be 12/13 tracks instead of this glorious 15, yanno? Haha.

I wanted her to turn Sunset INTO an interlude, not replace it lol. But I was joking so it doesn't matter xD;

It'd be terrible if the album went down to 12 or 13. Thankfully this album has broken the 14-track thing she had going for about 3 albums.

^ xD

I also would like to know how Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ would sound as an interlude? xP
I loved Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ (Orchestra version) :yes

:yes I don't know why but I was really happy about that, I know it doesn't really matter much but I was just sick of the number 14 I guess, lol

I think varied number of tracks makes things special. I know it's quality not quantity but sometimes both is a welcome treat lol

Yeah, I wouldn't mind if she had a few more albums with 15 tracks, it just seems like a perfect number for an album, not too high, not too low.
I just got to thinking.. since she already recorded a song probably for the next single that could be released in a few months after the album, and then has another winter single and still does the 2 singles then album pattern, she might wind up releasing two albums this year :o

She's done that in the past, hasn't she? Maybe she really intends on going back to some past patterns.

Maybe, I think she'd release it in 2011 to keep her #1 album each year thing going.

Very early January maybe; it'd work well then.

I think she's liking her March/April release pattern, just prior to a tour.

I agree with the lowercase theory. I mean, why have 'meaning' in lowercase and 'Love' in capitals when the rest of the songs are capitalised properly? But one of the 'ludes definitely has lyrics.

I don't mind Sunset being on the actual album so much as its placement... I don't want it at the beginning because it will make the album opening very boring for me. NEXT LEVEL had the same problem, and I still can't listen to NEXT LEVEL without starting at EnergizE because the opening just bores me to tears even though I love Bridge to the sky and Disco-munication. :<

8 PVs? She's made 8 PVs so far? O_O

Yeah... 0.o. The 4 single songs and 4 for the new songs...

It would be nice if countdown was a full song... a rockish ballad leading to Sunset... XD but no... it won't happen, no... XD

but hey... we asume that there have to be an interlude between Sunrise and You were... because of what??

because we know there's only 12 songs with lyrics which makes 3 interludes for sure (hoping one of this is the intro and that they don't count the lyrics for the intro on the handwritten sheets)

but Duty had only an intro, and we go from the dark Duty to the happy poppy vogue! Or Real me -> Free&Easy in rainbow, I see perfectly possible that "meaning of love" is a full song, being a poppy ballad, maybe something like Days, calm but not sad, to go from Sunrise to You were...

My vote still goes for THE introduction, countdown and Jump! ^^ and yeah.. NEXT LEVEL ones were SOOOOO obvious!! XD

^ Oh yeah, that's right. 8 just seems like an incredible number for PVs. I didn't count the single ones.

The only other album that had more PVs was (miss)understood for Ayu.... 9 PVs and 7 making ofs/etcs...

lol I normally start at Disco-mu. But it shouldn't be a problem this time, I love Sunset!! :D

LOL guys, stop. "Jump!" could easily be an interlude. If you wanna be ridiculous and go by patterns, then she's NEVER had an album that didn't feature a full-length song without all lowercase letters.

That would be awesome! Let your words be true!:yes

I don't want "Jump!" to be an interlude. I can see it being another overly cute song and I am craving one so bad.

Her past albums don't matter, I'm looking at the tracklist here and now. It just seems to be a pattern and there doesn't seem to be a reason why 'meaning' has a small m and 'Love' gets a capital whereas the other songs don't follow a pattern like that.

but who knows. it does seem kinda funny thinking about it this way.

And Jump! sounds like a high energy number to me, not an interlude.

...@_@ Why does there have to be a pattern? I doubt she thinks like that when she chooses capitalization. She likely just picks what she thinks looks best.

^ That's the impression I get from Jump! too, kind of like a Fly High or Humming 7/4... maybe.

But there might not even be an interlude with lyrics in the first place, lol. And you're going by past albums thinking that there will be. I think either montage or meaning of Love will be a full song.

It's called speculation?

I don't think it's a coincidence that the only tracks with mainly lowercase look like interludes, or that the ones for NEXT LEVEL had some strange capitalization going on... [LOVE'n'HATE doesn't really count as strange capitalization since it wasn't really that much of a mix of capitals/lowercase mixed in a phrase like Load of the SHUGYO/Pieces of SEVEN... and the EnergizE thing... I don't know, haha.]

I'm just saying that the songs that do appear to be interludes have something in common when it comes to the way they're titled... there's probably one in there with all lowercase like montage/meaning of Love that's actually a full track, but we don't know for sure, haha. It's just fun for me to try and pick out a pattern even though that seems useless to do so... but it's far from a coincidence from what I can see.

As for her picking "just what looks best"... why STEP you and not Step You or step YOU? Why HOPE or PAIN as opposed to Hope or pain or hope OR pain? I'm sure there are reasons for everything just as Tommy heavenly/february 6 has reasons [I think] for titling HeR SonGS LIKE this WiTHsyMB@ls.

i really like the song name "Lady Dynamite". :D

meaning of Love is sooo unoriginal though. :( every other name sounds great though.

I would argue that JEWEL / Secret / identity / other generic tracks are also unoriginal, but knowing her, she will probably make the songs with the most plain titles into some of her best works...

(Just watch everyone be utterly disappointed with Lady Dynamite and fall in love with Last Links hahah)

Imagine if she did something like everlasting / neverending dream this time around. People would FREAK. OUT.

There might not be an interlude with lyrics, there might be. For that, you don't seem to think the past albums have any relevance. Just ignore the fact that NEXT LEVEL, Guilty, Secret and MY STORY had one. That's fine if you want to think thats way. Yet when it came to a theory about the interludes not having capitals, for some reason the prior albums are relevant in dismissing it.

So I'm confused, we just ignore the evidence that doesn't give us a full song?