RAINBOW's everlasting dream also had some lyrics too, haha. Starting with RAINBOW, she started having the lyrics, I think...

I'm curious about Lady Dynamite. haha Sounds like a fun song. (maybe because I let out a chuckle when I read it. hehe)

I love This Tracklist ♥♥

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Why does Lady Dynamite sound So familiar..When I see the word Dynamite I think of those cheers which we do HAHAH..
Ahhh that's just such a strong sounding title...I hope she doesnt go disco overboard..

Yep I feel that that's coming too. Except that if she releases anything in the next few months, it'll seem weird coz it sorta cuts in between the tour..and she wont have time to promote it..

unlike past cases, STEP you was released towards the END of AT05, Startin'/BTB was released before AT06..so she opened the concert with BTB..., part of ME was out on A BEST 2 before AT07, MW was also out before AT08...so...I doubt we'll see a new single popping up until August..which seems reasonable. And then...I do hope she releases the special track someway or another

AGREE :yes:yes:yes:yes

^ ^Lol, we can be expecting a lot of surprises with these songs, lol XD For all we know, Lady Dynamite could end up being a ballad! (Not that I'm expecting it to, it was just an example of surprising stuff (>_<))

I feel really excited about this new album. I have a feeling this cd is going to be something really special. :luv2 Thanks for giving us the information,but still, i think titles tells us nothing abut the mood of the track, the genre, nor the lyrics. I'll wait to hear the tracks to make a judgement because i have made prejudices about a song and i ended having a complete different opinion of it. (for instance, BALLAD... i hated the title, but the song is so beautiful :luv2)


:yes :innocent

i want sunrise to be an interlude also... :roflmao

I forgot to add: I WANT ROCK!!!!! really hard rock!!!! HAHAHAHA YESSSS

^ I felt the same way about BALLAD too, until I heard it. So like you said I'm trying not to read into the titles too much. I'm just so excited :D

When I first heard of BALLAD I actually kind of hoped alan wrote the song for Ayu. When the song came out it even sounded like something alan would do. And since some of alan's songs sound Ayu'ish it's nice to see the opposite occur. Maybe they genuinely influence each other.

I'm glad there's no engrish in her song titles, step you, are you wake up, or heartplace. I find THE introduction funny. It better live up to it's song title and actually be the introduction. cause I have a feeling they're telling us it's the best intro she has yet. hah

first thing i thought of with "montage" was that video for reBIRTH with all the pics of her singles from her asia tour in 2008
http://eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/25...ur2008-dvd.htm

and i will admit although i don't like redline, it is a good closing song. if it was anywhere on the album besides the last track, it probably wouldn't fit. I have a feeling this will be the closing song during her concert and they're all gonna sway back and forth holding hands or something. haha if anything i think it would be weird if she didn't perform this song at her concert near the end, if not the last song.

I have a feeling she did that because she already has a song called introduction, and couldn't think of another title!

The reason why alan's songs sound like Ayu's is because she has Ayu's old composer (Kazuhito Kikuchi) as a writer AND musical producer and many of her songs are written by him completely. And also, Yuta Nakano and tasuku (both Ayu arrangers) work with her quite often as well.

I believe alan has written about one or two songs on her own and none of them are really all that Ayuish. If something sounds like Ayu, it's the work of Kikuchi/Nakano/tasuku/etc....

Reminds me of what happens with Koda Kumi sometimes. With a discography as huge as both Kumi and Ayu I'm not surprised they have similar titles every now and then.

Oh yes! She needs to get back on the Rock track... Though the whole Rock N' Roll thing seems barely illustrative this time

Hopefully she lives up to the title with this album, we need ROCK AYU! :yes

and i just realised that is no title track lol. i know i am slow. so this is another case of MY STORY.

Her having a title track seemed highly unlikely to me given the fact it's called "Rock 'n' Roll Circus." Same with MY STORY.

I agree, if a song was titled that, be kinda lame.

the MY STORY vibes this album is giving me is just making me SO excited~ :D

I'd like a title like "Rock'n'Roll Circus" - I think Ayu could do bomb on that.
I'm trying not to connect this with MY STORY because I know I'll be let down. Especially after seeing 15 tracks. That kinda put me back in my place so I'm not really expecting a certain anything. From here on out it's kinda just waiting for the release. I am waiting to hear anymore previews/leaks/PVs until my copy arrives... Ugh. This is going to be unbearable.

I got a feeling like since YW/B that the old awesome Ayu is back :heart

I don't think she ever left tbh :P

I thought that single was so weak (imo). Amazing covers though.

I don't think Ayu has ever gone, she's just changed and done different things.

To me she's always been the exciting Ayu.

I'd say Ayu has always been awesome, never left, and most people just failed to see that because there was this weird curtain over her gloriousness for 2 years... haha.

:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao



Im looking forward to that too.
More rock songs less ballad and pop. :)

@th : Ayu's style lately *let's say S/S or NL covers maybe* just didn't really get me like what this album did ;)
Anyway I got a feeling I'll be so in love with her this year :heart

I'm surprise sunset and BALLAD is so early in e album. kind of expected it to be with You were at the end of album. but loving the change =) I'm hoping for just 3 interludes, 1 interlude with lycris, and 11 full songs *finger crossed* hoping that Jump is a full song

^ Yeah she broke the "put the ballads as last songs" curse XD YAY ~

@all.night.raver : It was one of the best thing last year though *beside Rule/Sparkle*

Lady Dynamite? Sound.. interesting :P

I like this tracklist! :D

but.. THE Introduction.. that sucks so bad xD

And if you also want to go to the most extreme of patterns, I.E. the only other song that is titled like meaning of Love is until that Day..., and it was a full length song. (albeit, it was supposed to be an interlude, but I'd like to think she added the title after she decided it would be a full song.)

The titles are amazing! :D

yep.

part of Me, as well.

hrmmm she said back to basics right?

so introduction -> becomes THE introduction

i actually like it, it's a nice tie in.

now i believe the whole thing how it might not have lyrics, just some part of the chorus repeated.
so a whole 7(technically 8 lol) new songs, SIIIICK!

True, titles like meaning of Love do exist which were full songs.

But I don't think she'd shove all the interludes in the first half of the album, unless Jump! is one.

Like the names - esp Last Links - but The Introduction is so uninspired and naff.

mi|kshake~

That's why I think Jump! is an interlude and no montage, I see "Don't look back" with Sunset/Ballad/Last Links/monatge, rather than with Sexy Little things/Lady Dinamite/Sunrise...

Well it looks like sexy little things, last dynamite will be the electro dance-y songs, so Jump! might be the interlude for those. Sunrise would fit well placed after those two songs as well.

Then again, if meaning of Love is a ballad, without an interlude the transition from Sunrise to that song would be odd. Whereas if it is an interlude, it would be the "ballad" transition one to You were... Hopefully its better than pieces of seven was

I've always thought Ayu was awesome and cool too. :yes

Tony G, we have an edit button so that you don't have to double post. Just sayin'.

She's shoved them all in the end before, so why not shove them all in the first half?

For me the MUST BE interludes are THE intro, count down and Jump!

because there have to be 3 for sure (15 - 12 lyrics = 3 interludes). And you could say, AH, The introduction may have lyrics, so there are 4 interludes.... BUT I think, and I think I'll be right, that they won't do a sheet of handwritten lyrics for THE introduction (if it has lyrics), just because it's and interlude and not a song...

and for odd transitions see Duty -> Vogue, or Real Me -> Free&Easy

if "the meaning of Love" is a mid tempo ballad, it can flow well from Sunrise to You were... Moreover... with NEXT LEVEL with 4 interludes we still had that strange thing going from Rollin' to GREEN....

Well... that's just my opinion, and I hoep I'll be right ^^

I think Jump! is probably a full song.

Will this be Ayu's first song ever with an exclamation point? Haha.

I mean if it has that giant chunk of songs in the middle, it'd be like MY STORY all over again with a ton of ballad-y songs...

I suspect these will be the interludes:

THE introduction
obviously. And I love this title, hope it's epic!

count down
Cause it's between a very ubeat rock song Microphone (by the sound of it) and a very slow ballad Sunset.

Jump!
Simply because I think montage and meaning of Love are not interludes. because:
- montage is between two slow-paced songs (well.. Last Links kinda has to be a ballad, right. And Don't Look Back sounds really slow from the CM)
- meaning of Love could be a song like MY ALL or RED LINE, which in my opinion fits perfectly well between a cheerful song Sunrise and an "upbeat ballad" You were... (it's not the slowest ballad you can think of right).

But it's all just speculation of course :)

^ I really don't think meaning of Love is an interlude, either. It could easily work as a regular song, I think. Also, I'm reaaallyy hoping that meaning of Love and montage are both full songs, hah. Though.... montage totally sounds like an interlude. :( At first I thought Jump! HAD to be a regular song, and then I thought, no, it actually probably is an interlude, and now I just don't know! XP

UNITE! ;)

Well, UNITE! is all caps... so this would be the first one with... not all caps?

I think I tend to shut out her concert staple songs... I almost always skip them when they come up on shuffle, hahahahaha.

[Are You Wake Up? and is this LOVE? satisfy the question mark one... woo, Jump! UNITE!~]

When I see "Jump!" the first thing I think of is "Everybody go! Everybody jump!" from Humming 7/4 :P

So if we look at it like this:

01.THE introduction - obviously an interlude
02.Microphone - sounds like it's going to be a rock number
03.count down - interlude to change from rock song to ballad.
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ - ballad
05.BALLAD - ballad
06.Last Links - ballad?
07.montage - interlude to change to..
08.Don't look back - hard to categorise.. its definitely not a ballad
09.Jump! - sounds like an upbeat song, could be an interlude to change to the electro songs like disco-muncation.
10.Lady Dynamite - PV in a club, so probably an electro song
11.Sexy little things - sounds like this will be an electro song given its next to lady dynamite and the title, and ayu's habit of putting songs next to each other that fit the same genre
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～ - upbeat electropop
13.meaning of Love - interlude from upbeat songs to a ballad
14.You were... - ballad
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version] - midtempo

So there are two interludes that are potentially ones in between a upbeat song and a ballad. I don't think there will be two interludes that will serve the same purpose. So maybe one of countdown and meaning of love are not interludes, and Jump! is? who knows, somebody tell us >_<

I doubt both montage and Jump! are interludes unless she's sandwhiching them around a song in the middle of the album.

Its entirely possible that the album will flow from Don't look back - Sunrise without an interlude, which makes me think Jump! isn't one.

maybe count down isn't an interlude and is a rock ballad instead that goes into the ballad section? Maybe one of the other songs is like this instead of an interlude (count down just seems like the song that makes sense for it, because it'd be harder for a song to transition between upbeat and ballad and vice versa). After all, GUILTY had rock->Rock ballad->ballads

^ that too makes sense
they all do. . .i suppose we can wait
i just hope for more rock songs than just Microphone XD
rock from ayu is just precious to me :)

The album will definitely have a lot of guitar in it. Most of her albums do since I Am... As for songs that are just pop/rock.. who knows. I think there will be more mixed stuff, maybe rock ballads and electro-rock songs. Don't look back sounds a bit different from anything she's ever done, so we could get anything.

Somehow this album seems scattered tracklist-wise. Hope it will be epic when we get the songs. I appreciate she actually reverse her Fast-Slow template this time though

I used to be like that too and then A COMPLETE was released and I listened to them more due to the remastering kind of re-inventing the songs (you can pick out all the different sounds).

I know what you mean though - they kind of all just blend together.

The only reason I shut them out is because I hear them enough from watching the concerts + a-nation a few (20+) times, so it's just more because of overhearing them than because they blend for me.

"Oh, evolution? Boys&Girls? UNITE!? SURREAL? Humming 7/4? independent? -faints-"

I swear they come up like 30 times on shuffle since I have a few live rips and most best albums on my iPod...

CMJK was seen doing some acoustic guitar playing in his blog along with mentioning a guest guitarist from London... [or maybe he thinks of himself as a guest guitarist? I dunno.]

Watching DVDs, yeah, I just shut them out. Some performances are really good though that you take notice. But at an actual concert, I'd enjoy hearing any of them <3. More of a crowd experience that you can't feel at home.

I would appreciate the reverse thing more if she didn't attempt to start the album off with what sounds like it will be a kick-ass, amazing song and then go into the ballads. If she had started off with a unique ballad like HAPPY ENDING at AT05 it would have been sooo amazing.

She probably has some reason for doing it...

Maybe Microphone ends on a sorrowful ballad-y note?

Ah I see. I discovered UNITE! SURREAL and AUDIENCE from watching lives so to me they all have this "live" image and from watching them/hearing them being performed so much they blended together (although I still to like SURREAL now and then).

just watch, all the songs we think are interludes happen to be full songs like the introduction, haha.

I'm actually looking forward to hear THE introduction. I always find the introductions very interesting, they are very often kick ass. (Mirror, Starting Over, Catcher in the Light etc.). I never pass then when I shuffle for some reason. This will be very fun to see!

i never really thought of JEWEL/Secret/identity as being unoriginal names. maybe because they stand by themselves. :shrug "meaning of Love" just sounds weird, especially since she's 12 years into her career and has made so many songs about love.

For meh:

01.THE introduction - as the title says, maybe with some lyrics
02.Microphone - sounds like rock/electronish~
03.count down - counting from "hard" to "calm", so definitely an interlude
04.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ - yeah, ballad
05.BALLAD - ... yeah, right
06.Last Links - for meh not a ballad... something like "Next Level" or "Red Line" mid tempo.
07.montage - interlude to another mid tempo (connecting to Don't look back - as the title says "montage")
08.Don't look back - mid tempo, sounds like vouge/duty/in the corner type
09.Jump! - faster faster again ~ electro/rock for me
10.Lady Dynamite - electro/rock/pop ~ ladies night, MN'SW?
11.Sexy little things - same electro/rock/pop feel as Lady Dynamite (maybe 1 LOVE feel?)
12.Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～ - then we're getting slower
13.meaning of Love - interlude from mid to slow to ballad
14.You were... - ball~
15.RED LINE ～for TA～ [album version] end.

bolded with ballads. that's not too much :D

They're some of her more "generic" titles with amazing songs behind them. I feel like people always judge titles really harshly even though Ayu has had titles just as "generic/not too original" earlier on in her discography.

I've never thought of JEWEL, Secret, or identity as unoriginal names either. :shrug I mean, even though there are lots of albums named Secret, I can't think of any actual songs by that name and I definitely can't think of any songs named JEWEL or identity...

sifow had a JEWEL, I believe. A lot of Ayu's titles come up in a sea of other names when I search through the JASRAC database, but some like Sexy little things and etc... are completely unique, haha.

A handful of the JEWELs:

My point is that these songs have titles that are relatively ~common~ and they're still good songs.

Yeah! Wanna find out how original something really is, google it lol. xD; I thought JASRAC was JARASSIC at first! I know Ayu's been in the business a while but she's not a dinosaur lol.

The only Ayu title that comes strongly to mind for me as generic is Secret. Even though I love that title, it's been done so many times now... But whatever. My least favourite Ayu album and one of my least favourite Ayu songs, so I don't really care what the name is or could have been. :innocent

^
I like the song alright, but it's one of my lesser preferred album of hers for sure. I'm trying to not get my hopes too high for RnRC, only because I loved GUILTY and NEXT LEVEL so much, but I'm still really excited for this album. But can she give me 3 albums in a row that I just adore so much? It may be a slim chance, but I think it's possible, hopefully!

I must be the only freakin moron who didn't know about this album! How happy this makes me!!!

^ wow LOL you know, this is great, you hadn't to be waiting all crazy because we didn't have any info, and seriously, that was pretty sick.... (3 threads of "anticipation" for the album) and all of sudden you get ALL tones of info! is great! hehe ^^

Can't believe it Dx
I wish I were a moron too! xD
T_T this "waiting for news/leaks/shows/PVs/ALL" is killing me, and most of the people here too :dead2

Madonna also has a song called Secret

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Anyway, I really find the "creative title" discussion kinda stupid... in the end of the day, shouldn't be the song itself what matter the most?

Ayu fans are so annoying and picky sometimes ~~'

Yep I agree :yes

Well... now we are in the same boat... *rows with abby-chan*

That's right :laugh
:o

Some of these sound pretty darn interesting! I just can't wait for previews now!

Oh so true ! :D

No offence.