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I feel the same way!
It's so refreshing not knowing what's gonna happen... First a new single since forever on Christmas, then a digital one, then no tour announced...
I like this!
Personally, I'm very fine with her new music, so I'm not dying for new releases.
I'm just very curious about what's gonna happen, if she's just relaxing, or if maybe she's preparing something special or just our of the ordinary.

I wouldn't mind if she released A BEST 3 now tbh. I dunno if there's enough singles yet and don't care to think about it lol but since I'm not buying it either way, I wouldn't mind if the current singles were relegated to a compilation and never made it to a studio album. I do like Feel the love and to a lesser extent Merry-go-round is okay but I really want her to make an album with huge production again like (miss)understood or Rock'n'Roll Circus and none of the singles so far fit that bill lol :(

Also, I've been thinking along the same lines as truehappiness - that she's holding off on announcing a tour because she's going to announce an album first. But who knows lol

A Best covers both singles and album tracks!
Considering A Best 2 covers everything between evolution and Bold & Delicious, she has 8 albums (counting (miss)understood album tracks), one mini-album, 13 physical singles and 4 digital singles...

It means she has +- 90 tracks to pick for a new A Best^^

^ True, I don't know why my mind completely glazed over the album tracks xD

Plusss even if she starts off after A COMPLETE, that's still like 5 albums there to work with lol

I think if they do end up with A BEST 3, we might not see anything from Love songs onward on it. Or the last set of eligible tracks will come from that part of 2010 and then FIVE onward will be part of a different best?

They could just make it a 3CD though since she's had so many tracks since then.

A BEST 3...
I actually don't mind the idea. They could do a great compilation right now.

YES PLEASE

I kind of forgot that Ayu released a single until I heard Merry-go-round on shuffle today.

I hoped it was performed during last cdl but nope.. :(

I want her to slay again and then release the third A best, like "bitches y'all said this queen was over now buy my album full of the very best of my best I'll take yo last money"

So I've been playing FIVE over and over again trying to digest it

progress: Still not my favorite song off the album. It's nice and all but meh.

ANother song feat. URATA NAOYA: I liked this song the first time I heard it a couple years back and I still enjoy it now!

Why... feat. JUNO: I loved this song the first time I listened to FIVE. Still love it now!

beloved: Pretty song.

BRILLANTE: I actually thought this song was overrated. Now that I've listened to it a couple times, I've come to like it. The composition and arrangement is out of this world!! The instrumental section in this song is GORGEOUS! But Ayu is just sort of "there" tbh idk I tune her out and listen to the music LOL

beloved (Orchestra version): A lot better than the original version, and the string instrumental section sounds like something straight out of a Hayao Miyazaki film.

I made a playlist today, and I think it would be a wonderful setlist for an ARENA TOUR (or WORLD TOUR :P) :

*Bridge to the sky and Not yet would be sung live

All the songs flow very well~ ♥

I only discovered today the remix "Two of us "HΛL's Mix"" ! I find it amazing these arrangements coupled with the high pitched voice of Ayu ... I really like it ! better than the original !

I'm pretty sure Ayumi don't even remember she has a song called Two of us XD



Why HΛL don't work anymore for Ayumi they were so amazing ... Yuta Nakano was part of this band but what it does for Ayu is not even near of the level of HΛL ... :/

wow! didn't know that existed a HΛL mix for Two of us.. their mixes are always the best..the song is adorable and somehow sad, nostalgic. This version reminds me of Dolls.

^ yes, it comes from kanariya's single!

I love Two of us so much, and HAL's mix too!
They're a must for me in Winter :heart

Thinking about the Tour this year... Maybe she'll do the same as back in 2003 and do an Arena Tour ~2014-2015~ starting late this year, maybe doing the Countdown with the same theme as the tour so she desn't have to prepare two different concerts

^ I'd love that instead of getting two different very similar concert how it was for the arena tour 2012 and the cdl themed the same way

I love me some two of us. The remix is superb.



The PoM performance of forgiveness is so good ugggggggh