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'LOVE' mini album out November 8th, 1st of five 15th anniversary releases [III]
As usual, please try to post any new information here and I will add it to the first post.
Key points for now: - Celebrating months leading up to 15th anniversary, 5 months of releases - First part is the mini album LOVE that is coming out 11/8/12 - mini album has 3 new songs and 12 tracks - Songs are Song 4 u [composed by Yuta Nakano/HINATAspring], Melody [composed by Yasuhiko Hoshino], and Missing [composed by Kazuhiro Hara] - Melody is a medium ballad, Missing is a medium rock flavored tune overflowing with pain/sadness - every month on the 8th day of the month until the 15th anniversary, something new will be released (NOT necessarily all mini albums) on 11/8, 12/8, 1/8, 2/8, and 3/8. Covers + Cover previews + booklet photos Spoiler:
Tracklist + song/PV previews + composers Spoiler:
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Information from before the release was confirmed Spoiler:
Related links 『LOVE』covers preview "The 8th is Ayu Day", 5 Consecutive Months of New Releases "Song 4 u" arrange version featured in Tales of Xillia 2 OST releasing November 2nd "Song 4 u" - Tales of Xillia 2 theme song revealed at TGS2012! 'LOVE' mini album out November 8th, 1st of five 15th anniversary releases 'LOVE' mini album out November 8th, 1st of five 15th anniversary releases [II] 'LOVE' mini album out November 8th, 1st of five 15th anniversary releases [III] Information about remixes on 'LOVE' |
let's see if I can keep up with these threads
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Can't wait to get my hands on my CDs!
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its so ridiculous that this "maxi-single" is being called an mini-album...
im still not over it. |
I would just forget about what it's called. I mean, I'm just glad we're getting new stuff. Yeah, she's had maxi singles before that were about the same amount of tracks with remixes and instrumentals... but there's no use in continuing to say "That's a single! NOT AN ALBUM I HATE AVEX I HATE AYU WTF" when this is pretty much a reality and coming out in less than a month.
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im happy we're gettin new stuff, but its still being ridiculous, i mean, we all know this is not a mini-album...
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Even if it's called a maxi single, Oricon will still count it as an album, so...
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Yaya. Missing will have PV instead of Meow-oly.
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I just listened to the live rips of the new songs & I don't like Melody at all. It never really goes anywhere. I also find it odd she sounded the worst in that song live when it is the easiest to sing out of the 3 haha.
Song 4 U and Missing are really great songs though. Can't wait for the full studio versions :) |
Everyone seems so divided with Melody.
It's definitely one of 'those' songs. We heard the song in full on YouTube, right? That live version was the full, wasn't it? |
^ I didn't like it when I first heard it. NOW I LOVE IT.
I thought, "Here we go again, another mundane filler ballad." Oh, how wrong I was. I mean, yeah, we get Ayu's 'sweet' ballads all the time, but they've been sub-par lately. And by sub-par, I mean they've been amongst the most boring, 'filler like' on her recent albums. I think this one has been arranged really well. If we're considering 'sweeter' ballads, what is better than it? In my opinion, certainly not meaning of Love, how beautiful you are, Letter, call, Sweet Season... |
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I also didn't like it when i first heard it, but I also understand they were horrible rips...
I haven't heard the live ones yet, but downloaded them... I just want to give the album a chance first, lol. |
I love Melody, it's now my favorite from the 3. Can't wait to hear them in HQ!
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Lovin' both covers. She looks young & gorgeous. <3
So glad CD content is the same for all releases. Tho I will buy all editions anyway. |
I wish this would get more tie ups.
I guess there's still time. But I'm not holding my breath. I miss when Ayu was a spokesperson for...anything. :( |
I wonder how the game is doing for presales in japan...
is it on the same level as the first game?? THat thing broke all kinds of expectations. |
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creepy biohazard |
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415K... its no FF, but its still just as good. I see about 500K by the time it is released... not bad at all, but not good for a sequel i guess. EDIT: Oh, thanks for the link too! |
I can't wait to order LOVE and the NAIL HEART book from CDJapan :3 (so send me the f*kng caaaaaaarddd, for buyyy :'(
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i think i might just ask my friend to buy PROBABLY [LOVE] when she's gonna be in Japan, or ask her to find that nail book if it'll still be around....
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It'll probably still be around, but if you need one, artcika, I have a copy to sell! I'll just charge for shipping and the cost of the book!
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To put it into perspective, the sales Xillia had put it in the top 10 of highest selling games in 2011. |
... still no new info
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Deji Deji Diary coming up with LOVE offshots probably along with the Numero Tokyo shoot. |
^ well I cannot wait for next mini album's reveal XD
at lease I need TA updated with a new theme:thud |
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Also, it was overlooked that on that chart that Xillia 2 is #1 in preorders.
I feel like it should ALSO be mentioned that there's a weird point system that people use to 'calculate' preorders at Amazon.co.jp and that the numbers are not necessarily indicative of 'actual' sales. |
I was just going by what the chart at the bottom said.
How am I supposed to know what the numbers 782 and 415 mean? The second game just looks like its gonna sell less so I thought that was bad. Wouldn't anyone here think that's bad? And I have no idea how much the first game sold. Not a clue. So excuse me if I don't know these things. EDIT: ... And I just bought the album on CDJapan. Finally! EMS to get it here ASAP. I can't wait. Now I'm not gonna download leaks. |
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But over all, yes its doing quite good. |
I hope we'll get one of the pv next week. Even a short version will be good.
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LOVE is gonna be a great birthday present for me ever <3 but still i hate that i still ddint order it,i have a tight budget this month and plus i dont want to pay for the custom tax... =.=
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Only 3 weeks before the release, I think it will be (First Press) with a bonus poster, I'm sure of this! and the acces card will be a paper like FIVE mini album?
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But I am free to make flop assumptions if I want. Unles I was perfect. Then I would be making accurate assumptions. |
It'll probably do fine, as it's selling rather well in Japanese online retailers. Though it probably won't get to the 740,000~+ that Xillia did.
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So how do we think LOVE is going to sell? I'm tired of Namie / Kumi stans (not on this forum but elsewhere) calling her a flop! 'Floppy Queen' still hurts my heart. Unfortunately I don't think she's going to sell big again until she drastically changes her sound, and LOVE sounds quite typical Ayu. Which for me personally is great because I love her, and as long as the songs themselves are great, I'm very happy! Unfortunately lately they haven't always been (I'm looking at you, FIVE).
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I'm looking towards the booklet pictures.
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Any songs in particular that demonstrate that? I'm leaning toward PQ the title track tbh. |
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i just listened to the previews (after a long time) ahha.. i gotta say Song 4 u is my fav followed by Missing and Melody..
and will there even be a booklet? for something that only has 3 new songs.. my guess is even there will be a booklet, its gonna be similar to that of Love songs.. both just give me the same vibes. |
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"Missing" is so ayu~ for her new release i love this most =x
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Melody and Missing are Love songs style of songs
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I think that Melody and Missing could easily sneak onto Love songs' track list.
Melody might sneak up next to Sweet Season and Missing might sneak up next to Sending Mail. |
From the live rips I like Missing by far the most... the other two sound a bit boring.
But they do sound like something from Love songs. |
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Gosh I sound bitter! haha. I still love here but lately it's almost like she just thinks "LOL let's try this music style" and hires the cheapest producer she can find. However, to end on a positive note, I like the sound of Song 4 u very much and with 5 releases coming up I am absolutely sure she's going to bring us some great music. Bring it on my queen <3 |
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Honestly I think all of it is very un-Ayu. I can never get why people say Call / Letter are Ayu because I can't even stomach any bit of those two songs.
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Anyway, I kind of like how Melody sounds I really need this to hurry up and come out. |
^ it's not exactly the same but they're two powerful songs, you see.
I also need this cd ASAP. That's why I chose EMS. They're gonna pack the CD before its official release and it'll be here in a lightning bolt. Like with Angela Aki's BLUE: it came the DAY BEFORE! I was dying. They packed it about 5 days before its scheduled release (July 18). The funny thing is that I downloaded the album online cuz I couldn't wait anymore and once the album finished downloading, the mailman came with my cd. Howly Mowly. If this cd comes on the 7th (Wednesday?) I'm gonna flip out. |
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I don't know I feel like any number of those 'rock' songs could of easilly fit on missunderstood or My story or even secret or guilty... I think they are very very ayumi. I should of also added nanana on the list of not very ayumi. |
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Lol, MY STORY is my favorite Ayumi album and I cannot hear it on MY STORY at all! It's too American hum-strum or something. MY STORY is full of fierce in-your-face rock / edgy songs (GAME, About You, my name's WOMEN), beautiful ballads (Moments, walking proud), mellow orchestral sadness (HOPE or PAIN, HAPPY ENDING), and bittersweet reminiscent music (winding road, Replace). It's a very sad album, except maybe HONEY. Call on the other hand, is like a campfire song with weird chants thrown in during the chorus. That guitar strum intro is so un-jpop and so un-Ayu. Almost Michelle Branch-type stuff, which I never liked.
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^ lol... I fell in love with ayu because I felt like she had a very western feel to her.
Very un-jpop. Almost the best of both worlds. I think the problem is (and dont take this the wrong way) you just have my story up on this high pedestal. Its a very good album, but you can't compare everything to that one album (not that you did this time, but I did). |
To be honest, I think Call is just a lesser version of About You.
Not that it's a bad thing. I just like About You much more. |
^ I love call and letter...
Call is very Micheal Branch..,. and is amazing... I get feelings from those two songs that I haven't gotten from ayumi in a long time. |
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But yes, I think I finally realized that Call is so Michelle Branch and I always hated her music (sorry). So it makes sense that I'd hate Call. Ayu does have a powerful difference in her music but the melodies are usually so J-Pop I could never imagine them on actual American radio. |
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Am I the only one who really likes ESM and TNL?
I just love how they're so different. |
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And I think that call/Letter are really similar to Last Links (maybe because of the guitars...) |
^ I sure for the type of music they are they are great.
I font like that kind of music, so they are horrible to me. Her voice is decent, but the music is just... BLAH! I will say, it might be better as a show... watching her on DVD might make me love the song because those types of songs are supposed to tell a story... thats why they are part of shows... just a song by itself is horrible. |
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I like the songs a lot. They aren't my faves as imo nothing comes close to reminds me and Return Road, but I like that Ayu gave it a try. And ESM is just awesome live! |
There's 11 days left till the release of this mini album “LOVE”. And, for the PVs...I think...they might air it on TV as a short versions, again. No doubt about it :yes
Also, I hope...there's a huge promotion for this mini album! |
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And wasn't it so that the PVs for FIVE and Party Queen were never released in "short versions", but in full? In any case, I also hope that there will be good promotion for this album, I want to see more of Ayu! |
I can't believe is almost November.
I can't wait to see the single. |
^ mini album :irked
I can't believe this year is almost over... and the minialbum is almost here. |
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Ah it's gonna be out before we know it! I still can't get a real feel for the songs from the live rips. I can't wait to hear HQ studio versions!
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Call and letter being akin to MY STORY is weird to me.
For me, those songs are more of the tradition that she brought along during the Secret-Guilty phase, and just kept up...having these sort of acoustic-y songs. Like Life or last links. You see them every now and again. Of course the songs don't really sound the same...but they have that simple rock flavor, and for me, Melody is probably going to fit in with them too...but I guess we'll see. And seriously, these short versions, or youtube versions can gtfo. Youtube version for You and Me was awful. |
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^I think you two are one of the only ones who like those songs...lol I know I really don't like them at all. Never even listened to them in full. :/
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Tell me why is one of my favorites! Maybe you're right, I just know that I don't like them at all.
Very interesting though, about long-term fans and new fans different perceptions of certain releases. |
What about PQ the title track? Is it loved?
My sister, a casual listener, LOVES party queen. She sings it all the time. |
Personally, I enjoy it. I'd say 7.5/10. I think ya gotta understand the whole concept behind PQ to appreciate it more though.
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My personal favorite is count down. That song is so underrated.
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^ I always forget about that song but whenever i play it, i say "dang, its awesome!"
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...and that, really, while ESM and TNL are fun songs that are different, neither live up to real West End or Broadway tracks, and neither are they creative enough to be fun jazzy experimental tracks. I personally think PQ is just as by the numbers as Secret, or Rock'n'Roll Circus, or NEXT LEVEL - it was just worse because I thought FIVE and Love Songs had kicked her out of that. It's not as bad as the main offender RnRC, but it was bad enough to make me roll my eyes and think I've heard it all before - sans ESM and TNL. |
Yes! Love count down!
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count down grew on me a lot I really like it, especially R'n'R Circus Tour LIVE version!!
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That's always been something that interests me about Rock 'n' Roll Circus.
It's a great album really. There's only two songs on there that I truly do not like (Lady Dynamite/meaning of Love - they're just not memorable for me). It just has a terrible, terrible setlist like Rainbow (if that makes sense?) Seriously, Free & Easy JUST after Real Me? It's not structured well. I felt like Party Queen suffered this a bit too. It's great to have diversity in albums. But too much and it seems to end in disaster. I mean, compare ESM, to HBYA, to NaNaNa, it's ridiculous. XD I think that LOVE is going to work really well as you can hear the relation between the songs, but there is still substantial difference between them. |
I like that Party Queen have only 1 ballad, and every song is diffrent from each.
and I love/like ESM and tnL. Maybe tnL isn't even my top 30~~ but ESM is brilliant song. I like when her experimental tracks (not a ballad or a mid pop/rock like Life, momentum, Sweet Season, Missing etc or generic rock/angst or happy guitar flavor song - Last Links, call, (miss)undestood, It was etc or "happy bubblegum pop" like BF, BB, or glitter) goes in "ayu" way - like Sparkle, ESM, Pride/tnL, Sexy little things etc - they are "unique" and you can't compare em to any specific genre or similarity to other artist - I don't like when experiment goes in "western" way like You & Me. Ayu is not even unique because shes japanese/asian (it's same with KPOP - it does have very common beats/arragments with Western music, but in the end it's - KPOP and it's unique - because of music elements, lyrics and language). Ayu is unique cause she is Ayu, and there is like no other artist (japanese, western, any) that have any in common with Ayu - sometimes they share similar arragments/music genres but she make the genres very her own (it's like "it's not a rock really - it's a Ayu-rock") I like those experimental genres she could sound "Ayu-jazz" "Ayu-dance" etc. You & Me genre doesn't fit her (IMHO). But "call" sound a bit like western poprock song, and still have the "Ayu-element" in it. |
some people like songs that no one else likes.
I really like love refrain and everywhere nowhere. and oh yeah it's a single |
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I thought the release date was supposed to be on November 2? :o |
I'm just in that period pre-release that I need the songs dropping in the web.
I miss her voice and songs <3 |
LEAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! lol
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It would be nice to have it early.
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A snippet of A Song 4 u's PV! (Credit to Daniel Anzures on Facebook, forgot his AHS name! lol)
http://imageshack.us/a/img254/5670/3...9513081218.jpg |
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Missing preview on Youtube: http://youtu.be/ajAVmpLuTf8
I really like it, the PV is very calming with so much white in it and Ayu looks lovely and sounds fabulous! |
OMFG IT STARTED
Really nice, beautiful, with a excellent photography, different than many of her latest releases in PVs I just wonder... WHO THE ******* SAID IT WAS A ROCK TUNE? xD |
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I LOVE THE S4U PREVIEW o____________o
All of those Ayus look amazing in motion <33 |
Song 4 u =:thud
I think the queen is preparing her camp to come back folks. |
^ Let's hope ;)
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