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[ayuinh.k?]

i can't imagine if avex decides to release the covers/song previews or everything all on the 2nd week of december or the week before the single comes out..we will all be going into extreme madness

[StarSUCKER]

Originally Posted by ayuinh.k?

i can't imagine if avex decides to release the covers/song previews or everything all on the 2nd week of december or the week before the single comes out..we will all be going into extreme madness

Aren't we already though?

[Crystal_Ageha]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

me neither . The covers are but I still like the whole single

I'm quite easily satisfied when comes to her material though since I more or less have low expectations for every artiste I support LOL .

As long as she continues to deliver what she's good at , I'm fine with basically anything

I think a lot of Ayu fans don't like it so much because it sounds like any other J-Pop artist in the country could have put it out--unlike any other Ayumi song I can think of, this/these don't have that Ayumi-feel. :\
That's not my main problem with it though. For me, I just don't tend to like summer singles in general, by any artist. I'm not big on summery pop. :\ That, and every song on the single got old fast. I like them to a point - if I heard them on T.V. or on the radio, I'd probably stop to listen. Every once in a while when it comes up on shuffle on my MP3 player, I'll listen... But Sunrise/Sunset are two songs that I will very rarely put on myself.

But you know, I may have said this before, but... I really have good feelings about this new single. With Sunrise / Sunset, I wasn't nearly as excited as I was for new releases as I normally am, especially for Ayumi. I just had "the" feeling. The feeling that I shouldn't get my hopes up because it wouldn't be worth it. But for this single, I have a feeling it'll be good. Better than Sunrise / Sunset, at least.


On another note, will S/S~LiA~ go down in Ayumi Hamasaki history as the least favourite among fans, along with Bold & Delicious / Pride (which I really liked also, Tsubasa ), lol?

[Picaflor 7/4]

You know. hikki's heart station, didn't leak till like the day before, or the day of. I don't remember, I was highly anticipating that song and we had to wait till it's physical release to really get anything. Who says that might not happen now? cause I see a few posts "we're getting something tomorrow" or "we're getting them within this week" how do we know we're getting any type of leak at all?

[amorphose]

^^It's Ayu. It always leaks. xD

[GRACE]

It'll definitely LEAK, the question is, how it'll leak. Whether or not it'll be free for all or restricted to those inner circles

[StarSUCKER]

I would be very surprised if it didn't leak at all.

[polka-dot-jewel]

I love Avex's random marketing strategies. With Rule / Sparkle and NEXT LEVEL, there was basically no TV promotion for the singles, but only promotion via ringtones and music videos. I really wonder how Avex will promote this single - how many magazine covers will Ayu be on? What TV shows will she be on? Interesting how nothing has been released yet - no ringtone, no crappy LQ radio quality song, no tiny cover, nothing.

Of course, if this is like all her other winter singles, she'll be on the usual TV shows, and she'll be on some magazine covers.

[brener]

It should be like she did with JEWEL to promote Secret.... And she better start it in the end of this week... 2 performances per week till its release would be amazing!!

[Bigtop]

We've got NTV's Best Artist on the night before the release date, you should know...

[truehappiness]

FujiTV's FNS is on December 2nd, so if nothing's out before then, she'll probably sing You were... there.

She hasn't been announced to be performing there yet, but I don't think there's been a year that she hasn't appeared on FNS for a while now.

[love in music]

i wonder if the usual magazines ayu would be on the cover of will be taken over by Namie to promote her album

[adantatu2]

I can't wait ayu!!!!!

[ayujarl]

no leak, no cover, radio version, tie-in, ...
avex gave us the titles and part of the lyrics, that's about it.

is this the most "hidden" single so far? what is Avex thinking of? we need tons of promotionsssssss >__<

[Bigtop]

Maybe they're trying to be a bit more conservative to maximize their sales...

[AyUta]

well....maybe we'll get a little something in the next thread.....

[Neko★munication]

Officially one month till release... which means I'm sure we'll be getting stuff shortly Idk why people are freaking about the lack of leaks, there used to be times when leaks would come out like a week before release, if at all. We've still got a MONTH left. o__o;

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by polka-dot-jewel

I love Avex's random marketing strategies. With Rule / Sparkle and NEXT LEVEL, there was basically no TV promotion for the singles, but only promotion via ringtones and music videos. I really wonder how Avex will promote this single - how many magazine covers will Ayu be on?

Well at least for the magazines, most of them would need to be announced soon if they are going to be on the shelves the same month the single comes out.

Originally Posted by ayujarl

is this the most "hidden" single so far? what is Avex thinking of? we need tons of promotionsssssss >__<

Nah, I don't think so. The release is still a month away. I don't expect that we will see anything until at least a week from now.

[TeddyGrahams]

Lol now people are complaining about the leaks?

Ayu just recently recorded the songs, shot the pvs, and chose the covers right? Well at least in her Tayu messages it appears so.

[Tasked]

ok. We haven't heard or seen anything from this single yet, but I preordered it. We need to support the oricon charts as much as we can this time.