[Official Message] New Christmas Single 2013.12.25 In Stores

[brener]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Really? I think this song has a VERY good chance of doing well if you know what the listening habits of the Japanese public are and the fact that her last big song with them was You & Me... and before that, like... Sunrise.

Exactly what I was going to say, "You & Me" turned out to be a summer anthem for her japanese audience.

Originally Posted by Becky

Well put, I definitely agree with you. I've always felt this way ever since I became a part of the AHS community. Too often I hear people say that Ayu will "never create another masterpiece like I am..." or that she's lost her spark or something. There's no point in glorifying the past; it (probably) wasn't as awesome as you remember and right now isn't as bad as you think it is.

And yeah, I remember myself complaining a lot about "glitter", "part of Me" and, believe it, "Days", back then. Today I totally love those songs but I don't wish she could go back in time and re-do that, I just want her to keep going foward with her music and bringing us surprises like this. We'll always have a new ayu.

[AwakenedPRO]

Finally a single! I think I'll save money and buy the Japanese version from YesAsia to help her on Oricon sales.

And btw, I have a feeling that she will start gaining more popularity and sales.

[Deep snow]

So far I'm just okay with Feel the love, but I'm certain that it'll grow on me (if Bold & Delicious can, -anything- can).

I'm just very happy about this new single! I hope we get to hear from her soon regarding her reasons behind the three-year single vacuum.

[visionfactory]

Day 1 - I hate Feel the love

Day 2 - Ok. The song is not bad.............

[maikaru]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Really? I think this song has a VERY good chance of doing well if you know what the listening habits of the Japanese public are and the fact that her last big song with them was You & Me... and before that, like... Sunrise.

Trust me, with a song like this, the Japanese public is already laughing at her. One look at the 2channel and other forums, and they're already heating up with blasting her.

Some prominent (And, unfortunately, funny) comments are :
"This is the 21st Century, right?"
"Amuro works with Zedd. Ayumi Hamasaki works with DJ Hello Kitty and Komuro. LOL"
"Wow, Amuro wants to try EDM so maybe Babasaki thought she might be desperate to try as well."
"Ayu's enka singing style with this 90s garbage song? Wow, I've heard everything."

I'm so disappointed. This came out of no where, and it's like she's trying to capture the success of recent, and now outdated, electronic waves.

She should have came back with a ballad. I know you guys don't want ballads right now, but if she wanted to release a single as a comeback, she should have released a nice ballad and sang it perfectly on TV and then everyone would hail the return of Hamasaki Ayumi.

This is just garbage, you guys. I'm flipping my table.
Even Na Na Na and Shake It are better than this, and I absolutely hate those songs.

[marty]

Tbh, the fact this not only isn't a winter ballad, but it isn't winter related at all (thus, Ayu surprising me one more time, as usual) may be one of the main reasons I love this preview so much.
It's just that Ayu always seems the most predictable person ever, only to always caught you off guard. I may not like some things she releases, but they're never what I expect. And I'm all "The hell, Ayu, how can you seem, like, the most predictable human being ever, and then come out with this?!". Every. Single. Time. I love it! I cant' believe it when someone says she's always the same.

[yamadashun]

^
^i feel NaNaNa is worse, if you want to compare... (maybe because of the rap and i dislike that song as well, sorry to say that)

[Kazeyomi]

Originally Posted by maikaru

Trust me, with a song like this, the Japanese public is already laughing at her. One look at the 2channel and other forums, and they're already heating up with blasting her.

Some prominent (And, unfortunately, funny) comments are :
"This is the 21st Century, right?"
"Amuro works with Zedd. Ayumi Hamasaki works with DJ Hello Kitty and Komuro. LOL"
"Wow, Amuro wants to try EDM so maybe Babasaki thought she might be desperate to try as well."
"Ayu's enka singing style with this 90s garbage song? Wow, I've heard everything."

I'm so disappointed. This came out of no where, and it's like she's trying to capture the success of recent, and now outdated, electronic waves.

She should have came back with a ballad. I know you guys don't want ballads right now, but if she wanted to release a single as a comeback, she should have released a nice ballad and sang it perfectly on TV and then everyone would hail the return of Hamasaki Ayumi.

This is just garbage, you guys. I'm flipping my table.
Even Na Na Na and Shake It are better than this, and I absolutely hate those songs.

I know you're disappointed , but I'd never relate to 2ch or forums to know what japanese people thinks about Ayu. It seems like, no matter what, they still dislike her because she's "old" the and not so talented.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

[relmy]

Would people really be defending this track if it was by anyone else? If anything, I expect some idol debut to sound this dated, not somebody whose worked in the industry for 15 years.

What's worse is that this track isn't out of the blue, it sounds like a b-side version of You and Me. I hoped she'd go more Tell All than... this. I'm not a huge fan of Tell All either but at least she sounded like she wanted to be making music on that track.

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by maikaru

Trust me, with a song like this, the Japanese public is already laughing at her. One look at the 2channel and other forums, and they're already heating up with blasting her.

Some prominent (And, unfortunately, funny) comments are :
"This is the 21st Century, right?"
"Amuro works with Zedd. Ayumi Hamasaki works with DJ Hello Kitty and Komuro. LOL"
"Wow, Amuro wants to try EDM so maybe Babasaki thought she might be desperate to try as well."
"Ayu's enka singing style with this 90s garbage song? Wow, I've heard everything."

I'm so disappointed. This came out of no where, and it's like she's trying to capture the success of recent, and now outdated, electronic waves.

She should have came back with a ballad. I know you guys don't want ballads right now, but if she wanted to release a single as a comeback, she should have released a nice ballad and sang it perfectly on TV and then everyone would hail the return of Hamasaki Ayumi.

This is just garbage, you guys. I'm flipping my table.
Even Na Na Na and Shake It are better than this, and I absolutely hate those songs.

It doesn't matter what others think. If you still support her, then do it. But if you don't want to support her due to these comments, it's up to you. Everyone can do whatever they want. Even if Ayu release a ballad/rock/mid-tempo/pop, everyone will go and bash her.

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by relmy

Would people really be defending this track if it was by anyone else? If anything, I expect some idol debut to sound this dated, not somebody whose worked in the industry for 15 years.

What's worse is that this track isn't out of the blue, it sounds like a b-side version of You and Me. I hoped she'd go more Tell All than... this. I'm not a huge fan of Tell All either but at least she sounded like she wanted to be making music on that track.

Let's wait for the full version of "Feel the love", then we can comment about it

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by maikaru

Trust me, with a song like this, the Japanese public is already laughing at her. One look at the 2channel and other forums, and they're already heating up with blasting her.

Some prominent (And, unfortunately, funny) comments are :
"This is the 21st Century, right?"
"Amuro works with Zedd. Ayumi Hamasaki works with DJ Hello Kitty and Komuro. LOL"
"Wow, Amuro wants to try EDM so maybe Babasaki thought she might be desperate to try as well."
"Ayu's enka singing style with this 90s garbage song? Wow, I've heard everything."

I'm so disappointed. This came out of no where, and it's like she's trying to capture the success of recent, and now outdated, electronic waves.

She should have came back with a ballad. I know you guys don't want ballads right now, but if she wanted to release a single as a comeback, she should have released a nice ballad and sang it perfectly on TV and then everyone would hail the return of Hamasaki Ayumi.

This is just garbage, you guys. I'm flipping my table.
Even Na Na Na and Shake It are better than this, and I absolutely hate those songs.

Even if she would release the best damn song ever, they would still be talking crap about her. She has released a number of ballads and sang them well. Didn't work. If this song is going to kill her career then let's get over with it.

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by Kazeyomi

I know you're disappointed , but I'd never relate to 2ch or forums to know what japanese people thinks about Ayu. It seems like, no matter what, they still dislike her because she's "old" the and not so talented.

I agreed with you, most ppl think that she's "old, outdated and not talented". Even one of my friends said, 'She's old and she's still singing??". We, AHS, have been following her since the very beginning (I started to follow her from RAINBOW ), We saw her trouble life, her deafness, her vocal improvement, her love life and more...we know better than those guys who calling her old and untalented. I guess I started to get immune to those kind of comments when it comes to Ayu.

Let's support her!!!

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by AwakenedPRO

Finally a single! I think I'll save money and buy the Japanese version from YesAsia to help her on Oricon sales.

And btw, I have a feeling that she will start gaining more popularity and sales.

I bought the single yesterday when I found out about the release!! I was panicking and quickly open up CDJapan, and pre-ordered the CDs...HAHAHAHA

[YUKARI]

Originally Posted by Becky

Well put, I definitely agree with you. I've always felt this way ever since I became a part of the AHS community. Too often I hear people say that Ayu will "never create another masterpiece like I am..." or that she's lost her spark or something. There's no point in glorifying the past; it (probably) wasn't as awesome as you remember and right now isn't as bad as you think it is.

yeah, I'm totally glad I'm enjoying every little thing about this single and just feel like dancing and jumping to Feel the love, because I definitely feel it

I hope this song grows on you, guys.

[progress]

If Namie had sung this new song everyone that bashed Ayu would say that Namie is amazing, she slays etc. I hate the song, but I would hate it regardless of the singer

[Neko★munication]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

So much truth to this post.

[pimenta]

It's funny, but I'm actually glad the song sounds kind of dated... I don't know, it makes me feel that even if she's following a trend, she doesn't care for doing what's more popular right now just because it's popular (which is what most artists seem to be trying to do and I'm getting tired of it), she's just releasing whatever she want's to release... Yes, it's a trendy style, but it still kind of have that Ayu touch of always being a bit different than what the majority is doing, because she just releases whatever she wants to

With Ayu I have the feeling that we always get something that reflects herself, what she feels like doing, what music style she's into at the moment, what she wants to do not and not what someone else wants her to do, no matter if it's in a good or a bad way... I like how it always feels like herself and not something controlled by the media/company/public opinion

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

This is so true. It's so annoying, specially considering that probably in a few years from now people will be complaining about the future new releases saying she should do something like what she's doing now, like if they didn't complain about it as well...

[sanzo2011]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

Yasssss!!! EXPOSE them!
once u're a has-been, everything u touch turns out to be oudated!))
I gave up of reading Japanese' comments on Ayu! seriously, they're rude as ****!