[Official Message] New Christmas Single 2013.12.25 In Stores

[truehappiness]

Yeah, GUILTY was #1 for the first week but then Kobukuro sold more in the second week, so... no more #1 album.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by artcika

i hope she at least gives badass covers since i am not too fond with the sings... c'mmon AYU blow me away with that at least lol oh and....those fanmade covers... i sometimes wonder do they even bother to try and fit the mood of the song at all lol they just saw pretty pics and photoshoped the text on them lol

To be fair, crossroads covers are completely void of having anything to do with the mood of that song. Lol.

[BlackSilence]

^truth xD

[truehappiness]

I wonder if she'll use the new photographer (Gori Kuramoto) for the single... we'll see!

Please have lots of color at least! Both songs are dance tracks so something that's not too muted or pastel would be great~

Originally Posted by Zeke.

To be fair, crossroads covers are completely void of having anything to do with the mood of that song. Lol.

It at least gave us Ayu in glasses for the alternate shots inside the booklet, haha.

[brener]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I thought Oricon stopped doing double weeks a while back?

so no double week?? '-'

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by ayuinh.k?

They stopped with the double weeks when Love songs came out..people were commenting on how GUILTY could've gotten #1 if oricon removed the double week system if they did it earlier

Is that really true? If so, then that removal of the double week system should be called the "Ayumi Hamasaki rule" of no double-week system! (But even PQ also sold #2 in a shocker to Acid Black Cherry...but I have to wonder - what would happen if the decision was made earlier? Then we wouldn't have anything like this today - no AKB48 of today, no Ayu of today, no Sayuri Sugawara, no Ayaka or Kobukuro of today, etc...!)

[Mirrorcle Monster]

Feel the love is such a grower, my new jam

[AyuGAME]

i love the verse

[AyuWorld]

for what i love in the short version video, we can see Ayu plays the piano / keyboard ^^

[kendelle]

Is the TA limited version out yet for preorder? I only became a member this year and can't for the life of me work out where the link is xD

[~angel*ayumi~]

TA links always go up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay later than pre-order links on CDJ and such.

[YUKARI]

can't wait for covers and Merry-go-round!

but I like this feeling of waiting and excitement

[rainbow_smile]

Originally Posted by YUKARI

can't wait for covers and Merry-go-round!

but I like this feeling of waiting and excitement

Same here! I really hope covers will be stunning and Merry-go-round will be even better than Feel the love *.*

[Trinu]

Merry-go-round better be really amazing cause Feel the love sounds really really bad. Really, the arrangement is very amateur and very... I don't know, tacky.

I think she'll be lucky to break in the Top 5. :/

[pimenta]

I'm still waiting for TA shop to put the single for sale >.<

Originally Posted by Bigtop

Is that really true? If so, then that removal of the double week system should be called the "Ayumi Hamasaki rule" of no double-week system! (But even PQ also sold #2 in a shocker to Acid Black Cherry...but I have to wonder - what would happen if the decision was made earlier? Then we wouldn't have anything like this today - no AKB48 of today, no Ayu of today, no Sayuri Sugawara, no Ayaka or Kobukuro of today, etc...!)

What's up with these comparisons? What do these have to do with the end of the double-week system at all, it doesn't make any sense...

[douggn]

people will always say this is a crap song and its the worst but watch and wait, give it two weeks after its release and they will change their minds and pretend they loved it from the start

[truehappiness]

If not then, people usually change their minds about a year later.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by douggn

people will always say this is a crap song and its the worst but watch and wait, give it two weeks after its release and they will change their minds and pretend they loved it from the start

I think that this song will probably grow on people. That happens a lot, but it's kinda rude to just, invalidate people's opinions, just because you think they will change them later. And then even say that they will pretend they always liked it. Gross.

Like, the first step to respecting other ayu fans is to give them some credibility with what they think. Then people won't feel so attacked, and then attack back.


Personally, you can't give me a 4 minute not-even-LQ preview of a song, and then expect me to feel different when it's released. Like, I've basically heard the whole song lol

I mean if it was just a snippet, it would be different.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by emi♡

I think that this song will probably grow on people. That happens a lot, but it's kinda rude to just, invalidate people's opinions, just because you think they will change them later. And then even say that they will pretend they always liked it. Gross.

Like, the first step to respecting other ayu fans is to give them some credibility with what they think. Then people won't feel so attacked, and then attack back.


Personally, you can't give me a 4 minute not-even-LQ preview of a song, and then expect me to feel different when it's released. Like, I've basically heard the whole song lol

I mean if it was just a snippet, it would be different.

You, Emiko, either keep your opinions or openly change them. But there ARE people hating on releases and acting like they are gifts from god later, either because it grew on them or because they just got on the hating shitstorm and bashed the release without giving it much thought of their own. But I don't believe they pretend, IMO the change of mind is so organic most of them don't even notice it

[emi♡]

It's just that like...I mean some of us have been joking about it other places, but around here, everything seems pretty peachy lol