[Official] 9th album 'GUILTY'

[ruchan]

^is the cover

[Kaiouforever]

She's definitely gonna get a lot of media attention with this album title. I hope sales will be good then. =] Just look at Utada's "Flavor or life" sales after her divorce.

[Kobayashiwoof]

Glitter can still fit in the album, just because its the stand out track from her singles, it doesnt mean it cant fit with her album. Ahhyewmiiiiiii

[mui-gei-tal]

oh wow~ guilty~ hahaha...looking forward =)

[zeroshin888]

Sounds lovely and very subtle. I wonder what she's guilty about? Perhaps breaking up with Tomoya? lol

[truehappiness]

GUILTY will probably be explained in detail later...

Perhaps it'll have to do with family issues?

[cttncandy]

It would be cool if she re-arranged any of her singles, because like that you wouldn't have the same version and people might be like "ooooh same song but with a different beat shiiiiiiiiiiiny i want!!! " lol

[jkm444]

GUILTY sounds great! Can't wait till da tracklist and cover come out. Even those a lot of people want glitter to have new arrangement, I highly doubt tat will happen the last time her songs got new arrangement is for endless sorrow or was it her A ballad album.

[CHE.R.RY]

Hmmm makes me wonder what the cover and photoshoot will be like...I like that font though :3

[Mirai Noah]

I like the title and the logo.

[lfe.]

interesting title

[Rebirthia]

Originally Posted by namiie

For now, I think Guilty doesn't sound like Ayu's style because even though she has her insecurities like everyone else, a lot of her songs speak of picking yourself up and moving on. To name an entire album over a feeling such as guilt shows a drastic change in Ayu's persona to me, in that songs before stated how even though the going gets tough, it's possible that tomorrow will be better. "Memorial Address" sounded just like Ayu in that it has an elegant sort of subtlety to it. Ayu's always had a frank personality and given the emotional caliber of the song/album (with profound songs like Because of You, No way to say and of course, the title track), it was fitting that she wanted to broadcast her feelings---(memorially) addressing her feelings, as it were---in such a manner.

I love the way you analyse things, you must write great essays

Well, I shall explain why I relate the title "guilty" to "victimism".

I'm used to deconstruct the meanings (I study Criticism at the university and my favourite is deconstruction so... I can't help it )

I relate the meaning of "guilty" with those of "forgiveness", "regret"... If you feel guilty for something (it doesn't matter why), you may expect redemption and forgiveness from the others.

A guilty person is someone that has done something (he or she is the subject), but, if we take into account the idea of forgiveness, that "guilty" person becomes the object of others forgiveness.

She claimed to be (miss)understood already; now she expects to be forgiven. OK, she has said it in a very subtle way, but to me, it has been implied.

In my opinion, this creates a certain uneasiness to her audience, to their fans.

(this is just my opinion, of course)

As I write these lines, I realise Ayu establishes a dialogue with us through her titles (well, I suppose I already know this, and you too, but with this title in particular, I think it is even smarter, stronger and relevant).

BUT, ok, let's study the title from another perspective.

It seems to me that playing the role of Ayumi Hamasaki involves a great effort to Ayu's persona (using really well chosen word by namiie). She is constantly fighting (we read it in her lyrics), and she loses sometimes. I am sure she feels she has lost some of her true identity through these years. And she feels guilty for that... has it been really worth of it? This is one of the possible reasons for that guilt.

[4ever*ayu]

nice, ayesha! love your analysis. . <3

btw, great album title, GUILTY

is there any chance ayu feel guilty for not visiting Indonesia on her Asia Tour this year!? LOL....

[AK~cuby]

THE TITLE LET ME VERY SUPRISE~~

[freedreamer]

if the song is about feeling GUILTY to herself, i think it really really is very meaningful..

[Raiu-Ayu]

I like GUILTY Sounds like it could be a good album and song (if indeed their is a song called GUILTY)

I hope ayu takes a more rock type approach with this. And I hope she scraps glitter or at the very least goes all A Song for XX "030213 Session#2" on it's ass!

Here's how the title came to be, oh great over thinkers of AHS:

Ayu: (In Japanese) Hey Max, we need a new english album title. Whats a cool english word?

Max: (Opens a dictionary to a random page and points to word)

Ayu: AHHH! GIRUTI! SUGOI!

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by twilightnight

why are we writing essays about the title =\ nice analysis...but...honestly ... it's a title o_o

Because Ayu always have her sometimes quirky reasons for her titels. Ambigous, straight forward, whatever, there's always something.

Originally Posted by Beyond the Sea

Here's how the title came to be, oh great over thinkers of AHS:

Ayu: (In Japanese) Hey Max, we need a new english album title. Whats a cool english word?

Max: (Opens a dictionary to a random page and points to word)

Ayu: AHHH! GIRUTI! SUGOI!

Hahha, I can actually picture that Sugoi. >_< And ayu afterwords going "Because... you know... Everyone has GIRUTI about something, you know... You have Giruti, I have Giruti, everyone have giruti... you know."

[namiie]

Originally Posted by Beyond the Sea

Here's how the title came to be, oh great over thinkers of AHS:

Ayu: (In Japanese) Hey Max, we need a new english album title. Whats a cool english word?

Max: (Opens a dictionary to a random page and points to word)

Ayu: AHHH! GIRUTI! SUGOI!

Lmao that's pretty funny. That's almost like truehappiness's "Guilty Ayumy Hamasaky" theory.

Originally Posted by Ayesha

I love the way you analyse things, you must write great essays

Well, I shall explain why I relate the title "guilty" to "victimism".

I'm used to deconstruct the meanings (I study Criticism at the university and my favourite is deconstruction so... I can't help it )

I relate the meaning of "guilty" with those of "forgiveness", "regret"... If you feel guilty for something (it doesn't matter why), you may expect redemption and forgiveness from the others.

A guilty person is someone that has done something (he or she is the subject), but, if we take into account the idea of forgiveness, that "guilty" person becomes the object of others forgiveness.

She claimed to be (miss)understood already; now she expects to be forgiven. OK, she has said it in a very subtle way, but to me, it has been implied.

In my opinion, this creates a certain uneasiness to her audience, to their fans.

(this is just my opinion, of course)

As I write these lines, I realise Ayu establishes a dialogue with us through her titles (well, I suppose I already know this, and you too, but with this title in particular, I think it is even smarter, stronger and relevant).

BUT, ok, let's study the title from another perspective.

It seems to me that playing the role of Ayumi Hamasaki involves a great effort to Ayu's persona (using really well chosen word by namiie). She is constantly fighting (we read it in her lyrics), and she loses sometimes. I am sure she feels she has lost some of her true identity through these years. And she feels guilty for that... has it been really worth of it? This is one of the possible reasons for that guilt.

Thanks Ayesha! Your thoughts are quite insightful too It does make sense considering that years of carrying a lot of weight on her shoulders, both professionally and personally (as poorly executed as they were, "glitter/fated" did a semi-good job at showing how her job affects her own life outside of her career) contributed to the possible "victim" mentality that a lot of veterans of the entertainment industry feel.

In that sense I guess I can see why she would feel guilty....she probably feels that she should be extremely grateful for her fans and her success (and I'm sure she does, given her interaction with her fans and her public statements), but at the same time she's resentful of who she is because it takes away a lot of the freedom that a person usually has, e.g. dating like a normal person or just going shopping or whatever without being mauled by the paps.

In that sense, yeah I can see the guilt. Or I don't know, maybe it's just one big album about her breakup with Tomoya XD;

[ayu-fan]

giruti?? LOL