[Ai Otsuka] The Fifteen x Time Official Ai Otsuka Thread

[waterballoon]

But I thought LOVE LETTER was gorgeous, and very warm imo. She looks so sweet~

[KarenPang]

at least the photos surrounding the booklet & the digipak's nice

which I suspect it's to make up for the terrible album covers T_T

[sugarbasil]

I didn't mind LOVE LETTER's covers, but I LOVE LOVE LOVED the covers of Kurage Nagareboshi!!!! <3 <3 <3 And those were pretty recent. And Bye Bye's covers I also adored (hence my signature). They were just so relaxing and warm. I general, I really liked that song and PV.

Speaking of, what was your guys' favorite song (just one, maybe two) from LOVE LETTER? I definitely loved shachihata and Bye Bye the most.

And I know this is a bit late, but I was totally put into my place earlier on the LOVE LETTER Tour thing. So the Taiwan version is the oversea's version? Are there ANY versions out there that are region free or good for American DVD players?

[PoetGirl]

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

Speaking of, what was your guys' favorite song (just one, maybe two) from LOVE LETTER?

its hard question since you put 'just one, maybe two'

kurage nagareboshi! and pocket

[ville]

to me : Kurage Nagareboshi, Rocket Sneaker and Pocket :p
well there are three of them but : d

[Chiharo]

My 2 favorite from LOVE LETTER are Pocket and Ningyou.

[NintendoHTF1242]

My favorite songs were 360° and 人形

[Tom Punks]

My favorites I guess were uhhh... rocket sneaker and pocket? Though I really hate that album, so there's not much for me to pick from. :<

[love in music]

Originally Posted by waterballoon

I'm still annoyed and puzzled that pocket and one x time were re-recorded... wth they are like released a couple of years ago!

same here, so i hope besides a new recording the arrangements will be a little different too.

Originally Posted by KarenPang

at least the photos surrounding the booklet & the digipak's nice

which I suspect it's to make up for the terrible album covers T_T

yeah those pics inside were really gorgeous! i think ai is really beautiful, but if she smiles too big, too much of her gums show and it doesn't look so good.

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

Speaking of, what was your guys' favorite song (just one, maybe two) from LOVE LETTER? I definitely loved shachihata and Bye Bye the most.

i can't pick just two, but my top 3 are Rocket Sneaker, Kurage, Nagareboshi, Bye Bye i used to not care for Rocket sneaker and i hated the PV so that didn't help, but then when i saw a live of it the other day i really started to like it, and now it's one of my favs

[Beauty4123]

my two favorite songs (or should i say, album tracks, not single songs) are Ai and Do Positive. bye-bye and 360 are my other favorites as well

[waterballoon]

My absolutely favorites are Bye Bye and 360 degrees, but I really like Kurage Nagare Boshii, Ningyou (omg how do you spell this)... Kimi Fetish has a really hypnotizing melody too. XD

[love in music]

there's an updated tracklist for the best album @ her official site, some names of the new recordings are different and some songs were moved around:

New tracklist:

＜CD収録曲＞

1. Is（新曲）
2. One×Time（New Recording Ver.（仮））
3. 大好きだよ。
4. チケット（日本生命 TV-CF ソング）
5. 君フェチ
6. HEART
7. ふたつ星記念日 ～新婚日和～（New Rec）
8. さくらんぼ
9. Strawberry Jam
10. drop.
11. 甘えんぼ ～Wedding～（New Rec）
12. キミにカエル。
13. 甘い気持ちまるかじり
14. 恋愛写真 - 春-
15. ポケット ～Last Love Letter～（New Rec）


＜DVD収録曲/曲順未定＞
・Is（初収録）
・One×Time（New Recording Ver.（仮））（初収録）
・大好きだよ。
・HEART
・さくらんぼ
・甘えんぼ

Old tracklist for comparison:

Spoiler:

<CD>

1. Untitled (New Song)
2. 恋愛写真 - 春-
3. 甘い気持ちまるかじり
4. さくらんぼ
5. Strawberry Jam
6. ふたつ星記念日 (NEW RECORDING)
7. 甘えんぼ (NEW RECORDING)
8. drop.
9. HEART
10. 大好きだよ。
11. チケット
12. One × Time (NEW RECORDING)
13. ポケット (NEW RECORDING)
14. キミにカエル。
15. 君フェチ
-DVD-
1. NEW SONG
2. One x Time (NEW PV)
3. 甘えんぼ
4. さくらんぼ
5. HEART
6. 大好きだよ。

[waterballoon]

Interesting... I'm warming up to the concept... I would totally buy this album instead of a ring as a proposal. XD

[love in music]

yeah i guess this album has somewhat of a wedding theme too? the ～新婚日和～ added to Futatsuboshi Kinenbi translates to "Day For newlyweds" or something like that

[zyoeru]

I wanna hear what they're doing with the re-recordings...I like the wedding theme. XD

[PoetGirl]

i would like her to focus on a new album, not best one. but oh well...

[AyuGAME]

just finished watching her LOVE LETTER TOUR LIVE AT YOKOHAMA ARENA...
better than her zepp tour, definitely...
but still...for me ai really losing her touch for her upbeat songs...the only outstanding performance is chu-lip...
and her ballad performance sometime really a snooze-fest...i just like kurage...
i don't know why, i really lose my interest when watched her tour...maybe its just me...and maybe i'm too over-anaylizing it...

[Meat Pao]

The LOVE LETTER cover actually grew on me and I like the CD+DVD cover now. Not the CD Only though... reminds me of the CD only of Ayu's (m)u

[KarenPang]

@identity - thanks for the LOVE is BEST ! CD & DVD tracklist update

I will edit my music blog on this

[love in music]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

just finished watching her LOVE LETTER TOUR LIVE AT YOKOHAMA ARENA...
better than her zepp tour, definitely...
but still...for me ai really losing her touch for her upbeat songs...the only outstanding performance is chu-lip...
and her ballad performance sometime really a snooze-fest...i just like kurage...
i don't know why, i really lose my interest when watched her tour...maybe its just me...and maybe i'm too over-anaylizing it...

i didn't feel like that as i watched the LOVE LETTER tour because it was the first tour i've watched from her in a long time, so i forgot about her older ones and didn't compare it to anything. then watching some of her other ones i noticed she did seem to have more energy or something than the LOVE LETTER tour? idk, but i still really like the tour, my main complaint is that the opening was underwhelming, but it was still really pretty. i think she'd be better off opening with Shachihata