New album 'Love songs' & Ayu-produced single 'Dream ON' 12/22 [VI]

[Max_ZZZ]

all tk? i'll expect the worst just in case
the only thing that is keeping me from dreading this album was that Love song was amaaaazing it's hard to believe he did it

[Kanzaki]

Reading her tweets, it sure sounds like the entire album is TK. Idk, I'm not all up-to-date with who created what

[brener]

only 20 copies left of the USB+Micro SD+PHOTOOBOOK at @CDJapan

[hidekirby]

I don't really understand all the hate towards the previews this time, I can barely hear something ?? : /

Insomnia sounds interesting, sending mail too. Thank you... oh sorry "Thank U" (or Thank ewww... ^^) scares me a bit.
Everything may be either awful or brilliant.
Wait and see...

What I love is that the album seems really coherent this time (from what I can hear).

[pepper]

anyone can remind me what TK did? i mean ayu's composition in past years

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by pepper

anyone can remind me what TK did? i mean ayu's composition in past years

Before this year, barely anything. He composed a song is born in 2001 and then crossroad / Virgin Road / Last angel this year. That's about it.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Before this year, barely anything. He composed a song is born in 2001 and then crossroad / Virgin Road / Last angel this year. That's about it.

I wonder why the sudden surge of TK songs. I am aware of what the man did and that max practically bailed him out, but still he's done the last couple of AAA singles as well and who knows how many other songs for people I don't follow.

[truehappiness]

They're probably gonna have him make a rather large number of songs since avex (read: max) spent 30 million yen to bail him out of whatever he got himself into. So far he's done AAA, Kitano Kie, and Ayu's songs this year. There might be some others I'm missing, but those seem to be the main ones.

[NintendoHTF1242]

A TK majority-produced album. I wonder how GRACE is handling this.

[My Rainbow]

What happened to Max Matsuura? I read suff here but I still don't get...

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by My Rainbow

What happened to Max Matsuura? I read suff here but I still don't get...

Okay, a quick summary of what happened with Tetsuya Komuro and how Max/other friends of his bailed him out:
- in 2006, Komuro tried to sell the rights to his 806 songs for a billion yen to some investor (the rights were NOT his) who paid 500 million yen to Komuro before learning that Komuro did not own the rights to the songs. He was unable to get his money back, and took it to the authorities. Komuro was fined 600 million yen at some point after losing a civil suit against him but failed to pay back the amount.
- Flash forward to 2008, Komuro was arrested and put in jail for about half a month (his sentence was estimated at 10 years max) before being bailed out for 30 million yen by avex, his wife KEIKO, and other parties.

So basically, he kind of owes avex a biiiiiiiig one.

If you wanna read more, here are the Tokyograph links to the story:
http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-3990 - his arrest/crime
http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4073 - his bail

[My Rainbow]

wow!!!! thanks!!!

he better make good songs then...

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

A TK majority-produced album. I wonder how GRACE is handling this.

Well... he likes insomnia... which TK probably did not do

I don't get the TK hate, yeah I didn't like a song is born but all of the songs that he's done for this album so far have been BEYOND fantastic to me and like I said before, Ayu's not going to pick a composition that she doesn't think is good enough no matter who it's from.

And I am SO glad I'm resisting these previews!

[truehappiness]

Yeah, insomnia sounds like it was a Yuta-made interlude. Some people guessed that since Komuro wrote "all of the songs" that there would be no interludes, but that's a huge stretch and I think it was already mentioned that insomnia is an interlude, so that's out of the picture

It's funny to see people's reactions on 2ch. Some people seem to like Thank U's electro-beat but it's a "burikko LALALA parade", hah! I think Thank U sort of feels like Bridge to the sky meets EnergizE without being too "put ur handz up 2gether" if you know what I mean.

[Mirrorcle Monster]

Why only three chaku uta??
Hope they release more with time...
I will siten to the previews later, but i dont want to hate/love anything
When i listened to Last Angel preview it sounded like an anime opener, Shoko Nakagawa style...

[Raiu-Ayu]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Okay, a quick summary of what happened with Tetsuya Komuro and how Max/other friends of his bailed him out:
- in 2006, Komuro tried to sell the rights to his 806 songs for a billion yen to some investor (the rights were NOT his) who paid 500 million yen to Komuro before learning that Komuro did not own the rights to the songs. He was unable to get his money back, and took it to the authorities. Komuro was fined 600 million yen at some point after losing a civil suit against him but failed to pay back the amount.
- Flash forward to 2008, Komuro was arrested and put in jail for about half a month (his sentence was estimated at 10 years max) before being bailed out for 30 million yen by avex, his wife KEIKO, and other parties.

So basically, he kind of owes avex a biiiiiiiig one.

If you wanna read more, here are the Tokyograph links to the story:
http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-3990 - his arrest/crime
http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4073 - his bail

I know he basically owes avex 10 years of his life now but he is rubbish. Most of the songs he's composed for avex since then have been crap/substandard (Virgin Road is really the only good one but even then its kinda simple). He's been composing all of AAA's recent stuff and although their popularity has gone up their music quality has gone waaaaay down

[Cherry Dynamite]

This is why I don't listen to chakuuta previews. lol

[My Rainbow]

we want CREA back!!!!!

[Corvina]

I really like sending mail so far, sounds interesting!
Don't know about Thank U...
insomnia sounds nice as well, but it's just an interlude. -_-
Guess the best titles turn out to be interludes in the end (insomnia and probably Aria as well, aw).

[truehappiness]

Some PV editing photos from Masashi Muto's plixi! Looks like they were working on Dream ON in the first one and the second one looks like Ayu around the plane crash site in whatever PV has the plane in it?


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The 2nd photo looks really awesome!