[Official Message] A BEST -15th Anniversary Edition-

[revolution9292]

Wondering if i should get the physical CD copy or the itunes copy.

[YukiUsagi]

浜崎あゆみ / 『A BEST -15th Anniversary Edition-』TVCM Part.1

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Haah I knew they'd be uploaded eventually

[js_surrealism]

"New album"

lol

[Andrenekoi]

^Now you are bothered because a 15 years old video uses 15 years old info?

[//ABEST]

Originally Posted by js_surrealism

"New album"

lol

even if it's re-release, it's new

[js_surrealism]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^Now you are bothered because a 15 years old video uses 15 years old info?

Now you're bothered because a fan takes issue with someone calling a re-released album a new album?

[kotora]

Originally Posted by js_surrealism

"New album"

lol

It can be considered as new album. Also that male voices reminds people about this album.

What bothers me is the size of the video. 15 years ago was not the same size as now..

[js_surrealism]

Originally Posted by kotora

It can be considered as new album. Also that male voices reminds people about this album.

What bothers me is the size of the video. 15 years ago was not the same size as now..

Nobody would be defending this if it were any other artist...

I don't mind that she wants to do a tribute or something like that to celebrate the anniversary of her best selling album, but everything about this release so far has been lazy from start to finish.

To now call it a 'new album' when there's ZERO new material on it? When it has the exact same content on it as the original album? I would have thought she had a bit more self-respect than that. =/

[Aderianu]

it will be 5 days countdown

if someone can't wait to see other =)

Spoiler:

[js_surrealism]

Actually I think it would have been really cool if she'd actually reshoot the exact same CM, or maybe recreate one of her music videos, for the purpose of this release. At least there'd be something extra special about this.

[Aderianu]

I think ayu can't do for this release as much as she did at 2001
and avex don't want to spend any extra money on this, everyone understand that profit will not be the same

[jiarongisme]

Ahhh I miss that CM guy's voice. Signature Ayu.

[truehappiness]

His voice is still in the "TV-CMs" I think.

[attractive nausea]

Originally Posted by js_surrealism

Actually I think it would have been really cool if she'd actually reshoot the exact same CM, or maybe recreate one of her music videos, for the purpose of this release. At least there'd be something extra special about this.

Yeah, just like she could have reshoot the cover and so on. This release had so much potential but they just went "let's remaster the songs and ask random people to comment Ayu's career in a special book", the only really nice thing is handwritten lyrics. I don't get why Ayu seems so "excited" about this release, posting an instagram picture everyday about A BEST, sure she has the right to be proud of that release but still. It's not like she did anything herself to make this release super special.
I hope the remastering is noticeable, like really, not just when you have expensive earbuds on.

[truehappiness]

Hm... when it comes to rereleases in Japan, this is very standard. However, I would expect more effort if she were redoing everything COMPLETELY.

See: Do As Infinity's 2 of Us remakes.

[Andrenekoi]

This isn't being made to move millions of copies, this is made to sell over-priced stuff to collectors and to give people who still doesn't have the original one a new oportunity of owning it. It will most likely move as much copies as Terminal.

The promotional effort is minimal because this is a legacy release, and those usually sell very little.

[truehappiness]

IMO, I think this is partly being made because A BEST keeps doing incredibly well on those download charts EVERY YEAR.

[Raiu-Ayu]

I actually like that theyre using the old cms lol it just adds to the nostalgia of it all lol

[js_surrealism]

DAI's Two of Us was a fantastic release they both paid homage to their musical history AND gave something new to fans. It pandered to both casual fans who only know their hits, and die hard fans who want a reason to buy more of their stuff.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like fans who want to buy the physical release (with all the freebies and stuff) won't get any of the 'new' music (i.e. the acapella tracks) which will only be available on the digital version, which seems silly.

The very least they could have done was to throw in some unreleased footage somewhere somehow. Maybe a DVD of the recent TA tour. Even Utada Hikaru's anniversary version of First Love had unreleased tour footage accompanying it.

I don't disagree with blatant cash grabs but there are LITERALLY SO MANY WAYS to do it better, and we know for a fact that she does things Properly when she is actually invested in a project (cue Power of Music tour c.f. Hotel Love Songs). I wish she would care again.