11th Album Anticipation / Discussion Thread #3 - Page 4

CeReSu · #61 26th February 2010, 05:42 PM

It makes me crazy too. Please Ayu, come on now!

teppei_chan92 · #62 26th February 2010, 05:58 PM

This album make everyone excited.

AYU, I WANT YOU TO ANNOUNCE THE ALBUM NEXT WEEK!!!!!!

Zeke. · #63 26th February 2010, 06:04 PM

I just love how when I started the first thread, everyone was like "it's more than likely it will be announced this week so brace yourself" and for some odd reason I just knew that it was going to run it's own course. I just kept thinking "no you're wrong" - Lol. I mean, avex has to know that their activity is a bit odd and that everyone is waiting for the announcement!

aura~ · #64 26th February 2010, 06:16 PM

This has been a strange case... Ayu tell us she was working on the album at the same time she was rehearsing for CDL, in mid-december... we know an album is coming since mid-december.... almost 2 month and in the last one getting ALL type of info...

I can't remember that hapened with a previous album... With NEXT LEVEL january came and we were like: OMG it will be the first time we have to wait for than a year for an album! (at least for the last years)

Coelacanth · #65 26th February 2010, 06:27 PM

Ayu-mi-x 6 was announced on a monday, if i remember correctly

Kazeyomi · #66 26th February 2010, 06:34 PM

Will Avex be careful this time?
I mean.. after the low sales of NL they want to do something big to promote it this time.
But as others said, if she want to release this album in middle March or early April we should know more like the title

I guess.

polka-dot-jewel · #67 26th February 2010, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by walking.proud

I can't remember that hapened with a previous album... With NEXT LEVEL january came and we were like: OMG it will be the first time we have to wait for than a year for an album! (at least for the last years)

That wasn't the first time =/ For the last few years, yes, but there was a 15 month difference between "Duty" and "I am...". The difference between "MY STORY" and "(miss)understood", and "Secret" and "GUILTY", were each around 13 months. The anticipation for this album is huge, yes, but it's not like we've been waiting longer than normal XD

Heavenly · #68 26th February 2010, 06:39 PM

Maybe it's a new marketing plan of Avex... i thought about it: maybe the album would be released secretly, like one day to another, WOOSH! the album comes out in stores! everyone's surprised, everyone buy it ! And the same day, the promo begins with trucks & huge posters at Shibuya, etc. ^^

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Originally Posted by polka-dot-jewel

That wasn't the first time =/ For the last few years, yes, but there was a 15 month difference between "Duty" and "I am..."

Actually, I am... would have come out in September (like Duty), but because of the 9/11 she realesed Dearest instead, then the album came out in December.

aura~ · #69 26th February 2010, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by polka-dot-jewel

That wasn't the first time =/ For the last few years, yes, but there was a 15 month difference between "Duty" and "I am...". The difference between "MY STORY" and "(miss)understood", and "Secret" and "GUILTY", were each around 13 months. The anticipation for this album is huge, yes, but it's not like we've been waiting longer than normal XD

that's what I was saying... With NEXT LEVEL we waited more than a year since GUILTY, the others was more 1 year (or less, secret was out on november and (m)u 1 jan) except for Duty->I am... What I'm saying is that even if it's not even a year since NEXT LEVEL, we knoew about this album since mid-december because ayu posted it in a TA message, and that it has been almsot 2 month since we know about this album...

I don't know if it has happened before, I think not... having a lot of news about the album and lsiten about it even 2 months before it has even been announced...

Baernash · #70 26th February 2010, 07:17 PM

Honestly? I don't understand that all pressure about the new album and those all posts from impatient ppls. I didn't expect any new album before summer. Usually most of artists releasing 3 singles before album comes out and Ayu just released 2nd new single at the end of December. If any new album will be released we'll surely know about it with monthly anticipation. IMO no new album before April.

Zeke. · #71 26th February 2010, 07:22 PM

^ The anticipation is so large due to having heard about it so far in advance. If I hadn't heard "yeah I'm in the studio" "filming new PV" "composing music in my head" "another new PV" "more studio time" "photobook and cover shoots" - then I wouldn't even be thinking about an album release right now. It's just the fact that it's all being dangled in front of our eyes - we can't help but salivate. Lol.

Ayumi_lover · #72 26th February 2010, 07:22 PM

^^ you're actually wrong, because she doesn't plan any new singles, she said she is working on album + promo already began - we have 2 cms with album tracks on air. And Ayu's pattern nowadays is 2 singles and an album

jean-baptiste · #73 26th February 2010, 07:24 PM

^

plus it most likely will be march/april because she's getting ready to tour that month.

aura~ · #74 26th February 2010, 07:40 PM

yeah... if we expect an album is not because we took it from the air... until summer? She has a tour to promote it, and she is working since demeber on it!!

and it's what all.night.raves say, they have said us a lot already! working on a new album (even before Yw/b was released!!), oh great songs, oh I'll return to an older sound, oh I'm shooting two PV, Oh I'm doing a photobook and cover in london, Oh I finished one PV yesterday and tomorrow I'm recording another one, oh here you have two CM for two new songs that appear by magic...

They have this album almost done, of course we are impatien about it! We know a lot before even knowing the name and date... and if the tour wasn't announced or started later... ok... but we have 2 posible days before the tour, 24th and 31st... less than a month for one and 1 month an some days for the other... it's like they have to start saying something...

I think that the day will be 31st... no way it will be for the 24th now....

jean-baptiste · #75 26th February 2010, 07:44 PM

^yes, i agree with all of it.

is there a possibility they'll push back the tour? or have people already boughten tickets and there's no way to push it back?

aura~ · #76 26th February 2010, 08:06 PM

^TA already bought the tickets... no way pushing it back... it would be too much trouble...

no... they MUST have an schedule for all of it: the day to say the release date and name, and when to start giving info... They gave tour info on the 15 of january... so they had to know if they could have the album finished by then...

again, I think there's no problem with the album being finished or not... it has to be something with avex marketing or something XD

Crystal_Ageha · #77 26th February 2010, 08:48 PM

If this is a new marketing strategy avex is trying, I have two things to say about that:
1. It's stupid, because they already are aware of plenty of things that work. For example, they did everything perfectly for Namie's album; they've done similar things with other artists that have helped guarantee good sales, too. So, this would be ridiculous; it's like they want Ayumi to fail. (Not saying they do, just that it's so stupid, they should realise something will go wrong.)
2. It's not working. I'm already over this album. I wasn't very hyped up to begin with at first, because the only song I loved was You were... But then Microphone and Don't Look Back, and maybe even the title for Sexy Little Things, got me excited some more. But now we've yet to hear anything else; we don't know anything, really. And it seems like it'll be at least another week before we even have any news, and then another month or two before the album actually comes out. So I don't care at this point.

Honestly, I wouldn't pretty much forgotten about her new album, if not for this thread, lol. But the more all this goes on, the less I'm going to care when it actually comes out...... So yeah. Not working, avex. At all. To maintain a good hype, you actually have to put out new stuff at a steady pace. Not just throw something at us, and then leave us to ponder for one to three months before releasing something else. Not to mention, that "something else" has to actually be fairly big and exciting, not just mention of a PV filming or something. :\

GRACE · #78 26th February 2010, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Baernash

Honestly? I don't understand that all pressure about the new album and those all posts from impatient ppls. I didn't expect any new album before summer. Usually most of artists releasing 3 singles before album comes out and Ayu just released 2nd new single at the end of December. If any new album will be released we'll surely know about it with monthly anticipation. IMO no new album before April.

You realize Ayu hasn't released more then two singles for an album was (miss)understood right? Secret, GUILTY and NEXT LEVEL all had two singles

Plus, she's been talking about a new album since December.

wildconnetta · #79 26th February 2010, 09:31 PM

PLZ AYU I WANT YOU TO ANNOUNCE IT NAO SO I CAN BUY IT. MERCI BEAUCOUP.

tenez · #80 26th February 2010, 10:05 PM

Oh man, guys. I hate to laugh at people's pain, but reading the last few pages was kind of amusing. Don't get me wrong, I'm anxious to hear some news too, however I'm not freaking out about it. It'll get announced when it gets announced, and hopefully it'll be somewhat good... mostly because then the number of people that will be *****ing about such a long wait and then a crap album will be limited. ;D

I await the complaints already. ♥