[Secret Album] Tracklist

[ayu_ready?]

OMG..
WHA?
wait-wait...
THIS IS SERIOUS? TRUE? REAL?
what is this?! halt! >>> dzzzz!
"kiss o' kill"? - this is AYUMI HAMASAKI?
...

indeed, Ayumi "has secret sides, nobody has ever seen" ('ourselves, to remember), except Tomoya-honey

*psss-psss* ya know what I like? "momentum"! sounds a-a-a-a-lright
thank God not "memento mori" ("rememeber of death")

okay, now I'm surely waiting for covers...have no ideas what trick Ayu will play with us this time

[moombasista]

kiss o' kill = Kiss me or die Tomoya

[immel]

Originally Posted by evolusean

But you forget... it's not an English album. Nobody in Japan will pronounce it "taskinst". "taskinst" is a stylized representation of the Japanese title "tasukuinsuto", and that is how it is actually spoken.

In the same way, M isn't "M", but it is "emu". evolution isn't "evolution", but "eboryuushon". If Ayu's titles were created for English speakers, we wouldn't have "Are You Wake Up?" and other strange titles. Not a single person in Japan will have much of a problem pronouncing "taskinst", and the album is for the Japanese market.

Can't find any more words for you, Sean. Thank you.

Originally Posted by annime

actually i think 'kiss o' kill' is for 'kiss or kill' and not 'kiss of kill' well seems like i'm wrong...

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

Well, the English dictionary says o' means "of" or "on". "Of" is the one most used, though.

In the Japanese vocabulary, it might be a different matter. I haven't encountered o' used to mean "or" in Japanese English

Indeed, Engrish creates the most awesome possibilities. To the Japanese people o' might very well be able to mean "or", but like you say o' means "of", or on occasion also "on".

[Uemarasan]

Originally Posted by immel

Indeed, Engrish creates the most awesome possibilities. To the Japanese people o' might very well be able to mean "or", but like you say o' means "of", or on occasion also "on".

kiss o' kill gets my vote for the song title of the millenium. A work of GENIUS! It deserves to be enshrined as one of the great accomplishments of humankind.

The world is a better place because of kiss o' kill.

[elepop]

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

kiss o' kill gets my vote for the song title of the millenium. A work of GENIUS! It deserves to be enshrined as one of the great accomplishments of humankind.

The world is a better place because of kiss o' kill.

Agreed.

Let's hope the song is as awesome as the title.

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by moombasista

kiss o' kill = Kiss me or die Tomoya

lolz, and what if...it's true?

[Melting_Holidays]

I love the Tracklist. Will she ever use the Task interludes to make an actual song of?

Anyways the song I'm looking forward to is kiss o' kill.

[Cyria]

Nice to have this list. Apart from taskinst, the names don't sound bad. I don't even mind kiss o' kill after the (miss) names.

[moombasista]

It's or

[DerrickRocks]

labrynith@!!!! Tomiko Van is coming out with a song of the same name!!!

[immel]

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

kiss o' kill gets my vote for the song title of the millenium. A work of GENIUS! It deserves to be enshrined as one of the great accomplishments of humankind.

The world is a better place because of kiss o' kill.

Agreed, hehe.

It's something very different. I was thoroughly surprised when she announced the name 1 LOVE, as she has never ever used numbers in titles before. Now she's resorting to abbreviations, too. I find it refreshing.

[Echiko]

The song names sounds pretty good cept "It was" XD

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Empry

CD

1. Not yet
2. until that Day...
3. Startin'
4. 1 LOVE
5. It was
6. LABYRINTH
7. JEWEL
8. momentum
9. taskinst
10. Born To Be...
11. Beautiful Fighters
12. BLUE BIRD
13. kiss o' kill
14. Secret

lol, wow. I like the tracklist, yet am very amused by it. I'm guessing that It Was and Labyrinth are rock songs. In fact I'm predicting right now that a lot of this album will be rock. Notice that they put the three poppiest songs together - probably because they couldn't fit with the other songs on the album. And then I just can't imagine a song called kiss o' kill being Blue Bird pt. 2, lol - but who knows with Ayu.

[PrincessAyu]

XD the titles sound like they're not finished yet. But I love it :3

[immel]

@Sunshine, kiss o' kill could be sweet like that, but the last word of the name has me imagine it as something heavier .

much... heavier.

[djinn]

labyrinth!!! i love this labyrinth
hope this will be a nice song!

[perfectdeath]

hrm, a couple of the songs sound kind of weird... we'll just have to see how it all comes out

[explodingbird]

Great tracklist - seems very flashy and dark and tangled. I like.

kiss o' kill, to me, seems like... I dunno. Reminds me of Garbage's The World is Not Enough, with the line "I know when to kiss, and I know when to kill." You also have to remember... Japanese is the first language, I believe, of those who choose her titles (because doesn't someone help her pick titles for her songs?). If it was Ayu, her English is still.... in the working stages. I doubt she or her team would know/care about the proper English usage of o' as a... whatever function the word serves.


The tracklist does have me very excited, either way. until that Day..., momentum, and LABYRINTH are the ones I'm most excited about hearing based on titles alone, although kiss o' kill will definitely be interesting. Well, HOPEFULLY.

I'm pumped for this album.

I love how they sequenced the three (that we know of) poppiest tracks on the album together, but Not yet and Secret better be the most appriorately-placed, explosive/exciting openers and closers for the album (or, well... just the best, not necessarily explosive) for Born To Be... to not be at either end.

Also: I have to laugh at BLUE BIRD getting the fairyland/HONEY spot. Go figure.

[immel]

Originally Posted by explodingbird

Great tracklist - seems very flashy and dark and tangled. I like.

I like. Too.

Japanese is the first language, I believe, of those who choose her titles (because doesn't someone help her pick titles for her songs?). If it was Ayu, her English is still.... in the working stages.

From the knowledge I have amounted over the very short period I've been an Ayu fan I can only say I have the feeling of that she is doing all that work completely by herself. At least for her later albums. Apart from the obvious fact that tasuku names his own interludes I'm quite sure that she, with her pride as a lyrics writer, keeps that job very much to herself. She's the one who arranges the track order, and so on, at least that is what she said in an interview around the MY STORY release.

I love how they sequenced the three (that we know of) poppiest tracks on the album together, but Not yet and Secret better be the most appriorately-placed, explosive/exciting openers and closers for the album (or, well... just the best, not necessarily explosive) for Born To Be... to not be at either end.

I'm wondering, though, is the two tracks before Startin' both interludes, or is one of them an actual song?

Also: I have to laugh at BLUE BIRD getting the fairyland/HONEY spot. Go figure.

Nice observation, heh.

Originally Posted by bluegie

it's such a pain to read 6 pages.. why did avex always release info while i was sleeping?? @@

I can feel your pain, I totally missed out on the BLUE BIRD release when BLUE BIRD and Beautiful Fighters leaked, haha.

[Olw---A]

kiss o' kill
momentum
LABYRITH

=> love those names !!!
I want to ear that