Ayumi ~ The Anything Goes Thread 8 ~

[ayumisrael]

^lol

Pray is so awesome, it's the best power ballad in like forever. I'm glad ayu's still making these, last real power ballad was You were... I think but Pray is more beautiful. It must have a grandiose beautiful PV please.

[rainbow_smile]

I just saw this on "RED LINE ~for TA~" 's Last.fm page:

About this track
In the summer of 2009, a member of Team Ayu talked about his/her suicidal thoughts and plans on the message board. Ayumi was so worked up about it that she wrote a personal blog entry appealing to this fan, and worried through a good day of a-nation ‘09 performances until someone confirmed that said fan was okay.

Is it true??

[pommy48]

I thought the blog post was for ayu's friend that passed away and TA liked what she said so much that they requested it into a song

[truehappiness]

I think RED LINE was about her friend and a blog entry. The lyrics are lifted from that entry too.

[Delirium-Zer0]

In the TA entry it sounded like she was referring to a fan who'd written in the message to ayu section of TA, and she put it in the context of how much of a tragedy it was that her friend had passed away.

[maneayu]

I sent a msg to TA asking if they would make the english translator to come back ._.

[George]

This thread 'Songs you ALWAYS skip and NEVER EVER listen to' has renewed my interested in Ayu's music. Well, I still don't appreciate her last couple releases, but at least I'm listening to her music again.

[Andrenekoi]

I don't get why would someone start listening to international artists wishing they will just put their own language aside to sing on the listener language....

I don't know how japanese would feel, but I found brazilian singers that release material mostly in English to be pathetic.

[Surreal17]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I don't get why would someone start listening to international artists wishing they will just put their own language aside to sing on the listener language....

I don't know how japanese would feel, but I found brazilian singers that release material mostly in English to be pathetic.

me too
and there's plenty examples in my own country too..unfortunately..

[owlflight]

As much as I would like to hear an English song from Ayu, I have a feeling that I would lose the emotional connection I get from her Japanese language songs. If singing in Japanese has been successful for Ayu, why change a winning formula?

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Surreal17

me too
and there's plenty examples in my own country too..unfortunately..

We don't have many over here, but there was this girl 2nd tier pop singer who started releasing songs in english for the brazilian market... Now she is 3rd tier and performs mostly for brazilian gays who hate Brazil on small gay clubs! :v

[Minttulatte]

I sense A BEST 3 is coming up. I don't know why but I just can't help but feel this way. They would include Tell All, Pray, Feel the love and Merry-go-round on the album. I wonder what that would sell tho...

Speaking of albums, I realized few days ago that I've completely forgotten what LOVE again sounds like. It must be because I only listened to it twice through and soon forgot the whole thing because other artists released so much new stuff. And there's also the fact that since late 2012 my fandom for Ayu has been lost almost completely. Last time I was really obsessed over something Ayu released was LOVE. I do listen her new releases through though but I don't feel obsessed with her. It's like 2008-2009 all over again for me. Dammit. -.-

[truehappiness]

You'll be back eventually. It took me a while to even listen to LOVE again at all.

[Minttulatte]

^Yes, I will. She will eventually something so awesome that I get crazy again.

[YUKARI]

no spring tour this year?

[truehappiness]

Could be very late Spring. Perhaps she plans to release an album in March/April and then tour after that? Her tours have been running into Fall lately anyway.

[mizuki-7]

Things were so redundant and "mechanical" since several years ... some changes are good ! When I think about that Ayu never released an original album between May and September, never did an AT in winter or did special events/lives etc...

[marty]

^
I feel the same way!
It's so refreshing not knowing what's gonna happen... First a new single since forever on Christmas, then a digital one, then no tour announced...
I like this!
Personally, I'm very fine with her new music, so I'm not dying for new releases.
I'm just very curious about what's gonna happen, if she's just relaxing, or if maybe she's preparing something special or just our of the ordinary.

[Tom Punks]

I wouldn't mind if she released A BEST 3 now tbh. I dunno if there's enough singles yet and don't care to think about it lol but since I'm not buying it either way, I wouldn't mind if the current singles were relegated to a compilation and never made it to a studio album. I do like Feel the love and to a lesser extent Merry-go-round is okay but I really want her to make an album with huge production again like (miss)understood or Rock'n'Roll Circus and none of the singles so far fit that bill lol

Also, I've been thinking along the same lines as truehappiness - that she's holding off on announcing a tour because she's going to announce an album first. But who knows lol

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Tom Punks

I wouldn't mind if she released A BEST 3 now tbh. I dunno if there's enough singles yet and don't care to think about it lol but since I'm not buying it either way, I wouldn't mind if the current singles were relegated to a compilation and never made it to a studio album. I do like Feel the love and to a lesser extent Merry-go-round is okay but I really want her to make an album with huge production again like (miss)understood or Rock'n'Roll Circus and none of the singles so far fit that bill lol

Also, I've been thinking along the same lines as truehappiness - that she's holding off on announcing a tour because she's going to announce an album first. But who knows lol

A Best covers both singles and album tracks!
Considering A Best 2 covers everything between evolution and Bold & Delicious, she has 8 albums (counting (miss)understood album tracks), one mini-album, 13 physical singles and 4 digital singles...

It means she has +- 90 tracks to pick for a new A Best^^