[Official Message] 10th Album NEXT LEVEL 2009.3.25 IN STORES - Thread II - Page 9

Melrose · #**161** 28th February 2009, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Punks

Likewise, I could say that members' opinions have nothing to do with the quality of the album. Members probably tend to like (m)u more because it's newer and more "poppy" than Duty. I'd say Japanese fans' opinions are more important than ours anyways, since... they're the ones who buy 20345902349052 of her albums depending on if they're good or not.

Quality IS opinion based. There are no set standards for quality, like "x amount of instruments * x song length * x time of vocals" or something.

And actually from what I read people tend to NOT like her more poppy songs. glitter, fairyland and BLUE BIRD are pretty hated around here. At least when glitter came around everyone was all omg not ANOTHER one. :p And I am... is old but still ranked very high.

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Originally Posted by extepan

i agree. a lot of opinions do not make it a fact.

anyway, recent albums or songs always do better in polls because they are fresh in the minds of voters. it's called recency effect.

Make what fact? I was saying that it's fact that a lot more people 'round here like (m)u more than Duty, to someone who said that her quality kept going down or something (heck, I even forgot what the initial post was about lol it's that unimportant

).

As for the recency effect, m(u) is too old for that effect still, really. You'll have to look at GUILTY~NEXT LEVEL for that. MA and I am... both ranked very high, and those are way old.

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Originally Posted by jbrat2219

Amen to that! Our opinions are just as valuable. Japanese people may put sales on Oricon, but we're putting money into what we feel is a good product as well, so...

Amen.

KarenPang · #**162** 28th February 2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Maemi

I hope NEXT LEVEL won't have any preludes/interludes

I'm so sick of them since Guilty

But I agree that MW can appear on album ONLY as bonus track ^^

as much as I wish there wouldn't be any preludes/interludes , I have a feeling NEXT LEVEL will have them

too bad she can't follow her fellow labelmates & just put out 1 intro & the rest of the album are full songs

**ayumisrael** · #**163** 28th February 2009, 03:32 PM

^At least it's another thing that makes her original XD.
I love interludes if they sound good and there are not too much of them in 1 album.
If NEXT LEVEL will have an introduction interlude and 1 or 2 interludes in the middle tops I won't mind it will mean at least 6 new songs (if there will be no MW as it seems).
If it will have any more though it will be bad.
I think there will be just 2 overall though.

Melrose · #**164** 28th February 2009, 07:13 PM

^

I hope she'll take the album to the NEXT LEVEL by having few interludes. =3

aura~ · #**165** 28th February 2009, 07:54 PM

^me too.. i'm really tired of having 3 interludes in one album and having less new songs.. I hope it'll change with NL..

jbrat2219 · #**166** 28th February 2009, 08:14 PM

Let's hope she doesn't have any interludes... or if she MUST have them, she makes more tracks... 14 or 15 just for the interludes that way we still have the same amount of new songs... Or even better 14 or 15 tracks of FULL songs!

Jason · #**167** 28th February 2009, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ayumisrael

^At least it's another thing that makes her original XD.
I love interludes if they sound good and there are not too much of them in 1 album.
If NEXT LEVEL will have an introduction interlude and 1 or 2 interludes in the middle tops I won't mind it will mean at least 6 new songs (if there will be no MW as it seems).
If it will have any more though it will be bad.
I think there will be just 2 overall though.

I think for a 13 track album there should only be, at max, an intro and an interlude. Though, I'd prefer just an intro.

That's the one thing I didn't like GUILTY, a 14 track album with an intro, 2 interludes and a prelude. I love her interludes because they make a great transition from one style to another but I don't like too many

Lanz16 · #**168** 28th February 2009, 08:46 PM

Does anyone knows when the GUILTY tracklisting was released?
Is it a week or 2 before the release?

Tom Punks · #**169** 28th February 2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Melrose

Quality IS opinion based. There are no set standards for quality, like "x amount of instruments * x song length * x time of vocals" or something.

And actually from what I read people tend to NOT like her more poppy songs. glitter, fairyland and BLUE BIRD are pretty hated around here. At least when glitter came around everyone was all omg not ANOTHER one. :p And I am... is old but still ranked very high.

Uh... did I say quality wasn't opinion based? I don't think I did, so I have no clue why you're telling me that.

And if quality is opinion based, why do you keep saying "it's FACT that (miss)understood is better than Duty"? That's a little contradictory. :/

joshohhhhh · #**170** 28th February 2009, 09:31 PM

I just can't wait to see the tracklist and the cover! I pre-ordered mine about 8 days ago.

njanjayrp · #**171** 28th February 2009, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Lanz16

Does anyone knows when the GUILTY tracklisting was released?
Is it a week or 2 before the release?

I guess we'll be getting something during the next week.

KillTime111 · #**172** 1st March 2009, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason

I think for a 13 track album there should only be, at max, an intro and an interlude. Though, I'd prefer just an intro.

That's the one thing I didn't like GUILTY, a 14 track album with an intro, 2 interludes and a prelude. I love her interludes because they make a great transition from one style to another but I don't like too many

woAh, was it really that many in GUILTY? dag, i didn` even realize, dats about 1/4 of the album (o_O;. i agree, if 13 tracks 2 at most. heck, skip the intro and just put in 1 interlude somewhere a lil past the middle of the album, hAHa.

Tony G · #**173** 1st March 2009, 08:40 AM

Max one interlude to me, maybe an intro song. She had 10 (or 11 if you include Mirror) actual songs on GUILTY, I'm hoping next level will have at least 11 full songs.

°~Kitty~° · #**174** 15th March 2009, 02:16 PM

Just found this on yahoo auctions^^

Spoiler:

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b95944488

Woho, I'd like to get the poster <3

njanjayrp · #**175** 15th March 2009, 02:23 PM

For once I'd like to get something else as I already have 6 Ayu posters which are sadly collecting dust as I don't really like hanging them, but only keep them for the sake of collection.

jbrat2219 · #**176** 15th March 2009, 04:20 PM

^ In my case, I'm actually running out of wall space ;_;....

Emperatriz Ayumi · #**177** 15th March 2009, 04:36 PM

I have to stop looking at the four covers... I want to have them all!!

freedreamer · #**178** 18th March 2009, 03:52 AM

Im officially gonna stop listening to Ayu's NEXT LEVEL tracks until the 320kbps comes out.
But if Sparkle's PV gets aired, then I'll watch and end it there. hehhe

I think its gonna be so refreshing

EDIT:

This is this week's NINKI...so i think DCT's album will chart on the 25th's Weekly.

jbrat2219 · #**179** 18th March 2009, 07:24 AM

^ Where's NEXT LEVEL!?

HamasakiKUN · #**180** 18th March 2009, 08:44 AM

Ninki chart of next level will announce next week...