[Official Message] 『A SUMMER BEST』8. August 2012

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Didz-19

If she going to release A BEST 3, i think she will include the singles from Secret till her latest album....so don't worry, her old hits will not be included~

A Best 3 will cover from (miss)understood album tracks to some unknown point, as A Best 2 covered from evolution to Bold & Delicious singles.

I guess, if she releases A Best 3 next year, that it will cover from (m)u album tracks to some point between Love songs singles and Five...

^^

[perfectodub]

are so many ways to celebrate her 15th anniversary, not necessary with an A BEST 3 CD

maybe for the next year she prefers to put on the market a second run of concerts in blu-.ray, or the Arena tour 3D II, or maybe new singles with special case and some old songs with new arrangements like she did with the singles of "Days" and "mirrorcle world"
or maybe the release of the HOTEL LOVE SONG tour on a expensive box-set.

if she is releasing this new compilated summer album, is because next year she have no plans to put on the market something similar.

[Tony G]

A useless release, but looking forward to the new song. May be be included in the encore of her upcoming shows replacing Last angel?

[Didz-19]

what the hell....we just wait and see~~~anything is possible...everyone's idea/opinion will be/maybe come true...anything is possible....we can dream~~

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by RayJason

When she has enough (new) content to fill a BEST album instead of recycling songs that have been used on multiple BEST albums and Regular albums. The only thing that makes me want to buy this is because of the (unseen) LIVE performances.

A better question is: Why should she fire her whole team and get a new one? Explain that to me you super smart tough girl!

First of all, I'm not a GIRL. I'm a GUY.
Second, when you say Ayu "recycling songs" included in the album, you do know it's her hits songs.
Thirdly, I'm just saying...I'm a fan and also her customer. I want to see her on TV. "Maybe she should fire her whole team", is just what I feel/think when she's not promoting on TV. Why? Are you working with Ayumi Hamasaki? Are you a part of her team?
and lastly, why do you have to PM me for this silly thing? If you think I have the time to look back and check...I'm sorry...I'm working~~Lalalalal

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by perfectodub

are so many ways to celebrate her 15th anniversary, not necessary with an A BEST 3 CD

maybe for the next year she prefers to put on the market a second run of concerts in blu-.ray, or the Arena tour 3D II, or maybe new singles with special case and some old songs with new arrangements like she did with the singles of "Days" and "mirrorcle world"
or maybe the release of the HOTEL LOVE SONG tour on a expensive box-set.

if she is releasing this new compilated summer album, is because next year she have no plans to put on the market something similar.

Hopefully she does other things instead of releasing A BEST 3 I wouldn't mind an entire year of singles and then a new album in 2014

[SummonerXI]

Originally Posted by Ayu-me

You're allowed to have your own opinion, but I have to say that this post makes it like YOU're the one on the condescending high horse.
First off, the point of a "BEST"-album is to show off an artists BEST songs/greatest hits. This particular best-album is meant to show off Ayu's summer hits, of which one of the biggest happens to be Boys & Girls, so I don't see any reason why that song shouldn't have been included.
Second, some of Ayu's newer releases were also included because this best-album isn't specialised on showing off a specific Ayu era, it's meant to show off Ayu's summer hits over her whole career. Sunrise ~LiA~ was a relatively big hit for Ayu, though I'm not sure about Sunset/ANother song (but I'm pretty sure both of those did well on digital charts).
Third, I'm surprised at the way you seem to take such personal affront by this album. Not every Ayu release is going to satisfy you, if you don't like something you can ignore it, one single album won't ruin your world, Ayu won't come knocking on your door if you don't buy her releases.
So calm down. I'm fine with your dislike of this album, but you don't need to act as if this is somehow personal. Releasing albums that are in essence, unnecessary, is part of the money-milking that music labels thrive on, they don't force you into liking or buying any of it. You can keep on living your life as you wish, you can buy or not buy any release from Ayu you want to.
When it comes to my own opinions on this album, I can agree that the album isn't all that necessary, but I don't own many of Ayu's albums yet so filling my collection with some more songs (including a completely new one) plus a DVD with Ayu's a-nation performances is good enough reason for me to buy it.

Well, I apologize for coming off the way I did. I realize a simple "I do not care for this track list" would have sufficed, but I was a little angry for the way the person I quoted was being a sarcastic, snarky snotface to someone else for calmy expressing their opinion, and I do realize I ended up taking the bulk of that anger out on the album.

That being said, I do like most of the songs on this album, and a little bit of my frustration is coming from the fact Ayu has not released a legit single since L in... 2010 was it? I've been a fan of Ayu since 2003-2004, although I was a just a casual listener and listened to a few singles here and there, every now and then. I didn't really start "following" her music until 2009 when I heard Rule in the freaking movie theater when I went to see Dragon Ball Evolution. One thing I liked about Ayu was up until Love Songs, she had this... consistency, this order to her releases. She'd spend the year working on singles and then at the end of the year/beginning of the following year, she'd release the album. She even kept that same formula with Memorial Address, which was in fact a mini album but most of the songs were singles as well. The formula stopped with Five. I get that she's got a lot of things working against her right now, especially since the formula changed: marriage and divorce, getting older, tabloids and papparazzi probably being worse than usual because of her divorce, etc, and I'm really sympathetic about it. I just don't react well to change, and I'm sorry for the way I came off in my post.

[SummonerXI]

Originally Posted by kinix

And as I've said before regarding A COMPLETE, IMO I don't think it should be regarded as a BEST album. You can call it a compilation album, but definately not BEST (do you call poker face, For My Dear..., Daybreak, Ｂｏｌｄ　＆　Ｄｅｌｉｃｉｏｕｓ etc... a BEST song? I doubt so.

Eh, I would put Poker Face on a best album. Not that I particularly like the song, but it's a major milestone for Ayu (A.K.A her career-starting single). Alongside hits, I do think milestone songs and singles should also be included. A Song For XX would be one. Although it wasn't a single, It's the titular song on her first million-seller (hence probably why it was on A Best in the first place). Not sure if "Forgiveness" is a hit or not, but it was a Milestone for being her 30th single. Dunno what the numbers for Mirrorcle World and Days/Green were but they were her 10th Anniversary Singles, so they're major milestones as well. Stuff like that.

Anyway, I think there should be more to a best album than just having her exclusive fanclub voting on the tracklist. Hits are decided by the general public who buys her albums and singles, not a clique of super-obsessed Ayu fans who shell out money for everything she buys. (I apologize if my painting of Team Ayu is over-generalizing. I have nothing against TA and I do want to join myself once I get some spare cash).

[RayJason]

O/T

Originally Posted by Didz-19

First of all, I'm not a GIRL. I'm a GUY.
Second, when you say Ayu "recycling songs" included in the album, you do know it's her hits songs.
Thirdly, I'm just saying...I'm a fan and also her customer. I want to see her on TV. "Maybe she should fire her whole team", is just what I feel/think when she's not promoting on TV. Why? Are you working with Ayumi Hamasaki? Are you a part of her team?
and lastly, why do you have to PM me for this silly thing? If you think I have the time to look back and check...I'm sorry...I'm working~~Lalalalal

Spoiler:

Oh sorry, you just come over as one especially with your thing HAHA.

You don't say! Is evolution really a HIT song by ayumi hamasaki? Is Boys & Girls also a super popular HIT song by ayumi hamasaki? Oh I did not know, you are SO smart!

And with all respect that's total ********. "She should fire her team" thats by far the most stupid thing I've read in this thread. I PMed you because I honestly thought that you would be able to elaborate, but I miscalculated you. Another reason why I PMed you was because you asked me something, and basically ignored me (+ I don't like wasting my time on people like you). I do not stand for trolls who grab their chance for attention and who get the chance to smartass others. (and like I said in our fun PM conversation, if you do not have 'the time to look back and check' don't start discussions, especially when you lack proper conversation skills). / in the future with other people, keep the personal things (like the fact we PMed) private.

And NO I don't work with ayumi hamasaki, thank you for the compliment though. I'm like you just a fan, I don't want to know where she would be without her team (think about her LIVE's and such). You should use your brain, but then again you're still the super smart gir,,,, guy!

Discussion ended, ayu should fire her team to make more TV appearances. <100% accurate logic... LOL

[SummonerXI]

Originally Posted by RayJason

O/T

Spoiler:

Oh sorry, you just come over as one especially with your thing HAHA.

You don't say! Is evolution really a HIT song by ayumi hamasaki? Is Boys & Girls also a super popular HIT song by ayumi hamasaki? Oh I did not know, you are SO smart!

And with all respect that's total ********. "She should fire her team" thats by far the most stupid thing I've read in this thread. I PMed you because I honestly thought that you would be able to elaborate, but I miscalculated you. Another reason why I PMed you was because you asked me something, and basically ignored me (+ I don't like wasting my time on people like you). I do not stand for trolls who grab their chance for attention and who get the chance to smartass others. (and like I said in our fun PM conversation, if you do not have 'the time to look back and check' don't start discussions, especially when you lack proper conversation skills). / in the future with other people, keep the personal things (like the fact we PMed) private.

And NO I don't work with ayumi hamasaki, thank you for the compliment though. I'm like you just a fan, I don't want to know where she would be without her team (think about her LIVE's and such). You should use your brain, but then again you're still the super smart gir,,,, guy!

Discussion ended, ayu should fire her team to make more TV appearances. <100% accurate logic... LOL

I dunno. I'm inclined to agree with them. Maybe not her whole team, but she really needs to do something about her marketting team. She needs to go back to the days where she was doing commercial after commercial, her face plastered everywhere and parading up and down the streets of Shibuya with a huge crowd of fans following without a permit to do so. Party Queen could have been a great party with the perfect marketing strategy.

[Earth_maiden]

I don't really care about the CDs , I want the DVD, that's enough for me. Heck, the only reason I bought A BEST 2 BLACK and WHITE and A COMPLETE was for the content on the DVDs.

I'm not saying anything bad about anyone, just stating my opinion. AHS is in a stage where I feel I have to state that.

[RayJason]

Originally Posted by SummonerXI

I dunno. I'm inclined to agree with them. Maybe not her whole team, but she really needs to do something about her marketting team. She needs to go back to the days where she was doing commercial after commercial, her face plastered everywhere and parading up and down the streets of Shibuya with a huge crowd of fans following without a permit to do so. Party Queen could have been a great party with the perfect marketing strategy.

That is where I wholeheartedly agree. Not fire though, but she needs to stick a bleep into their bleeps and force them to do a better job what applies marketing.

Firing her whole team is just the most ridiculous thing ever, and that was exactly what he was talking about.

[Andrenekoi]

I said it a million times here, and I'm gonna say that again: her peak is over since 2001, ELEVEN years passed and she is still relevant. Relevant, but not "it girl".

A hundred of magazines, outdoors, massive TV promotion... It's for people in their peak, not for an solid artist who is in the game for over a decade. Overexposure for an artist like her is quite negative.

If she releases something who caught up so many people attention, she will naturally have big exposure (just like Sunrise: a lot of TV lives)

[TeamAyu2004]

^ I would bump that to 2003/2004 when she sold her mini album. Its the best selling mini of a single female artist.
thats pretty good.

[SummonerXI]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I said it a million times here, and I'm gonna say that again: her peak is over since 2001, ELEVEN years passed and she is still relevant. Relevant, but not "it girl".

A hundred of magazines, outdoors, massive TV promotion... It's for people in their peak, not for an solid artist who is in the game for over a decade. Overexposure for an artist like her is quite negative.

If she releases something who caught up so many people attention, she will naturally have big exposure (just like Sunrise: a lot of TV lives)

The promotion I was referring to is actually from 2009, but okay

Her peak is over? Then why do all of her releases always hit top 5 if not #1? Sure, she's not selling million-sellers anymore because nobody is. We're in a global recession. I'll agree that her peek is over when her releases stop charting that high.

[Kazeyomi]

^
I think it's the same he said. Her peak is over, but she's still relevant in jpop industry. Also she have a solid and pretty huge fanbase compared to other senior female singers.

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

I don't really care about the CDs , I want the DVD, that's enough for me. Heck, the only reason I bought A BEST 2 BLACK and WHITE and A COMPLETE was for the content on the DVDs.

This.
I'll buy this album especially for the DVD. Although I will not rush to get it :/ no interesting first press content yet for me.

[No_Doubt]

Originally Posted by Tony G

A useless release, but looking forward to the new song. May be be included in the encore of her upcoming shows replacing Last angel?

This. Another pointless cash grab, but I'm excited for the new song.

[Maemi]

Originally Posted by SummonerXI

Sure, she's not selling million-sellers anymore because nobody is.

That's not really true *cough, cough*

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by RayJason

O/T

Spoiler:

Oh sorry, you just come over as one especially with your thing HAHA.

You don't say! Is evolution really a HIT song by ayumi hamasaki? Is Boys & Girls also a super popular HIT song by ayumi hamasaki? Oh I did not know, you are SO smart!

And with all respect that's total ********. "She should fire her team" thats by far the most stupid thing I've read in this thread. I PMed you because I honestly thought that you would be able to elaborate, but I miscalculated you. Another reason why I PMed you was because you asked me something, and basically ignored me (+ I don't like wasting my time on people like you). I do not stand for trolls who grab their chance for attention and who get the chance to smartass others. (and like I said in our fun PM conversation, if you do not have 'the time to look back and check' don't start discussions, especially when you lack proper conversation skills). / in the future with other people, keep the personal things (like the fact we PMed) private.

And NO I don't work with ayumi hamasaki, thank you for the compliment though. I'm like you just a fan, I don't want to know where she would be without her team (think about her LIVE's and such). You should use your brain, but then again you're still the super smart gir,,,, guy!

Discussion ended, ayu should fire her team to make more TV appearances. <100% accurate logic... LOL

Hahahah...

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I can't bother to read most of these posts, bc I'm sure most of them are you guys *****ing like...I don't even know what, but I will agree that I wish it were being released this week, not almost mid-August. I mean I'll be listening to the summer songs all summer, but it would just be better.

I ordered this along with two ayu blu rays and namie's uncontrolled CD+DVD Bye bye $250 lol