Was Ayu's "A" single supposed to be her last?

[denadel]

This site has very good information about ayu's releases.
Some of the releases contains notes, and the notes on the "A" single says that this was supposed to be her last release.
Does anyone know anything more about this?
The notes of her "A BEST" album, which also was supposed to be her last release, says the same..

Also, didn't ayu write "TO BE" for matsuura? how are their relationship now? If he tried to end her career twice i guess it isn't any good..

[Ballerina_xXX]

O.O hmm.. I never knew this!! I want to know, I want to know!!

yeah I read somewhere that it was supposed to be her last single release. I mean look at the lyrics of "End Roll." However the single did turn out well (her best selling single to date.) Some argue that she took the "A" out of LOVEppears to show that "A" was not the end of her carrer

[ph33r]

http://homepage2.nifty.com/morimasa/love1.html

masa's page says the same thing.

[Nu-NRG]

@_@
I never knew that...but very interesting
thanks for the info~

[lotusoka]

Wow, I had never heard anything about this.

[~*Mabushii*~]

Hmm I must be remembering wrong from the interview i saw awhile ago.. >.< Very sorry!

[ruixiong89]

Very interesting information! Thanks a lot for alerting me to this. Oh my, I couldn't have ever imagined if Ayu just stopped her career there and then.

Originally Posted by ruixiong89

Very interesting information! Thanks a lot for alerting me to this. Oh my, I couldn't have ever imagined if Ayu just stopped her career there and then.

My life would be so different, it's unimaginable.

[Delirium-Zer0]

on A BEST, End roll was rerecorded also, and Boys & Girls was remixed, but they didn't mark it on the package.

And A was when AYU didn't want to continue anymore, and A BEST was when MAX suggested she stop. A is her best-selling single, and A BEST is her best-selling album, even to this day. Sooo... yeah. I guess they decided to keep going

And Yukiko, since DOME TOUR 2001 (when ayu's hearing got REALLY bad) wasn't until after A BEST was released, I don't think her hearing had anything to do with her career ending, unless Max knew her hearing was gonna get bad since it started acting up awhile before. I think he just only intended ayu to have her typical pop-artist run of 3 albums and a best-of. I don't think he thought she'd be as profitable in the long-term as she ended up being.

I downloaded a bad A BEST.

A Song for XX was a remix with a guy saying "one two, one two" at the end. Depend on you was really fast, and Trauma was remixed too. That was about it.

Oh, and also, a question. Is the Who... on the A BEST album the very same as the one on LOVEppears (minus kanariya, not counting that)?

[Delirium-Zer0]

Winterkill: That wasn't the right A BEST you downloaded. (I learned when the CD came out not to trust any DLs of it unless it was from a friend of yours who ripped the CD for you x_x) Most of the songs on there are remastered a bit, but none of the remixes are that dramatic of changes. A Song for XX's instruments are more like the MILLENNIUM MIX on LOVEppears but with new vocals. Trust is almost the same except for the vocals, and Depend on you is richer-sounding with VERY different vocals. End roll is also richer sounding and sung a bit differently. Boys & Girls just has a new mix; the instruments are the same just a bit more... dynamic-sounding, i guess. I'll have sound clips on my site of the whole thing pretty soon, hopefully.

And Who... is the same as on LOVEppears, yes.

[Keishi]

so she recorded A BEST when she has bad earing problem on her left ear? Is that why she put her fingers on her left ear? to cover it?

[Delirium-Zer0]

She was probably plugging her left ear to keep her ear from going completely deaf. Her hearing, last i checked, was really severely impaired, but not totally gone. Probably feels like having an earplug in.

[[H]]

gosh what an interesting fact. I know that End Roll was re-recorded, didn't know about Boys & Girls though... i should listen to A BEST more.

Her past career has an awesome story behind it, perhaps that's why her songs were soooo good compared to her recent releases.

Oh, didn't she took-off her ear plug when performing A Song For XX (or was it SURREAL ? ) in the Dome Tour? That concert must've been very hard for her...

thanks for the info

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by [H]

Her past career has an awesome story behind it, perhaps that's why her songs were soooo good compared to her recent releases.

As far as I know she don't have 'past' carreer, so her career still has an awesome story behind it. Duh.

Yes, I remember from that NTV special that 'A BEST' was suppose to be her last album. But she doesn't mention A.Why she never mention that or nobody ask her that in interviews? Maybe they do, but nobody translate the articles? I'm curious now..

[greggerz189]

A BEST was actually supposed to be her final album.

[hanabiwings]

It was in some articles, definitely. It is part of a body of literature that hasn't been translated.

A is the single that was supposed to end her career. Two of the songs, in particular, mark the end of things: "too late" and "end roll," of course. ^___^

Also, as you might notice LOVEppears is missing the A. She said something about taking the A out because she was looking at love and the way it appears from different vantage points and the A is removing herself from the picture. Cannot remember where I heard that.

[CREA.tive]

Thnx for the info...i didnt know that...

[freedreamer]

Whoa...Didnt noe so many many things...If Ayu didnt continue, i wonder who would be singing "GAME", "About You" etc. now...