Translation of Anna's Sat blog entry

http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/278004.html

Well, as I thought, DAIGO, you're an ikemen naa
(good-looking guy)

I'm so glad that we could sing
on the same stage again!


:D

RULE is at #19 on the 1st day o_o

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/more/2/

........................................... ¬¬

This can't be true...

Considering how big her singles flopped, I really think this was to be expected.

Also, judging by how little the no. 3 sold ON THE FIRST DAY (5.5k) I fear for the worst >_<

yeah it doesn't surprise me too . You see Atashi & Shout in the rain which both bombed badly

& then now , you see little if no promo going on for RULE somemore

not exactly the kinda comeback I was expecting from Anna

Is clear that in AVEX are people very stupid. They fail to recognize the talent of their artists, and they dedicate to promoting just a few of them...

I always said and I'll continue to say it: AVEX sucks a lot

omg at the #3 only selling 5.5 lol. Anna's album must have only sold like, 1,000 copies. All a promotional fail on avex's part.

er ya it's part of doing business

they put in more $ in promoting ayumi , Kumi , Namie because they're more profitable in bringing in $ for avex as compared to Anna

it's not just her alone . OLIVIA is another prime eg. where she's really talented but does avex care about giving her decent promo ?

of course not :o

I think that Anna and OLIVIA should be in small companies... In that way the company will dedicate more attention

both ladies are in sub divisions companies within avex

Anna's material is released via Mad Prey Records while OLIVIA's via cutting edge

if Anna's stuff is released via the main avex branch/head office , then sure , not a problem , more could have been done

I wonder would things been done differently if she's in another label or something

I wonder the same xD

RULE is not as bad as I thought it would be but it's her weakest album, imo.
As expected, the album tracks are better than the single ones haha. I still don't like Atashi nor Shout in the rain and I still don't understand why HEY YOU! and GUN! GUN! LOVE! are included since they are just crap (imo).
The song with PE'Z and MY BATTLE are quite terrible too xD But I really like NEVER EVER, JUDGE, Human Clay and Voice of butterfly! <3

yep, that album deserves that number, truly, even a bit lower.

I agree on what you said , Aurelie

for me , I like NEVER EVER . It's nice & I'm happy that GUILTY is included too

but yeah singles wise , they're bad except for Brave vibration & I guess they include both B-sides to beef things up of sorts

MY BATTLE is just random o_o

HUMAN CLAY is good

Despite all these , I preordered the Taiwan press / CD + DVD via 5music last week so 8D

In a way , I'm relieved the album tracks are pretty good . If not , man I don't know what else to say .__.

#19 just sucks :shakehead i'll listen to the album soon, though!

I listened to the album a while ago and it's actually a lot better than I expected. The second half of the album is so good. MY BATTLE, NEVER EVER, Human Clay, JUDGE and Voice of butterfly are all fantastic.

I'm happy that the album tracks are generally much better than the singles

at least I don't feel that bad when my copy of RULE arrived somewhere next week or so xD

Voice of butterfly is awesome *__*

downloading Rule ^__^

KarenPang Daigo cosplay Hyde on your signature? xD

LOL

nope DAIGO didn't cosplay as hyde in my signature

he was doing something X-rated much later on after doing that 8D but it's quite explicit so I'm not going to say what exactly he did :innocent

anyway , most of the album tracks in RULE have grown on me quite considerably

I still find MY BATTLE really random/weird o_o

Somebody knows where can I found the lyrics of RULE? (All the album xd)