I'm really surprised (and glad) that this album hasn't turned out to be a full-out electro-upbeat-song affair like the album name and title track led it to be.

I still can't believe people were worried Ayumi would release a mindless electropop album xD

im a little sad its not...
though I am liking the way this is going...
I just didn't want another album ful of ballads... ( i loved Love songs.. but give me something different please!)

Don't know if this is posted already. My friend who went to the TA Limited Preview took a pic of the Party Queen PLAYBUTTON!

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2937/...20311at105.png

wow..i wonder how the art symbolises the album in this case now... O.O
a pink city..with a tear..

hmm, i'm not loving the design though. yeah i wonder what the tear symbolises too?

perhaps underneath the chaos (the city) lies the truth (the leopard print)?

seems too simple though...

Just 10 days until the release date. And I want this album, now.

Party Queen it's going to be epic reading from the lyrics. I know, I shouldn't judge so early and in a rush but seriously.. I want some previews soo badly lol.

OMG!That playbutton is so cute...

omg, thank you!

the pink city design is interesting...its funny to me that its not on the album covers at all, but they keep using it for things.

anyone know what city it is? is it NYC?

^Yup,it's NY coz she made the covers there when she was shooting the calendar(same nails)
Does anyone knows the name of her hotel?

I pre-ordered the album recently and I have told myself I will not hear any preview, rip or whatever until I receive my copy. It's gonna be hard because the release gets closer and closer and I get so exciting...

I even start to love the Party Queen song! Must be a good sign.

That box is huge! I'm starting to worry for my shipping fee now and where do I keep it???

did we ever get any previews or anything from this?
Reviews?

I guess we won't get previews now, will we ? Shouldn't we get the album in like, 7 days ?

All the PLAYBUTTONS look well designed. If only they weren't all so expensive.

It's almost one week till the release and nothing but Party queen and a 10 sec preview... Come on!

^And a PV (I know hbya is a bit boring but let's not forget about it :D)

And what would be wrong with that?.....

Totally agreed!

I cant believe how fast this all went by...
a little over a week now..
Wow... cant wait... (also sorry to see all that money leave my account on the day) lol

that isnt from ny its from her home in tokyo, it was said after the shots were 1st shown

^ source? Else it's just another of your presumably made-up posts.

The simple fact that it's Ayumi and it would be completely different from the rest of her discography, far more so than all of her other albums. And we knew hbya already, too. Ayu's whole sentiment and image doesn't fit an all-out electropop album and aside the title and cover she gave absolutely no hint into that direction. And we all know her titles can be quite misleading(and her very "American mainstream" style releases have all had a parody of some sorts attached, Startin', Sparkle...she has yet to be serious about something like that, so the title being ironic in some ways was to be expected).

Also, we got enough people supplying us with catchy electropop right now, Ayu doesn't follow trends in such extreme ways that it would turn her completely generic, or at least hasn't so far. If she did, THAT would be a scandal :innocent

These lyrics seem very strong. And eyes, smoke, magic is even more interesting to me!!!!!!

Didn't Ayu say herself that the cover pictures were taken in NY? Pretty sure she did. And the picture on the PLAYBUTTON definitely looks like NY.
Anyhow, I am super excited for this album! Return Road is going to rock, I can already tell it's going to be one of my favorite Ayu rock songs. And Shake It!♥ OMG...I really need this album in my hands NOW...

Yeah, it's a song where she is thanking her mother for taking care of her and saying that now she knew a guy who will take care of her from now on, that she will share her life with. A guy who loves her and accept her the way the is, who reminds her of her father (what can sound a little creepy, but common sense always tell us we fall in love with someone who has a similar personality of our father/mother). She is thanking her mom for everything cuz now she is getting married ^~

It doesn't matter if she met Mannie or not at that time, on the same way Nagase didn't die for her to write Heaven for example, and this doesn't change the fact that Virgin Road was announced by Avex as her first wedding song... far before we even heard the song or knew about the PV...

That awkward moment when you see people saying they can't wait anymore and won't bear ~10 more days of waiting when you know you'll have to wait until april 3rd or so to listen to the album because you're nothing more than a masochist who decided not to listen to ANYTHING until you receive your copy.

I'm looking forward to see Shake It♥ lyrics. "Erotic" ? Hmmmm, interesting, would have never expected this kind of lyrics from her.

:roflmao hahaha, If I only had the same mentality as you. I'm really weak at waiting and ignoring leaked material, whenever something leaks I'm the first person who rushes to hear. :laugh

I'm not looking forward to Shake It♥ song and PV though. :no

Im all for leaks!
It's not like I listen to the cd anyways... sometimes I wonder why i buy them?

We have ayu-mi-x, ayu trance and ayu-ro mix for electro tunes. Studio albums should stay classic high quality pop as far as my taste for Ayu's music goes.

^^^ That's what i used to do before, but this time i decided that it won't be the case.~ You can't imagine the amount of frustration though omg every time i see something leaking a little part of me dies inside

Well i don't think the lyrics will be something like "yeah baby come with me i want you so bad yeah i'm feelin good you're so hot yeah wo wo wo" either so don't worry :P

^ lol... I love those lyrics...
it makes for a very hot and steamy PV... :lech

Everything seems amazing, I'm soooo excited about this release *O*

Secret and GUILTY were my last two total surprises from Ayu...everything else has been spoiled or I downloaded them while my copy was shipping. I know that via YA or CDJ, the most economic shipping takes about 2 weeks but I can't justify spending that much more when the album already costs so much...lol!

I don't believe she ever said that. When she was in New York, the work they were doing was for the calendar. They hadn't even announced the album at the time.

Someone posted a TON of information regarding the PREMIUM preview on their yaplog. It seems that they also posted a few of the earlier shots as well.

http://i.imgur.com/l6qu2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QjTyj.jpg

They wrote in a notebook when they were listening to the album. I can see that taskebab sounds kind of "HOTEL"-like? call was a bit like Last Links in a way? Letter was like It was or Life?

http://yaplog.jp/bold_delicious/

Specifically http://yaplog.jp/bold_delicious/archive/2539 and http://yaplog.jp/bold_delicious/archive/2541.

They were shown the lyrics of the songs on a projector as the songs played, it seems.

NaNaNa - intro was VERY rockish with heavy guitar, compared to Ladies Night and until that Day...

One line of the song says:
You're Party Queen
I'm a lonely Queen

Shake It♥ - She says "Shake it, shake it" in the chorus

taskebab - the interlude sounds like it'd fit HOTEL Love songs... very guitarish.

More info to come since they haven't finished their blogs yet.

ômg...please bring more of this to us! Im so pumped for this album already!!!

I don't think we need any descriptions now that we know that the previews are out, haha.

Source is she was talking about that shoot with Ryan in her home long before her trip to NY. Try reading her TA entries and twitter once in awhile, I haven't been making stuff up just because you don't take the time to read.

Ayu took the shots for Party Queen's cover in her hotel room in New York according to Twitter and her blog. I don't think that it was ever said to have been done in her home.

It was a shoot done to show her personal items in her home. And her twitter statements about the cover said the shoot in the field in London was the cover shoot. Now the field shoot she said will be in Super Ayu. The only photo from her hotel seems to be the one in the window for the calendar. Doesn't matter either way and trying to post here is like talking to a brick wall.

The photos she took in her home were taken by herself with a digital camera or something. We haven't seen those yet.

The shots we saw when she announced the LIFE STYLE BOOK were taken with Leslie and Ryan in New York in her hotel.

Well,Ayu wears the same nails in the calendar as in the album cover.I think she did them in NY,since everything seems to be related to that city.

And see where it says by Leslie and I, These covers were by her and Ryan. So the ones you're quoting are probably still not used,

The shoot was originally credited to Leslie even though they were actually shot by Ryan.

Even the ViVi cover that was used from the shoot was credited as Leslie's work.

So now you proved you can look up inf and yet you still missed the part about Ryan doing a shoot at her home. You're looking at the posts from when the pic came out in vivi, I'm looking at the ones from the day the shoot was done.

What shoot done in her home? If you have proof that this actually happened and that Ayu talked about it, you should present it instead of just saying that it happened.

Just because you say that something happened doesn't mean it actually did.

oh come on now, don't you know this forum has a new ayu expert? all those fans who henceforth were well known for their ayu knowledge have been dethroned by the oh-so-knowledgeable saigodansuuuuuu~!

:innocent

yeah funny Brian, try reading her tweets. your on her friends list you'd think you would know this already. Oh wait, your the one who was there when I gave Ayu Tasking's letter and yet still lied about it, so maybe you wouldn't know anything. I even remember you saying she told me "it's like a dream" when she said "have a safe flight" but I guess those 2 phrases are always getting mixed up.

not only that, what Ayu knowledge, even what I posted that i 1st learned about from misa chans post here then looked it up on ta, everyone says i'm lying about it cause they have no clue

Someone talked about the PVs they saw!

It seems that Shake It♥ and NaNaNa are connected. Wow uh, this is gonna be weird to type but apparently Ayu's having a party in Shake It♥ at her apartment. It starts off in the bathroom or something where she's putting on makeup before going to have some drinks at the party. She gets a text message from Timmy saying "Come over here, ********!" (Seriously, I think that's what the text says.) then they go to the club and dance some more in NaNaNa... the camera work is good too.

Return Road's PV features a masked soldier and Ayu appears out of a tank with some drones marching nearby. Ayu sings in her black veil/dress inside of the factory with a band while the factory falls apart. Ayu ends up outside of the factory unharmed with the masked soldier and she sees his face and cries. It seems that there's also a photo taken in Love song that's shown in the PV? It's a very sad PV.

interesting.. I bet there's a deeper meaning between all that partying in NaNaNa/Shake It!
Thanks!!

Pumped for the album..so excited!! Ayu never disappoints. This album actually seems so cohesive and thought out to me - the cover art, the arrangements, the order of songs, and maybe even the lyrics..

that would mean NaNaNa was also in London, How Beautiful You Are was just in February in Tokyo, so what PV is from Dubai? Maybe more are going to be added afterall.

^you need to not make this stuff personal. Talking about Brian like that. :rolleyes So please go procure those tweets or whatever about the shoot in her house please.



and.....so return road still isn't about Mannie right? :laugh

^ nope.. its about the loss of love?

AKA divorce. :innocent

^ or the loss of love in general

...that includes a divorce...

loving this thread, very interesting reading all the opinions on the songs! And those pics are soooo awesome! Especially the playbuttons!

Damn...what a huge box! Can't wait to receive mine!!

but it doesnt have to be about the divorce.

I think the preview I am the least intrigued by is Eyes, Smoke, Magic. Hopefully the full version will "WOW!" me

^ i didn't care for any of that jazz set sadly.

^^Exactly...but the full version just may change my mind. Here's hoping...

well nothing has to be about anything lol

There are TWO blu ray limited box sets in stock at CDJ if anyone's interested...