I already posted this in the PV thread, but maybe more people want to see it:

HELLO!!!! I LOVE THE COVERS! OMG Ayu looks so young and natural in them. I've really missed Ayu's amazing covers where she looked pretty and effortless. Im so happy she made covers like that this time. I'm really stoked for the album now. =D

Those songs are JAMS!

misa-chan translated info about card with serial number

it need to be something serious >_<

^ money money
Moneeeeey

Somg 4 u PV + iTunes version together
http://www.mediafire.com/?wylt3clcjgik7tz

^Thanks for that ! I'm really enthusiastic for those PVs, but something needs to happen at some point or they're gonna be really dull !
I hope the battle of the two queens is impressive !

It's a bit off-topic as weel, but I can't wait to see fan works on Song 4 u PV that you guys are probably gonna make ahaha !

I can see the the making but not the short versions.
I want to wait.

The people I talked to seemed to all enjoy it. I know one guy that googled the album, found the Party Queen performance from CDL, and fell in love with that track. But I think NaNaNa gets more love, one of my friends(a music composition major, btw, I'm more than just jealous of him having gotten a spot for that), is crazy for NaNaNa.

I really wish we had like...a big sample of people we could have listen to Party Queen that aren't Ayumi fans already. "Unbiased"(or rather: less biased) views are always so interesting.

It looks like they changed it so you have to buy all five to enjoy the goodies or whatever, hm...

All about the money.

LOVE CM




:love

Melody sounds really great from the HQ preview :luv2

The three of them sound amazing :D My favorite from the CM so far is Melody :yes Second Missing and then song 4 u, but all of them are flawless!

Imo Party Queen would've been a million times better if Melody and Missing replaced Letter and call :innocent Expecting people to go crazy over this comment lmao

I agree, Letter & Call are (imo) some of Ayu's most bland tracks ever.. they sound like unmemorable versions of Last Links.
However i'm glad they weren't on Party Queen but on this mini, Party Queen was an era she couldn't end too soon :P

So can't wait for the release date!

Melody suits the ending song so well!!!!!!!!!!!
loving it from that preview

two weeks until release!
we already have covers, short PVs and live versions, CM %) there is nothing to wait, except full versions


I'll say it would be great to replace ESM and the next love. Letter and call at least sounds like ayu's songs

*angst* I can't see any CMs. Oh well, I'll go download ->

RAWR. I wouldn't replace any songs on Party Queen. x3

So the 5 mini albums first presses only will have serial cards. I hope that they will unlock something big lol. They planned to do that with M/b-crossroad-L singles (was it for exclusive wallpapers?) but the idea got cancelled because crossroad & L were released later on so I hope it's something great this time and that they won't mess it up.

2 more weeks >< i need this amazingness already

"AHS is temporarily unavailable"... and I thought LOVE leaked... v_v

I hope those cards come with something as well!!

Ah! two weeks!!.. I guess we can expect it next week sometime!! YES!!

When do Ayu albums usually leak anyway?

the weekend before? I dunno lol..

well, party queen was a full week.
I think FIVE was the weekend before.

Except if iTunes release the whole album a week before the actual release (that's what happened for Party Queen, dunno why...), I'd say during the weekend.

Replace the entire album. Lol, JK. I'll keep reminds me.

^AND Tell me why, hbya, and Return Road!

Honestly Tell me why is nice and Return Road is bearable at best. But, if they aren't anything that can hold a candle to some of her better hits. If they never existed, I wouldn't feel left out.

I really didnt care for tell me why...
it just seems like a last minute replacement...

BUT... HBYA is AMAZING.

Same here.
I'd actually feel empty if the ASfXX album didn't exist. Weird.

I wonder if Ayu would still be as big as she is now if ASFXX were not a success/did not exist.

I think she would.. there was so much going for her at the time... anything that came out first would of short her to stardom.

this mini-album is so epic <3

Tell me why is an amazing song, that's the only song I listen from pq

Actually, not really
If the album didn't exist I don't think she would be as big as she was
Her singles leading up to the album were kinda-sorta successful, but nothing too extreme
The only reason she started getting stronger musically was because of the huge success of ASfXX
Without that album she wouldn't have evolved as quickly

^ sadly I dont agree. if she came out with something like Loveappears first I think she would have had the same success... or something completely different.
At first it really wasnt the music that people connected to, but her lyrics. She still had the same concepts for her lyrics and still does.

her singles werent all that great either. her highest one was placed at 6 and sold only about 131K her highest selling single was 180K and in that time was not all that good... she didnt even break the top 100 for the year.

And I think it was A song for XX (and era) started her career, but it was Loveappears (and era) that shot her to stardom and made her the success that she is.

looooooool
amazon Kindle Fire HD uses LOVE's cover
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/large/4b034f65tw1dy8oklxfbaj.jpg
will Surface use it too? XDDD

Ahaha NICE. So funny that it's so recent...

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B...kindle_dp_comp

Namie is featured heavily as well on this and the Kindle Fire.

http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto..._2571927_n.jpg

full song length revealed?

'Song 4 u' is so far my favorite song on this mini-album, but i gotta wait for the full versions...

It seems really likely ! Does that mean the songs might leak soon ?

that's recorded from Japanese RADIO so come with LQ

what...that means...
the combined version from the short PV and the tales of xllia 2 version Aderianu provided gives the entire Song 4 u already?????

that's majorly short? T.T

It's the radio version, so the CD version might be longer?

When MOON first leaked it was the radio version, the full version was 90 seconds longer.

^ the PV is also around 3:45 minutes long according to tokyoxjapan's post~

^
yup 3:48
and I thought it has one more chorus :D

That's disappointing. :/

Haha. Good songs need not be long!! Look at Memorial address! :)

wondering when we can listen to full songs... huhu someone please share hahaha

Im still upset over that less then 4 minute song... -.-
As for kindle fire, cool ayumi. cool.

I don't think is that short. Some songs are usually 3:50 or even 3:30

^ Yeah but it's surprising for a rock song like this... I mean, those kind of songs from her are usually at least almost 5min long right ? :(
I'm also SO upset they didn't make the usual AMAZING guitar bridge and the perfect last chorus... but whatever..

From ayumi that is epicly short for a song like this...

This mini album must leak, now

OK, after hearing the radio rip: Song 4 u is a really underwhelming song.

LOL... I'm really laughing at this... Ayu's new release on Kindle Fire, making its Japanese debut...

:roflmao

Ah I want to hear it so much... But I'll just wait for an HQ rip (not mine since my copies are gonna take ages to come).
Still really upset it's so short but whatever... I love her so I'll still support her. :P

oh my god. WHY.

WHY IS SONG 4 U SO SHORT.

I loved it when we heard the Xilia rip, I loved it when we got the short PV version...but to find out the full version is just the two of those stuck together is SO disappointing. It feels incomplete to me--like there's a huge chunk missing from the middle. So much wasted potential. :no

Speaking of randomness, look at this on iTunes
http://i.imgur.com/gTXvu.png

Even iTunes hates the Party Queen cover

y'all are talkin' as if the official full version has been released (NOT the combined version that was made on this site)

@ExodusUK already posted about that in the A SUMMER BEST covers thread. It didn't get much reaction. It doesn't need much reaction.. or does it?

Y'all should read the thread more thoroughly, since the official running time of the song was confirmed to be 3:48 from the BeeTV streaming of the PV. (Missing, on the other hand, is over 5 minutes.)

Also, a PV rip of the song was just uploaded to JPS.

^Alright
but it sounds like the CD has leaked or something. Do we have the exact times for all the songs then?
Not that I should care. I'm (supposedly) waiting for my CD to arrive instead of downloading it.

Why does it sound like the CD leaked? The PVs have been available in full from BeeTV for a few days now, which is how the full version of song 4 u leaked.

Because it keeps flowing through peoples' minds? I don't know, and bad puns don't help. I just want the CD to leak...

Oh yeah I thought that copyright protection in Japan would prevent people from ripping the full song and uploading it. Turns out I was wrong.

Actually, isn't Missing like 4:50 or so?

http://twitpic.com/b714r5
http://twitpic.com/b714rx

Well, 4:55, it seems from the PV.

LOL this is way toooo funny!!

Are we complaining about the song because of its extent without hearing it in full?

God, AHS is impressive..

AHS can decide whenever or not they like an album just going by the title of the album. It's amazing~

Ekkk, sad Song 4 U is so short! but i still love the whole song, it's absolutely amazing. I don't even mind it lacking her usual rock styled bridge.. she has so many of them lol.

wait, what? whats the complaining about?

Also, I wonder why they changed the Party Queen covers...

The full song has been online since yesterday...I only complained after I heard it. At least get your facts straight.

No one liked Party Queen.

And then it came out and they still didn't like it lol

I liked Party Queen :)

Speak for yourself. I personally love the album. And as far I can recall the album over-all met a positive reception even here.

Song 4 u is perfect just the way it is. It's needless to drag it on. Yes it's quite short for Ayu's standards, but nearly 4 minutes isn't exactly that short for a song.

I always liked it. And I'm one of the few ones who enjoys ESM and the next LOVE :shrug

^ same here *shrugs* to me PQ was amazing! and i loved ESM.

I consider Party Queen her conceptual and musical masterpiece. I realize 96% of AHS disagree.

It's kind of odd really since no one really hated Party Queen musically when it came out.

OMG THE BLACK QUEEN IS GONNA SLAUGHTER THE WHITE PAWN :lech

http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B009VSNFQI/

Missing (Short Version) is being sold on Amazon.co.jp now for 200yen. It's probably also on iTunes?

Song 4 u's XILLIA2 version is doing well on Amazon.jp's mp3 downloads section. It's been bouncing in and out of the top 10 since release!

http://www.rankbank.net/amaran/histo...sin=B00976EUKE

their selling short versions???!?! oh avex...

It really is! I was surprised by the mainly positive reception it got upon release(take away the mainly conceptual "omg that ****" complaints), but now, 7 months later, the album just seems hated. And I don't get it.

talk about being corrupt...

It's not corrupt, it's simply a smart move from a company that has to make money. Complain about the consumers stupid enough to buy those short versions when the full version will be out very soon- and possibly buying the short versions now AND the full versions later.

^ haha you are right. My apologizes.

They aren't making people buy the short versions, but if someone does want to pay for them it's good that they made it possible.

I saw it yesterday but was not able to buy for unknown reason %)

seems u have to use native master card or VISA - -I tried it too
so complicated :/

I also see that conceptual thing going on for PQ. I really see that 'sad party queen' image. But I don't really listen to PQ as much anymore.
Not a bad album I think.

Amazon MP3 downloads are only available for people with a domestic address.

When I tried to buy a MP3 from Amazon.co.uk it would not let me pass through the checkout because in fact I don't live in the UK :grumpy

^I use tenso address at amazon

^Maybe they are checking your IP automatically since actually your address is not really needed for delivering a digital product to you? This way they could tell you are not buying from Japan.

looks like we will have a leak soon! yay!

Now THIS isLOL!!

^ its not that bad, lol.

It is almost purposely placed provocation to call Party Queen a masterpiece and I remember isThisLoL saying that he even considers it the only really good album of hers.

BUT...

I can totally respect this opinion though as it's nothing more than an opinion. I consider Rock'n'Roll Circus as one of Ayu's worst output, albeit there obviously is a fair amount of fans who think the complete opposite.

http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/he_and_she/kiss2.gif thank you for idea!!! I bought it