Nope, never seen it before. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out! ^^

Thanks for the video. Gosh, she sure has matured.

For some reason, I can see her music career being really long. She'll be in the music business for some time.

She's extremely talented, and for me, she was the breakthrough artist of 2005/2006. ^^

I felt that way about her for awhile. Listened to her songs a lot and played a few songs almost everyday. I guess because she hasn't done much and ILY, I lost some of my excitement for her. It's probably why I'm hoping for future releases to be better. I don't want to dislike her.

Speaking of ILY, I played the entire album today, and it was better than before for some reason. I didn't like ILY that much before, but it is somewhat starting to grow on me. Maybe a few more listens to the entire album, and I'll start to like it more, perhaps.

the person who uploaded it said that it was ripped straight from the MY SHORT STORIES DVD so yup

which reminds me I have to watch the DVD again of my younger sister's :laugh

I shared all YUI's 3 album with my younger sister

I also bought both editions of SUMMER SONG & Thank you my teens DVD for her as well

haha I suppose so but she has to pay me back after that so it's not really lucky :laugh

she's the 1 that got me interested in liking YUI's stuff

Did she find out about YUI from the song from Bleach - LIFE?

that & also she heard Rolling star soon after :yes

I see. I found out about YUI too from Bleach. LIFE was just an awesome song!! ^^

before she switched to StudioSeven Recordings , her PVs were quite low budget

LIFE's 1 of the better ones imo & the song's great :D

The song is really good and catchy! ^^

i heard of YUI from "rolling star" back in fall 2006. since then, i've been with her music :D

my younger sister kept using Rolling star as her ringtone for a period of time & that went for Tomorrow's way too til I got fed up :laugh

LIFE, Rolling star, and Tomorrow's way were the song for me. Played one of them almost everyday and eventully got my friend interested in her.

LIFE is her breakthrough song. *__*

And then Good-bye Days was another breakthrough again. ^^

That was the song for YUI. It's when a lot of the Japanese public noticed who she was.

I love Good-bye days. And the movie tie-in was quite big, which really helped a lot. ^^ And also, she starred in the movie too, so that also helped in addition. :)

Having Erika Sawajari (did I mess up the last name?) star in Taiyou no Uta helped, too.

Her last name is Sawajiri.

And I think Erika's "Taiyou no Uta" held off YUI's Good-bye days from the #1 spot if I remember correctly. :/ So it wasn't good for YUI. :(

I love those songs of her that you listed Melody :yes

:yes & since then she has been scoring top 10 hits , single after single

I guess "LIFE" helped make herself known, but it was Good-bye days that helped establish her in the J-pop music industry. ^^

I like both songs of her , they're equally good

Rolling star was the one that got me started on her music as I basically likes rock music

I actually did not like Rolling Star that much when I first heard it. And it still hasn't grown on me for some reason. :/

O_O .... ok but since I love rock music , I'm biased in this aspect :laugh

I guess I didn't like that song that much, cus it was more rock than pop. It was leaning more towards the rock side.

guess that's what happens when your 1st love's rock music :laugh

some of her harder works I adore like Rolling star , Daydreamer , NO WAY , RUIDO

Let's not forget Jam.
Rock girl at heart <3! :hi5
YUI's pop isn't bad either. CHE.R.RY and Laugh away!

Jam = :smitten i love that song.

So I bought I LOVED YESTERDAY today! *__* As I mentioned, the album is slowly growing on me. :yes

I really thinking of not buying that album.

How come?

I might buy MY SHORT STORIES too, but I'll have to think about, and see if I really like the b-side songs or not.

some of YUI's B-sides are nice imo . Someone mentioned that it feels like a studio album rather than a normal compliation album

I got it for my sister because I wanted to watch the DVD contents of her Oui I LOVED YESTERDAY tour :laugh

I looked at my I LOVED YESTERDAY CD+DVD, and it has that Oui thing too, what exactly is that? I think it was a typo, to be honest, but looks like it is not. I thought they misspelt YUI. o_O

nah it's not a spelling error

Oui is a french word which means Hey or Hi I think

Oui means Yes in French. ^^ I haven't taken French in so long, it's been quite awhile.

Anyways, I don't know which version of I LOVED YESTERDAY I have, so maybe you can help me, Karen?

Here are the details:

I LOVED YESTERDAY CD+DVD.

It came in a see-through bag, with 4 or 5 YUI post cards.

The DVD comes with 4 PV's, plus some premium edition Live thingy.

Which version do I have???!

O_O

I guess yours's the special OS press edition because of the postcards . It's totally outta print on YesAsia

there's still plenty of stock left on HMV HK though

you're lucky cos the SG press doesn't have the postcards :grumpy

It is the Hong Kong version, as it says on the sticker.

I wish they would put some info on the sticker, saying that it is First Press, Limited, or Special edition, or something like that. Maybe they do, I'll have to see again.

Wow, so mine is the First Press / Limited Edition?! Sweet!

What's the SG Press? And which version do you have of I LOVED YESTERDAY?

yours should be HK press because HMV HK does sell both CD + DVD's editions be it with or without the postcards . SG press means that it's printed locally in S'pore

the version that I bought for my sister , it didn't came with the postcards but it's CD + DVD

It is HK version, yes, and wow, so I got postcards too, but I don't have anyone to send them too, unless you want one? Haha. :)

Besides postcards, have any of YUI's Limited edition / First Press ever come with something as a bonus?

LOL :laugh well it's ok you can keep them

I know for CAN'T BUY MY LOVE , the OS press came with a folder & there were winter covers reissued last year for her 1st 2 albums which you can see the covers via YesAsia when you type & search

they're naturally both outta print already

Oh really? That's interesting. *__*

So about the premium edition live at Budonkan or wherever it's called, I can't wait to see it. Have you seen it before? Are her performances good in it?

I've seen the DVD concert footage in I LOVED YESTERDAY & MY SHORT STORIES & yes the performances are good :yes

Ah... can't wait to see it. And I might consider buying MY SHORT STORIES.

I like some of the b-side songs. I find that YUI's b-sides are pretty good in quality. I know some artist's b-sides are not so good, and that kinda stuff.

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I hope she can come back soon :(

omg, i love her hair in those pics! :love

Her hair and clothing looks so good. ^^

She's looks slightly pissed.

She does look a bit mean in the pic - her facial expression. :/

most of her promo pics are like that anyway . It's only much later she began to smile more

She looks good when she smiles.

:yes she doesn't do that much in the past because she said that her face might look fat or something :dead2

I don't remember a lot of single or album pics where she is smiling. :/

I know for CHE.R.RY she did & also in some pics in the booklet for I LOVED YESTERDAY

Hmm... I'll have to check out the booklet again to see. ^^

YUI Radio #39 - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/.../yui-radio-39/

I didn't know she had her own radio show.

It seems pretty common nowdays for Japanese artists to have their own radio show.

And it's not just popular artists/groups. Even lesser known/less popular artists have their own too. *__*

J-MELO Awards recognize and celebrate Japanese artists based entirely on requests from fans all over the world.

The Second J-MELO Awards (2008)： Most-Requested Artists

No.1 L’Arc～en～Ciel
No.2 Arashi
No.3 Hey!Say!JUMP
No.4 melody.
No.5 KAT-TUN
No.6 NEWS
No.7 Tohoshinki
No.8 Hikaru Utada
No.9 ALICENINE.
No.10 YUI

First J-MELO Awards (2007) ：Most Requested Artists

1st L’Arc~en~Ciel
2nd melody.
3rd KAT-TUN
4th Hikaru Utada
5th NEWS
6th Morning Musume
7th DIR EN GREY
8th YUI
9th Ai Otsuka
10th Namie Amuro

Source - http://www.nhk.or.jp/j-melo/english/index.html

i wonder why she dropped 2 places :shakehead

I wonder which YUI PV's they have played on J-MELO. ^^

Alice nine. beating YUI? :shakehead

I know. o_O....

guess who's back?!

Read the line you first wrote too quick and was thinking of eminem.
WooT! So many good things have been happening lately.

:yatta

welcome back YUI :D

haha, i wrote that on purpose! :laugh

:roflmao

I love Without Me by the way :laugh , the video still cracks me up even up to this day

my younger sister was going :yatta when I told her about this & so I guess we'll expecting something good of YUI in due time

SHE's BACK!!! WOOT!!! :)

Good to know it wasn't my wanting of hearing Eminem again.

YUI-net “Furi Kaeri Kikaku” starts! - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...kikaku-starts/

neat !

what's that, karen? :laugh

Yeah, what exactly is that, Karen?

YUI-net.com has came back in time with old YUI-net templates from YUI’s Debut with 『feel my soul』 (2005.02.23) to her latest album “I LOVED YESTERDAY” and “MY SHORTS STORY”.

It’s a good opportunity from new YUI’s fans who want to see how looks YUI’s website at its debut. Even for longer fans it’s very cool, so nostalgic!

Go to YUI-net.com e and just click on the CD Jacket you want and teleport in time

^ That's quite rare for them to do that right? Cus I can't think of any other artist's website that would bring old templates out.

oh, that's a nice thing for them to do. i remember when i first discovered YUI, the rolling star template was on, lol.

oh nice Lisa & Rolling star was the 1st song I heard of YUI

I remember you was when I checked her official site.

I've been a fan of hers since LIFE, but I've never checked out her official site layout until My Short Stories, lol. XD

When I first got into YUI her homepage it was on the FROM ME TO YOU template.

Anyways, I hope her break has helped her gain new insight and stuff into her songwriting and music.

And I hope we will get some new single announcement soon. :)

I'm thinking another summer single.

i'd love a summer single, too :yes but not another SUMMER SONG, lol.

^ Yeah, not SUMMER SONG, lol.

SUMMER SONG was so-so. I hope her next song is going to be better than that. :)

what I like SUMMER SONG & the video's so cool as well

but anyway *shrugs*

194　170　***,762　*,263,725　*13　YUI 「MY SHORT STORIES」

I'm still deciding whether I want to buy MY SHORT STORIES or not.

I saw the CD+DVD Limited Edition in stores. But it's a b-side album, so I dunno... and there's only two or three b-side songs I like.

I have the dilemma where I want to buy it cus I'm a YUI fan, and if I get it, I'll have all 4 albums. But I dunno if I should buy it just for the sake of buying it. *sigh*.

YUI's back in the studio for rehearsing! :D

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Thanks for the info, Lisa.

Definitly agree with Chocolate Disco and CHE.R.RY :yes

it's & it's prob the 1st PV that she was smiling in it & so's the covers too

she should keep up with it :thumbsup as she looks great when she smile , not that I don't like her to pout & etc

CHE.R.RY is a very sweet sounding song.

It's very relaxing to listen to, I have to admit.

And her excuse for not smiling is that her face will look fat. :shakehead

yeah which I don't think it's true , you look at I'll be , SUMMER SONG , Laugh away

she was :thumbsup

YUI is nowhere to looking fat.

I can't imagine YUI ever being fat, or slightly overweight for that matter.

it's a psychological issue , Melody but at least she has learnt to loosen up now

CDTV : VALENTINES Day Love song Top 20 2009

1. One Love - Arashi
2. Love love love - Dreams Come True
3. CHE.R.RY - YUI
4. Tada…Aitakute - EXILE
5. 366 nichi - HY
6. Shirushi - Mr. Children
7. Ai uta - GReeeeN
8. Tsunami - Southern All Stars
9. Love letter - Gackt
10. Fragile - Every Little Thing
11. Love so sweet - Arashi
12. Soba ni iru ne - Aoyama Thelma feat. SoulJa
13. Lion heart - Smap
14. Kimi no suki na uta - UVERworld
15. Can you celebrate? - Namie Amuro
16. Doushite kimi wo suki ni natte shimattan darou? - THSK
17. Kiseki - GReeeeN
18. Kiss ~Kaerimichi no Love Song - Tegomasu
19. First Love - Utada Hikaru
20. Nidome no Kanojo - SID

Source - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...009/#more-6994