guess the logo was just for her element singles @_@...though her chinese album have the logo~

Well...I hope the logo makes a comeback too...but I like that Kuon no Kawa didnt get the logo...it just looked nicer...because it was a far away shot of her...

Yeah and I love the dress...but she still opened and closed her eyes for the covers lol

oh God are the covers fake? They look boot-legish... the white frame... I have seen it in another singer's single cover and it's still hideous. :(

The pink bubbles are ugly and irrelevant to the song or anything. And the "tear" looks... bad. And she looks drugged and dead, but there's sort of a vulnerability to it... which I like a lot...

Oh well, at least the song (preview) sounds great! :D

The covers could change, Kuon's changed, they originally had the logo, and then it was removed

what they're selling it after all ?

T_T T_T T_T , I have been calling them about this as a form of general enquiry & they told me they don't have it

stupid :eviltongu

the covers seem fake...well, theyre sorta freakish D:
i sorta feel like getting both versions :laugh

and her wail...hmm I'm too used to listening to my dad's "traditional" music with wails that he plays all the time...but i love how she manages to efficiently use her wails in the j-pop genre. i believe this has never been done before ;)



EDIT: Look what I found! :lech :

I hope the 4 people that voted "no" on the poll only did so because they think alan is not pretty, but BEAUTIFUL. <3

I think alan is very pretty, absolutely photogenic.

I hope the covers for Ballad aren't finished yet...those are kind of strange. I don't quite like the focus of the camera.

but she's really good...@_@ She's just overdressed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbD_9KDs2qY

I LIKE IT
WHat is the name of the song?

Ohhh noooo. I don't like her singing! Sorry! :thud

The covers probably are fake then if everyone else thinks so~.

^ I agree, her singing is kinda awful...
I hope the covers are some weird joke made by a fan with poor photoshopping skills...

^ Or maybe Kazuyoshi is alan's new photographer? ;)

Omg could you imagine?! I would be so sad!

^ Yeah...that would be pretty bad...I think alan is way too innocent to be doing the fish lips! :(
So I'm sure those covers are fake now. :)

Yay I got Kuon no Kawa...but boo...its in Taiwan right now :weep

いい日旅立ち - Ii hi tabidachi. Something about a good day and leaving on a trip?

don't think I ever posted this....but alan is the spokeperson for SHARP's new phone

^Oh interesting. I dont know what SHARP is but Ayu's Rimmel ad popped into my mind for some reason @_@

I don't either...never heard of sharp...but it's a phone XD

http://pommy48.surge8.com/alangaller...up&cat=0&pos=2 at the press conference for it~

I think I have a TV by SHARP... or something xD. I've heard of the company before.

But I never knew they had cellphones xD.

eh

SHARP as in Toshiba SHARP ? :shrug

but in anycase , it's cool that she has another endorsement in the bag :yes

not sure, but i think it's just SHARP

hmm wonder what her japanese endorsement is..ah i should translate her japanese blog more...

wuhu, pretty again

I've heard of SHARP as a brand before~. But never knew they made phones. :lol

Her English in BRAVE is awesome. XD

SHARP is a brand doing electric devices, they don't belong to the top, but they are pretty big and sell everywhere around the world.-

about the covers: look very much like high and mighty colors Tadoritsuku Basho/Okizarisu covers...

lol i fixed it for you :roflmao

Xiexie. ;)

I really like alan's Engrish =] I wish she would have a concert soon...

she will....in december/january....so far away @_@

nah. time flies by ;)

But she has released so much stuff, by then she will have so many songs to choose from to sing at the concert! xD

I wish she would perform all of her songs

Say...what do you guys think we alan fans can call ourselves?...

She's performing in Jan? Soooo far away! :(

alanationals?

alandofans? xD

alanatics ?

it sounds very alien-ish to me :dead2

haha i think that sounds robotic :D

alan fans....


alfan XD

i like alandofans though :D

I want an alan best album with all her B-sides

Me too. She has some really beautiful ones ~

She could call it B-eautiful: B-side collection

I've never heard of an artist who release a compliation of b-sides =/

Well maybe alan can be the first..cause really...her b-sides are gorgeous

I love Sakura Modern, Kagome and Namida (does anyone else love this song? I never really hear people talk about it?)

YUI has done it. It's called "MY SHORT STORIES"! :laugh

Yeah YUI did it last year and Seiko Matsuda did it in like the 80s.

:thud woah! alan's heart war is playing on Channel V right now....that's the first time other than Ashita e no Sanka that I've seen alan in Taiwan

They even played the full MV *o*

^there was a channel V in macao when i went there xD

does anyone know wat alan sang in a-nation??

Ah read an interview with alan

She said that she will never go the sexy route, and she will never shoot bikini pictures even if she is by the sea. She said because she is a singer, she doesn't need those things to attract other people.
*o* well said！

^ alan is so conservative :smitten

which interview was that from?

Ah it's from a Chinese site....I'll go translate the rest of the interview then post on my blog...need to really catch up with alan news *o*

^ this :yes :laugh

but yes an alan B-side compilation will be nice

she probably can throw in a new song or 2 just like what YUI did

I don't think alan is that conservative, I think she's just classy. :lech

I'm sorry if this is old but I haven't seen it yet...



She changed the song a little near the end and I like it alot! Her hair though...reminds me of Ayu on NL covers :(

Actually, Do As Infinity has released one before. I think it is called "Do the B-Side".

YUI released a B-side album too.

Thanks for sharing I haven't seen it either.

oh guess chakmon didn't upload the first part, she also sang kuon no kawa...acoustic version :luv2 ah so beautiful

it's the exact version as this :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5C9m4NMC9I

^The acoustic version is so pretty. :D

i love it more than the original, i wish she would put it on the next next single as a bonus or something *o*

Haha, that'd be a good idea. SCREW SHIAWASE NO KANE! (Or whatever that song is called. XD)

lol yeah you got it right

i wish she would make an acoustic version of all of her songs *o* then release a remix album....like what ayu did in the beginning <3

I don't like the covers. I miss her first covers with Leslie :)

well i don't really like the cover that he shot....just the booklet scans though ,3

If she did that, I'll be so happy! Her songs are so beautiful, it'll be interesting to hear what they all sound like.

Or maybe even acapella *o* Just imagine how crisp it would sound

If she does have acoustic/orchestra/remix versions, I just hope that the instrumental won't be louder than her voice, kinda what happened with AENS's orchestra version

Haha I just started downloading RED CLIFF to listen to AENS's orchestra version. XD I didn't listen to it yet. :(

Ah you should~ I think it sounds beautiful <3 Just wished her voice was a bit louder...I think she re-recorded it?

thats actually really, really common for artists with many b-sides xD

I think Shiina Ringo's B-side compilation is called Me and Electric Discharge. :)

love that video. she had nice hair :)

Well...yesasia is now using them instead of the Kuon no Kawa promo pic so I'm guessing that they are official :( Just remove the bubbles please...

i'm so lost about alan...
can someone give me a short recap update about her?

lol

she will be releasing her 10th single BALLAD ~Namonaki Koi no Uta~ next month on the 2nd

She released her debut Chinese album, Xin De Dong Fang, on July 10th and she's going to release a new Japanese single, "BALLAD ~Namonaki Koi no Uta~", on September 2nd which is the theme song to the movie that shares the name.

"BALLAD ~Namonaki Koi no Uta~" covers

[Recap end]

oh no i saw the covers again! :dead2

oh I just listened to Megumi no Ame after months... what a beautiful song... it's my favorite alan song actually, and... aww just really gorgeous. :heart

The covers are bad but alan does look beautiful. And the tear effect is wonderful. "Megumi no Ame" is the reason I became a alan fan. It is a beautiful song too bad it's boring.

yeah but at least the PV's nice which saved the song from becoming a total snoozefest

Well most of her songs are snorefests since they're ballad, but they're still really pretty~

I agree with you and I'm the person who live and breathes ballads.

covers are just too pretty <3 even they are simple alan is so beautiful <3

22 Days says the countdown I made on Facebook <3 I'm so excited for this single, I've missed having alan every month

I'm a sucker for ballads... :weep

and 22 more days? Oh my, this is her prettiest ballad (or at lest from the previews) imo... I can't wait for a 320kps BALLAD to listen to... :yes

Ah, I just love alan's release schedule. I'm almost never bored with her.

Haha yeah, she never let us wait for long~

Wow...its the first time seeing the covers and they look bad.

Haha I finally listened to it. Its really pretty but I really think she needs to be louder in the chorus. The instrumentals overpower her voice.

Nah, megumi no ame isn't boring at all to me :luv2

^ I agree with you there. None of her songs bore me. ^_^

Really? The entire Hitotsu single, aside from sign, was a snooze-fest, imo. I think I've listened to Megumi no Ame three times: once when the single came out, once when I got the album and once to watch the DVD :dead2 lol

^ OMG The Hitotsu single was my favorite!! I Loved everything on that single. Underrated single </3

thanks for the recap...
her thread changing really fast, make me confuse...

finally she will release new japanese song...i think the cover looks nice...i love the cd+dvd version, i can feel her sad emotion

and i'm a ballad song sucker...so i'm happy with ballad song...

Her quietest ballads are Megumi no Ame and Hitotsu, so I can see why people would be bored with them. I really love listening to such ballads while I'm writing, in the morning when I wake up, or right before bed. So I just have to find the right time to listen to them, and I'm never bored with any song.

It took me like 10 consecutive non-stop plays of VoE before I finally got bored of that album...and then I played it the next day and I was un-bored :laugh

^lol, after i played VoE once, i thought: "ooo i wanna play it again!" :laugh

Lol I played VoE on repeat for...2 weeks I believe..then I got bored :roflmao

I found Hitotsu rather boring at first, but then watching the PV, it made everything better!

The single that I barely listen to now is Kaze no Tegami...

hitotsu pv made the song more boring to me x_x, but i rarely listen to that song anyways.
kaze no tegami is boring. pv and song > _ >

EDIT: i just relistened to those songs. they aint so boring. the pvs made it boring @_@

Her PVs are all very nice to look at but yeah...some can be boring.