Spirits - October 2009

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^ thanks for the scan....

alan's chart for today is #26

wow, alan looking good in the new scans!

I like the first pic from the Spirits magazin. She looks sexy on it

wow, i really like those spirit scans O_O very pretty!

as for the ARENA pictures....gorgeous, all of them but....the third picture is hideous to me :laugh she has buckteeth there.

is avex pulling the "sexy" route for alan? XD

but i love those pics <3<3<3

^ well i hope they don't oversex her @_@

haha even if they do, i know alan will stop, like she said, she's an artist, she doesn't need to show off her body to attract fans :yes

^ right :yes alan such a beautiful person <3. that's what you call a true artist :).

yep exactly *o*

i was wondering if we would even notice alan if she didn't have her tibetan wails....i noticed alan because of music, then the wails, what about you guys?

^Well yeah...she's still a great singer...like theres not really any wails in tsuki ga watashi and Liberty and they're 2 of my favorite songs by her

well i meant the first song you ever listened to or just the song that made you fall in love with her, unless tsuki ga watashi and liberty were your firsts?

I love her singing voice combined with the beautiful music. I love how high she goes in Ashita e no Sanka, without missing a note. :D

Oh yeah...well...ashita e no sanka was the first song from her I heard....kinda hard to not notice the wails in that song to be honest :laugh. I guess the wails just struck me as really unique...like who does that? @_@

^ yeah that's what I'm talking about~ It's unique! in Jpop, but alan is probably average in tibetan music XD

edit: ok remember when I used to be freaked out by how many older men are watching my alan videos @_@ I still am

40% of my videos are being watched by men/women 45-54 years old (and the men dominate 30% of that 40%) :thud
I didn't even know people this old know how to use the internet :roflmao

^Wow. I dont know ANYONE that old who even knows how to access Youtube here....thats so bizarre. I guess Japan is just more technology oriented than us

I know...I'm surprised @_@...unless all the people lie about their age~ Though I'm happy that middle aged people like alan...I would still want her to have younger fans XD I mean she should try to appeal to all age groups

I think it's because of all those historical movies @_@

I noticed her cos everyone was talking about her, LOL.

Actually I first acknowledged alan when I saw that her thread was always near the top of this forum :laugh I was like....well....I'm already addicted to ayu....do I really want to be....and then then I fell for the trap x_x

LOL *falls off chair* that is too funny.

its my first post in alans section. i love her music, its very...one in a million. altho i dont own any of her works (would like to). the pics posted are sooo pretty. shes really not 'shy' in her photoshoots anymore, i love the new ' i know i look good' pics hehe :)

my first alan song was Sakura Modern. tbh, i didnt like her wails from Ashita e no Sanka at first, but it took me a while to realise that it was so amazing and classic! :luv2

I really love the second two scans, the first one to me is kinda... :P

Well, I think it was mainly cuz she seems popular here and I was curious so I downloaded VoE. Then I listened to it something like...30 times in a week. LOL

The song's name in the Bourbon's CM is Swear

:roflmao

lmao Swear ?! :laugh

please don't tell me that's the title of her new single -_-'''

amazing! :luv2

Hmm... if she hadn't released Ashita e no Sanka first, I dunno if I'd be a huge fan lol. I think I'd eventually come to like her anyways, though.

Really??

and it'll be slower :(...

so it must mean "Swear" as in "vow" or "promise"

alan's first solely English titled single if this is the single song XD

Swear, lolol

Yes, the song's title was written on the official website, but now it's gone!

Oh no, they're doing what they do with Ayu. XD
Announcing stuff then making it disappear.

Well, i hope this one sells more than BALLAD

omg so cute !

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^ that's for her anecan shoot <3 all the layers of foundation lol

@pchan: yeah! I'm really liking the new direction that alan is going with her photoshoot, she's more womanly now, but she was more girlish back then~

XD finally an english title..if only the song was faster...

cute pic!
i wonder if she'll ever get her teeth fixed :P

aww alan looks cute as a bunny XD but i do wonder if she'll remove that bump from her ear?

What's wrong with them? Not everyone needs fake looking tombstone teeth like Ayu :innocent

i know i do!

she probably might get them fixed in the future...her teeth looks transparent almost in that picture ·——·

I'm so bored xD

FAKE of Course xD

Alan
New Single
Double a-side

Close your eyes / Swear

CD
1.Close your eyes
2.Swear
3.Eyes on me (Faye Wong cover)
4.Close your eyes (Instrumental)
5.Swear (Instrumental)
6. Voice of HEART ~megamix~

DVD
it will be a mini drama
1.Swear
2.Close your eyes
3.Epilogue


NEW ALBUM

Voice of Heart

CD
1.Intro ~love~
2.Voice of Heart
3.step by step
4.Swear
5.Ballad
6.Kuon no Kawa
7.Kokoro ~interlude~
8.Kuon no Kawa
9.WISH
10.Tears
11.Thank you
12.Close your eyes
13.Reverse the time

DVD
1.Kuon no Kawa
2.Ballad
3.Close your eyes (flashback version)
4.Swear (flashback version)
5.Voice of Heart

6. ALAN ACOUSTIC STUDIO LIVE

^ i'm totally for that acoustic live :luv2

That photo is adorable and I hope she doesn't have her teeth fixed, she has amazing teeth... :S

Alsooooo damn you karako now you have Eyes On Me in my head. XD

^ i think it'd be nice if she did. she's so beautiful.. but getting her teeth fixed would do wonders for her whole appearance.

anyway, Swear is such a weird title lol. so it's really going to be a slowed down version of the CM song? that's kind of lame.. enough with the slow songs!

I can imagine the tracklist

SWEAR

1.-swear
2.-swear TV-CM ver.
3.-Swear (instrumental)
4.-swear TV-CM ver. (Instrumental)

Oh that's possible and i want a new b-side

if you want a new b-side, then less new songs on the album *o*

^well...none of her b-sides were on Voice Of Earth though

I want a new b-side 4 her b-side collection album!!!!
Well i'm a real dreamer, jiji
Well anyway i love alan

haha right...but who knows, alan doesn't have a lot of singles this time, so they might and considering~ ah i would love for leslie to shoot the booklet...but i hope that if she release a chinese album, that it won't just be covers of her own songs @_@

:roflmao

oh man that will be a nightmare for a tracklist :O . Throw in a B-side to make it look better leh

1.-swear
2.-swear TV-CM ver.
3.-Ashita e no Sanka (Orgel version)
4.-Swear (instrumental)
5.-swear TV-CM ver. (Instrumental)

Better? ;)

Wow she looks so cute in the photo that mcken posted!

Haha..Swear...-just gotta snicker-
I definitely approve of her fixing her teeth! :yes

I don't like the orgel ver. but i prefer "Megumi no Ame (er-hu ver.)" jeje

alan isn't exactly what you'd call popular in Japan, but is she well-known in her home country?

^ as in tibet or china? the first press of Orient of the Heart sold out pretty fast and her chinese forums have quite some members~

she is so cute *.*

^Photos like that of alan make my hear flutter ( :heart ).

I wonder how she is in Tibet considering what's happening around Tibet recently. :P

i first noticed her through her amazing wails :yes. i was watching CDTV's video countdown and alan came up with her ashita e no sanka. i instantly fell in love and decided to look her up. loved her ever since <3.

well she goes to Chengdu~ not Tibet....so she's Tibetan, but she lives in China...is that right?

@ ayuta: :D :yes and <3 are apple colors again XD

but I think that I was truly just mesmerized with alan when I saw her Music Fighter perf. of AENS~

Yeah, she's not actually from Tibet, but in Sichuan there is a percentage of ethnic Tibetans (like alan) because it borders Tibet.

I remember Ree and sachi and a bunch of other people on the Crossover forum loved alan, so I decided to try out Ashita e no Sanka...and I was just blown away by the epic win of her voice.

tee-hee. Swear. Swear swear swear. Why do I feel so immature?

Hmmm yeah I know she's from Szechuan but isn't Tibet actually in China anyway?

Everyone knows the word swear has more then one definition right ._.? She's probably using the verb form of the word, I can't imagine alan using it as a noun XD

@ zyoeru: well that's a whole another political topic....

i think swear is ok...if she used promise, that seems too..typical...

Ehh, I wasn't even thinking politics, more geographically. But yeah. *drops* ;)

I don't see what's wrong with Swear. :\

Swear, while being so lol as a joke, feels very strong to me...much stronger than "Promise", or 'Vow' lol.

i think that people think of swear more as curse instead of the good thing XD

^ I never thought of cursing when I heard the title...not before people started saying it xD

^me too lol. It's very alan, imo

is anyone here a member of alanchina? if someone is, can someone copy and paste one of the blog translations?

From her japanese blog, 2009-09-02 01:32:18

Cause I'm trying to translate them, but I can't access alanchina @_@

maybe Swear will be a ballad ?

in that alan 'fa shi' on something :laugh

I don't know :dead2

haha, yeah. that always comes to mind first :laugh

@ karen: it will be a ballad T_T, swear is the bourbon song right? just making sure

uhhhh I think so Jasmine

it's just that sometimes the alan thread(s) move so fast til I get lost & submerged in too much extra info :dead2

same with me @_@...sometimes it goes so fast i forget just which thread this is...XD

well, nothing compared the kumi thread though, i can say that much XD

haha true, i try to not even go there cause i can't even keep up :roflmao

at least this thread goes at a nice steady pace~

^Haha true
Is Swear really that bourbon song?

i believe, but swear will be 2 times slower than the bourbon cm...

@_@

2 times slower ?!

oh god then I can imagine the song right now :dead2

so more ballady like...:bawl

T_T T_T T_T

ugh at this rate , there's no telling when she will be releasing another upbeat single ;____;

I can only hope that her 2nd album , there will be album tracks that're upbeat & uptempo like what happened to Aoyama Thelma's Emotions album

i don't believe her 2nd album will be full of ballads, i mean at VoE had BRAVE and.....well..yeah XD

LOL :laugh

yeah I know what you mean Jasmine but I hope there will be more than 1 upbeat tunes in her new album

1 upbeat no. is not enough for me :no

yeah same for me...well i still love VoE, but more upbeat never kill anyone

Hopefully alan composed some of the songs in the summer...where it's hot...so her mind was probably broiling with hot ideas!

If Swear's gonna be ANOTHER ballad then I hope they will at least release a CM version or something on the single...

I hope too.
I don't want another ballad >.<

Jasmine / Pommy already said that Swear's going to be a ballad ._____.

Why are they slowing it down :(??? I hope they include the CM version! I don't understand the point of spending all the time speeding it up only to slow it down again :\.

Honestly.. I hate it they're gonna slow it down. It's so wtf and gets my blood boiling. The song sounded so good from the CM already, and then "oh yeah alan fans, we're gonna slow it down! MUAHHAHAHA SUCK IT FEMALE DOGS"

>.>"

I wonder if they're scared to have a non-ballad be a single since her top selling singles were all ballads :x?

so everything all began with that natsukashii mirai....

Well... it never hurts to try; it's not like alan has some streak to hold, or some record to break...

^ well, she does have a record to break, she was the first chinese to get 1 daily, remember? now she needs first places for two consecutive days or a week xD

maybe now it's kazuhito's fault...can he only make ballads @_@...maybe it's hard because they keep on trying to make songs so alan can have her wailing...

^ BRAVE had wailing though and so did Swear in the CM version :(. They need to explore all the possibilities that her wailing can do!

YES. lol.

*prays for at least a CM version*

i would just like alan to sing about peace and love in a more upbeat tone >_> but even BRAVE wasn't that fast....alan still sang in a nice steady pace, maybe they don't want her to sing a fast song, then she get tongue tied and ruin in live

I really don't mind ballads, but it'll be nice if maybe an upbeat song will help her sales

Also I just noticed yesterday that alan sometimes goes on alan-fans and leave a message! So cool lol

Omg that is really nice of her! :yes

And wow... maybe they would make fast songs for alan after they feel that she's getting better in Japanese.