I just hope that the album has the same power of A ONE and M(A)DE IN JAPAN. The power to bring back old fans who stopped to follow her years ago. So many members came back during this era just to share their happiness about what they considered as a revival.

I'm over here wishing for Loveppears II lolol

I am hoping for Duty 2.0 xD

More news, need more news! Ayu always writes such things when she is in the process of album production. And I like A ONE. If I removed Story, Walk and The Gift I could listen to it in one go easily. I like them, but Anything for you does for me the "ballad" part. Plus, I am super satisfied with performances of Warning, Last minute, Zutto. Offtopic done, now I just want to hear sth that's cooking. Come on people, it's new material, just this is a good reason to be excited ;- )

Same here :D

I kinda A ONE, but I don't need part 2 of that.

I am not hoping for any Duty, A ONE or whatever 2.0 but just a new album. It can be a 2.0 or a totally new thing, as long as the tracks are nice, I'm good.

I thought I agreed with this, but after thinking about it A ONE isn’t a bad album ...just a really boring one? It’s too jam packed with ballads and just drags on and on. I really want some variety in the next album, whereas A ONE has barely any.

I love A ONE, it's one of my favourite albums haha So I wouldn't mind another album like this... But then, Pray is one of my all-time favourite songs and I love WORDS, so :shrug

I don't think she has enough budged for a visual album with actually good mind-blowing MVs, I wouldn't expect her to blow her personal savings on MVs tbh

I don’t care what the album sounds like. Everything after Colours sounds pretty much the same to my ears, with a few exceptions. I swear you could throw all those albums in a playlist and toss Koda Kumi’s W Face inside in there and it would sound like the worlds longest, most cohesive lullaby :laugh

I just want Ayu to have fun and do what makes her happy. Maybe an awesome album shoot :P

At this point, I don't care if it's like NOTHING FROM NOTHING! I just need a new album!

She could always use her own if she wanted to do it ("for herself").

I actually love that album :laugh

I remember reading (I think it was from a magazine interview) that she's tired of long MV shootings, so I think that's one major reason to why she has more simple made MVs nowadays. I guess she prefers to finish the shootings in one day.

I understand why she’d want that, but it’s just...fucking disappointing :(
Not because I want her to put her PVs before her well being, but because I like visual media so much. I hope that she has a change of heart, haha

I completely agree. The only song I consistently listen to from it is the GIFT. Other than that, I want little to nothing to do with it. :no

I'll be happy with anything she delivers, but what really has me excited are the lyrics, after all this time and the different things she's been trough (her divorce, deafness going worse, long tour, going to places she's never been before, her 20th anniversary) if you think about in just two years she's been trough a lot and I'm really curious about how she'll express all this on her lyrics, of course I want a good sound and MVs as well but I'm not expecting any particular sound tbh but I'm weak for her rockish tunes :D

But it’s got WARNING and NO FUTURE. How can you hate it with these two? :luv2


To be fair I always enjoy her albums as I am used to liking some songs and disliking others. My favourite album by oh so very far is Love songs (omg love song, November, do it again, sending mail, last angel), but my absolute least favourite song by Ayu is Thank U, and the middle segment (blossom and co) is overall pretty boring for my taste.

But i must say that at the moment I probably feel like something crazy like Colours more than classic sounding songs.

You know what would be nice? An album with acoustic guitar and rock influences.
What I'd like it to would be songs like Love Song, Sending Mail, Shape of Love. Maybe even dream pop and shoe gazing music influenced songs. I doubt that we'd get the latter but its fun to think about.

The only song I skip nearly every time while I enjoy the rest of the album. It has some of her best songs - WARNING, Out of control, Last minute and my fave concert closer - The show must go on!

Y E S, if she could ever do something like monochrome again :heart