^ since they're advertising it as a "christmas present from ayu" I don't think they'd do that and I hope they wouldn't either D: If I recall correctly the Rock 'n' Roll circus wait was kinda like this.. just we had a bit more info because we had preview pics from the PV's in her vivi diary. I remember we had to wait what seemed like forever for the tracklist/covers.

comparatively, though, we had the covers and tracklist by now with RnRC

Don't always rely on what happened before, that's when you get dissapointed and frustrated. Let her change things and her usual release schedules if she wants :)

True, but from a business standpoint this is a nightmare. There's still three weeks, she should be in the beginning of promotion, meaning the covers and tracklist should be out, but instead she's still in LA doing god knows what

^ she is back in Japan already. I guess covers and / or tracklist will be revealed soon.

somehow I smell they should be out this or upcomming week, who knows maybe even tomorrow or the day after tomorrow :P I feel it's gonna be soon :P

We will get covers and tracklists by friday at the latest. There won't be any postponement.

Racists? You mean tracklists?

There's no way we can know it for sure...

Unless it's re-marketed as a a belated Christmas present. heh

Stupid auto correct on my phone XD

Oh ok I thought for a moment I had missed something that happened lol.

while this may turn out to be true, you don't know for sure so you might want to stop stating things as facts that haven't been officially confirmed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! :luv2

This is about the same impression I had since quite a while.

Oh she is? I'm relieved, we can move forward now :D

I know this is supposed to be a christmas present to us all, but please no winter ballads. I don't get her obsessing with songs about winter, and having them always be ballads. The weather shouldn't even affect her style of songs. Besides I hope they're out of her system. I hope she got all her winter ballad fun out when making no way to say, and Days, and momentun, and JEWEL, and You were..., and any other song I might have missed.

sorry but winter without Ayu's ballad isn't well spent for me

Or what? What are u going to do?

Where's captain-kawaii when you need her.

eating paella.

if we get a ballad i hope its not winter themed lol, and i mean like "your love was like a hot sun in a dreaded, ice cold day" kind of way:thud:thud:thud

We will get more ballads, it's a given. She's no way going to make 6-7 upbeat and cheerful or fierce rock songs.

But this is for a studio album though, so I'd expect avex would spend slightly more on promotion on this release than a single. Anyway, we'll just have to wait and see as usual! :)

Remember GUILTY: (dont') Leave me alone, talkin' 2 myself, decision, GUILTY, glitter, Marionette... + the very rockish interludes like Mirror and The Judgement Day.

PS: Secret also has many rockish and cheerful upbeat songs on it. So, we have a good chance of not getting more ballads on Love songs.

^Good point! Ok yeah maybe we'll get that sort of treatment which would be awesome. Though I honestly wouldn't mind at least one RED LINE or untitled or MY ALL sort of song.

I hope its more like LOVEppears, that the songs all flowed and there was a good difference (and just 2 interludes)

1 LOVE, Because of You, is this LOVE? are rock love songs, so we can expect at least one upbeat/rock song. Rock Love Songs. lol

I hope she does another Duty and only has an intro and that's it lol. Or better yet, A Song for XX, one intro and 15 tracks. Aww yeaaaah *dreaming*

Thing could've been announced if she was in LA or on the moon though, it really doesn't matter where she is. She's not the one announcing anything.

Everything just seems more cramped this year, like the really late calendar compared to its usual pattern.

i just want ONE good BALLAD. And it's impossible to get Ayu album without album track as ballad. I want something like rainy day T____________T And it was only one (miss)understood true BALLAD lol o________o This is why (miss) is my favorite album! -shocked- EDIT: Oh, sorry. There was a HEAVEN. But i love this album with the lack of ballads, lol

Let's see...
Secret: album tracks was (without interludes): until that Day (upbeat pop-electro) 1 LOVE (rock, fast), It was (rock, medium) momentum (medium upbeat, but winterish) kiss'o'kill (can't really describe this genre, but it's A FIERCE genre. XD) Secret (true ballad) = 1 BALLAD

GUILTY = Mirror (it's a interlude but as we now, it becomes a song so... FIERCE genre again! XDDD) (don't) Leave me alone (pop, electronish, rocky...) GUILTY (it's a slow song but definitely not a ballad) Marionette (also a slow one, but not a ballad for me... again i can't freakin' describe this!) MY ALL (upbeat medium pop) untitled ~for her~ (truly ballad) = 1 BALLAD

NEXT LEVEL = NEXT LEVEL (upbeat medium pop) Energize (pop electro) rollin' (pop electro) identity (rock medium) LOVE 'n' HATE (pop) Curtain Call (ballad) = 1 BALLAD

RnRC = Microphone (rock, fierce ;d) count down (slow one but not a ballad for me) Last Links (medium rock) Don't look back (can't describe but a pop? medium pop maybe?) Lady Dynamite (poppy, rocky, electronish) Sexy little things (popy, weird one lol) meaning of love (ballad) = 1 BALLAD

*(miss) had also 1 BALLAD, rainy day. SO I HOPE IT WILL STAYS THIS WAY.

You forgot JEWEL on Secret.

^ i don't know why, but always when I'm thinking of JEWEL i think as a SINGLE track o_o cause this ballad is really fit. So it always reminds me of something big. So yea, SECRET got 2 ballads, but one was amazing. XD

Jewel was probably meant to be a single track
but i believe around that time ayu got an eye infection which caused her to slow down her schedual and probably could no longer make jewel a single. thats why she promoted it alot, and had such a huge music video for it and stuff :P i think

I'd like to see everyone's reaction if she will come out with a full-ballad album for real :laugh.

I'll run out of my house to grab a paella.

anyway, God... poor girl just came back from LA and she's facing jetlag, can't she have some rest? lol anyway yeah i know it's her marketing team that releases all the info, not her, but hey, 3 weeks is STILL quite a while and even if it may seem "unnatural" because it doesn't fit with her past album release patterns, it doesn't mean anything.

but again, I thought we should've known Ayu almost never promotes to the public anymore... her main source of income and marketing target is her fanbase =="

a winter ballad would probably be the smartest move to promote the album since Japan always loves her winter ballads. I couldn't imagine her promoting anything other than a ballad in december tbh. I think it'll either be a ballad she already released that will promote it or a new winter one :yes

Depend on you, kanariya, and connected have been released in December and are not ballads, or about winter.
Also, evolution, whatever, Fly High, Rule, and Sparkle have been released in January and February (the winter months) and aren't ballads.

But it does seem that over the years she only ever releases wintery ballads in december. I think she needs to break that habit. ;/ Same with summer pop songs. It's like some rule about herself that she isn't allowed to release ballads in the summer, or pop songs in the winter.

^ I can't stop staring at your avatar *_______*

On the topic of winter ballads, I'm hoping there's only 1-2 max of them. It's summer for me here and I hate always feeling so left out when you guys get winter themed stuff while I'm in summer :P Ayu should throw the lot of you off and do a summer dance track for those of us in that other hemisphere xD

yeah, most of those singles are pretty old back when her release pattern was different. also before R/S we had Days in december. who knows what she'll do though. I'm just guessing it'll be a new winter ballad from what has happened in december these past few years and what would most likely get her more sales for this new album.

i will be very dissapointed. i've became an ayu fan because of the non-ballads tracks. i like them, but i treat them like an extra taste.

This is a dream of mine *_*!!!!~
My thoughts have been pondering on this topic for such a long while now...:(!!

im afraid of them because theyll be made in a hurry and things made like this arent good as it could be if they were made having more time...

You're probably right.

I think the 3single project covers weren't good at all and they were in a hurry there,too.
Let's hope the covers will be fine.

we won't get an full ballad album cos there's Last angel

I just hope that Ayu won't go for the blonde/tanned look... I don't think it suits her.

I'm also not fond of the plain backgrounds :no

CDJapan added a poster to the the Dream ON Single, I wonder if YesAsia will have it too.

Covers are normally released on Wednesdays, so I'm looking at tomorrow actually. :)

True, but she brings her staff with her overseas too. Even if they're in Japan, she herself is overseas, and nothing goes on without her approval.

PLEASE DEAR GOD LET IT BE WEDNESDAY!

i heard someone said the cover and tracklist will announce on wed 12am,which means 3 minutes later!

I just noticed 44 people are viewing the news section (which is higher than I usually see), and I was like "OMG covers?!" but...no. lol

Naoya posted this. : D

http://www.avexnet.or.jp/dream-on/

^OMG This PV better be so freaking hot! Lol I want fierce ayu dancing!

Just coming to post this. :) I'm really excited for this single now. 'Can't wait to see what will be in the "movie" section.

oh my ****ing God.

:thud

:luv2

wow. it seems nice!

yayyyyy about 12 hours until covers and tracklists are revealed!

OMGGG:heart
awesome:thud

wow..that's hot...
that's the cover or promo pic?

the site said it's going to have a movie..
woww this is interesting!!

and what?? covers will be up??

i suspect this is the cover.i'll buy this cd if this is poster XD

Wh...what ? Did I miss something ? xD

^ yeahh did i miss something too?

well,someone on twitter said the cover and tracklist will announce on 12am (JAPAN TIME) today,which is now over already.i guess thats for Dream ON and not ayu's cover

oh then we gonna wait at dream on special site..
can't wait!!
anyway, the tracklist has been revealed..
just the covers have not yet~~

no it's 12pm, which isn't for about 11 more hours.

on her latest TA message was something about "12", covers and more information about album
Ayumi_lover translated it. that's not 12am, that's 12.2010
so she tell us everything on December -_-

^^It already is Decmber is Japan, haha!
My guess is they'll be out by tonight though. Let's see.

^so weird. I know we're behind in time, but now we're actually behind in the year. It's weird knowing that we're in a different month than japan. haha

No no..
she wrote "今日の12時" which means "Today at 12".
So we're going to see them tonight or tomorrow.. and she was talking about both the album and Dream ON. She said they're going to upload both covers and informations ^^

^^Yayyyy I thought so lol

Waiting for AHS to crash. :innocent

http://b.imagehost.org/0976/PB300684.jpg

Sorry for taking photos w/z camera but I just failed to save the pic into my phone so Douzou

Its officially DECEMBER in JAPAN guys! Now let's just hope for stuff to roll out. I think Friday would be a typical day.

and if its today at 12...doesnt it mean 12 NOON?

yes! which is about in 11 hours.

also, it's typical for covers to be released on wednesdays, I believe.

haha ikr? The earth is weird :laugh.

HOLY BANANAS AND COWS *______* my interest for this single is growed by 200% now lol.

And we will have Love songs covers soon. O god, the excitement would killing me ;_;

here's the image.

http://www.avexnet.or.jp/dream-on/images/top/bg.jpg

Omg so it's officially being released on Wednesday at noon (JP time)?! I'LL BE ASLEEEEEEEEEEEP ;___________;..... I'm so checking the FIRST thing when I wake up!

Found this on AyuChina, it comes from Recochoku's mobile site. They think it might be one of the Dream ON covers ^^
http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/8995/pb300684.th.jpg

^I think that would be a great cover for Dream ON :)

It looks so great!

nice!

oh, thanks! i'm sure that must be one of the covers!!! it looks great!

That Dream ON site you guys posted seems to be under construction, so I guess it should be reposted up with info very soon. :)

Or they exclude non-japanese site visitors D: :tired

its nice... but doesn't make me move. chorus is a lot like heartplace... and sounds a lot like a koda kumi song, like someone previously said. hey, just stating how it makes me feel. it's something really different for Ayu, so i'm like the freshness of it in the perspective that it's partly her song XD

its nice... but doesn't make me move. chorus lyrics are a lot like heartplace... and sounds a lot like a koda kumi song, like someone previously said. hey, just stating how it makes me feel. it's something really different for Ayu, so i'm like the freshness of it in the perspective that it's partly her song XD

i really like that possible cover! it looks like a boxing theme, since i think i see naoya wearing those boxing gloves. :P

covers for Love songs are so nice... Finally, Ayu and her team got it right after horrible covers after horrible covers. I hope she's able to do this again, though. I'm excited for this album!

I like nothing about Dream ON though, that dude is so ugly.

hahaha it looks cool. I want to see ayu kicking some ass in the PV!
I was hoping the Love Songs covers would give me a MOON/blossom cover feel and they do :) except they're a bit better because of her gorgeous smile. I'm looking forward so much to the new songs and now looking forward to the booklet/photo book a lot more now that I see how beautiful this shoot is looking! can't wait to see more faraway shots of her to see what setting she's in.

Now that all the information is out... I'm going to have to leave AHS x___________x... I'm going to do my best and try hard not to see ANY of the PVs, hear ANY of the leaks or even THINK about Ayu until I get my copies of Love songs.... Goodbye everyone!

This sfm omg

so I was right about covers and tracklist being released before Friday...big surprise.

loling right now

I don't know. Ayu looks a little bit weird :| but oh well it's such a little preview lol. The big one will looks better :yes

21 days now!

Its pretty cool. but you can barely see the guy's face on the Dream On cover. Isn't it his single?
Edit: I just realized that there are 2 versions. Maybe Ayu's face is in the shadows for the other?

It looks as though Ayu's wearing a top hat and is planing to do something mischievous xD

Hm, since Love song is the Sukkiri theme song for December and it's December 1st in Japan, I think it might have aired in the morning in Japan.

Yeah people on Twitter are saying they saw a snip of the PV.

Yeah, was just about to say that the PV has played somewhere, and that Mannie is in the PV with her.