recording studio? That's great
hope she will record something more interesting than in Hawaii or LA

Ayu looks like this girl from Hana Yori Dango!

http://www.asianpopcorn.com/battle_i...2072344412.jpg

thanks for the translation Misa-chan

god, I wish I were in London, UK fans you're so lucky!! send Ayu all our love, and buy her some nice flowers :P

ayu looks great in the pic! Hope because of the cold she'll make more dark and ballad songs. :D

I hope the songs that she's chosen actually do reflect "old times" like she's told us.

Come on, Ayu~ give us some great new tracks to listen to! (And maybe reveal the darned title before January ends... haha)

OMG London! I want to go there!
Please Ayu, make a new original album!

Pretty much my feelings on this lol.

and also less interludes please~!!

I've got to say that I kind of enjoy the interludes, even though sometimes they seem a little unnecessary. (on the album)

2 is probably what people would like to see from her, 3 is "average" when it comes to Ayu, and 4 is like... what people really don't want to see since the last two albums have had 4 and they don't seem to have liked it, haha.

We should form a prayer circle for less interludes! :grouphug

Why does she have to go all the way to London to record, I wonder...? At least she has a good chance to practice her English, now. (lol)

I think her interludes on NL were her best interludes in an album in her career. I think 4 is way too many for a 14 track album though. It would be amazing if one day she only had an intro track or something and not any other interludes. But interludes are like her thing lol.

I dunno, best in her career go to either the ones on (miss)understood or the ones on Secret for me.

I think I really like having the interludes around since it's nice having a transitional track between segments of the album. But 4 is a bit too many for a short album. Maybe she needs to make the album 17/18 tracks long if there are going to be that many interludes, haha. Usually it's the H/\L track like LABYRINTH, reBiRTH, and Pieces of SEVEN that people point at as useless. Marionette -prelude- could've been tacked onto Marionette and we could've just had a new song in its place. So if anything, maybe we should avoid ~preludes~ and H/\Lludes. tasuku, CMJK, and Yuta Nakano interludes are fine in my book though.

(And I totally just realized that of the four guys in AT05's GAME video, 3 out of 4 left, with ZIN being the only remaining dancer...)

I agree on the 4 interludes being too many for a 14 track album. If the album was longer like my story then I wouldn't mind as much since I do like the interludes.

Yeah, I don't really like the LABYRINTH-type interludes so much because most of them tend to sound the same, but Pieces of SEVEN turned into something different so I was happy with it even though the placement in the album was really wrong lol. I think interludes are better off just being something extra in the album rather than being in place of what could/should be a full track. I think with NL and GUILTY she couldn't really come up with lyrics to more full songs so she just had a lot of interludes take their places.

I feel like NEXT LEVEL and GUILTY were tailored with the tour in mind, since it was rather obvious where her interludes were going to fit in the concert according to the album, and ultimately, by (possibly subconsciously) focusing on the live performance aspect of things, that kind of hurt the musical experience that the album gave as an album.

I'd probably go as far to say that the last album that really felt like an album was the universally-claimed-to-be-rushed Secret. And perhaps the reason why a lot of people really like (miss)understood is because there are barely any interludes to be found.

She looks fine. She just woke up after being on a long flight, you're not going to look a million bucks.

I wonder how many Ayumi fans have swamped this studio by now...

And as for her using CMJK, I think he's a pretty good producer. A lot of the better, more modern electro sounding songs on NEXT LEVEL included him as the arranger.

That could be true. I also think one reason why some people can't be completely happy with her last couple of albums is that there aren't as many full songs in them. It's like if just a couple of interludes were full tracks there would be more of a chance for people to be pleased with them. We know how amazing a full ayu track can be. MW was so much better than Mirror and until that Day... was originally supposed to be an interlude.. I can only imagine how awesome a full "The Judgement Day" or "Disco-munication" would be.

wow thanks for sharing and the translation, misa-chan!
also walking.proud
she is relaly going to LONDON
and i hope the British Fan project will be succeeded!!
ganbatte for those British Fans!

i love interludes...its make ayu album very unique and flowing so nicely...
but yeah, i think they should make it less, 3 is maximum, and i'm getting tired of HAL interludes, its sounded almost the same...
so any updates?