Well Hilary Duff did it for her third (or was it second) album... I guess avex could come up with some crap, "this album is to showcase who she really is, thus we called it 'alan'..." lol but we shall see!

I hope not, I like pretty album names :(. It confuses me when singers name albums after themselves because then I don't understand if people are referring to that album or the artist :p.

^so true, lol :laugh

I'm really happy that alan is gonna have written the majority. :)

wow

then I guess this time round she has more creative input in her 2nd album which I like that in artistes instead of being lazy & etc

this should be good

new single info!

thanks for the update :D

Beauty as a B-side title eh ? cool

I hope Beauty will be upbeat too!

^^ Looks really good ^^

More information on alan's 2nd album:
ALBUM+DVD

alan待望の2nd ALBUM発売決定！　新曲8曲（予定）含む、3つのタイアップ付き既発SINGLEを全て収録！　直近S INGLEとの豪華W購入者特典あり！

ロングランヒットとなった映画『レッドクリフ PartⅡ』全世界主題歌の9th SG「久遠の河」、映画『BALLAD 名もなき恋のうた』主題歌の10th SG「BALLAD ～名もなき恋のうた～」、ブルボンブランチュールミニシリーズTVCMタイアップソングの11 th SG「タイトル未定」を含む、全13曲+ボーナス・トラック収録予定。

omg I want Swear... can't wait for it!

Swear sounds like it could go either way...but beauty sounds like more of a ballad. But we shall see!

Whoa...8 new songs! so 2 interludes? to make up 10 album rtacks + 3 singles?

^ Maybe there'll be no interludes?

Can't wait for the new releases!!
I really like the song Seed of Green. Reminds me of Rurutia!

Don't really care about the new single. Gonna just buy the album

Yay for Swear being upbeat! I love listening to the CM. I'm super excited for the album. I'm hoping it's got way more upbeat songs this time.

awesome...a beautiful girl singing a song called Beauty! :D

OMG, i'm so happy, and we got a b-side!!!!!!!!!!
yay!!!

new single sounds interesting :)

hope for an upbeat single :P

beauty might sound upbeat too~

and looks like alan will have a small appearance in the MAC pamphlet? It's a limited good...

and she collects miss bunny (the female bunny from Bambi)

and looks like she might get inspiration from just walking outside...

yeah that's about the kinda interesting things from her blog~ *hoho finally caught up with her japanese blog*

the new single' names sound exciting! I wish they sound like something she haven't done yet *hopefully*

anyway I'm in love with alan and I'm happy that AVEX trust her soo much and releases heaps of stuff for her lol hopefully she is going to become big not only in Japan but in all Asia ^^

New upbeat single? Finally they got smart!

good idea XD

60%?! :thud awesome news! can't wait to read her lyrics :yes

omg, i HATE that. i remember when i was an alan noob and i typed her name into youtube search and i was searching through pages and pages because it's such a common name, especially for men.

beauty as a b-side? nice, it sounds like it'll be epic.

^ haha yeah and you would always keep getting some guy named alan jackson XD

I kind of hope Swear or maybe even Beauty gets another tie-in. I fear for Swear's sales already considering the release of her second album only a couple weeks later. It's also her first single not to have a major movie tie-in since Gunjou no Tani :\.

hmm i think that swear probably won't sell...but i hope it does....

I guess as long as her second album sells well she'll be good. I just want her to be able to survive on her own without constant movie tie-ins since they're only going to be available for limited amounts of time. She's been pretty lucky so far xD.

Hey Koumori! Glad that alan has another new fan :)!

All of those are great songs! I love Hitotsu also, although it seems to be one of her most unappreciated songs :\. My favorite is Shiawase no Kane <3.

懐かしい未来 ～longing future～, ひとつ

Those two songs are also my favorites <3 I'm happy to know someone who appreciates those tracks XD

yay koumori, you're finally here XD

seems like some of your favorites are more of the under-appreciated alan songs~

have you listen to sign yet?

i've been obsessed with it lately ♥♥♥

i guess sora uta and ashita e no sanka?~

oo great!!! :hi5, it's such an amazing song/interlude?, i love how alan is in the background singing and there's just the vocalizing so alan doesn't overwhelm you *o*....so...so..amazing :thud

Her best selling have been Natsukashii Mirai ~longing future~, RED CLIFF ~Shin-Sen~, Kuon no Kawa (which peaked daily at #1 :D!), and BALLAD ~Namonaki Koi no Uta~.

Hitotsu was her worst selling single and peaked at #100 on Oricon :(.

>_> hitotsu is brilliant...wish people would've loved that single more, but the covers scare me lol, it's all the hair!

^ yeah ♥ sign is just absolutely amazing...slowly it'll creep into my top 5 alan songs

i really like the orchestra version of ashita e no sanka, but the orchestra overpowers alan a little, she kinda gets lost in all the music

oh have you learned the romaji spelling of her songs yet?

I actually love the covers xD. But yes, I wish the single did better than that :\. Let's hope alan never goes back to selling that little!

lol, to me, Hitotsu was one of her worst @__@ the cover is scary too :tired but the overall single was good :D

actually for all my album covers in itunes, i use the CD only covers...

i wish alan would have more acoustic versions, i love gunjou no tani! the erhu and guitar is so nice ♥

^LMFAO. im the complete opposite for my iTunes covers :roflmao

:roflmao

but yeah Hitotsu's covers were & still are scary @_@

I remembered before I got into alan , I was wondering what's the hell's up with those medusa hair like covers :dead2

I wasnt thinking medusa, I was thinkin "just MESSY!!! AHH!!!"

oh i'm scared!!!!!!!!!
THE BEST COVER IS KAZE NO TEGAMI
THE WORST COVER IS HITOTSU & BALLAD (FOR THAT BUBBLES O_O)

i love kaze no tegami, if only the song was as good as the cover, ♥ sora uta too!

:yes

the covers for BALLAD is just o_O & the bubbles were so random too .__.

hmm I loved BALLAD covers, VoE/heart of the orient covers are acutally my least fave compared to her beautiful singles

I don't like the covers for VoE either, but the booklets are just :luv2

ohai Koumori! :D

Wow you guys like the songs that I really don't like like sign and Hitotsu. LOL

And I don't think anyone likes my favorite alan song... which is Megumi no Ame~...

And oh Swear has a biscuit tie-in right? Hopefully they will spam the CM on TV and play the song repeatedly if they have any roadshows or counters, hahaha

Yes! I think I actually like that version more than the original :love

^ me too! actually both gunjou no tani and the acoustic version are in the top 10 of my most listened to songs~

i definitely won't mind more erhu songs...but really...i'm still hoping for a japanese version of tian ya ♥ :luv2

Megumi no Ame is ok for me, but I prefer Namida over it~

megumi no ame is like one of her top singles EVERRR :luv2
i love both songs sooo much pretty much equally @__@ i cant choose! :x

I love Megumi no Ame <3. Namida is even better!

Kaze no Tegami took me the longest to get into. I HATED it when it first came out but I love it now xD.

And I don't understand what is so scary about the Hitotsu covers still :p. I always thought they were beautiful :x. I love her hair.

Also, I noticed in her CD description for the second album it said something about GOD EATER, which I googled and found out it's a video game. I can't read Japanese though. Is she having a tie-in with it or something?

i just don't like her hair like that and the angle at which they took the pictures, so it's like she's staring like from below you

oh yeah she have a tie in with a PSP game

she will appear for the event of it on 9/27 and sing the theme song

Is the theme song one of her already released songs or will it be something new from the album :D?

probably a new song? swear have bourbon and we haven't heard beauty, so it might be beauty?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pB55IZIaM

That's the promotion for it. It looks like something that would have a darker theme! Maybe she's going to have an epic dark song <3!!

i'm kinda hoping it's beauty...though it's kinda weird..i mean a violent game with "beauty" as a theme song....but at least we know one song on the album won't be ballady

http://www.godeater.jp/

That's the GOD EATER site, with two songs on it (switch between BGM 1 and BGM 2). I wonder if either of those are the instrumentals for alan's song (which according to various other sites will be 'my life' and is the ending theme for it). The first sounds really pretty and the second sounds like nothing she would do... but there's a voice that's really hard to hear in the background and I can't tell if it sounds like her or not xD.

was the modern rock version of red cliff used in dynasty warriors?

cause it might just be some random background music....

though i do like #1

what a funny name for a video game :3
wow, the monsters look like legendary pokemon but AWESOMERR! :luv2
i hope the tie-in will be EPIC and BATTLE WORTHY ;) or...a sad ending (like Sanctuary) o_O

i just hope the game will be popular because even if alan does have a tie-in, it should at least be a popular tie-in~ then she'll sell lots!

or we can hope john woo go direct another chinese war movie :roflmao

On Channel-Ai someone wrote:

If it's the ending song I imagine it'll be played in the end credits. Although I'm not sure if they're going to try to make it match the opening theme and background music. I would love for a dark song by alan xD. It'd be amazingggg.

my life doesn't sound very dark though. It'll kind of be sad if a song she named "my life" is her darkest and saddest song xD.

i would just love for alan to have more power in her voice like in kaze no tegami, she could've just given a lot more, other than wailing, sometimes she sounds too...safe~

i think her voice had lots of power in RED CLIFF/Knk even w/o the wailing <3

thanks
It would be cool.:yes

I think I must be the only person who LOVES the cover for hitotsu! T_T

I really would like Beauty to be a dark song, it'd be so cool wouldn't it? I mean we always assume that a song called Beauty would be some girly pretty love song, but what if alan's Beauty was a really dark song where she absolutely belts out the vocals. <3

I would love it if the music for 'my life' was that BGM2! Though I think BGM1 sounds more likely... pretty music too~

She sang the song today at the TGS09 :( No one has anymore information then that though

At JPM someone posted pics from the event:



I don't think I've ever seen her dressed like that before xD. Hopefully she caught the gamers' attentions ;).

Haha, yeah, :P

well, she looked good in it xD

If she was dressing to match the theme of the song it looks like it'll be rock-ish. She kind of reminds me of her Kaze no Tegami PV. That's definitely not a ballad-singing outfit.

But then again, you never know with alan xD.

who wears short shorts, alan wears short shorts! XD

hiya koumori! :) omg, do you like kagome too? best song ever~<3.

I like all alan's B-sides ^^ except the one on megumi no ame single.

Really?? Namida is my favorite out of all her b-sides xD.

Followed by Kagome :).

^ same with me

well it's more like

1. Sakura Modern
2. sign
3. Namida
4. Kagome
5. My Stage

so what are everyone's top 5 b-sides?

I completely forgot about Sakura Modern xD.

My Top 5 are:

1. Namida
2. Kagome
3. Sakura Modern
4. Kimi Omou Sora
5. My Stage

oh that reminds me something about kimi omou sora, does anyone ever get like this....holiday/christmas feeling?

cause every time i listen to it...it just reminds me of christmas day :roflmao idk why haha

I get that feeling when I listen to Kaze no Tegami ._.

I have no idea why, but that's so weird because I was just thinking about that yesterday xD. Kimi Omou Sora makes me think of a pretty green field with alan singing in the middle of it.

Yeah same with me...though I imagine it more like ayu's BLUE BIRD PV without all that sea and with more green XD

1. Sakura Modern
2. Seed of Green
3. Sign
4. Kagome
5. Ashita e no Sanka (orchestral version) (does this count? :P)

^ hmm I don't know, but I guess not, you wouldn't call ayu's remixes on singles as her b-sides?

1) Kagome
2) Sakura Modern
3) Seed of Green
4) Sign
5) My Stage

:heart

1)Kagome
2)Sakura modern
3)My Stage
4)Namida
5)Tokyo mimei


SEED OF GREEN is a little bored.

1&2: Sakura Modern/Namida can't choose :X
3. Kagome
4. sign
5. Tokyo mimei probably, or Shiawase no Kane 2009 ver.

Oh yea, GnT acoustic & ASENS orch would be up there too :)

かごめ is definitely my favourite b-side. :P

Also she looks really hot dressed like that, so fingers crossed for a rock song!

Yeah, i don't believe that alan sing a ballad with boots and shorts,

Hmm I just realized that GOD EATER was postponed from a Fall release to a Winter release. I hope that doesn't affect alan's album release date.

Me, too. I totally associate that song with winter.

i really need to read more when i post on forums...but from my friend who went to the event, he says that my life have the same feel as kuon no kawa

so guess not a fast song then~

omfg alan's hot in the game event. She looks like a badarse female warrior/agent... I smell guns hidden in her boots. ;)

And oh favorite B-Sides... I think I have a few lol

1) Namida
2) Kagome
3) My Stage
4) Seed of Green
5) Sakura Modern

Kuon no Kawa was pretty fast compared to some of her other ballads. And it was pretty epic. And her best selling single. So I guess another Kuon no Kawa wouldn't be so bad xD.

I'm actually kind of excited for it even more now :D. I just hope it's not too happy. I want a darker alan songgggg.

what counts as a ballad? just any kind of love song?

I have no idea really xD. I always just assumed there was just a certain sound that made a song a ballad and that there were different types of ballads. According to Wikipedia it does mean a love song, but I'm pretty sure I've heard ballad-sounding songs that were not about love.

oh so basically, when we say "ballad", it's more of the slow songs~

Im really hoping that GOD EATER song is gonna sound EPIC!! o gosh..cant wait for more news of the album