Yes, you are so right! I fully agree to your post.
An HQ version would only blow our mind even more.
I am so totally exciting for the album. I even consider to pre-order it.

without that bass Sayonara sounds really bland. Bass is what actually makes that song lol

They are not my type really but I apprieciate they aren't typical ayu songs. (I mean: ballads)
plus they fit the summer album very well.

That... would be me then. xD
Summer Diary sounds really boring to me. Very typical and it would fit on A One.
On the other hand Sayonara sounds great so far!
Just like What is forever love?, Sayonara has such a nice melody. Melodies are Daishi Dance' strong point imo. Don't know about the arrangement of the song, need HQ for that (it was lacking in WIFL? e.g.). But it does sound very promising.

Thanks for sharing!

^there we go!lol

man, i really need previews. why can't they give out those already T_T

somehow there is this mood in Summer diary that reminds me of Hello new me's verses :D

I hope Shape of Love + other one would would surprise me a bit...

So we know a RedOne track is gonna be hyper and dancey
I think Shape of Love is gonna be a ballad (hopefully a HANABI not a Sunset ~LiA~)

^ I don't think there's gonna be a RedOne track anymore... Since they updated the track list info, all mentions of it have been removed and instead they are mentioning DD...

^ maybe she'll save the RedOne track for later? It could be one of those tracks she recently recorded... After the promotion they did about that track it would be odd for them to just drop it. Or maybe she listened to the song and didn't like it and decided "yeah... not gonna happen, let me get Daishi Dance instead" lol

I am loving the heck out of Summer diary <3 and it's not even in HQ yet lol It's very nostalgic sounding. I don't know what type of emotion I should be feeling haha It's happy and uplifting yet it feels a bit melancholy.

Sayonara also sounds decent considering Im no fan of DD. What's taking them so long to announce the tracklist though XD It's literally just one track left.

Ooo weird...maybe she'll make a PV for it in future LOL

Btw do the lyrics for the Sayonara chorus go
"Doushitara, doushitara, doushitara
Kirei ni nareru no
Doushitara, doushitara, doushitara
Wasurerareno"

I really like Sayonara! DD is my jam <3

Summer Diary don't sound generic to me. I think it's a song who grows with more listens. In HD will be better.

It's possible. Maybe the outcome wasn't good enough for her and she decided to put it aside and work it again in the future when she really know how to have what she really want.

I absolutely LOVED both songs! :heart

It's not "kirei", it's "kirai". Big difference. And the last line is "wasurerareru no".

Anyway, we've already been discussing parts of the lyrics in the Twitter thread because she tweeted snippets of them a few weeks ago.

Summer Diary and Sayonara already sound sooo much better than Step by Step. Thank goodness. Step by Step isn't bad. It's just too much on the basic side for me to ever listen to.

I'm really looking forward to the rest of Sayonara and the PV. Spexial sounds nice as well.

I really want to see Summer Diary PV....the Japanese reaction is sooooo...happy...they are so excited..I want to see the scene when they were cheering...

I can't stop listen to Summer Diary...the song is so good, relaxing, nostalgic...please..please..please..that this can be another hit from Ayu...I have hope on Summer Diary...the song feels now...very modern...Ayu vocal is so majestic...
Hoping there will be bridge or interlude part...I really love the arrangement...too bad that we won't get instrumental track...it will be great if she included the instrumental track on the album.

どうしたら
嫌いになれるの

どうしたら
忘れられるの

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Damn. Summer Diary and Sayonara are definitely Ayumi Hamasaki. Like, I haven't heard this kind of sound from her since 2006... it's like (miss)understood stopped by after 10 years traveling the world.