Originally Posted by takashi526 (Post 2945740)

where a RULE?

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect (Post 2945819)

Creative? Sure. I know a lot of people who are "creative" and make complete, useless crap from their creativity. PQ was a great album for only a couple songs. After 20 minutes of listening, you have to be drunk and wearing a shoe on your face just to "imagine" where Ayu is coming from in the music. I'm still very angry with them for not releasing Return Road as a single, and I probably always will be. I would NOT, however, call anything at the end of PQ "creative". I would call it life threatening white noise.

I would never call FIVE or PQ some of her "best work". I think if you feel that way, you really don't have a well-rounded perspective on her career. I would say she's had some best work from points in her career, but her "best work" isn't anything released in the last 5 years.

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN (Post 2945838)

rule was fan made and was never official, not sure why anyone was expecting that. i wish more people would ****ing read rather than just look at pics and watching videos.

can't believe I'm ****ing buying this.

Originally Posted by pepper (Post 2945835)

I expected that tracklist. The cover is huge joke though...

I'm only excited for Love song class. ver.
And maybe M/SEASONS a little. I think Dearest/Voyage might be not so changed, cause their arragments are very minimalistic (Voyage itself is kinda "classical" in original)

Originally Posted by Bad Wolf (Post 2945842)

DRAMA QUEENS STAY PRESSED
THIS LOOKS AWESOME
GET YO PANTIES OUT OF A KNOT AND RELAX. you'll probably be downloading this anyway lol

Originally Posted by Uemarasan (Post 2945717)

Yeah, 2012 definitely is the worst year Ayu has ever had, musically speaking. I hope her fans cease from buying into this kind of lazy, uninspired work to force her into seriously rethinking and reconsidering the future direction of her musical career. Frankly, this kind of garbage is a one-way ticket to dinner theater and discount bins. She needs a healthy shock to her system to get that creativity flowing again.

I'm always optimistic when it comes to Ayu, but seriously, from Five onwards she has been nothing but a major disappointment. Hikki released one song and one video this year, and both of those blew away all that Ayu had done for the past couple of years. At this point, Ayu should think about collaborating (it worked for Namie) with REAL artists and younger composers and not just random and old people she likes. Superfly, Yasutaka Nakata, Funky Monkey Babys, Naoto Inti Raymi, Jake Shimabukuro, Mr. Children, Kuwata Keisuke, Ikimonogakari. You know, COOL people. If she continues on this track, she'll most likely end up as an irrelevant fossil before her time.

Originally Posted by Bigtop (Post 2945490)

Wait a minute...

I have a feeling JEWEL is an OUTSIDE shot... I have a feeling JEWEL isn't going to make the cut... :(

Originally Posted by Polyrhythm (Post 2945869)

:roflmao That cover

Tracklist isn't completely horrendous but there's no way in hell I'd pay 3100 yen for that (really? 10 tracks?). Don't expect too much from the actual tracks either. Based on how much time they spent on the cover, they probably spent like an hour tops mixing the songs. Also, no Secret; waste of potential (but that's just me). Is this whole whacky release schedule actually for the fans or for ripping off the fans? She's making good music for the first time in...forever, but they decided to release it in these bizarre, poorly-charting, half-assed "mini-albums." Seriously, why didn't they just give her a proper 15th Anniversary and release one solid album? It'd chart better. Win for Ayu. Win for the fans....Loss for avex...which I guess is the reason why.

Originally Posted by HikariDesu (Post 2945866)

WTF!!! What a ****in cover!! The worst ever!!!
And the tracklist... OMG!! And where the **** is "Rule"??? The upload a video on youtube!!!

Originally Posted by Bad Wolf (Post 2945842)

DRAMA QUEENS STAY PRESSED
THIS LOOKS AWESOME
GET YO PANTIES OUT OF A KNOT AND RELAX. you'll probably be downloading this anyway lol

Originally Posted by Ayu-me (Post 2945653)

The skill of the cover artist doesn't really matter much to me, what bothers me is that the original cover was very simple, which worked with its colors and the fact that the mini "LOVE" centered on pop ballads, but for a majestic classical album to have this colorless facial close-up... No. It just doesn't work for me.

Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 2945898)

I wonder if the gift for buying all 5 is going to be worth it. It had really better not be 'wallpapers' or something since the money going into buying all 5 releases will probably be... insaaaaaane. Maybe it'll be like early online streaming of an entire set of unreleased tracks or something like an entire full 'album' of them, I don't know. An extra that costs five releases of codes to get... it just has to be something more than just downloadable wallpapers or images.