Sure and that's why Party Queen was such an awesome album.

^ I agree with you there, even though two of those examples aren't from Party Queen lol.

^Well actually three songs that kagami listed aren't from Party Queen
Ivy - LOVEagain
beloved - FIVE
Wake Me Up - LOVEagain
Letter - Party Queen

I do know which song is from which album Misho ^^

The point is, Party Queen did not have so many love songs. It barely had any as opposed to LOVE again.

^Of course that you know there is no arguing there xD
The discussion was about theme's (topics) in those songs or similarities between them if any. Party Queen had an totally different approach and i needed six months to actually grasp the meaning of everything,since i was in a different state of mind.
I can't wait enough for the new album but it's always so nice when in between Ayu's announcements for the new stuff I always revisit her previous stuff.
Sorry for the looon post

I think it'll be a while before we get our hands on the new album somehow.

I'm guessing the timeline here will be
March/beginning of April: record album
rest of April/beginning of May: film PVs
late April: album date announcement
June/early July: album release. It's gonna be a dance album, therefore summer songs.

No more "love" in the album title, please. LOL

For the lyrics hope there will be some awesome ones like SURREAL and decision. :)

I don't see a plausible reason for producing albums in collaboration with DJs. In my opinion DJs have to refrain from wasting original studio albums; they'd do a much better job for the remix albums. Do not contaminate the studio versions... please.

omg I would freaking love a late June ayu album for my birthday! :D :D :D

We had no "Final Love" til yet. So maybe "New Love" this time?

I seriously hope she would take a lot of time to work on this album. I don't want her to rush things and a late June album would be just that. A rushed work that would make people hate on it. When Ayu takes time to work on her new album it turns out to be awesome. At least in my eyes. :)

Most of ayu's albums are "rushed", and they turned out pretty great. June would be like Rock'n'Roll Circus and it wouldn't be rushed at all, as a fact, since recording like 9-10 songs and some PVs in a span of 4 months is a lot of time.

Rushed was always a baseless excuse for people to not like something imo. I think that people just didn't like stuff and called it rushed, not because it was really rushed. LOVEppears and I am... for example should be really rushed since she released a song and then the album like every two months. Secret was called her most rushed album but it was actually good and she probably worked on it more than other albums. So as long as she doesn't work on something for 1 month, I think that she is ok.
It's fine to dislike songs for the albums, but call them rushed while the albums weren't made in a month or a few days is just using "rushed" as a scapegoat word.

Duty is her most rushed album ever and it's quite successful... :P

@channy
A lot of the biggest pop producers ever are/were DJs...

Am I the only one who notice that Ayu added 'Bodkin' to her Facebook name and also changed her relationship status to Married?
So now at least we know she's married to someone called Mr. Bodkin. ;P

Link

Hmmm...interesting

same !


TNeilson->i highly doubt its her official one .
the only one that i know of that's official is this one https://www.facebook.com/ayu.official?ref=br_tf ( and its most likely her staff writting it )

^ That one is her personal Facebook

I wonder if Mr. Bodkin has an fb account LOL

What a surname! Not sure Ayumi Hamasaki-Bodkin sounds that rolls off the tongue lol but I love how she added it to her FB! Hope her and her hubby had a great honeymoon (I assume they went away anyway!)

I noticed one of the FB pages Ayumi likes is Katarzyna Konieczka, who I've never heard of, but she is an avant garde fashion designer. She sure has some interesting designs. Be cool if Ayu used some of her clothes in a PV!