New spring 2015 song/single!
 

Apparently, ayu just tweeted and confirmed that she finished a song due in Spring! More info to come!! :)

Yay!!! Hopefully we get at least one more single before whatever album is coming next~

yeah! wonder when we will know official date

I smell another ''Hello new me" type music... :rolleyes

Terminal vol.2 please!

Yay! One more single before the album would be awesome :) I am glad that she is back releasing singles

I thought about that too lol

Always exciting~!

Yay, hope it will be released for beginning of Tour, I wanna buy it in Japan *_*

https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408/sta...07735661547521
今春用の新曲できた♡

Yup. She tweeted: "Made a new song for this spring ♡"

edit: Could also be songS. Japanese doesn't specify whether it's single or plural.

I want more Colours-esque songs please!!

No no colour-like song, i want another classic feel of Ayu. I love that she is so active now :o

Yeeey!

Here here!

Maybe a tie-in song? If it has a "due date"...

I hope it's for the album she's ooobviouslyyy gonna release and call Cirque de Minuit or w/e that French is

I wonder if she's just written it or already recorded? I don't think she had the time to go into studios lately. Anyway, it's great to see ayu so active lately since Colours :)

I think its gonna be a hello new me or something like glitter?

Not necessarily, Mirrorcle World was released in spring and Microphone as well got some lives in spring for example. Could be anything. I would hope for a rock-ish track.

Her spring tracks really run the gamut between sweet & badass. Startin', STEP you, NEVER EVER, and Endless sorrow were all released between March and May... but so were TO BE, Hello new me, Daybreak "HAL's Mix 2002," and Moments. Spring is a crapshoot!

Not to mention the fact that she's got A song done, but she doesn't say single in the tweet. It literally said "Made a new song for this spring!" in that tweet and that's it. We could very well have an album on the way, especially with the tour starting in April.

Sounds indeed logical. If she is about to release an album in April she should have planned single for February, like "Rule/Sparkle"

I just wanna a good promo

I hope is not a digital release

Up beat song would be nice.

It could be a rock, she usually doesn't release the same type of songs in a row. Especially since her last was 3 ballads

Want another fairyland or Bluebird tbh. but it's spring ugggg

YAYYYYYYYY so happy for this!

Based on what? The march/spring releases were always so random and glitter was a summer single.

me too!

I'm imagining it will be a track in the vein of Life.

Exciting news!! Just may it not be smth like XOXO.

I can't even begin to explain how extremely excited I am, by simply knowing that ayu's been working on a new song! :D That will just make my Spring just so much better! :love I'm looking forward to knowing more information about any future new songs, that are to come! :)

I certainly hope not! Oh my LAwrdddd

I'm so bored ughhhh I need something to slay me, something satanic or culty, just f me raw with something ayu, anything

LMAO

I want her to do something out of her confort zone, for once at least. These days i've been thinking what would be if she tried something like... Enya. oh gosh :heart

I have the vision that her releases in 2015 will be as same as ones in 2012.
New album + DVD CDL 2014-2015 in spring
Her latest CDL has the same name with the Arena Tour.

Ayumi Hamasaki... 16th album... CIRQUE DE MINUET ~super saiyan Satan rape~ ...?

EDIT: 16th... 16th album. D'oh.

Rock please

I need ayu make an American Horror Story: Freakshow theme PV, she can have two heads and I want her to kill someone in the video

I can imagine the drama if the new song is a ballad, XD.

Hope the new song is for a new single. :)

HERRO NIU MIIIII, HERRO NIU MIII, ATARASHEIIIIIIIII WATASHEYYYWUH


If that happens, I quit

Putting her Utada cover aside; I really would like to see another dance/rock number. GAME, Rule, Sparkle, those types of songs

I think it gonna be upbeat with circus vibe for this coming arena tour
Pleasss put studio version of STEPyou-a nation'14 - that would be its 10th anniversary on this spring as well

Plot twist: it's actually a leftover from this last ballad single.
hahaha. I hope for something like guilty or marionette keeping in mind the live, but I believe she will go for an edm track. Not that I mind!

Ohh great news!
Maybe a new album. Something varied like RnRC would be nice :0

I hope it's not something like Hello new me/Life/medium-something lalala leftover.
Buuuut if it will be same LEVEL and STYLE as Zutto single, I'm in.
I hope the future album will be a AYU album, not Coloresque-american *****it.
I think it's only AYU album I hate as a whole and don't listen to it at all...

and Zutto single is the best thing since Party queen ;o

It's hard to believe it WON'T be for an album, considering the tour starts in April this year. And the album will probably be called Cirque de Minuit knowing her track record.

with the most recent single I truly hope that Ayu has figured out that straight-up "happy" is REALLY not her forte, musically. She does better with songs that are happy, but with doubts; with songs that are sad, but optimistic; songs that are angry and demanding, but with a request for relief. That is ALWAYS what she's been best at. When she doesn't make the darker aspects of a happy song clear enough, the song suffers, and she's been doing that way too much over the last few years. And when she goes 100% sad, a song sounds too melodramatic. It lacks the facets needed to be relatable and truly beautiful.

I'm REALLY hoping the Zutto... single is a sign that she's starting to figure out what she's good at, because it was definitely a few huge steps in the right direction. I'm hoping this next song is a minor-key rock/dance sort of track like Startin' or Rule or STEP you or something... but mostly I hope the next album is full of the multifaceted light-and-dark-mix tracks that ayu is best at.

Armin van buuren just tweeted about going to Japan for his first gig of the year. Please be for ayu!!

If she makes anything circus-y, i can die happy. I love that kinda stuff. I wouldn't mind a rock track like Rule, GAME or something like that.

I get this feeling she is never going back to strong pop style like STEP you, Startin' (though we have Lelio)...but I hope for something of that style in Spring. She can still release her Hello new me song ahha

Whatever we do, we should keep an eye out for Koda's supposed new album release (?). Her sales are a good indicator of how well Ayu might do on the charts with her next album.

Plot twist: It's actually a mini album with the leftover, a remix, and 7 remixes and instrumentals of the one song no one liked from the last single, plus a random remix of Hello new me. And it will be called something like "once more".

^ I can see it having five tracks and being called FIVE 2 :roflmao

*LOVE once more

I really wish that ayu make a cirque du freak single, REALLY

That's great news :D

I have a feeling it's going to be ballad #4.

Wait, is there a song no one liked from the last single? isn't it perfection?!
Aside from that, HAHA I can totally see that. "FIVE again". or "LOVE circus".

FANTASTIC LOVE
MAKE LOVE
LOVERS
LAST LOVE
TRUE LOVE
MAKE TRUE LOVE
ANONYMOUS LOVE
LOVE FAST
LOVIN'
LOVE & HEART
LOVELY
LOVE QUEEN
IMPOSSIBLE LOVE
LOVE PLAYERS
DEEP LOVE

wow another great news,,
so happy that ayu is finally on the roll again..

How bout FIVE Love Songs? :P

FIVE (miss)understood LOVE Songs again? :O

Or maybe A LOVE OF AN ANGEL, TO LOVE AND LOVE, LOVElicious D:

MAKE LOVE again
LOVERS again
LAST LOVE again
TRUE LOVE again
MAKE TRUE LOVE again
ANONYMOUS LOVE again
LOVE FAST again
LOVIN' again
LOVE & HEART again
LOVELY again
LOVE QUEEN again
IMPOSSIBLE LOVE again
LOVE PLAYERS again
DEEP LOVE again

I read that last one and thought, "is that balls deep?" I'm a perv. :\

with "again" the whole list becomes more ridiculous.

I think this coming album will be different from Colours

See this pattern

RnRC (half half) -> Love Songs (Mostly Ballad songs) -> Party Queen (Less Ballad songs) -> Love again (Mostly Ballad songS) -> Colours (Less Ballad songs) -> New Album (Mostly Ballad songs??)

This pretty much explains what I think as well.

I just neead an album with her name, that's all I want

?? She just got married less than 1 year and she should be in a happy mood. The dark / sadness theme seems not really fit for what she is experiencing now

Yeah, I'd love some song not about love, smth like Microphone.

how about sweet season? i like how her career is making a turnabout. like namie amuro since her best fiction album she has been gaining more popularity.

COLOURS of LOVE, could tie in with her last album

lol

i would love for her to have an other peak. She deserves it.

This.

Yay! So glad she's working so much! Bring glory to the terrestial world

Let it be an amazing single

Yayaya

Gagaga

Dadada

Wowowo

Tbh Lovin' or Deep love will happen in the future :P

and maybe Lovers and True Love :P

Or Love story. :p

She isn't as mediatized as she used to be when it was her first peak.
To have another one, she should first get more promotion than she currently has.

I hope it's refreshing and fun, not another ballad

Why is she obsessed with winter and summer? There are 2 other seasons she's forgetting about. I would love love love spring and autumn songs.

MORE LOVE
BABY LOVE
LOVE BOOK
LOVE LOVE LOVE
|_0\/3
RED LOVE
LOVE IN BED
HOT LOVE
WARM LOVERS
LA LA LA LOVE SONGS
INTERNATIONAL LOVE

I can't see she stop having love songs because she is a drama queen on stage. Love gives her drama

Ayumi Hamasaki new single -L'Amore-

I wish sometimes she can write something silly, mindless and cheerful lyrics about her relationship or exes. You know, like Taylor's silly, mindless and cheerful lyrics about her relationship. That would be refreshing than some intense and poetical lyrics.

well look at Namie, she's not on TV apart of a few CMs and the only promo she has usually is magazines. promotion helps but i doubt it makes the bigest difference. i think it's just pure luck.

Maybe she will use French now instead of English, that could be awesome !

Actually she kinda has used French. :D Bonus points for whoever knows what song title ^_^

I'mma make this a game just cuz I'm that type of person.



Neither he nor I said we wanted 100% dark/sadness. Part of the problem is that ayu is a singer, for her job, and professionals should play to their strengths... "Happy" is just not something she's good at IMHO. I love that she has the happiness in her life to write & perform happy songs about being content and relaxed and pleased, but she doesn't do them well. She does do OTHER happy feelings well, though - Relief? YES. Fear of losing something precious that she's obtained? YES. Overcoming obstacles and feeling victorious? YES. Excitement about some happiness coming in the future? YES. And see, those are all emotions resulting from happiness - but they're COMPARATIVE happiness. Happiness that only exists as an opposite to sadness or dissatisfaction or hard times. That juxtaposition is what makes her songs work when they work.

On top of it, who are you (or anyone else) to say she SHOULD be feeling happy just because she's married? Okay, awesome, ONE aspect of her life is going swimmingly. But humans are complex creatures with a wealth of emotions that shift from one month to the next, one day to the next, one MINUTE to the next. And our love lives are one piece of a large, varied, complex, busy life full of other people & situations.

Maybe Ayu is stressed about her career, maybe one day she muses about how her life would be different if she hadn't called Max that day in 1997, maybe she beats herself up about working through her ear problem instead of getting surgery, maybe she worries about starting to drink too much again, maybe she has horrible self-esteem issues still, maybe she mourns the loss of a certain era of her life.

But see, normal people have stress about their families & friends, work issues, doubts, moments of low self-confidence, moments of weakness, and we can ALL relate to that stuff. Songs often make us feel less alone, or help us articulate our feelings in a way we couldn't do ourselves. And Ayu was always good at being an inadvertent cheerleader for people who'd gone through similar issues as her, simply by talking about them. Her happy songs worked because they didn't just say "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME," they said "You know what, that stuff sucked... but maybe it's okay now." It acknowledged the darkness. And it's nice to hear songs coming from someone who's been through some stress but isn't afraid to talk about it, and has the strength in them to tell you that maybe you'll be alright.

And like I said... we don't want 100% unhappy either. When Ayu does straight-up happy OR straight-up sad songs, either one, she doesn't succeed because the other side of the coin doesn't get shown. Even ayu's sad & angry songs like "Last minute" and "Memorial address" and "teddy bear" work because they're all about DISAPPOINTMENT, disillusionment, the comedown FROM happiness into anger or sadness.

This is getting long-winded and I'm not even totally sure I'm getting my thoughts across, but basically... emotional complexity. That's what Ayu does best, and the more of that she does, the better.

^Scar

"L'amore" is italian actually, in french that would be "L'amour" ^^

And she used BRILLANTE, which is French too (or Spanish, but to me it's French).

And I totally agree with you Delirium-Zer0 :yes

It's spanish :)

Lelio its italian or not?

But we have the same word here, so I assume both are right :)

I'm not 100% sure but I think she said in an interview that she used "Lelio" as a substitute for "la la la", so in Ayu's case it doesn't have a real meaning.

do you that article somewhere? i've been dying to know what Lelio means :yes

Was it really an article? I thought it was that interview about the songs where she said that.
If there is an actual article though I would like to read that too.

Alterna also.

I translated that bit and it was from the latest documentary of hers ^^ you can find the translation somwhere in the "ayu music news" I believe. yep, she made it up. It just sounded nice for that kind of beat instead of the usual lalala. lol ayu!

oh okay thanks! i didn't have a clue it was completely made out of nowhere :D:shakehead

Thanks for clearing up where it's from :) I wasn't sure anymore if it was in an interview or an article.