A ONE tracklist
 

<CD>
01. a Bell
02. WARNING
03. NO FUTURE
04. Anything for You
05. Last minute
06. Zutto...
07. Out of control
08. Story
09. The GIFT
10. The Show Must Go On
11. Walk
12. (TA version only) Tell All (2015 mix)


＜DVD/Blu-ray＞
・Zutto... (video clip)
・Last minute (video clip)
・The GIFT (video clip)
・WARNING (video clip)
・Zutto... (making clip)
・Last minute (making clip)
・The GIFT (making clip)
・WARNING (making clip)

http://avex.jp/ayu/news/detail.php?id=1019649

Those are interludes, aren't they? a Bell and Anything For You?

a Bell is surely an interlude but Anything For You could be a full one.

I think this tracklist will sound disjointed. I'm a little confused as to why Last minute, Out of control, and WARNING are so far apart, and they're all rock tracks. To be honest, The GIFT sounds like an end track, whereas Walk should be somewhere in the middle. I have no clue how this arrangement will sound, but I'm a little worried it's going to sound like a fucked up mixtape rather than a reasonably arranged list of tracks.

Hopefully there is something about these tying them from one to another like this. It seems weird though.

^ Agree, though I think the one most disjointed is The Show Must Go On.
Oh well, I just hope Anything For You is a full track. Hopefully a Bell too, but I doubt that.

I like the tracklist and I think it'll work out alright, but I think The show must go on is totally out of place. And so might be "Anything for You", but we don't know how it sounds yet. The title feels like a generic ballad and makes me think of Namie's "ALL FOR YOU".

a Bell might be instrumental
but I really hope Anything for You is full song. Otherwise it will be shortest album ever with only 9 full songs

i think A bell and Anything for you will be interludes

a Bell seems like a introduction but Anything for You, I don't know... It would separate just two songs from the rest of the album and the title sounds like a full song title.

I hope it is a full song even if it's really hard to tell the genre... after all when I read the titles I thought snowy kiss was a winter ballad, Gloria e dark gothic song and petal a sweet ballad. Obviously the first expectation is that Anything for you is a power ballad but I hope is more an angry and strong approach on the topic "I would do anything for you" with rock tune...

...or maybe is actually spelled as "ANything for you" and is another song feat. Urata Naoya. (trolol)

It would be very strange to put interludes between 2 songs and nothing for the 7 remaining tracks ? We will see but I don't think that "Anything for you" be interlude ^^

I've no problem with the tracklist but I wouldn't have put Zutto... after last minutes ... but it's not a big deal I rarely listen albums in the order ^^

It's not that strange though. NEXT LEVEL had the title track placed between Bridge to the sky and Disco-munication which is an intro and an interlude, so two tracks wouldn't be that weird.

I think the tracklist order is based more on lyrics content than song styles.

Anyhow. I hope Anything for You will be a full track, but I won't get my hopes up.

^^
Yes but after we have "Load of the Shugyo" & "Pieces of Seven" to separate each part of the album lol that's why I'm doubtful ;)

I agree the order must be based on the lyrics !

Kind of a worrisome bunch of titles. :(

I also agree that the order of the songs must be based on the lyrics meaning. So I'm cool with it. I'm hoping for some artistic covers

Yeah, it seems that the album is more cohesive on the lyrics side (and there's a long ballad section so a part of it on the musical style as well).

I think that a Bell is an interludes and Anything for you is a full song. We can't know for sure though.
It would be 7 new full songs though which is good.

I don't think we can complain on the number of new songs though. Colours was released barely 9 months before A ONE's release.
And 6-7 is not too bad. We got 6 with Colours.

Right. People are so greedy.

yes, I'm greedy. I think it's better to wait longer and work slowly to release full album, than make something between mini and full but to special date.
Who ask Ayu to release something so soon?

^ getting ready for an Asia tour :D

Please, let it a Bell be awesomely lyric intro!!

I miss her lyric intros so muchhhhhh

I rather have 6 new songs to concentrate on than 15. Its is enough since I get new ones every year. i would even go as far and say I could live with having 1-2 mini-albums a year.

I like the titles :)

a BELL is probably an interlude, but the rest may just as well be full songs. I hope so, since the tracklist isn't big.

I hope we get to see the covers soon :heart

Prolly 5 covers like we got with Colours...I forgot there wasn't a TA CD-only edition. oop

Listening to The GIFT's official preview on her Discography page and it sounds really good imo. *shrug*

The GIFT isn't bad. It's just boring (for me at least).

I am looking forward to the lyrics though cause it seems like she loves this song a lot so I'm just going to assume she put a lot of thought into writing this.

Hopefully Anything for You is a full song.

I posted a tiny snippet in the album thread if you wanna go look. It's missing the first two verses bc I'm not entirely sure of a few words. :)

In French, "a bell" (une cloche) is how we call a dumb person :3

This is what I was going to say lol.

If she can't make a full album because it hasn't been long enough since the last one, then she should just, uh, wait? No one really asked her to put out a new album right now. Of course, she could just be releasing this out of contractual obligations, but people around here get really touchy when you say stuff like that lmao.

I would much rather she took 2 years to release a proper full thought-out album than keep putting out these mixtapes though.

ANYWAY. Judging from positioning, a Bell is totally going to be an introlude, but Anything for You looks like it might be a full track. Hopefully NOT another ballad or I might just scream.

^you are in the space of the japanese idol sytsem...altough she has many features of an artist, she remains and idol - who has to stay on the scene as much as possible. She has the luck that, despite her ppor sales, her live shows are still selling...and she needs new music for that.

The reasons she is releasing this so soon can be of different nature - it could have to do with her label, the japanese music-industry or personal needs. We can just speculate about those, but 11 tracks to e is already a full album.

Moreover - only very few albums are better, just because she took 2 years (and she probably wont. since almost always - asia or western countries - albums are produced and recorded 2 month before its release date. You just think they took so long because there was a gap)

I'm not really talking about how long it takes to record the album.

Just because she recorded the album in a 2 month span doesn't mean that's the entire time she spent conceptualizing and creating the album. Ayu doesn't really compose anymore, so she doesn't have the "excuse" of spending excess time writing new material, but there's still plenty of other factors. For example, MY STORY ended up being her 2nd longest album and the first one she started conceptualizing from the very first single. I don't remember exactly how long it took to get from Moments to MY STORY, but she did spent at least about a year planning out and conceptualizing that album, and had definitely started picking out tracks for it long before the "2 months" period before it was released. (I seem to remember the About You CM coming out eeeons in advance at least.)

Furthermore, I wasn't even saying she should literally spend 2 years making the album in the first place lol. I was saying she should take 2 years to RELEASE one. That's why I said "she should take 2 years to RELEASE", not "take 2 years to RECORD." As in, wait until she feels inspired, has something to write about, has a clear VISION in her mind, and has a good selection of demos that make a proper album.

I mean, you're basically just reiterating that she's releasing it out of contractual obligations, which is what I already said in my original post lol.

I find it hard to believe A ONE is being released out of contractual obligations, as it's only been 9 months since Colours was released. She sounds like she's really pumped up about AT2015 and probably wanted a new album to be able to promote while on tour.

So I decided to check out the preview of the GIFT.

Terrible. And I don't actually believe it's the composition or the song itself, it's ayus voice! It totally clashes with the style of the song, which is very A Song For XX era. You can literally hear the filter they have place over ayus voice at certain parts. She's just all over the place in this song.

this :yes

Maybe that too, but they're both equally bad to me lol. I hate the idea of releasing an album just for something to tour with. IMHO it really shows and makes for poorer music quality when artists do that.

I'd rather she waited and produced an album because she actually felt like making the music itself, not because she wanted to tour or avex was holding a gun to her head lol.

lmao true enough :yes

^^you are a really tough person to talk to..even in other threads. I still think it has to do with the concept of the Japanese music, and as i wrote my masterthesis about it, I actually read a lot about it. And as an artist i can say it takes very different timespans to get something ready.. if the concept is ready in her eyes, she can relase what ever she wants. Maybe she just did not feel like she needed the
time... and sometimes overthinking won't help.

and MY STORY is a bad example in my eyes...even if it second on my favourite album list, I think the album could have easily been shorter. It drags on to much especially towards the end. I dont need an album where I get the feeling "I have to sit through". But yes, it has a good overall concept, but so has Love songs, I am and even GUILTY.

I apologize. :) I just didn't really "get" your argument because you were basically saying everything I said but in a contradictory tone as if you disagreed lol.

^oh no I'm sorry. I'm in favour of leaving everyone with its own opinion - like I prefer shorter albums oppsed to you - and I think that is okay. I just don't like when people (not you in particular) try to act like they are able to look inside Ayus (and other artists) mind and pretend to know their artistic process and the reasons for their decisions. I'm sorry if I sounded offending.

The GIFT sounds so beautiful in HQ.

I love how some people can say the total opposite about a song, like Zeke said that The GIFT sounded absolutely terrible and truehappiness that it sounded very beautiful :laugh
I'm still not listening to the previews but i'm gonna trust truehappiness on this one

It def feels like a Bell is an intro but idk about Anything for you, the title sounds like a full track but why wouldn't she let us hear it at the events? Why would she hold back ONE song and why this one?

The sound of everything in The GIFT is really rich feeling in high quality. The other previews don't do it justice. For me, the song just feels warm and inviting.

^
I agree and I really like her voice in this song ! she sang in her lower tone it's very gentle and warm !

Totally agree with you.

As a lot of persons here I think that A Bell could be an introduction. I already hear an alarm at the end to introduce WARNING.
Anything for You is not a title for an interlude according to me. I bet that it'll be a full song.

Looking at the tracklist, this is probably the most jumbled up album she's had in ages at least when it comes to genres.

I hope Anything for You will be full but WHO KNOWS!

As I mentioned, the song itself doesn't sound bad, Hell it might even sound great if 2001-2003 Ayu was singing it. But her voice... Another reason why I just wish she'd come over the "dark" side and commit to rock for good. Her voice is at home with that genre. I don't give a fuck if she'd take a huge hit in the sales department.

After hearing the high quality preview of WARNING it feels like it's right off NEXT LEVEL, reminds me of identity a lot. I love it! Also makes me think of (don't) Leave me alone for some reason.

WARNING is way faster than identity or most of her rock songs.

WARNING makes me feel like a dark version of evolution ^^'

Yay, it's not just me. It reminds me of identity too. They don't really sound a ton alike, but they totally have the same vibe. WARNING would totally fit right in on NL.

Still kinda wish she left off walk even though it was an A-side.
I don't know if I like last minute before zutto. I'm so used to the opposite.
I also kinda wish the album was like 14-16 songs long, or even 12 without interludes. If the interludes were 3 min then it wouldn't be that bad I guess...

WARNING is a bit like identity and 1 LOVE's baby IMO.

There is hope for another new song, Anything for you needs to be a full song !!!

(Thoughts based purely on the song titles & just for fun)

A Bell - sounds like it will be a cool intro
Anything For You - the name makes me think of a barf worthy ballad

Well, 10 full tracks is OK. 9 isn't. It's bad enough this release and the last one seem to be skimmed of the bells and whistles of even records like La and PQ. The least we could get is 10 tracks in total and one interlude. If Anything for you is an interlude, I'll be disappointed on the merit that we should have had an actual album.

And don't forget that PQ was released about 7 months after FIVE, and all 11 tracks, 3 interludes, were brand new.

But then with FIVE and Party Queen there were 16 full songs overall in a span of 7 months. Colours and A ONE are 19 full songs (if Anything for you is an interlude).
It's an extremely normal output in the the of 9 months and we have to thank for that. Not even other artists or female singers do that (even in Japan).
Maybe it's good that she doesn't do more than that in that time span since she would have ended up making filler over filler songs just for the sake of having songs. At least she puts a lot of effort into it and try to build a lyrical/musical idea about something even 9 full songs is not so bad. It's just that we are not used to it.

It's 10/11 full songs on the TA version =P

Warning is Rule done right ahaha! I'm ok with the previews, I think I'll end up liking no future and the show must go on. The gift could really go both ways, so far I find it boring as heck but it's a grower for sure. Out of control sounds dead nice too. And I don't need to mention Warning, probably the best on the album so far!

Totally love the tracklist! :heart From the titles that we've haven't heard of, until now, I've gotta say that "Anything For You" is such a sweet & lovely title, and I already look forward to hearing the song. :) Speaking of songs, I actually just heard some of the album previews & omg...I truly believe that "A ONE" is going to shape up to be one incredible album! :D I looove every preview I've heard, so far! But if I had to pick one most favorite (...or two!) it would absolutely be "WARNING" & "Out of control". They're so awesome! :D I am sooo excited for this album now, I'm just loving it so much right now. :love

Based on the location of "Anything for you" on the tracklist, I hope she'll surprise me and this song is nothing like I expect :D

I wouldn't mind it being an interlude because I really miss her interludes, but I think it's a weird placement for an interlude, I'd rather have a "sandwich" of interlude-The Show Must Go On-interlude, because TSMGO seems really out of place. Maybe she though that we'd be really bored if Walk was right after The GIFT though? XD Especially because we have so many ballads before that.

I don't really mind only having 9 songs. I adore the "Zutto.../Last minute/Walk" single and I loved the previews, and I'd rather have fewer songs than end up not liking half of the album. Besides, if Anything for you is actually a full song, then it's not extremely unusual since we already have albums with only 10 full songs (Colours, GUILTY, NEXT LEVEL). Yes, GUILTY and NEXT LEVEL do have more interludes, but for me it's not a really big deal as long as I really like the songs.

Well, I mean, by "hit" you mean... what, exactly? These days, a "hit" could mean one fan didn't like the album and decided not to buy it. A "hit" could also mean that two fans didn't like the album and decided not to buy it. A "hit" could also mean that one fan bought it but decided to return it alongside two fans not buying the album.

Anything for You better be a full song! I'm excited at the song titles. :D

"a Bell" can't be an intro because it doesn't have "task" in it :P

..."task" has never been in any of her album intros.

See: Are You Wake Up?, Bridge to the sky, Mirror, THE introduction, et al

^ I think it wasn't meant to be taken seriously

So after taskebab, taskobell?

^ lmao

lol taskobell!!!

No no, it'd be taskowbell.

Yo quiero taskobell.

"taskintro" wouldnt be a bad name tho

I'm just gonna note her need to have "A Bell" and "the Gift."

I wish I could elaborate more on that thought but I somehow don't have the ability to.

Hmm... maybe Anything for You is a track recorded COMPLETELY IN ENGLISH and that's why she doesn't want to reveal it until the album is released.~

No offense to western Ayu friends, but i really don't want ayu to record a full song in english. But if Anything for You is, so be it. LOL

^I completely agree. It would just never work.

I think the amount of English she does is good in songs. I don't mind English getting used but I don't know if she is ready for a full English song. Maybe a trance style song

a Bell, wedding bell...

I'm TOO obsessed with WARNING~!

Or maybe it's another collaboration song with b'z besides "Be careful" lol

YES. I agree with you that she better WAIT longer to release full album...two years maybe? IMHO she could make three more good singles just with the songs in the album preview.

She probably really wanted to get it out before the tour. I wonder if we'll get a winter album this year.

YES, a winter album would be cool! :D I know it might be unfathomable that even with this new album coming out I could still get so excited about another new album.

A winter is still a reason to record more ballads which is meh.
She should make sth like A BALLADS (but not with ballads) with some original tracks + new arragments ones. That would be cool. Something like Ladies Night ~Another Night~!

I'm not going to listen to any previews until I get the album, but I like the tittles and the opinions I have read about the songs. I think a Bell is going to be an introduction in the vein of Mirror, Bridge to the sky, not yet... but I don't think Anything for you will be an interlude, don't know why but I imagine it being like Terminal regarding to lyrics.
I would love to see simple covers this time, in the style of the promo picture with the microphone in black and white, something like that would be simply gorgeous.

I will take anything as epic as Mirror.
That DAMN intro! <3

IKR her best intro ever which turned into even more epic song.