New mini album 'sixxxxxx' out August 5th, 2015 IV
 

ayumi hamasaki『sixxxxxx』
mini-album in stores 2015.08.05

Ayumi Hamasaki brings new mini album! Among the songs are 「Step by step」 which is being used as the theme song for NHK Drama "Boys and fellows" starring actress Nakama Yukie, a dance tune produced by RedOne, who was also in charge of ayumi cover of Utada Hikaru's 「Movin' on without you」, and 「Sayonara feat. SpeXial」 (Produced by DAISHI DANCE) the song collaborated with SpeXial, one of popular artists in Taiwan! Total 5 songs that feature on the album with good variety! DVD/Blu-ray includes three video clips and three making clips!

=== RELEASE ========================================
「sixxxxxx」CD+DVD | AVCD-93157/B | ¥2,800
http://i.imgur.com/gX53flh.jpg
<CD content>
・ Step by step
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial
・ Shape of Love
・ Summer diary
・ Sorrows
* 5 songs total
<DVD content>
・ Step by step (video clip)
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial (video clip)
・ Summer diary (video clip)
・ Step by step (making clip)
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial (making clip)
・ Summer diary (making clip)
* 6 videos total

「sixxxxxx」CD+Blu-ray | AVCD-93158/B | ¥3,200
http://i.imgur.com/PTIsOX3.jpg
<CD content>
・ Step by step
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial
・ Shape of Love
・ Summer diary
・ Sorrows
* 5 songs total
<Blu-ray content>
・ Step by step (video clip)
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial (video clip)
・ Summer diary (video clip)
・ Step by step (making clip)
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial (making clip)
・ Summer diary (making clip)
* 6 videos total

「sixxxxxx」CD | AVCD-93159 | ¥1,800
http://i.imgur.com/fopnPqm.jpg
<CD content>
・ Step by step
・ Sayonara feat. SpeXial
・ Shape of Love
・ Summer diary
・ Sorrows
* 5 songs total

「sixxxxxx」CD+GOODS *Limited to 300
￥33,200 **Sold out
album CD + V-MODE Limited Headphone
http://i.imgur.com/BHacvgC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Q2n0w7b.jpg

=== DIGITAL RELEASE ================================
「Step by step」single 2015.07.01
http://i.imgur.com/NQKuO5Qm.jpg

=== COVERS ========================================


=== TeamAyu / mu-mo goods ============================
TeamAyu:
Metallic stickers OR Original mirror
http://i.imgur.com/Qj4Cm18.jpg
※ sticker size: length 148mm × horizontal 100mm

mu-mo:
Original mirror
http://i.imgur.com/OKsZWhH.jpg

=== Songs preview =================================








=== TV-CM ======================================


=== LYRICS PREVIEW ================================


=== TRANSLATION ==================================
Step by step: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121708
Sorrows : http://ahsforum.com/forum/showpost.p...&postcount=173

=== PV Info =======================================



=== Songs info ==================================
Step by Step [4:38]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement :

Summer diary []
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Sayonara feat. SpeXial [5:38]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music & Produced : DAISHI DANCE
featured vocal : SpeXial

all Sayonara related photos

1481x2048
http://i.imgur.com/wZHkZ0ym.jpg

3000x2000
http://i.imgur.com/KJp9apem.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oLly1owm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g18Iz1Mm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mGGLEQUm.jpg

I can't wait for her new Album. Sounds so great. Hope the Covers are somthing special.

This concept would have been perfect for covers !!

so can we expect the title of the 5th song to start with the letter "S" as well? =x

so is RedOne track still gonna happen?

^Yes, I think so :3

probably.

I really wanted those headphones :(

Maybe the last song is sixxxxxx.

Sixth Sense would be a great track title imo

^ I like that!

we would propably end up with "sixxxxxx senses". :D

Sayonara's video looks really promising

this is such a torture.

oh and they are sharing the best part of the video that's gonna only probably take like 30% of it.

^yes this is a torture and boring waiting

Well, the first look we got of it was the bed stuff. According to people who saw the preview, it's mostly bed stuff with the 'fierce' stuff in the beginning. I guess that choreography may come after what concertgoers saw?

I have some difficulties to imagine all these different elements connected together lol even the music seems to be quite light popish while Ayumi's dress and positions are quite suggestive ^^

Jesus, the headphones sold out already?

They sold out in the first 3 or 4 hours.

What a shame, I was just thinking of buying a new pair since the current ones are dying out...this would have been perfect.

here's hoping they produce more tbh.

I'm hoping she follows this with another release announcement. I feel like I'm observing more appreciation for her releases if people have to wait a little longer to receive them after an announcement.

Excited for sixxxxxx. And now, after Nintendo's viewpoint on DD, very curious for how DD's sound works with Ayu on Sayonara. Expecting goodness.

The title should go though lol

You'll likely be able to find at least one set on auction but who knows how much others who missed out would pay for those.

I figured, but I have a good feeling the price will be jacked up (as if it wasn't already jacked up) :/

Hideaki Sunaga did Step by step! I love his videos~

I really didn't know that she had tattoos on her thighs.....
I'm so late

but it would never be as amazing as Brown Eyed Girls' song by the same name. Lol :)

I'm looking forward to the rest of this mini! Hope we get covers soon!

I want to have a surprise track title, like Slut, Sloth, etc.

I didn't even remember the BEG song lol Not cause I do not like it (on the contrary), but cause I had a clear image of a rockish and sexy track on my mind already. Like a renewed 1 LOVE.

Now that you said it, "Surprise" could also be a title lol

S could be have many titles..

Small world
Sit on me
Stand by me
Starry Night
Squad
Squirt
Squeeze
Swarovski
Samsung
Sony
Singapore


Never mind I over think

Sex again

Squirt is too freaking funny. XD

@kotora: those titles, especially Sloth, are too much!!!!

How about Spondebob or Squidward? Those would be AMAZING titles. :P

But...

I can't but think a title with the word "star" would be awesome, even if it was simply called Star. But, it also sounds...campy...>.>

Do we really have to go thru every word/phrase that begins with an S...you are not supposed to post just about anything that goes thru your mind^^

Meh...those lips are so dated
http://i.imgur.com/bfNLMSp.png

Finally! The CD+BD cover is the best <3 <3 <3

She looks so gorgeous!

Oh my god... No comment.

serve dem lips~
the meltdown is coming lol

Is this the real deal? If so, i liked the pose, the gray scale, but those fish lips...

And I tought she would do something summerish, like sitting on the beach with "sixxxxxx" wrote in the sand, or something like that...

she looks so beautiful!! Loved the covers <3

Omg these covers are a huge NO.

She looks like she's trying hard to channel Kim K, and her nose looks very unflattering. Not to mention the hair looks like it's they pulled her from the salon chair mid-cut.

Yes they are on Team ayu at least.

I still think she looks good right here, even with the duck lips.

CD only covers looks a bit off though.

She looks different in those pictures, but still so good. I like the covers, not what I expected, but cool.

Just saw the covers on ta, old school ayu~ kind of like them.

The CD+ BR cover is atrocious....like the other 2 tho

really digging these covers :3
go ayu, nice raw and i don't even mind the lips

The covers...not the familiar Ayu we're seeing. I'm underwhelmed at this...

sixxxxxx bigger covers & promo pic

CD

http://i57.tinypic.com/33vnas4.jpg

CD + DVD

http://i58.tinypic.com/ohtlav.jpg

CD + Blu-ray

http://i58.tinypic.com/2qipxll.jpg

Promo pic

http://i58.tinypic.com/2my6n7m.jpg

http://natalie.mu/music/news/153381

I'm not a fan or the CD+BR one but the other two are fine, my fav is the CD only one, too bad i ordered CD+DVD haha.

covers are made in collaboration with 「Numero TOKYO」
like LOVE?
http://mdpr.jp/music/detail/1501074

http://i.imgur.com/bH22hkN.jpg

avex Taiwan uploaded HQ covers of sixxxxxx via their Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/avextw/posts/10155804982665710

YASSSSSSS FISHLIPS AYU IS BACK! I LOVE IT!

At first I thought these were fake. I thought someone photoshopped her face from one of the Sunrise/Sunset covers onto another picture when I saw that CD + Blu Ray cover on facebook.

The CD+DVD one is kinda nice though.

somehow the covers remind me of A BEST

I love you!

I'll be needing a poster of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Covers in big are super!

This pic is lovely.

Stan just a bit :P

At least a stan with some sense, praise be.

We got the Step by step pv yesterday, the album's covers today, i wonder if we'll get something else tomorrow. We don't know the tracklist yet.

I don't think it's for sixxxxxxx but ayu tweeted today that she recorded/still has to record 3 new songs <3

It's probably for her next studio album, Seventeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. The first track is gonna be "egg". It's been over a decade but it's coming!!' Yaaaas

Again? This girl is so productive. ♥

That's one of the reasons she is the true queen.
She slays the slayest, if that makes sense.

"3曲も録れたー！

全部良い曲すぎてザワザワしたー！

ただもう声ガッスガスなうー！笑

添付の写メは全然レコーディングに関係ないけどねー♡ " That's the tweet.

Will this mini transform into full?

Probably not, sixxxxxx title calls for 6 tracks, 5+ 1 hidden/ayu just wanna troll us with 5 tracks (all of them already been recorded).
Unless they cancel the sixxxxxx thing.

So these 3 are probably for a future project, single/original album/best, whatever.

I wonder if that "new album coming soon" in the step by step CM was a hint? Could this change into a full album? Or maybe it'll just be 8 songs and still be a mini album? ... Or it's completely unrelated lol.

LOL WHUT??
she doesn't even look like herself o___o

channeling them koda lips I see ;)

Did JpopAsia just indirectly revealed the finalised tracklist for sixxxxxx on their website ?

http://i58.tinypic.com/k48f4o.jpg

http://www.jpopasia.com/news/ayumi-h...xx::18129.html

If so it feels odd on how they got the info 1st hand :x & assumingly if it's true , the final song title that's not revealed yet is SENSATION (that RedOne supposedly produced ?)

^They just copied what there is on generasia.

girl is on fire, she is unstoppable!

Oh yeah just saw it on generasia LOL

JpopAsia should have cited where they got the info from in the 1st place but ah well :x

this is so cool...please open it in youtube website



She is Avex artist, so Avex create this...I wonder if Ayu will use this idea someday...

loves the cover..

since im a fan of AYU since 2000, the covers is very AYU.

ayu better not pull that LOVE, again and LOVE again stunt again...Lol

I think those covers are kind of horrible looking... Like, how could she not be embarrassed about that...

I don't mind the CD + DVD but it still looks freaky...

Edit: Ok, the way bigger pictures look better than the tiny ones. I definitely like the CD only cover best but that CD + DB looks pretty weird!!

gimme the previews for the sake of sanity!!!

I assume there are a lot of photos of this photoshoot that are way better, but outragiously better.

Ai Otsuka made a video with this technology too, and she is on avex, so I hope ayu joins them.

3 more songs... but for what?

3 more songs? This woman is unstoppable lol

The way things are going, I won't be too surprised if as soon as sixxxxxx is released they end up announcing her next release, just like it happened with this mini...

I think she will release a winter single, because on summer its gonna be a mini

Google Squirt and go to image section, then you know what "too much" really means.

:P Sloth means laziness, it is from deadly seven sins. When she has a song called Pride, I have been dreaming she would do seven sins single series.
Sloth would be one of the songs...

https://instagram.com/usfashionsource/

Looks like Marianna Harutunian did the mask/accessories for Sayonara's 'warrior' section. Hopefully we get to see lots of it!

This is my most anticipated Ayu release in a long time. Those chair shots look awesome!!

https://instagram.com/p/4WYw3pozCz/?...sfashionsource

Dearest god.

That's the Madonna mask though. I was wondering why there were anti-Ayu ripoff articles about the mask though...

3 new songs yay :) but hopefully for a single not another mini. If we do get another mini, i'm gonna have nightmares with love, again = love again.:vsad

i don't think this mini is going to turn into original album since the pricing is for mini album

Mm, probably a winter mini or a single to prepare for a spring album.

Is the RedOne track really out of this?

She also might pull another premium showcase live and release those songs for TA members on the upcoming TA tour.

It's not mentioned at all so maybe it got moved off this release in favor of the DAISHI DANCE track?

Kimura Kaela is releasing a new single called EGG lol

I was thinking the other day if she will release a mini winter album... you know. .. one minI for the summer and one mini for the winter

If she were to do it, I wish it was part of a larger concept, where this summer mini had a title fitting for summer, and the winter mini was titled "SNOWGLOBE"

Oh my god. THAT is sexy :tipsy

I love ayu for working really hard this year.

I think she works harder this year than both her 10th and 15th anniversaries.
Original album, a mini album (and might be another release of the 3 recent songs she recorded), a 22 dates arena tour, a-nation shows and another TA fanclub tour that will be on a span of 3 months, 3 shows with different setlists!

She's working really really hard this year. I really appreciate for that.
And she's doing all of that while managing her life between LA and Japan.

^And the best thing is she looks really happy doing it :)

^ right!! It's been a while since we've seen ayu like this. She looks very happy now.

And I forgot to mention that she did her longest live in this tour, almost 4 hours which is more than PCDL08-09. :D

But it's way too soon to start recording for a winter release, specially for ayu patterns :laugh idk I'll wait to see, I hate making up theories and then nothing special happens lol