How's Startin'?
 

Wow, an brand new amazing style for ayu!
i love it

I LOVE it! Especially the part that occurs around 0:37, she just OWNZ you with her voice. Wait, is this even a preview? This could be the full song in 128kbps. The FULL one. It could be a mini-track with words.

I like it, not as much as rainy day though. Certainly better than Ladies Night, it should have been on the album instead.

HanabiChick, it might still be. There's a possibility that it's a hidden track.

I like it. Sounds exactly like an opening for a video game.

i guess no, it won't be included coz the official site of the game says the song is to be released in next year spring~!
here:
http://www.gyao.jp/anime/onimusya/

Spring? @.@ we have to wait so long?

I don't think it sounds like BoA at all though, her songs usually bore me to death. It reminds me a bit of game.

i like this song so much .. its so good .. better than Ladies Night.
is it just me or this song reminds me of Ayu in the olden days
like during LOVEppears and DUTY era ...
like "WHATEVER and DUTY type of song ?
i hope ayu keeps this style and rainy day style and leaves behind the gospel style

It's great, but the music is totally drowning her voice out.

edit: nvm, turns out my sister was playing with the equalizer :D It's great! Very BoA-is though. Not a problem though!

I don't think it sounds anything like a BoA song.

I love it! I really hope it's a hidden track on her new album.

Judging from everyone's comments saying that it sounds like BoA, I was dreading this song. But I actually liked it when I listened to it so yay. :) It actually reminded me a little bit of Evolution because of it's fast mixture of pop with techno with some hard guitar riffs.

This definitely sounds like it was taken from the games' preview.

i have never listen to any songs from BoA... anyway.. this song is so cool! i love the chorus!! it shld have been on the album...

Well nice song but i can't understand why is it used to onimusha videogame.

The song is great, and I think it suits well. It's very fast paced. XD

I don't think it sounds like BoA, its much better than her. xD Pity it isn't on (miss)understood. Anyway, anyone know what trailer had that song in it?

Also, why has Rainy Day and startin been seperated? I do hope its a hidden track. :3

It's alright, but unlike most of you, I think it sounds like a Kumi Koda song.

i think the music is like boa and the singing style/voice is a bit like koda kumi
I like it a lot

Sounds good...is she saying "Dreaming, Startin'" in it?

yes~! you're right, wow, how can u be that attentive to it?:cool

maybe startin' IS INDEED a hidden track...and it'll be a recut single like kanariya...hahahahah just hope that it's not a NEW REMIX VER.

Maybe its like Rainbow... On the Cd it will be an instrumental or a short preview, and the full version will be released later, on a single

ya.. perhaps. anw, it sounds really awesome! really wish it'll be in (miss) understood as a hidden track or smthg.. or it'll really be a pity.

Yea the preview seems so complete....It MAY be a hidden track afterall..I hope so...A fast paced song to end the whole album is real gd...

If it is gonna be a re-cut...I hope a longer version will be there....But dont u guys feel that the beginning of the song feels kinda editted...Like as thou someone cut away...

On the whole, it is a very very gd song...

So good! XD

I love it alot! But it better not be a recut single like kanariya because that would definately ruin ayu's #1 single streak ._.

Amazing, enough said

I Loveee this song

reminds me of INSPIRE

ohh I like this song! better than rainy day and ladies night.. and it kinda sounds like game.. which I like =) I hope this song would be included in the album ^^

Startin
 

What do you guys think of the song?
I like it, it's just that it sounds like a song I have heard before... O_o

EDIT: Ahhhhhh I am sorry i didn't know there was already I topic... >.< i didn't see it. Oops sorry!!! >.<

I really love the new songs and I think I´m gonna love the whole album too XD

Me too! I love the new songs. ^_^ lol

^did you pre-order the album? :D

ok just heard of Rainy days and want to keep the rest of the excitement for 1/1 2006 =)=) it´ll be a nice new year "present" with all that excitement I may end up in hospital cause of heart stroke XD

I wish... -_- *no money*
lol

I love Startin' as well!! I hope this wasn't the full song...I want a full 4-5 mins track!

Does anyone else think that this song sound familar?
It feels like I have heard it before... >.<

It has to be a secret track, I love the preview! please put it *crosses fingers*

34kljlkdsjflso love.

IMO, this would be a GREAT single song. And it sounds like it will be in Spring 2006. ~~; Oye. I really hope it's a secret track as well. I think they can successfully pull a recut single if they put enough goodies on it. (A new track, remixes, PVs, etc.)

Can't wait!

I really like it! I'll be very excited to hear the whole song!

Love it. Love it. Good times. This is the direction Ayu should go in next.

It's better than 'Rainy days', but like most of Ayu's recent stuff, it sounds too much like everything she's already done.

The album sort of has the "every-song-sounds-the-same problem". Not good.

She says 'Tell me a Story' in the BG track :]

BanFan; I have a question: If you were a Jpop artist and after about 7 or so albums, do you think that you could pump out new material that sounds NOTHING like any of the previous songs? :o

Just wondering.

:]

its really good song
remind me of her older song
i want the full version

There are plenty artists that manage to make fresh, new sounds with new albums. For example: Aikawa Nanase, Every Little Thing, hitomi, globe, Mika Nakashima, Shiina Ringo, even Morning Musume. And none J-pop, Lee Jung Hyun. :P

Every Little Thing, Morning Musume, globe and hitomi are the best examples. They've all been around longer than Ayumi and their stuff often changes and is quite refreshing and usually sound very different.

Are you sure you don't listen to an Ayu song expecting it to sound 'oh. this is familiar.. >>'? If you are, that's probably the big problem with her music sounding the saaame.. I don't think it does.. I think it's really fresh! Something is always bound to sound similar to something else if you go into it thinking that way .. :F lol

Well, then again, she made Bold & Delicious, which imho is like..

SUPER SUPER different from what she's ever released before. As with Pride. :F And people.. didn't seem to like that. >>

I have a feeling that Ayu fans aren't 'fans of ayu' when she goes too far from what they fell in love with..

Startin' is a fast track. Reminds me of UNITE and Evolution, but it's what I've expected. It's a typical game track, like Real Emotion and Simple and Clean remix.

Being a fan doesn't mean you have to like everything that artist makes. Ayumi has changed a lot since her debut and I like stuff from her debut and I like stuff now. But that doesn't change the fact that some of it just sounds really similar, mainly on the new album.

I am NOT saying that you need to like everything, it's just that when it comes to having almost everything being 'similar to old songs' or 'crap compared to [insert song]' or 'ugh! this change is fo the bad!', then it seems a little off, you know?

/shivers from the ASFXX album tracks

BanFan, no offense but most Mika ballads sound the same old stuff over and over again. And MM release different material simply because.. there are so many. It wouldn't make sense having the same type of material for each and every girl.

I agree hitomi comes with original material but sometimes it's not so grand either. Love Angel bored me after a couple of listens.

i am not liking it.... to trekkie for me

I really love this song. The guitar riff is amazing and the tune is just well done and original, and I dont think this song sounds like any other. Evolution maybe, but thats just grasping at straws.

I wish that she would pick better song titles though. Most of them from Bold&Delicious on are too engrish and bland/annoying.

i think it's quite good!

but it sounds relli familiar to me....i dunno wat song but it relli does sound familiar o_O

i wouldnt call it a new style of hers, its kind of like going back to her older styles.

I like this style of hers! I think it's very good and refreshing from any of her previous songs.

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It reminds me of Free & Easy's chorus, sounds nice, I like how ayu can adapt her voice into different styles of songs!
soothing voice for rainy day, powerful voice for Startin' and B&D, emotional voice for HEAVEN and Will

startin rocks! it's like a better version of INSPIRE, so powerful, anyone has the mp3 version of the preview? (HQ if possible, thanks)

I have to totally disagree there. Every Little Thing and Morning Musume especially have tons of songs that are about the same. Morning Musume has been doing the same thing FOREVER, there music is beyonod generic by now.

Most of those artist actually have made many songs that sound very similar to their past works, so I don't really see where Ayu is going wrong with her new songs.

I think hitomi's songs all sound pretty much the same. :shrug (I'm a hitomi fan btw)

Haven't heard Startin', and it may be a long time before I do, if it's not released on CD soon.