[Official] Startin'/Born To Be info
 

http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/news/060126.html

New Single
Startin'/Born To Be...
3月8日 発売
CD+DVD：AVCD-30961/B　¥1,890 (tax incl.)
CD：AVCD-30962　¥1,050 (tax incl.)
※【CD】と【CD+DVD】はそれぞれジャケットが異なります。

" Startin' "
●カプコン 新鬼武者 DAWN OF DREAMS テーマソング
" Born To Be... "
●日本テレビ系 トリノ五輪 テーマソング

《収録内容》
■ CD
Startin'
Born To Be...
teens -acoustic version-

■ DVD
Startin' <video clip>
Born To Be...<video clip>

Nice~

oh~~ kool, i wish there could be some remixes and some acoustic piano song :(

GREAT EP

No instrumental no Panasonic CM? Hmm...

thanks for news!^^

DO NOT ASSUME THERE ARE NO INSTRUMENTALS, they sort of did this last time and people were all 'omg no instrumentalszozsdas' :x

Person who posted this, can you please say that :[ /dies

teens? This should be interesting...

I never heard the original teens, but I hope it's good! And i can't wait for instrumentals! *prays* no backing voice...

ooo nice!@

Thanks for the tracklisting. Guess we must wait and see if there will be the instrumentals included.

Thanks for the info - two PVs, very nice.

hmmn... a really good tracklist i guess :P and finally no more Panasonic. :D

They could always change something :p After all, singles/albums don't usually get printed until a week or so before the date, right? :o

yeah i think so.. I'm pretty sure it will have instrumentals... avex's not that stupid... only toshiba would do such stupid move. LOL

How interesting.. The song "teens". I'm speculating that it'll be something about Ayu's past and how much she misses teenage life.

I'm interested by the teens song. xD This is very exciting since it was ages since we got a 3 song single like this. :3

omg. Please think people! And read! Teens is a song that will be covered by Ayu that was originally done by TRF. omg. RESEAARRCCH :[.

/feels really blah

^easy boy (or gal) ^^"

though I thought there were some more remixes, but maybe they'll reveal the remix names later on

From YesAsia 2 Jackets :
Startin' / Born To Be... (SINGLE+DVD)(Jacket A)(Japan Version)
Startin' / Born To Be... (Jacket B)(Japan Version)
Going to be broke... I wonder if there's any PV on (miss)understood songs

Three songs, yay! Looking forward to this.

OMG, another double a-sides singles... I hope it doesn't sound like "fairyland".

cool! thanks for the info!!! :D

Yay! 2 PVs!!

what? 3 original tracks only? hmm... since its from the official site, i will take it.

^is "teens" even an original track? isnt it a tribute song to TRF or sumthing?

oh, well since I really know nothing of TRF I wonder what it sounds like

how can we research something being a cover when most of us only know a handful of Japanese bands and singers?

thanks for the news

I hope it will contain a PV from (miss) understood, like Criminal or (miss) understood! Course thats really big thinking huh ;_;

Yup, it is a tribute to TRF.

there's no instrumental track??

that's not happened before

there ARE instrument tracks.... as zeo said, they did this before... they just DON'T ANNOUNCE instruments this much time in advance.

Wasn't this news repeated in another thread already?

Anyway, thanks for the news..

Well this is officially confirmed from Ayu's site.

Thanks for posting the news.

True.

Hopefully the images for the jackets will change.

I really, but really really hope the two covers are original and creative. Meaning, not just Ayu's face ("STEP you", "fairyland", "MY STORY", "(miss)understood", "HEAVEN")... This is getting quite boring. Hopefully, there's a scenery or something. Otsuka and Koda's CD covers designers are way better. Ayu should get new CD covers designers...

Thanks for posting the news! Sounds interesting =]
what's so great about 'no more panasonic' ? the panasonic CMs do provide alot of publicity..

Excellent tracklist. so thats one song thats going to be amazing on the new album. can't say much bout Born To Be... yet but hopefully it will be good. I wish she would stop these double a-sides. or at least just have one double a's for the year.

me too, but this tracklist is nice too. :)

What the crap is TRF? >.>

Sweet, Thanks for the info.

I'd forgotten she'd be covering teens. :) I'm feeling quite positive about this single now.

I was wondering the same thing; this info may be confirmed from Ayu's official site, but...it's basically saying the same thing the other thread said. Oh well.

i can't wait for this single! and i am actually not going to listen to any of the song (except for when her site has previews) until i get the cd! well, this goes for "Born To Be..." and her version of "teens -acoustic version-", since i have the original teens hehehe

and as for the cover, I really hope to see something cool!!! hehe ;)

great news, can't wait for the PV, it's a shame that there's not going to be a Panasonic CM

Ah~ hopefully there is a remix thrown in there?

Anyway, What's with people saying "finally no Panasonic!" O_o She needs Panasonic as much as they need her~ promotion! Gets people interested to buy the single. And considering (miss)understood sales, having an endorsement is a plus.

actually I read that Ayu will do the CMs for the upcoming Panasonic Lumix FZ7/LZ5. I think Born to Be... will get 1 (if not 8) panasonic CMs.. It's an olympic-song.... and look at what that did to Daybreak xD

LZ5?? is that something about the size 16:9? if so that would be cool.. cuz I always hope ayu will do a cm for the product line... :D

lol I have NO IDEA :P I don't know much technicle stuff about those things =) but a good chance Ayu will do CMs for them.

"teens?" What a name :rolleyes

Oh well.

I'll be buying this anyways.

Awesome. I really cannot wait. I love Panasonic CMs.

i agree. I miss ayu's weird original covers...:(. Now its just face + pretty background.

Yeah, I don't get why people are saying "no Panasonic"...I think those people probably just don't like Panasonic products. But I personally like Ayu endorsing the Panasonic products because I think it really does help her sales...plus the CMs are fun to watch!

since most of us already heard "startin'" how do you think the PV will be? Being that it's so upbeat.

maybe I should make a new thread? -meh- someone will in time.

You should start a thread in the Ayu Chat Room :yes :)

Thank you very much for the info!

so ayu's cover is a ballad? since it's a acoustic version... never heard the original Teens.

yeah i love Panasonic CM's~~

TRF's usually made dance-pop tracks that become fan-favorites and etc. They don't usually do ballads and such, so it'll probably just be a version with real instruments rather than the synthesizer and turntabling.. :o and stuff xD

2 PVs? awesome!

YAY! I can't wait! One single closer to her fiftieth (if she even REACHES her fiftieth! XD). Woo!

Thanks for the info.

Yeah, I dont really care for the song titles. Rest assured, the songs are always good.

Im sure they will update sooner or later...The full tracklist will then be out...Hopefully there will be a PV for a new song hope...

^it does say on Ayu's site that on the DVD there are PVs for two songs, so that's been confirmed already.

Yeah MC is right plus most of Ayu's titles are bizarre yet good, example STEP you.

Well, the titles aren't 'bizarre' this time, but quite normal and understandable :laugh ;)

Anyways, I'm excited to see the covers :) :)

I really feel like kicking some of the people who think that teens is some new Ayu song that she'll make a PV for.

:p /dies Anyways, yay for the single<3

^LOL. yea, there will be no PV for teens i think. maybe possibly a new PV for 1 of her (m)u album songs?? (ie: my name's WOMAN on STEP you/is this LOVE? single?)

uh; Obviously. Ayu is COVERING teens. JEEZ.

People, TRF are the original people who did teens. Ayu is just doing a tribute song. OMG. /dies

Song names make me lack interest.
I really wonder what the cover will look like..

exciting! can't wait!

I find teens prettu interesting... makes me think of her first singles in which there were only the main instrumentals, "maybe" a remix and an acoustic version of a song hehehehe... really simple.

And also reminds me of the My Story singles which were very simple.

*+D.N.A.+*

Same goes for me. I also kind of :rolleyes at people that are saying there should be more PVs on it or more of this or more of that. There are going to be 3 songs and 2 PVs on a SINGLE - the only thing Ayu is required to release on a single is ONE song. Anything more than that is simply bonus that we should feel thankful for.

Seriously. Ayu's spoiled her fanbase in like, almost every way possible. [her constant #1s, her many tracks on singles, many photoshoots.., consistent sales..]

I think that because of this, we expect way WAY too much out of Ayu. For instance the whole (miss)understood thing and B&D not selling well.. it's sort of dumb.. x.x Most Japanese albums don't really get past 500k, do they? :\ and what about singles? Many sell under 10k! ;_;

^ Plus now all Ayu fans will expect a double A single or whatever it is called and when she'll release one song for the single with remixes and instrumentals people will be disappointed and the sales will probably be less.

Nah. Sales were low even for B&D, but that was TERRIBLE timing. Anyways, I think that she'd get in the high 200k, low 300k even if she did one song singles again. I have a feeling she'll do a one-song after Startin', but it's just a feeling :p

Weren't people disappointed when Free and Easy only had four tracks? That's like 10x worse, I guess :p From 10 jillion remixes to like, one or two. :\

Yeah but remember that B&D wasn't a song which was really loved among the public plus it was prior to the album release.

People are always disappointed somehow. Now imagine how they'll be disappointed after a year and more of double A sides and then they get a single with one song and a couple of remixes.

Probably a B-Side was what she thinks will make the sales go up? Maybe it might work if it was excluded from her future album.

Yeah that's the main idea behind it - to get more sales. However yeah as you said if it gets included in the upcoming album we'll have 6-8 single tracks again which is not so great imo. I prefer a lot of non-single songs. If it was excluded from the album it would be fantastic but few songs actually do get excluded from her albums. I've only seen a few being excluded like ever free, theme of a nation '03 and Two of Us. I think teens will be excluded though.

The positive thing for me is that if she doesn't release Born to Be now and we're all dying for it, then it's like '...' and if its an album track, then there's a slight chance it might not get a PV, whereas if it is featured on the single, you have a really high chance of getting a PV for it. I think that it's a sort of lose-lose situation either way. If it's a single song as well, you might consider it too early and you might just put it off. But if it were an album song, you'd be stuck waiting and you might not even get a PV out of the wait. I'd rather take the earlier release + a PV. :\

I mean, what would things be like if Ayu hadn't released is this LOVE, alterna, Will or Pride at the time? The singles would pretty much be all.. blah. And we'd be sort of left with a long wait for more songs and a chance of no PVs. :[

There is no real reason for Ayu to put teens on the album anyway. It's already on LIF-E-MOTION, so why put it on another, especially a 'remix' version. Plus.. Ayu's never put a cover [note: someone else's words AND composition] on a studio album.. and once on a BEST album. So I don't see why one might think teens would make it on there..

roughly 25 albums sold past 500k last yr, n usually around 100 singles pass the 100k mark

Personally I believe alterna would have been a strong single on its own. Plus we always get extra pvs in albums, MY STORY had three. And personally I'd prefer less pvs and more quality than more and being rushed just to have two pvs in a single.

Also now that half of her album was recorded for Sweetbox I wouldn't be surprised if she put teens in her album too.

Anyhow it does go both ways - you get a preview of what you'll get in the album before however yeah in the end you'll be pretty tired of hearing the same songs for a year and thus you'd have less songs to hear in a full album. That's how I feel :P

Well, the case for teens is totally different than that of the GEO songs. Ayu pretty much '<3s' the music that Sweetbox puts out and wanted to work with the composer, so he gave her a 10 - 12 song demo that had songs that he was going to use for Jade, and Ayu chose the ones she thought sounded 'wow'. I bet that GEO released an early version of their album Bold and Delicious to Ayu, since they were going to use the songs anyway. GEO just gave permission to Ayu to use these songs as well, you know? For the TRF song, Ayu is friends with TRF and a bunch of different artists did covers of their songs for the new album. So I don't think teens will be on the next album because it is an actual cover rather than a song that GEO or some composer allowed her to do that was to be theirs as well.. you know? x.x

/dies

Plus its an acoustic version. :p I really believe that there is no chance that teens will make it onto the next album.. :\ I guess you could put it like.. Ayu putting a remix of one of her older songs on a recent single and people thinking she might put that on her album..?

OMG, yes! i was devestated and incredibly unhappy when that happened!!!!

Not really a different story. I have already read the whole story of how Ayu has always enjoyed GEO and all but however Ayu enjoys doing covers even when the lyrics are changed so maybe she liked that song so much that she's going to include it in her album. You never know. Plus they've appeared in many events and a couple of vids with her so it pretty much shows that she does to a point respect them and probably enjoy their music. Of course this is not very probable but you never know. If it will be on the album though it will be the original mix.

And she has also done a cover in A BALLADS plus many other artists did, like Shimatani Hitomi so I don't see your point here. So yeah it is possible to have teens in the next album though it's probably not happening but there's always a possibility.

But A BALLADS was a 'BEST' album, thus really letting Ayu put anything on there O_O [people didn't seem to be happy with what was on there though..]

They'd really be effing Ayu up if they did decide to tell her 'you will put that song on the album.' Especially when its already on someone else's :\ lol

I do hope 2006 will bring better covers than 2005. THere weren't many good ones, and all of them were quite boring. The STEP you one was downright Horrible! Can't say I enjoyed her album covers either. The onlt really nice and creative cover was MY STORY Classical =P

We can only hope that the covers will be unique. Though I don't see the problem with covers she has been doing.

Yeah, they're all unique this year. Except Fairyland, the others have been a triumph visually and artistically.

the fairyland cover had a soft sexiness to it.

Huh? How does a best compilation get you to put anything in it? I don't understand your reasoning. Covers are put into albums on a regular basis so I don't see why Ayu wouldn't do it.

Not sure, really. I guess it's because there's more 'freedom' when doing a BEST album in my opinion. Don't really know why a cover would ever make it to an album when it's in a different album already anyway.. :p

/wiggles

this is good news . it is a long time since ayu released so many singles from one album!

Actually you are restricted when you release a best album because you have to decide the best songs from your discography which doesn't really speak about freedom. And it's ironic since A BEST was one of her albums which symbolized the lack of freedom. Plus I'm sure your label wants to take part in the decision process so they get more cash in.

Amairo no Kami Otome has been covered a million times by a ton of artists and put into albums so yeah covers would make it into an album when it's in a different album already. So why not Ayu?

But Amairo no Kami Otome was released as a single :\

The difference between that and Ayu's 'cover song' release is that the original is already featured on an album. :\ I don't think that even Avex would waste space like that o-o

what are jackets? teens, a new song?

So? it's still a cover and it was originally sung by another group. I don't see why you have such a negative idea of covers and thinking they are inferior.

Not a negative view or even as if they are inferior! :p Ayu singing Haru yo Koi is LOVE! I just am arguing that teens will not be on the album LOL.

<3 Ayu singing Memorial Address <3

Jacket A / Jacket B are different covers, and teens is a cover of a TRF song by Ayu. :x

Lol yeah probably teens will not be in the album but remember that avex loves money and if they will think it will make money to add a TRF cover in the next album they will do it. Just look at the 12 single galore with the second best album for Kumi.

But they're not paying as much attention to Ayu..



..plus the Avex execs are trying to get Koda to strip as much as she can as much as possible. :p [which they only recently discovered can 'sell singles and albums'] >>

i'm 100% believe that this single can get a HIGH SALES
i have heard STARTIN and BORN TO BE and both of them was REALLY GREAT