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The 22nd alan Thread

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「Welcome to the 22nd Official alan Thread!」

「Second Japanese Album

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「New Japanese Single (Untitled):

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「alan @ a-nation 2009:

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「New Song? (Bourbon CM):

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「Just who IS alan?:

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alan (アラン, 阿兰, or 阿蘭), born Alan Dawa Dolma, is an ethnically Tibetian Chinese vocalist born in July of 1987 in Kangding, Sichuan Province. She was discovered by avex trax during their Chinese auditions in 2006 and released her debut single "Ashita e no Sanka" on November 21st, 2007. On March 4th, 2009 she released her Japanese debut album "Voice of EARTH", and on July 10th, 2009 she released her Chinese major debut album "Xīn De Dōng Fāng".

-Wiki @ JpopStop

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Alan Dawa Dolma (Tibetan: Alan Dawa Dolma ཨ་ལན་ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོལ་མ་; Chinese: 阿兰达瓦卓玛; Pinyin: Ālán Dáwǎ Zhuōmǎ; born in 1987), professionally known as alan (Japanese: アラン, Chinese: 阿兰 or 阿蘭), is a female Chinese singer of Tibetan descent active in the Japanese music industry. Discovered by Avex Trax at an audition in China in 2006, she made her debut in Japan the following year. Her main producer and composer is Kazuhito Kikuchi and she is also known for playing the erhu.
In 2009, her ninth Japanese single "Kuon no Kawa" debuted at #3 on the Oricon weekly charts, the highest ever by a singer from China.

A native of Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, China, alan was born in Kangding, but grew up with her grandparents in nearby Danba, often referred to as "Beauty Valley".[2] alan's father was a local government official and her mother was a singer in the local Art Troupe. She started to play the erhu at an early age, and in 1997 left her hometown for the Affiliated Middle & High School of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, after ranking first in the erhu audition as a fourth grader.
In 2003 she was accepted to the prestigious PLA Art Academy in Beijing and double majored in vocal music and erhu. Playing the erhu, she performed traditional Chinese music with a group of girls at the 2006 gala performance near Cairo, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of China-Egypt diplomatic ties.[3]
During this time, alan also performed as a singer throughout China. In 2005 she released her first Chinese album, Sheng Sheng Zui Ru Lan, covering songs by more established C-pop singers. In October 2006, selected to represent mainland China together with Wei Chen (with whom she later collaborated for Jia You! Ni You ME!), alan won second place at the 9th Asia New Singer Competition,[4] narrowly losing to Filipina singer Maria Donna Taneo by 0.005 points.

In April 2006, alan distinguished herself from roughly 40,000 hopefuls when Avex Trax held auditions throughout Chinese cities that year. After graduating with excellence a year later, she became Avex's first inked artist from China and moved to Tokyo, Japan in September 2007. In November 2007, her first Japanese single "Ashita e no Sanka" was released.
In May 2008, alan released Shiawase no Kane/Ai Jiu Shi Shou and all profits from the songs were donated to the Red Cross to help the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake in her home province.[5] A later Japanese single titled Gunjou no Tani was also dedicated to the people of Sichuan.
In June 2008, alan sang the theme song Natsukashii Mirai: longing future for NHK's Save the Future special TV programs which raised awareness of the environment nationwide. Beginning with this song, which was themed on earth, alan's next five Japanese singles each dealt with a traditional Buddhist element from the Japanese Godai or Tibetan Bön.
Chosen to sing the theme songs (Xin Zhan: Red Cliff and Chi Bi: Da Jiang Dong Qu) of the two-episode Chinese blockbuster Red Cliff, alan performed at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008.[6] The Japanese versions Red Cliff: Shin-Sen and Kuon no Kawa were recorded for the films' showings in Japan.

In addition to Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, alan also sings in Tibetan, especially in her native Kham Ke (e.g. "sign" in Hitotsu and "Tennyo ~interlude~" in Voice of Earth). alan is still learning Japanese. In addition to erhu alan can also play the piano. She has recently started composing her own songs (e.g. "Together" in Voice of Earth).
alan is a Tibetan Buddhist[7] and aims to sing about "love and peace".[8] One distinctive singing style of alan's is the so-called "Tibetan wail", where she is able to stretch her vocals for a long period of time at very high notes.

-Wikipedia

「Japanese Discography:

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「Chinese Discography:

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「Links」

Support alan by buying her releases:
YesAsia

CDJapan

Other Useful Links
pommy48's alan image gallery

pommy48's blog

alan's Official Japanese Website

alan's Japanese blog

alan's Chinese blog

I love the cheesy titles. XD

I'm excited! I hope there's loads of songs. :)

^I love the cheesy titles too! :laugh
but there isnt too much for alan, since most of her songs are japanese titled xD

the title is too simple...(>_<)
and i think the first post need to be update just like usual thread of alan, where her discography and all info is there...by the way thanks for opening the new thread
i still feel so worried about her decision to release another album...

I'm working on it. Ideally, I would just go to the 21st thread and edit my first post, copy all the info and paste it here. I cant do that because someone locked the thread x_x. I will try. Very sorry

I love the cheesy titles. alan loves cookies in her 22nd thread. (I'm so lame! XD)
I can't wait for her second album. I really hope she has more upbeat songs in it.

K I basically redid everything like the last thread. As said before, sorry for "stealing" the alan thread again but since the other one's been dead since like last night...and nobody seems to want to make it....I guess I will

wait wait! those aren't the a-nation pictures, that was an event for BALLAD

^don't worry...as long as you will keep updating its no problem to open new thread

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Originally Posted by pommy48 (Post 2092160)

wait wait! those aren't the a-nation pictures, that was an event for BALLAD

ah ok then. I will remove them then. People can see it in your gallery anyway right? Thanks for letting me know

oh no....i didn't save it to my gallery

Wah! i didn't noe a new album was coming. That's really quick for a sophomore. I hope it's not rushed. She needs another epic ballad like Ashita if not the album will feel kinda flat.

I quite like that new CM song. Something light.

so the translation is stream of tears? pretty :heart.

Many Thanks for the new thread DEEP RIVER!

Request @ Pommy: Could you upload all of your alan gallery pictures in a zip or rar? xDDDD Its so much work to go through all of your pics and save them to my computer xD(In exchange I would upload our music and music station performances of BALLAD in 720p...wait, I'm doing that at the moment already xD)

Yeah, I love cheesy titles:

alan loves Bourbon Biscuits In her 22nd Thread!

^ Doesn't relate to her music. ROFL
Hear the Bells of Happiness as alan stands on her stage in the river of eternity in her 22nd thread. :D

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Originally Posted by zyoeru (Post 2092618)

^ Doesn't relate to her music. ROFL
For once hear the Bells of Happiness, the hymn for tomorrow, a ballad and an air song of a wind letter as alan stands on her stage in the river of eternity in the ultramarine valley below a red cliff while blessed rain is falling and the future is longing in her 22nd thread. :D

I fixed it xD

BRILLIANT! Let's PM a mod! ;)
Now we just need to use her Chinese titles too. ;)

^ chinese titles are for her 23rd thread xD
this time its supposed to be all japanese singles(+ a little extra stage^^) xD

Wow, 22nd thread! Yay. I'm so excited for the new single and album. I love listening to the Bourbon CM on repeat though; I like it more than BALLAD.

OMG second japanese album??? o__o

Thanks for the new thread!

found some nice alan pics on some fansites, theres 2 sets where alan looks really hot but pics are really small

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^ thank you :). she looks gorgeous :heart.

Wow she's smoking. >_<

Hawwwwwwwwwt.

I'm kinda sad that the Bourbon song isn't a b-side to BALLAD. >_<

wow..i love that pics

she looks so pretty! she reminds me so much of another j-pop artist.. i won't name names because i don't want to start the whole comparison thing.. but, her reminding me of her actually makes me like her more :P.. if that makes sense

Oh my god! I love those pics!! She is so pretty. :D

those pictures are a promotion for golf...i think...

@ noidea: you mean just the magazines? if that's the case, there really isn't a lot of magazine scans that i've put up yet and the rest is just blog and PV pictures, and if the gallery doesn't load for you, you can go here for the alan single/album scans

i'm just not sure if i want to put some those scans because the user said not to redistribute...

Wow...those photos of alan are...dazzling. Someone come up with the perfect adjective for those photos asap.

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Originally Posted by zyoeru/noidea

For once hear the Bells of Happiness, the hymn for tomorrow, a ballad and an air song of a wind letter as alan stands on her stage in the river of eternity in the ultramarine valley below a red cliff while blessed rain is falling and the future is longing in her 22nd thread.

OMFG, that's long.

mmmm, sexy alan = :love×500000000 times

omg love the diva poses. Work It Girl

wow, is this the first time she's done anything close to "sexy"?
she looks great :)

somehow i kinda like the fish lips on her...

oh thank god that they finally laid off the heavy makeup for anecan @_@

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Originally Posted by pommy48 (Post 2093150)

well, i would take anything that can be useful for alan sets(I won't share anything of it further, only for seluse in sets and maybe the desing for my fanpage), so please! Im begging you! xD And the gallery does work, its just pretty slow

ok you want the entire gallery? but i will be deleting the screencaps soon, i want to make better ones~and i uploaded the blog pics for newlook in the last thread, i think i haven't deleted it...gotta check xD

oh, and I forgot about nadesico scan x3

nadesico September 2009
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6206/24098759.th.jpg

that pink hat reminds me of a namie PINKY cover

i'm glad to see alan wearing more stylish things, for a while, i was worried that she was gonna end up like ayaka~

alan looks great in the anecan scans, but I am totally not digging the makeup on her :no

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Originally Posted by pommy48 (Post 2093346)

basically: yes xD thank you very much in advice(well, ill upload 4 previously unshared in this forum .ts performances for that soon^^ so I hope that will be thanks enough xD)

and again: I forgot to ask xDD
does anyone have not-so-heavy MUSIC JAPAN BALLAD performance?

thanks for anecan scans newlook alan looks so hot

Yay new photos! I've only just woke up, so I'll look later. XD

http://jpopsuki.eu/torrents.php?id=1593

I made a torrent for the music station performance .ts^^ I will upload to mediafire someday next week probably, when at least 2 or 3 people got this performance from jpopsuki, but my connection is slow, so that might take some time^^

^ already saw you there ^^ Thanks, so I only need to seed it fully once and am sure that others will continue to do so

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Originally Posted by noidea (Post 2093420)

thanks for TS files

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Originally Posted by noidea (Post 2093442)

^ already saw you there ^^ Thanks, so I only need to seed it fully once and am sure that others will continue to do so

LOL! I just saw you in the forums, I forgot I was downloading your torrent when I was all: OMFG IT'S NOIDEA!!1111

Fail on my behalf. XD

Is it me or is the new jpopsuki friendlier? XD

I should read Pom's blog more though, considering I never do, even though I'm subscribed. XD

^ yeah^^ and I already found 5 AHSlers there xD pommy, identity, you, Zemus, ayumisreal

actually I commented on one of Zemus' torrents without noticing it's her xD

Zemus is there? Wow, I didn't realise it. XD

I've seen you, identity and pomster. :)

^ of course, you saw the people in the namie thread xD Zemus uploaded quite a few files, including wednesday j-pop from 20090603, i commented on that file, because a few months ago i requested it in here and zemus said she might be able to get it, but than later the person she would get it from disappeared off the internet(and I managed to even find the .ts of it instead of the 704xsomething rip Zemus found^^), so I commented on that file, congratulating her for finding it xDDDD

Alan is becoming prettier and prettier ^^ She only needs to make some fresh music :D

That's right, I've noticed her music seems very grandiose and classical, it'd be awesome if she could make something that's both classical and jolly. XD
I'm thinking Vivaldi's Spring, etc. XD

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Originally Posted by mcken200 (Post 2092954)

found some nice alan pics on some fansites, theres 2 sets where alan looks really hot but pics are really small

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omg :thud
these are seriously the best alan pictures i've ever seen. totally smokin' hot.

and wow, 2nd japanese album? where have i been lol.
i have high hopes for this album, i love ballad and the song from the cm sounds good so far.

I will not be surprised if Leslie Kee was the one who shot those photos of her as he's a great photographer :heart

It probably is Kee, isn't he her chief photographer atm?

probably so & it's great to support a fellow Singaporean :heart

Leslie Kee, I think he also shot Yuming's covers for FACES: Compositions

alan's one lucky gal if Leslie Kee's her main photographer now.

And God alan always looks weird/fug in Anecan... I just don't know why. :shrug

^ yeah, i think its her makeup, her eyes look so fake usually

And the bronzer/airbrushing... O_O

I was watching some of alan's PVs at Avex's YouTube channel since I've only listened to a couple of her songs, which I've all loved, and I found some interesting stuff.

I never would have expected to see alan dance but then I saw "Sorauta", lol, very cute. The music reminded me of Ayu's vogue and "Kaze no Tegami"'s PV reminded me of Because of you!

Oh, and that cover of "Nada sousou" was so amazing, almost as good as Natsukawa Rimi herself.

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Originally Posted by noidea (Post 2093592)

^ yeah, i think its her makeup, her eyes look so fake usually

yeah, it was even more hideous when they overdid her eyelashes with balls of mascara. it wasn't even smooth, it was balled up on her eyelashes lol.

it would be great if leslie kee is her main photographer...but idk, those golf shots were for a promotion in china, i would imagine leslie doing more of her japanese promotion

edit: oh noidea, MU is fine with you for the pics right? so i just won't upload the blogs or the screencaps, but everything else

found another pic that is part ARENA photoshoot set, will try to find more in HQ

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oh i thought it's the 空谷幽兰 photoshoot, but that's my current wallpaper, he have two other version of the photoshoot

for some weird reason, i can't find some of scans for the album/magazine..but i just uploaded the rest, the only reason i made a gallery was actually more for me XD because i can't organize stuff :roflmao
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0LNB94G

thanks everyone for new pictures!

really nice pics^^

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Originally Posted by pommy48 (Post 2093961)

we have a lot of chance that you are not organized :innocent
(once again, I love your gallery!)

yaaay, thanks for lots of new pics!

I love this girl so much! :)

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Originally Posted by mcken200 (Post 2093942)

found another pic that is part ARENA photoshoot set, will try to find more in HQ

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She is so pretty!!! ><

thanks pommy! and melodix performance is up on jpopsuki in .ts^^(yay, i requested it there xD)

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Originally Posted by noidea (Post 2094609)

thanks pommy! and melodix performance is up on jpopsuki in .ts^^(yay, i requested it there xD)

oooh thanks for heads up

ah i'll try to find some of the other pics i didn't upload @_@ maybe i accidentally deleted them...i tend to delete stuff without looking at them XD

and thanks~ ♥ ts...but does anyone have the gunjou no tani CDTV in TS, with maybe the talk part too?

another HQ pic from the alan@ARENA 增至4款 photoshoot

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mcken200 thank you!!

oh look like the BALLAD promo is over with on avexnetwork, now it's maki goto~

I noticed that, it's a shame. :(

oh well :D it was good while it lasted XD i'm surprised that my account isn't banned yet @_@...

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Originally Posted by mcken200 (Post 2095043)

another HQ pic from the alan@ARENA 增至4款 photoshoot

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Thank you so much!

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Originally Posted by pommy48 (Post 2095277)

oh well :D it was good while it lasted XD i'm surprised that my account isn't banned yet @_@...

Maybe avex realizes that you're spreading the alan love. :laugh

I'm so inspired to make graphics from these gorgeous alan pics!

^ Are the 2nd batch of pics even alan? O_O lol

And the last one... on the top right; wow that looks like Blake Lively!

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Originally Posted by mcken200 (Post 2095043)

another HQ pic from the alan@ARENA 增至4款 photoshoot

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best alan pictures ever. :luv2
stunning.

a thumbnail maybe? thanks anyway

YAH! People, use spoilers! :(
They're totally stretching my page. >_<

Haha. Beautiful pics though.

haha i love alan fans <3 you get all the goodies from there, tanbilly made it so it'll fit people's desktop resolution

and is it me or is alanchina not working? @_@

i keep on getting a page load error @_@....ah guess i'll just stick with alanfans then @_@

2nd week
22　2,948　alan

damn thats fallen quite a bit, but lets hope it remains in the chart for few more weeks

at least she has a chance to sell 10K

noidea, thank you!

Super gorgeous. I'm totally loving all the picspam :D

noidea please use spoilers x_x