[Translation] TEAMAyu blog: 15th February
 

she talked bout PV!!!means the album is not going to release in february for sure @@
end of march ? beginning of april?

Yeah, it means 24th march, 31st march or 7th april maybe? Can't wait for an official news now!

Wahhhh, we still have to wait for the new album! But nevermind...good things take time, ne?! ^.^

The entry was soooo sweet. I would love to give Ayu some chocolate and a card! <3

Thanks for the translation! <3

aww this message is sooo cute! :tipsy
and wow, another PV? think this album'll be great! ^^

happy valentines ayu~!! :heart

no way it was going to be released in march. We will need to wait 3-4 weeks after announcement...

Ah, She hasn't finished filming the PV yet.

Thanks misa-chan ^^

so we'll have 2 PVs from london and 1 from japan?

Yeah I think too. As usual, we have 2 or 3 new PV for a new album ^^

I love her comments on Valentine's Day and her promotion of hanaBi. XD

Oh, she watched Sex and the city :)
I'm happy for new PV :D Stay healthy, Ayu, our hardworker ^^'

ahhh lovely girl ^^
nice comments about V'day, I also want a hanaBi chocolates box :D

new PV for the "new" song? what does that mean? looks as if she had written this new song recently... maybe thinking about A WORLD IS ONE fanbook :P

thanks for translations Misa-chan !!

haha she shared chocolates with everyone. XDD

A new PV filming? Yay!!

If she shot 2 in London (she shot 2 right?) and now another one then it means 3 new PVs!!

YAY 3 NEW PVS :D
And Ayu's Valentine seems to be a sweet one :)
Thanks Misa-chan ^^

at least album will be released 2 month after the announcement.

soo sweet, Ayu talked about V Day~ and how she gave everyone hanaBi choc ^ ^ she's very kind and genorous nee ^__^

new PV? cant wait

thanx Misa-chan!

It must be awesome to work on Ayu's staff - you work hard, but she treats you well. :D

Nice entry!

Yeaah the message is cute :D

Now I really can't wait for the album. I wish she would announce it already I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE RELEASE DAY! D:

Thanks again for the translation, Misa

thanks...take care ayu!!!

Aw sweet message :heart
and yay one more PV! :D

thanks for translation!

Awwww Ayu is so sweet! Thanks for translation! :D

Thanks for the translation xD
It's very kind of Ayu to gave all those chocolates to her staffs and friends..

ayu is so sweet when talking about valentine's day

oh still pv filming too?
wonderful ^____^

Reply her and ask her when is the drop date hahahha..
new PV woots!

Yea, i have a feeling she felt like she needed to do another song because of us :P

YAY! She talked about new PV again! Perhaps 4 new PV? :D
and the chocolate looks very delicious... :( I want it SOOOO BAADDD~ LOL :D

Thank you for the translation ! She's as cute as ever ^^

Exactly, I remember some people complaining about NEXT LEVEL, saying it had been dashed off !

how cuet!! ayu love sex and the city just like mee <33 :heart
another PV!! this is getting exciting!!

Thank you for the translation!!!

Thanx for the translation, Misa^^

The message is sooo cute <3 I want HanaBi chocolates as well! haha and I can't wait to see the PVs!! >.<

Another PV? Didn't she film two in London? :) Hopefully this is a nice long album~

I was wondering, how much would it cost me each box of chocolates?

I want to return to HanaBi in April and I'd like to buy a box for send to my mom... if not very expensive, the last time I was there found the cheaper item cost me 7,000 yens (about $80 dollars) ~~ scented candles or something like that.

wow, seems like at least 3 new PV!! great!!! *-*

gambatte ayuu~~!

Gambatte Ayu! :yes... Sounds interesting... Was quite funny that she mentioned Sex and the City haha that was cute lol Anywhoo thanks for the translations misa-chan!

P.S Jorge... you wanna buy me a box too and send it to England? ;D haha xD

can't wait to hear more about the new PV :D
and all her staff is so lucky, getting those chocos from Ayu :heart

tnx for the translation ^^

Yay new PV! Yay new song! And man those chocolates looks deliciouuuuus!
Thx for the translation!

Thanks for the the translation ^^ Ayu is so sweet, oh...god, I want chocolate now XDD
And new pv!! Can't wait to see it *__*

Wow, that's quite a few PV's! Well... for Secret and NEXT LEVEL, she did three additional PVs, which is the amount she's been filming since the release of YW.../B, so it's not like she hasn't done this before. Can't wait to see the PVs!

And I like how she celebrates the Western version of Valentine's Day as opposed to the traditional Japanese way.

That's weird that the cheapest thing you could find was 7000yen. I'm looking on the websites, and I can find chocolates that are 500yen. Everything else on the website is over 1000yen, though.

Aw, how sweet she is.

aww~ thats sweet how ayu had time to give chocolate to people she cares about :3

Thanks so much Misa!!!Ayu give me chocolate!!!xDDD

...but there's still more then 4 weeks till March 24th... Learn to count.
Besides, avex will want these sales in the fiscal year, so logic says it has to be March 24th. But avex is also incredibly stupid

I still think the release date will be end of march...24th or 31th. The release announcement should really be sometime this week. Someone said stan chan said the album deadline is feb 15th...she should only have the new pv to finish and that's it.

That chocolate looks so yummy. Ayu seems to be a really thoughtful friend. I hope she will find someone special to her soon. Would be great to have her in a happy relationship again.

So sweet... she talked of America and the differences between how we celebrate! <3
hahaha Sex In The City... I'm surprised she's watched it! (:

it'd be cool if the album was released on April 7th, since that's one day before her debut anniversary.

i remember someone once said it is aorund 8 weeks when the album is announced prior to release, but then it really should be announced sooooon

It can be anywhere from 8 to 5 weeks I think, so we're still good for the three dates we're assuming (March 24 and 31, April 7

Awww, she gave her dogs Valentines' cakes! How cute... and excessive...!

Thanks for posting, and wow, 3 new pv's.

Curtain call finished filming on February 22nd, a little more than a month before release, and NEXT LEVEL finished a few days before Curtain call, all in Los Angeles. She usually works up until the very last moment. Though last year, we already had a new album announced at the time even though the PVs weren't finished. Sheesh, Ayu. Why is she keeping it under wraps for so long? By now, most avex artists would already have previews out, hahahaha.

So we have three new PVs and four single PVs... in addition to making of clips, that's about 14. She tends to have a 1:1 ratio of video clips to song tracks, so perhaps my hopes of a 15 track album are out the window.

EXCITING. Probably one of the songs finished in London?

A 1:1 ratio, when has she had that? NEXT LEVEL had 14 songs and 12 DVD titles, GUILTY had 14 and 13 DVD titles, she hasn't had a "1:1" ratio since Secret, and only Secret, (miss)understood and Memorial address had that... MY STORY had 17 and 11. So really based on her current patter of Album Songs > DVD Tracks, the album would have more tracks then 14.

Also, has she talked about two PVs yet? I know we think she did two in London, but all we really know is she had two different outfits right? Couldn't that be two outfits for the same PV...?

MY STORY doesn't count since she had only done makings for single tracks at the time.

Looking at albums starting with Memorial address:
Memorial address - 5 single PVs, 2 album PVs - 7 clips - 7 tracks on the album (8 with Memorial address bonus)
MY STORY - 4 single PVs, 3 album PVs, 4 making-ofs - 11 clips - 17 tracks on the album
(miss)understood - 7 single PVs, 2 album PVs, 6 making-ofs, 1 side story - 16 clips - 16 tracks on the album
Secret - 4 single PVs, 3 album PVs, 7 making-ofs - 14 clips - 14 tracks on the album
GUILTY - 4 single PVs (if Distance Love is split between the songs, which they were on TV), 3 album PVs, 7 making-ofs - 14 clips - 14 tracks on the album
NEXT LEVEL - 3 single PVs, 3 album PVs, 6 making-ofs - 12 clips - 14 tracks on the album

Bolded are "1:1" for the most part.

(miss)understood had 16/16, and Secret had 14/14. GUILTY counts as "14"/14 since glitter and fated were smashed into one super long short movie. NEXT LEVEL was an exception since Sparkle hadn't had a PV at the time, so there were only 3 single PVs and 3 "album" PVs with Sparkle/NEXT LEVEL/Curtain call.

She had two different shooting times in London. One PV was to be done during the 25th/26th (the one with extras/university students as passersby), and then another was set to be filmed on the weekend.

Okay, I didn't know if she confirmed it or not.

That's not how the DVD is set up though, it's 14/13 for GUILTY and 14/12 for NEXT LEVEL. I'm just saying, don't get your hope down so quickly just because she used to have a 1:1 ratio as you'd call it.

I mean, it IS Ayu, so don't expect too much, but just because she used to do stuff like that, doesn't mean she'll do it now :yes

Yes, but NEXT LEVEL was weird since Sparkle went PV-less at the time that Rule came out. Had Sparkle been filmed when the single came out, I think they would have tried to film one more video. (possibly for rollin' or something?)

GUILTY's case for me is that Distance Love is "two clips smashed into one" since they do split the making-of between both songs. (I imagine they didn't split the actual PVs on the DVD because it's simpler to just leave it as it is since it was intended to be one short movie) It'd be like counting vogue~Far away~SEASONS as one clip when they can all stand alone as three individual video clips.

Right now, this [new album title] is looking to be: 4 single PVs - 3 album PVs - 7 making-ofs - 14 clips - 14 songs judging by how things have gone (for the most part) since 2003. Distance Love = exception/technicality, and I wonder what was added to NEXT LEVEL since it was initially a 13 track album when announced. Pieces of SEVEN? Load of the SHUGYO?

glitter/fated DOESN'T stand on it's own though. That's why it's not called "glitter~fated ~DISTANCE LOVE~". It's just called "Distance Love" so it still fits. I'm not trying to argue with you th, I'm just trying to say, don't lower your hopes for a stupid reason

Well since ayu has tones of time until the release I wouldn't be surprised if she would post in her blog in 2-3 weeks that she's recording another PV. =P

(Yeah I know 0% chance/not expecting at all since she never did more than 3 new PVs for an album).
There's a lot of time until the album's release though. Which we still don't officially know about :laugh

We will know everything officially anyway if the announcement will show the accurate numbers of tracks in the new album.
Last year the announcement said 13 and eventually it was 14 for NEXT LEVEL.

Lowering my hopes? Huh? What?

I'm just saying that Distance Love can be interpreted as two separate clips OR one mini-movie that is just some sort of weird anomaly in the Ayu-universe. If you look at it as two clips, it fits in with how she's done things in the past. Usually when I make my predictions regarding Ayu, I look at everything she's done in the past, release dates, numbers of tracks, extras on DVDs, days/times that things were released to find some sort of pattern, and for the most part, she does follow a pattern. (She completely screwed with the patterns after 2006-2007) Distance Love for me is just "two PVs for two separate songs that can be interpreted as one mini-movie". They do kind of subtitle it after KyoAi as "glitter / fated" and the making-ofs individually as "glitter and fated." If you think otherwise, fine, but I'm not taking it into account.

Yeah, it's highly unlikely, but that would be nice, haha. 4 new album PVs! A first for Ayu... I think.

But judging from how close Curtain call was [a month from release], I think they allow at least a month for final editing and such before CDs/DVDs are printed. Actually though, she COULD actually film another PV in Japan if this one is to be done in the next few days since it only takes a day or two to finish one up... but then again, would she really do that?

Btw Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ had no making-off...

It might be on the album if they shot it at all. =P

Since if it won't be on the album and there will be no more new PV/s so there will be 13 tracks on the DVD.

I think they shot one, but didn't include it. The same thing kind of happened with fairyland in 2005, but BLUE BIRD had 3 versions with CD only / CD+DVD / CD+DVD with different making ofs. For the last few years after 2005 she's always had making-ofs attached to PVs on an album DVD, unless I'm missing something. I wish she could've started it with rainy day/Ladies Night but... Secret had to be the first album to get album PV making-ofs. -sigh-

AYU ANNOUNCE YOUR ALBUM, YOU'RE DRIVING ME INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*calms down*

One more PV! This will be the 3rd or the 4th?

Yeah, I think by the time the album comes out, I'll be spending some quality time listening to it because of how much anticipation is building up... -twitches-

It's the 3rd.

--from London

^3rd as for album tracks.

If there will be an annoucement this week it will probably be on Thurstday or Friday so we shouldn't expect it for the next 2 days.

The panasonic CM should air on Wednesday though.
(Usually the CMs air 2 days before the release of the product unless if I'm wrong).

I usually do not watch the PVs or listen to album track leaks so I can get the full effect when I finally get my album, but I don't think I can wait this time around! I can't even wait for the announcement!

In terms of US time, the CMs have been online on Thursdays for the last two cameras.

On air (airing on TV) dates for the last three LUMIX CMs:
GREEN - 08/22/08
NEXT LEVEL - 02/20/09
Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ - 08/22/09
This upcoming CM - 02/19/09[?]

Dates that the CMs were discovered on LUMIX.jp (USA dates... Japan was likely a day ahead):
GREEN - 08/21/08 (Thursday)
NEXT LEVEL - 02/19/09 (Thursday)
Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ - 08/18/09 (Tuesday, but a little less than a week after the single came out)
This upcoming CM - 02/18/09[?] (Thursday?)

I guess they go online the day that they air [in Japan]....

Thanks Misa-chan :D

but maybe there are 4 PV's..? in a message before she went to London she said:
(http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97470)

:shrug

Perhaps the coming CM for LUMIX was done during that time. There was no other planned "filming" I think...

I can also see Kazuyoshi Shimomura sitting at that table...

yay Valentine's Day! what a sweet girl~~ and oh we get one more PV? For NEXT LEVEL, the new tracks that got a PV were Sparkle, Curtain call and NEXT LEVEL... oh that matches with the new album lol.

time to announcement new album >_<

^^^oh i forgot about that. well, hopeful thinking lol

aahhh need some kind of info, even if it's just the album's name!! :/
so curious..

made me wanna eat chocolates lol

yumm!! :D




thanks!! ^^ good luck ayu with the rehearsals & PV recording :P

New PVs <3 her album-only-song PVs are always great, so can't wait to see them.

O snap...u say Kazu??!...now i dunno wad to expecct...yeesh..
I hope her new PVs wont be like MW and Curtain Call...

AYU IF U HAVE A BALLAD, PLEASE USE ISHII

i can't remember so lazy to check LOL
i can't remember if there has ever been 4 new pvs, but maybe i'm being too ambitious?

kazuyoshi was probably for only for the new Panasonic Lumix CM.

He might be for the new PV but we don't know at all if he will direct, or who directs it.

The 2 PVs in London weren't directed by him, he wasn't in London thanks god (and the photos for whatever purpose she took there, the pics were by ND CHOW).

there's a white day??

^^ Aww that sounds better now XD
^ I believe white day is in March 14th :yes

^^^ Thank God. I don't wanna see Ayu weird face again.
^ Yes. White Day is in March 14th a month after Valentine Day where boys will give their present to the girls they like.

I hope later, more she is working on, better it will be =)

I don't want to create a new thread because misa-chan will translate it: last message:

Ayu has caught a cold! again!! she says something about sleeping and drinking a tea... because tomorrow morning she has the recording of the PV!!

Ayuu take care!!! >.<

Yay! So we should have the pv soon...

can't wait to see how it's gonna look ^^

.. and I want some of that chocolate :D

thanks for the translation! waa I hope the album's gonna contain more full songs and less interludes, and (maybe I'm pushing but) pleeease be more than 14 tracks