What is forever MAKE TRUE LOVE AGAIN feat. Urata Naoya

... I think it is supposed to be either a triple a-side or three singles. No clue. But I am fucking excited.

She provokes anticipation sooo much ^^

she's a tease! I am curious!

Omg look at how excited she is. She is like the first fangirl of ayumi hamasaki ahahahah. Exciteddddd

Ballads trilogy............always the trilogy lol

I hope they all come out with a nice box set to keep them in :D

I wonder if its gonna be a 3-A side single
or singles per each song.

Or the new song is actually called "Trilogy" LOL

I love how she is starting to update on Facebook ever so regularly now!!!! and i cant wait for tomorrow already omgosh!!! I hope the single will be released in about 6 weeks

I got the feeling it's not gonna be just one release... She herself has always mentioned things in plural

I was already eager for tomorrow as Rainie Yang's new song'll be out, now my enthusiasm is twice bigger.

same :D

Since I read her fb post I so can't wait for tomorrow!

Yeah in the past when she has use the term trilogy it had always meant multiple releases. I am trying to keep my excitement to a minimum but I'm looking forward to the news.

It's neigh futile to hope for massive promotion where she'd be all over the TV, but one can dream.

Come on multiple, wholehearted releases!

Please Ayumi a good title without LOVE on it. (LOVE BALLAD, WINTER LOVE, LET´S MAKE A BABY THIS XMAS WITH LOVE.) Lol

I'm expecting covers, credits & a track listing tomorrow! I'm assuming it's just one release - it would be nice it if also featured remixes of other Winter ballads.

So excited!

I am reluctant to believe that we will really get "EVERYTHING" such as covers and confirmed tracklists, even if ayu herself did say ALL will be revealed.

Honestly though, this single has the potential to be everything I've held out hope for. But, I don't want to give into the anticipation. Lol. But man, if she can pull it off, I just might go into hysterics.

Maybe we'll see it late tonight then! I'm betting on one release also, but with three songs. REMIXES PLEASE

I cannot sleep arghhh what time is it in Japan? Should be around 9am right? Come onnnn

Cant wait for it!!

I'm so excited!! Maybe the release will be like this:

Ballad tittle 1/ 3 original mix + 1 PV
Ballad title 2/ 3 original mix + 1 PV
Ballad title 3/ 3 original mix + 1PV

Anyway Today will know!!!! Countdown starts!!!

I'm definitely excited to see what exactly will be revealed tomorrow. Hopefully I don't have to wait all day. Ah! Tomorrow is going to be so awesome! New Ayu news and the trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies! Too bad my birthday is not on Wednesday this year because it would have been so cool for an Ayu release on my birthday. Oh well, can't wait!

I didn't have such anticipation for Colours, also knowing people behind new songs it's really even more exciting.

I do hope there's an orchestral version of Pray thrown in there somewhere--it'd lend itself so well to it. But either way, really excited about tomorrow!

I guess tomorrow based on US time because she is in the US now?

All it said was that the details would be released on November 6th.

But considering her TA is (at least for now) targeting her Japanese fans, I'd say it would mean Japan time? Plus most of her team is in Japan anyway, so they're probably the ones releasing the information?

Either way I'm excited. :D

I am excited with even just the title tracks now!
(please don't use X'mas Baby, ayu...)

I think Ayu should pull a Koda Kumi and do a 12 singles project. But instead, make it "the 25 singles of Christmas" and release 1 a day every day from the first of December till Christmas. If AKB48 can release 48 different versions of their singles, so can ayu. :D

You're kidding.... 48 versions? :shakehead

No, not 48. That was just an exaggeration. :laugh

However, every single they release has at least 5 versions.

http://i.imgur.com/VuB8fvO.jpg

ahhhh so anxious!! Wonder when the info's gonna be out!

It's almost 4pm in Japan, right? I want the info now! XD

maybe tonight?

wonder what info will be revealed. can't wait!

Really excited about this!!

I got an e-mail from TA. It says something about a first ballad single release since 2009's You were.../BALLAD.
It says that it will be a December 24th release on christmas eve and it will have 3 kinds of ballads, one of them will be a rock ballad.

(That's what I can get with my basic Japanese) there might be more to it and more info later.

The mail says what ayumisrael wrote and that the three composers (Tetsuya Komuro, Kunio Tago and Tetsuya Yukumi) will compose three different kind of ballad for the single: a "TK Ballad", a "Winter Ballad" and a "Rock Ballad".

So the three songs are part of the same single. It says that the official site will be updated today at 18.00 (one hour from now).

^
oh some info then, the release date will be on 24th dec! yay!
awesome! rock ballad... so can't wait!
thx for the info :)

it'll have 3 new songs right?

「Zutto.../Last minute/Walk」

What a Title!
I'm sooo excited *-*

The tracklist:

01 Zutto... (Original mix)
02 Last minute (Original mix)
03 Walk (Original mix)
04 Zutto... (Original mix -Instrumental-)
05 Last minute (Original mix -Instrumental-)
06 Walk (Original mix -Instrumental-)

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So, no remixes :D But woah, we haven't had a Japanese song title in a while!

Uhm'... maybe they'll add remixes and/or AOV's later? :yes

source: ayu's official site

so there won't be CD+DVD version?

No DVD version = no pv?

Or they're returning to the old format to boost album sales?

What no pvs again ?
Can't believe it

i really hope there'll be PVs at least..but if they are gonna save the pvs for next year's album release, then fine haha..

Maybe they will add version with pv later. Still anyway, i wanna cry now ^^ sounds really winterish and classy. Fantastic titles for such season, please make the music just as good.

It's gonna be SOOOOO LONG LATER ><
i'm excited!! omg...
somehow I think all 3 will leak weeks before

now ayu has a "walk" too AHHA

That's what come into my mind too...

Does anyone know if CDs bought from Amazon Japan counts towards Oricon?

I hope they won't release it on itunes before hand!! Please ayu don't drop the bomb this time!!

loving the titles
so muc. ❤️❤️

Sounds great so far!

I love the titles! We never have had a title as long as this, lol XD so very excited

What does Zutto mean?

I love it. Can't wait for the release date already. I just hope Ayu doesn't put it on iTunes days/weeks before that

So exciting! The song titles sound interesting! :)

Wow, Capital W version of Koda Kumi "walk". lol

Zutto is forever/always

No DVD but still cool!!

If there will be no DVD version and they release it here on iTunes I might as well just get me the digital copy

I really like the titles. However, Ayumi using japanese for a title is really unusual. In her huge discography there are other 3 songs with a japanese title (and just one written using japanese alphabet), aren't?

"Zutto..." may be the song that has the melody made Ayu cry as she mentioned before

which are Hanabi, Hanabi ~episode 2~ and...?

^ There's also kanariya and Hana

And the A BALLADS covers

Hana, SAKURA and sotsugyou shashin. Actually I forgot about Hanabi, so 5... 6 with 'Zutto...'. lol XD

EDIT: 7 with kanariya! More than I thought, but still not that much if you think about her discography as a whole.

SAKURA perhaps?

never mind it was answered. haha

The song on A BALLADS is Graduation Picture (I can't write the pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~ title)

Yeah she has 7 songs with Japanese titles

Hana
HANABI
HANABI ~episode II~
kanariya
SAKURA
Sotsugyo Shashin
and now "Zutto..."

Jees, 3 ballads? ;/ I hope there will be "rock ballad" on these at least... Or something like Will/Brillante/GREEN... 3 "wintery" ballads will be a noozfest. One power-epic like No way to say and 2 like Melody (i like Melody though, lol)... Naaah.

I like the titles though. And only Zutto sound "winter-ballady".

Im just hoping it won't be like
- Something like Pray with more instruments (tada-daaahm, dramatic strings)
- Pray pt 2
- Pray pt 3.

But as far as I know Ayu for a loooong time... It can be that way. Dayum.

^ She's already stated there IS a rock ballad, also a a "TK-ballad" and a properly speaking winter balad

What does that even mean and what are its origins?

^ The forum censored a shortened version of "Japanese" that can be taken as a racist slur. lol

^ so is it like a forum construction?

^ I'm not sure what you mean? The forum automatically censors that word. Try typing it and the preview the post. You'll see "prettypony~prettypony~prettypony~"

^i meant that, was that pretty pony crap made on this forum?

I thought it just stared it out? Unless pretty pony is a new thing?

Yeah, I thought the word pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~ is merely replaced by stars. Or is it?
EDIT: Oh damn, it actually does get replaced with the pony thing, colour me surprised!

It works, I didn't know it !!!

Edit: it does work! omg..
So where did this pretty pony phrase originate?

She should have made it a 4A with Kazuhito Kikuchi's ballad HAHAHA (like SEASONS, HEAVEN)

I remember there being a thread and one user (maybe japanese? can't remember) pointed out that the term was offensive. So the mods decided to replace it with this pretty pony phrase, but I can't really remember if it was suggested by some user or if it was made up by them!

the term itself is a cultural slur, many japanese people don't even realize this and use it to describe themselves which brings the point to if the cultural doesn't find it a slur then is it really a slur? But if some find it offensive then it is offensive to those people.
It came from WW2 when america was invading/attacking the Japanese imperial navy.

I would like to know where pretty pony came from though... lol.. its kinda specific you know?

She can release a promotional pic or something D: not only cover