New ballad single coming soon!
 

Via Ayu's twitter: https://twitter.com/ayu_19980408

"How did you know that∑(ﾟДﾟ) RT @leizhou0323: Is there a ballad single coming?@ayu_19980408"

New Ballad Single COMING SOON
 

Just thought you guys would want to know and get as excited as I am!!!

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YES~!

A new ballad single is coming!
 

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Source: Ayu's official twitter.

OMG coming soon!? like.. this year!?

Awesome!

I hope it isn't something like Pray

Hope its true! OMG

please merge with this:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120797

I feel like it must be true since she said something about it on her twitter...haha this is pretty exciting!

lol everyone is so excited thus clashing the thread xDD

well, me too!! but whos that guy asking her? he seems knowing a lot about other celebs too

but of course. Winter ballad anyone? xD

YESS :D

I hope they'll promote it well...

winter ballad?

Hope it will be awesome.

Winter ballad please!! omg

wow can't wait..
ayu pls announce soon! haha~

oh my, You Were... PV, now im more excited,since when the last time we got a winter ballad?

Yaay.

Can't wait for more news. :)

I was thinking "A BALLADS II?!" until I realized it said single lol

No puedo esperar

Yea!

oh yessss pleaseeeeeeee A BALLADS II!
i want thattttt!!

its time for christmas single...with strong ballad number and lot of tv performances!!!

Ayu appearing on TV show again hmm,I would happy for that, but at least will get Kouhaku maybe... ah this new song at Kouhaku or CDL yessss

That's great news!! There was no full ballad single since You were.../BALLAD 5 years ago!

Let's hope for Music Station Super Live as well! She was back last year, so this year is also possible :D

x-mas ballad I presume

People tend to get over expectation like this but when the bomb dropped they were like,
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...zhy1qat7rw.gif
but yeah, winter ballad, +1

FINALLY!!! I hope it's not gonna lead to her releasing "A BALLADS II".

single ---->> best of ballads

Her response sounded like a joke or sarcasm to me, but... I guess she is Japanese so lol

OH MY GOD YES.

But what if it turns out to be a second recut single off Colours

NEW SINGLE [Angel] release 2014.12.25

CD
01. Angel (original mix)
02. Angel (LIVE from ayumi hamasaki PREMIUM SHOWCASE ~Feel the love~)
CD+DVD bonus track 03. Angel (original mix, but only the first 20 seconds because why not)
CD-only bonus track 03. Angel (original mix, but only the last 20 seconds because I'm ayumi hamasaki I do whatever I want lol you fools)

DVD
01. Angel (video clip)
TeamAyu bonus clip 02. Angel (making clip)

Bonus: aromatherapy candle (18,129 Yen, tax excl.)

GOODNESS GRACIOUS I HOPE NOT

http://media3.giphy.com/media/e3C4pNKkr9rji/giphy.gif

LOL

awesome!
I hope its amazing.. new winter ballad which leads too a ballads 2 or a a brand new album!

good new!! I hope there will be 1 pv or 2, and 3 songs :)

Omg I can't believe it's been that long, and even longer since Days! I was actually thinking s few days ago how sad unlikely it is for ayu to release another winter ballad single after realizing she is deterring from her original sound more and more. I hope it's epic cause I don't want to be let down (winter ballads are my weakness). I hate You Were... so I hope this is really good.

That would be awesome

Something as catchy as Days and a masterpiece like HEAVEN or Dearest please!

ikr :roflmao

I hope it sounds like HEAVEN or part of Me, she has got plenty of cliché winter ballads, and adding guitars to them don't foul me :innocent

Whateverrr... It would be more like:

NEW SINGLE [Angel] OUT 12.01.2014

CD ONLY
01. Angel

DVD
01. Colours CM

I will totally eat #$!% on everything I've said in the last month if this single is anything like Days. Actually, I'll eat it if she actually does some promotion on this single. I'll eat it even more if this single has a tie-in. Lots of eating opportunities here.

OMG!! that is pure awesome news to hear! winter ballad single pls! ^^

Great! I'm so excited!!!

i would love if soething like all 3 came out... :love

You guys are setting yourself up for massive disappointment. Stop it! Save yourselves the pain and suffering! :laugh

Am I wrong or is her last real winter-ballad You were...?
OMG... I miss this style of ballads... --> You were... / Days / Together When... / momentum / CAROLS / No way to say / M

Ahh it's time for hype!? It's been way too long.

Oh.. thats greate. I really love her winter ballads.. and it is a while since the last one.
I really hope, it will be a good song. Can't wait for it.

lol I'd buy it anyway if the cover is gorgeous like Terminal's :love

Glad she still continues with singles! Can't wait!

If it's another recut single, I will lose my faith for real. I'm not lying. It's time to let Colours era go and start the next one.

I will try my best to keep myself having high expectations too, because I will be so disappointed otherwise.

am i the only one who kinda thinks they are sometimes doing those "omg it slipped" things on social media on purpose? cuz i mean seriously....lol

my comment for the way this has been announced when telling to a friend of mine was:
"avex stepping up promotion in making fans guess about new releases and ayu be like 'oh yeah right NIU SINGURU!'" yeaaaaaaah XD this is how you promote <3
just joking, i'm freakin' excited about the single~

I'm exicted by this news. This feeling was missing during Colours and Terminal era. Nice to see it come back home. I just hope she got rid of her westernization. I want song that exude Ayu's touch.

Here's to hoping she can make a winter ballad without making it sound typical. I really really really don't want a Days/Momentum/You were.../No way to say ~episode 9~

i think i'll hold my horses with getting excited untill we actually get an announcement, and even better - a preview lol

I do. Best analogy I have for this is regarding your favorite food. If you go to a restraunt expecting and order your favorite hamburger and it ends up tasting like a hotdog, you're going to be disappointed. Because you've grown to love that hamburger for what you expect it to be. Even if you don't mind hotdogs, you were in the mood for a hamburger so that's what you were expecting and craving.

Another Carols please! :luv2:P

I understand, but if the chef surprises me with something unexpected and incredibly fresh (yet having the restaurant's "personal touch") like Sexy Little Things, alterna, BRILLANTE... I will go to this restaurant as often as I can! :D

Ayumi Hamasaki new single - Turkey

I would like an official announcement. Either way this sounds intriguing as I love Ayu winter ballads.

I'm up for a Winter ballad or whatever else Ayu wants to give us!! I may even have to "spoil" myself and buy it from iTunes (I usually wait for the album) so I can listen to it during the Winter.

Haha nice response. Added bonus within your humor, I actually eat a turkey sandwich daily haha.

HELL YEAH :heart

Aw I miss her winter ballad singles. I hope that's what this is!

;) I just had one earlier, that must be part of the explanation! We're turkeynnected.

Lmao @ her kaomoji reaction. Hope it's something epic like "You were..." or another collab with Tetsuya Komuro. :)

BUT HOW DID SHE KNOW THAT

Carol and M -episode 2- please

Shit, I'll take a You were... I still love that song.

I hope ayu isn't trolling us !!

She can make a cheeseburger, but make a different cheeseburger every time. Try a bourbon burger, and then a bacon burger, and then a veggie burger, etc. Imagine if you went to a restaurant and they had a menu dedicated to just burgers, and by ordering each one you find out that there's only one ingredient different in each dish. You'd get pretty bored and disappointed.

mmm food analogies. I want a burger.

Although I hate dragging utada into an ayumi conversation. Can't Wait Til Christmas and Final Distance are both what I personally would consider winter ballads and they're not similar at all. Ayu can try something different for once and not make a huge depressing cry heart out lost love winter ballad. Koda kumi needs to try too. I think she's worse than Ayu. All her videos are cellphones, crying, and dead Caucasian boyfriends.

Not for me, if something is my favorite and I'm craving it then that's what I'm craving. I don't want anything else, I want what I've come to love for the reasons I've come to love it. I don't consider those songs winter ballads; winter ballads are different than ballads in the sense that they evoke the aura and environment of winter - Hikkis is a nice listen but it doesn't exude snowflakes falling from the sky while simultaneously warming the heart and soul. I prefer those grand winter-style songs. Give me another momentum/no way to say/days please.

When something has become a "favorite" it is because you have decided that certain aspects about it bring great pleasure and when the aspects you love overtime become nonexistent, then the basis for which you value and assign your favoritism begins to crumble and that's when disappointment ensues. Look at the outrage that ensues when coke altered their flavor generations ago. Lol.

In closing, when I buy a pear I expect it to taste like a pear. When I buy orange juice I expect it to taste like orange juice. When I listen to ayu, I expect it to sound like ayu.

^I think you're getting "Winter" and "Christmas Spirit" mixed up. Winter isn't heart warming. lol

what is her last winter ballad?

I guess that was "how beautiful you are" or "You were"

I wouldn't mind another No way to say. It's my favorite winter ballad of hers. :D

^
NEVER EVER get bored of No Way To Say and the PV awww <333

NWTS is definitely one of her best winter ballads. I think I like it so much because it's one of the first. If she made it after Days, You Were, Momentum, and Moon I'd probably not like it as much.

MOON is not a winter ballad tho, and it is one of my fav ayu songs, its so ethereal and beautiful, the lyrics are just <3

It really is so good though. I never really liked it much until sometime earlier this year, when I got on a major Ayu kick again. It'd come on play and I'd just be floored by how I could have never realized how awesome it was when I was younger lol.

NWTS was one of those gems that you didnt realize was good till after she started realizing a string of winter ballads and then you're like... OHHHHH.... yes I see now! lol

I'd venture to say Virgin Road even though it came a couple months early. "how beautiful you are" is probably more likely, but if we're talking album tracks included, Ivy is the most recent.

As far as the single, I'd love to see another triple-A. Ballads like Moments/NWTS/Dearest/Dolls/HANABI... you know, something with Ayu's beautiful intros and unique atmosphere.

But I think, above all, it's been 8 years since we've had something like JEWEL, a hybrid of something like Dearest and curtain call. (EDIT: I take that back. We've had Sweet scar since... I'll take another Sweet scar, please.)

And if she manages to surprise us with something, like she did on L by releasing Last angel, I'll probably die. I remember when that announcement came and I was like, "OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG A TRANCE BALLAD OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG" and promptly spilled my virginities all over the place. Four years later, I still have to stop what I'm doing and turn the volume up when I listen to it.

Lol they are synonymous for me. Once again, winter ballads are not ballads released in winter. They are songs that evoke the feeling of winter and hbya does not do that. You can listen to it on a summer evening and get the same feeling. However, no way to say and etc, those are songs that you can't truly experience correctly unless it is winter time.

Even though MOON wasn't released in winter, it does give off a somewhat similar feeling. Listen to it in the winter at night and you will know what I mean. It does a much better job at imitating the feeling of the moon in winter time than spring/summer (actually best is during autumn when air is chilly and sun is setting and moon is out).

nice :D
This comment makes me love MOON even more. I also associate different moments with different songs.

I want something with acoustic guitar... the kind of song you can listen to when your wrapped up in a fleece cover , next to the fireplace.

^i wouldn't mind something like "sweet scar", which has acoustic guitars in it. i don't know why but it always makes me think of winter's misty roads in a setting sun, or a walk in a wintery forest....

I'm not sure if this technically counts but my favorite "winter" song is appears. When's the last time she had a non-ballad winter song?

I agree with everything except about MOON. Well, I agree MOON is more evocative of autumn. But I don't find it wintery at all. :P

Stuff like how beautiful you are, Ivy, etc. doesn't fall into the "winter ballad" category at all for me. I'd say her last winter ballad was You were... unless I'm totally forgetting something that might have come after it.

Bold & Delicious maybe? Feel the love?

I feel MOON works in winter as well. If snow is still and air is calm. At night and stars are out. Where as, something like No way to say works at night but when there's a slight wind in the air and it is snowing. Especially if the wind picks up during the chorus pieces; I melt of bliss when that happens. Days works best in winter day time, with snow but also nice when sun is out and the snow is glistening. Momentum is good for more dreary winter atmosphere. Something a little more aggressive and heavy snowy wind gusts.

I honestly believe that merry-go-round/feel the love are winter songs which are not ballads. I'm not sure. Maybe because of its release date. It was winter when the single was released and I had so much memories during those days. So yeah, the feeling that these songs invoke to me whenever I hear them is winter.

Meh, I don't really get the winter feel from either of those songs (Feel the love/merry go round). Just because they were released in the winter doesn't mean they are intended to be winter songs. If that's the case then my real favorite winter song is Rule because it was released in February. :D

^ They feel like winter songs but not like winter songs if you catch my drift... They totally sound like winter releases to me though, just not specifically seasonal. :P

Most likely a December single, maybe Christmasy

Totally agree! If songs were seasons, MOON would be autumn. :luv2

I'm happy about a potential new winter ballad, but I'm really dreaming of another summer ballad like the HANABI's or SEASONS.

Was Sunset the last one? It's more midtempo but still.

I really hope for a positive Xmas ballad!! So excited!

i hope 'A WINTER BEST' compilation album :)

I miss her Secret Christmas lives...
Ayu wrote today that she'll be recording and shooting since next week. She tells us to wait for the best winter ballad.

I hope she makes another ballad like Dearest, Moments, or HANABI!

In her latest TA message she write that the recording will start the next week end a shooting is also planned =)

Can't wait! Hoping for something more darkish. Definitely not Days ep II.