Ayu's cover for Miyuki Nakajima's song "時代"
 

This cover will be used as theme song for TV Asahi's drama "Banpaku no Taiyo".

Digital single will come out from midnight on Monday, March 25th, immediately after the broadcast ends.

"I sympathized with the worldview portrayed by this drama, especially the story of the main characters who continued to pursue their dreams in an era when women were not allowed to advance into society at all, so I agreed to sing the theme song for it.
While paying homage to Miyuki Nakajima's great masterpiece, I worked with the best staff and musicians to express it to the best of my ability.
I would be happy if I could contribute even a little bit to this wonderful drama!

Ayumi Hamasaki"

https://avex.jp/ayu/schedule/detail.php?id=1105194

you can find snippets of the song on twitter

Oh wow as a Miyuki Nakajima fan this is especially precious.
Jidai is such a beautiful and timeless song.

Here a snippet of Nakajima preforming it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_bpaKDcAo.

Fun fact, this song is from 1975 so its almost 50 years old. :luv2

Oooh so far the two new songs are tie-ins. How exciting.
Also, a Miyuki Nakajima cover is definitely surprising, at least to me.
This mini/album is looking really interesting.

i loved the song, it'll be even more delightful with ayu's voice :blove

Another song already!?!? OMG

I love her covers, can't wait for this new one!

I love Nakajima Miyuki, this is great news. A little concerned about how Ayu will be able to adapt the song to her voice, Nakajima has a very strong voice. However Ayu did a good job on Haru yo koi.

Here's a bit preview of ayu's cover 時代
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zH...f952e7206ca6a0

OMG! It sounds so nice.

i loved the preview =) her voice fits the song :blove

IKR! Hopefully we can get the single sooner~ Can't wait for new song, "BYE-BYE" and "Jidai":luv2:luv2

It feels soooo weird to hear Ayu singing Nakajima Miyuki, even if the instrumentals are similar, their voices and singing techniques are so different and both versions are their own thing. I think I'll keep listening to both versions, I don't expect Ayuès version to be better than the original, or worse, it will just be different.

On a critical note, I wish they used another promo picture in the advertisement, that Leopard short dress fits in no way with the drama or the song.

I love this song so much, makes me wanna cry but empowered at the same time. Kamishiraishi Mone’s cover with orchestra is one of the favorite!

https://b23.tv/c4GcYrh

totally, hopefully the digital single will have a decent cover art :P

It is not at all bad, sounds different and refreshing. I never heard Ayu singing this type of ballad.

Can't wait to hear this! We're getting spoiled with all the song news!

she shared a story on ig yesterday about a new single being released today??

I read that she recorded a new song and immediately went for mv shooting, so we are expecting two new mvs at least

If we saw the same story, I think it mentioned that the Shooting was for today. I don<t think the release was today.