Magazine scans:
12/5 TOWER
12/7 S Cawaii
12/12 sweet
12/14 TOKYO HEADLINE
12/17 WOOFIN 'Girl
12/20 the music master
12/20 VA
12/20 新星堂DROPS
12/25 Groovin'
ViVi 2010.01
BLENDA 2009.12
New tour possibly:
安室、刷新！２年半ぶりアルバムで新・安室奈美恵を展開
歌手の安室奈美恵（３２）が、１２月１６日に２年半ぶりとなる新アルバム「ＰＡＳＴ＜ＦＵＴＵＲＥ」（パス ト・フューチャー）を発売する。
３月下旬から制作を開始。「すべてを空にして新しいスタートを切りたい」という思いから、コンセプトは「今 までを脱ぎ捨て、新しい『安室奈美恵』を展開していく」。
アルバムのタイトル通り、過去より未来を意識したものに。そのため、同作のジャケット写真は、安室が自身の 過去のジャケ写を破るという斬新なデザインになった。最新シングル「ＷＩＬＤ／Ｄｒ．」を始め、ヴィダルサ スーンのＣＭ曲「ＣＯＰＹＴＨＡＴ」など１２曲を収録。来年４月から全国ツアーに突入する。
"Namie will rush into a nationwide tour next April!"
Promotion:
The first songs excluding "Wild" and "Dr." to be promoted from the album were "My Love" and "Copy That" which both appeared in new commercials for cosmetics company, Vidal Sassoon. They premiered on the web first and later on television in October 2009. "My Love" would later make it's radio premiere on J-Wave's Groove Line on October 27. Both "My Love" and "Copy That" were released as ringtones online on November 18. Two more songs from the album, "Fast Car" and "The Meaning Of Us" will also make their radio premieres on November 23 and 24. Besides radio promotion, four new music videos have been produced for "Fast Car," "The Meaning Of Us," "Love Game," and "Defend Love." All four videos will appear on a DVD included with the album along with music videos for the previously released "Wild" and "Dr.".
In November, a poster promoting the new album began to appear across Japan. It bears the image of a woman, her face hidden, ripping a photo from Amuro's famous Best Fiction album shoot. The image is being used both online and offline for the album, with more photos of the poster being more and more ripped, cumulating to the releases of the covers, where the poster is half-ripped, revealing Amuro's face.
Production:
Past < Future is expected to be released in Japan on December 16, 2009 as a singular 12-track CD release plus a dual disc set with the album and a separate DVD containing several music videos. Amuro first revealed in the March 2009 issue of S Cawaii that she was preparing a new album which she would begin recording during her Best Fiction Tour. In the interview, she would also confirm that the direction of the album would be different from her previous album. Confirmation of the impending release of Amuro's ninth studio album occurred several months later when media outlets began to report new commercials with new songs by the singer would appear not in a new single, but a new album towards the end of the year.[3]
Of the twelve tracks being released on the album, eleven tracks including "Wild," Dr.," "Fast Car," "My Love," "Copy That," "Bad Habit," "Love Game," "The Meaning Of Us," "Shut Up, "Defend Love," and "Steal My Night" were announced on her official site on October 22.[1] The final track, "First Timer" a collaboration with hip hop group Doberman Inc. was announced at a later date.
Unlike Play which was produced solely by Michico and T.Kura of Giant Swing and Nao'ymt, Amuro sought other writers and producers for this project. Dsign Music, a Scandinavian production team was the first to reveal that they had written new material for Amuro on their official website in August 2009.[4] In a blog entry, songwriter/producer, Hiro, who has written for other artist including Kumi Koda and J Soul Brothers, confirmed that he produced "My Love".