New album 'Party Queen' out 03/21 information thread [IV]

[ayuuk]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

I think so before each release
but I'm too weak %)

I am too weak as well

[Lady_Eowyn]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

"Eyes, Smoke, Magic" sounds like it could be a jazzy song.

So... it's a concept album... Aren't most of her albums? It'd be awesome if she did a concept album on the level of "Rhythm Nation 1814" or "The Wall," though. Her so-called "concepts" always seem quite subtle and weakly unified.

"MY STORY" for instance, could be considered a concept album because the album is supposedly "autobiographical" for her. I have a feeling she didn't have any particular concept in mind when she was creating the album, though. The entire "concept" was probably an afterthought.

I agree. I don't think any Ayumi album can be considered conceptual. There's no other concept beside her "expressing" her emotions. Epica and Scars on Broadway did what i call conceptual albums (first band did it about world religions and second one is about a serial killer) because the subject is clearly precised in all songs,one way or another. Perhaps ayu has attempted this but the songs and ideas are too vague for us fans to understand or to consider her albums cohesively conceptual.

[Yukitora]

I think RnRC is probably her strongest conceptual album (Dlb being the turning point in the album), but even then she the placing on the single tracks were seemingly random.

[TeamAyu2004]

Some people

I cant wait for these covers! I hope the album is amazing!
But already calling it Party queen and then saying its conceptual, but including How Beautiful you are... is a no.

Unless of course she is singling about herself... interesting.

[isthisLOL?]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

But already calling it Party queen and then saying its conceptual, but including How Beautiful you are... is a no.

Not really. We have no idea how serious the title is. Maybe it's ironic to some extent. Without knowing the whole thing we can not know if it fits into a concept. A concept could even be "14 songs from different genres". Or it can be 14 different ways to look at emotions...it could be anything really and hbya might or might not fit into it.
FIVE was a concept-EP. Consisting of five different ways to look at hope and a transition from hope to hopelessness. Yet many people think it's random stuff thrown together.

[TeamAyu2004]

^ if you want to look at it that way, then yes. Anything can be concept than.

[ayu_ready?]

I think LOVEppears & Duty are quite conceptual.

[isthisLOL?]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

^ if you want to look at it that way, then yes. Anything can be concept than.

That's the whole definition of it. A concept album doesn't have to tell a story(many of Ayumi's albums tell a story from the first to the last track though, just no fictional story, so it's often lost from Ayumi's impressionistic/hermetic romance lyric style) or have one type of sound all the way through. It's about an idea being carried throughout an entire piece of work.
Not every of Ayumi's albums does that but many do.

[RayJason]

Bla bla concept bla conceptual bla..

I'm just hoping these covers will leak anytime soon now, can't wait! I hope it's a mix of the LANDS OF EDEN and the ViVi shoot. cute + SUPER plastic. (not being sarcastic!)

[Kanzaki]

It's kinda hard to make a non-conceptual album, I think. There's always a red thread there.

I love the sound of jazz *_* Literally. It suits Ayu to try out new genres; she's been almost everywhere and done every genre with pretty good outcomes.

[TeamAyu2004]

I don't about that ^^

I want something animated for the cover (not anime, but life like)

I'm starting to worry I wont like it because I building these mental image in my head... lol.. and if she doesn;t do it the piece will be... lacking... lol
Ayu! You better start reading my mind!

[Kouyou]

I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I wish a picture from the ViVi photo shoot could be the album cover! So cute!

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

A condoms were the best idea XD

But I wish she would have gave out A glowsticks or something. You know, if she was going to go the electro-route again, I wish she had done a more trance influenced album...

if she ever does that, then I am officially thinking she's a lost brain part from GACKT xD

[isthisLOL?]

She needs to release an album about sex and put an A DILDO or A VIBRATOR into the boxset...kinda like Mylene Farmer and her vibrator as tourgood lol

[pepper]

TO BE HONEST, children-singing not reminds me of a ballad or Sweet Season-esque.

It reminds me of THIS


please Ayu do it in that way!! <3

or Eminem's Toy Soldier or Panic at the disco Ever since we meet ^^ There are a lot of the ways of children singing and I am hoping for not a ballad.

[everlastingRAINBOW]

Originally Posted by RayJason

Bla bla concept bla conceptual bla..

That's how I feel. Ayu saying it's "conceptual" doesn't really mean anything; she's never had a real concept album.

[TeamAyu2004]

^ thank you.

She did the whole children laughing in My Story ... or missunderstood.. lol..
totally creepie... It depends on how the song is done... it might be an uplifting kind of inspirational kind of song.

[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by RayJason

I'm just hoping these covers will leak anytime soon now, can't wait! I hope it's a mix of the LANDS OF EDEN and the ViVi shoot. cute + SUPER plastic. (not being sarcastic!)

Same here!

[zellyx]

^ me too!

[happiholic★]

I just hope that the "theme" of this album, which is probably going to be European inspired, is better than RnRC. That album was the beginning of the end for me. I hope she gets over this whole Euro phase soon.

Also, I hope the covers are nothing like Kuu's Kingdom. I love Kuu and that album but those covers were just no