[Official Message] New Christmas Single 2013.12.25 In Stores

[maikaru]

One of the whole reasons I started to like Ayumi Hamasaki when she first came out is because she didn't sound like those Komuro people, like Amuro Namie and GLOBE. TRF was okay, but like... I couldn't stand Tomomi Kahala either.

Now this song just sounds like it was extracted from that time and copied and pasted into 2013, with no updates. This is definitely not an Ayumi Hamasaki song. It's OKAY, but it's not what I was expecting.

And before anyone says "Oh it's good she's doing something unexpected," there's always good surprise and then there's the "Oh, crap" surprise. haha.

Agree about the Namie Amuro bit by Coelacanth. Played Spotlight (TOKYO) for one of my english speaking friends, they laughed and tried to figure out if she was singing in English or in a made up language. Yeah, she's cool sometimes, but recently she's trying way to hard to be western with her english songs.

I really don't want Ayu to become that. I tolerated You & Me. It's a good song, the production is modern.

This is just a nightmare on 90s street.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by maikaru

I really don't want Ayu to become that. I tolerated You & Me. It's a good song, the production is modern.

This is just a nightmare on 90s street.

There's not much that's different between this and You & Me imo. This has a catchier chorus though.

[love in music]

omg finally a new single!! i can't wait i missed her christmas singles too.

[AwakenedPRO]

Finally a single! I think I'll save money and buy the Japanese version from YesAsia to help her on Oricon sales.

And btw, I have a feeling that she will start gaining more popularity and sales.

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by AwakenedPRO

Finally a single! I think I'll save money and buy the Japanese version from YesAsia to help her on Oricon sales.

And btw, I have a feeling that she will start gaining more popularity and sales.

I bought the single yesterday when I found out about the release!! I was panicking and quickly open up CDJapan, and pre-ordered the CDs...HAHAHAHA

[Deep snow]

So far I'm just okay with Feel the love, but I'm certain that it'll grow on me (if Bold & Delicious can, -anything- can).

I'm just very happy about this new single! I hope we get to hear from her soon regarding her reasons behind the three-year single vacuum.

[rainbow_smile]

I'm happy to see that there are at least some people who love Feel the love and are excited about the single as well!

Originally Posted by Deep snow

I'm just very happy about this new single! I hope we get to hear from her soon regarding her reasons behind the three-year single vacuum.

She already explained that in one of the interviews. Iirc, it was in Numero Tokyo.

[visionfactory]

Day 1 - I hate Feel the love

Day 2 - Ok. The song is not bad.............

[marty]

Tbh, the fact this not only isn't a winter ballad, but it isn't winter related at all (thus, Ayu surprising me one more time, as usual) may be one of the main reasons I love this preview so much.
It's just that Ayu always seems the most predictable person ever, only to always caught you off guard. I may not like some things she releases, but they're never what I expect. And I'm all "The hell, Ayu, how can you seem, like, the most predictable human being ever, and then come out with this?!". Every. Single. Time. I love it! I cant' believe it when someone says she's always the same.

[yamadashun]

^
^i feel NaNaNa is worse, if you want to compare... (maybe because of the rap and i dislike that song as well, sorry to say that)

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

[Neko★munication]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

So much truth to this post.

[sanzo2011]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

Yasssss!!! EXPOSE them!
once u're a has-been, everything u touch turns out to be oudated!))
I gave up of reading Japanese' comments on Ayu! seriously, they're rude as ****!

[AyUmIXx]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

THIS IS SO TRUE!

[Mr. Goto]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

it's like this for every artist in the history of music that has more than like, 50 fans tho. even more so for artists like ayu who are extremely versatile. it goes both ways to me. "fans" that are too overtly critical/just waiting to bash her are just as bad as the ones who blindly worship every single thing she does.


i don't think feel the love is a strong enough to be a lead A-side. i liked it on first listen but it actually becomes a bit worse the more i listen to it lol. i hope the full studio ver is more polished

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Mr. Goto

it's like this for every artist in the history of music that has more than like, 50 fans tho. even more so for artists like ayu who are extremely versatile. it goes both ways to me. "fans" that are too overtly critical/just waiting to bash her are just as bad as the ones who blindly worship every single thing she does.

i don't think feel the love is a strong enough to be a lead A-side. i liked it on first listen but it actually becomes a bit worse the more i listen to it lol. i hope the full studio ver is more polished

I think it's worse to have fans that are overly critical. What's so bad about having a blind fan who loves everything anyway? Isn't it nicer to have people who are positive around? And honestly, I don't know if there are many 'blind love' Ayu fans out there, but there are a lot that enjoy what she does. It's not like I don't have criticisms, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of enjoying her works.

I will say that I am COMPLETELY sick of having this discussion every time anything new comes out and I'm pretty tired of it (seven+ times?!) and the outcome is always relatively the same with the exact same people having the exact same criticisms of Ayu no matter what type of song or image she has.

[Benikari47]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think it's worse to have fans that are overly critical. What's so bad about having a blind fan who loves everything anyway? Isn't it nicer to have people who are positive around? And honestly, I don't know if there are many 'blind love' Ayu fans out there, but there are a lot that enjoy what she does. It's not like I don't have criticisms, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of enjoying her works.

I totally get where you're coming from, but personally i prefer fans that are natural, not overly critical but not as you say "blind" either. I'd like to discuss an artist without being delusional, that's why i'm not really "stanning" anyone anymore cause i'd much rather have a honest discussion. Namie is my queen, but i'm going to be real when i don't like something, it might not look that way right now but that's cause her material is really strong for me atm.

Ayu's fans seems to be overly critical, she can't catch a break. She could do anything under the sun and someone would still loathe it. And with an artist like Kuu they all seem to be overly positive, i can hardly form an opinion with that fandom (The only real criticism i've seen was for Ai Wo Tomenaide lol)

My point is that it's a shame we don't have a "in-between" of critical and positive, but that would probably be asking too much of the world anyway

[relmy]

Would people really be defending this track if it was by anyone else? If anything, I expect some idol debut to sound this dated, not somebody whose worked in the industry for 15 years.

What's worse is that this track isn't out of the blue, it sounds like a b-side version of You and Me. I hoped she'd go more Tell All than... this. I'm not a huge fan of Tell All either but at least she sounded like she wanted to be making music on that track.

[Didz-19]

Originally Posted by relmy

Would people really be defending this track if it was by anyone else? If anything, I expect some idol debut to sound this dated, not somebody whose worked in the industry for 15 years.

What's worse is that this track isn't out of the blue, it sounds like a b-side version of You and Me. I hoped she'd go more Tell All than... this. I'm not a huge fan of Tell All either but at least she sounded like she wanted to be making music on that track.

Let's wait for the full version of "Feel the love", then we can comment about it

[pimenta]

It's funny, but I'm actually glad the song sounds kind of dated... I don't know, it makes me feel that even if she's following a trend, she doesn't care for doing what's more popular right now just because it's popular (which is what most artists seem to be trying to do and I'm getting tired of it), she's just releasing whatever she want's to release... Yes, it's a trendy style, but it still kind of have that Ayu touch of always being a bit different than what the majority is doing, because she just releases whatever she wants to

With Ayu I have the feeling that we always get something that reflects herself, what she feels like doing, what music style she's into at the moment, what she wants to do not and not what someone else wants her to do, no matter if it's in a good or a bad way... I like how it always feels like herself and not something controlled by the media/company/public opinion

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Let's all be honest.

Ayu can't release -anything- without people talking badly about it.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Like seriously.

She could release a ballad. A rock song. A dance song. A mid tempo song. And she'd always be labeled as sounding old. Looking old. Out dated. Boring. Predictable. A mess. Tired. Screechy. Shouty.

So whatever. *shrug*

You kind of have to roll with the punches at this point.

This is so true. It's so annoying, specially considering that probably in a few years from now people will be complaining about the future new releases saying she should do something like what she's doing now, like if they didn't complain about it as well...