Is This True About A Best? - Page 2

Delirium-Zer0 · #21 7th August 2008, 01:18 AM

Ayu made it pretty clear in that NTV interview that SHE didn't know if it was gonna be her last album or not (which is why she did so many photo shoots - she wasn't sure if she'd get the chance ever again).

I don't think avex really intended it to be her final release, but I think it very well COULD have been if she hadn't been selling as well as she was.

Max Matsuura did say on a radio interview in late 2000 that he thought that "Duty" was gonna be ayu's peak... alot of fans took that to mean that she could very well be retiring after A BEST, but someone here mentioned that avex could have been deliberately spreading rumors & dropping tiny "hints" of retirement to boost sales.

prussian blue · #22 7th August 2008, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by pommy408

i thought the reason she was crying is because Avex rushed the album to compete with hikki's distance, you can notice the A BEST pics in the pv ourselves, basically....i think the pv is a message to avex, maybe how angry she is?

wow i didnt know about that! but there's A BALLAD and NEVER EVER pic too, are them involved with this case too?

maikaru · #23 7th August 2008, 03:05 PM

yeah I just recommend to watch the 2004 interview to get the full story.
It even explains the tear, which I just recently watched.
It says that the tear was the "greatest act of defiance" or so.
That she wanted to make an a best album when she were ready, and on what terms.
But Avex did this to her. and rest is the history

panda87 · #24 7th August 2008, 04:20 PM

i remember watching her one interview in 2004 and how she said it was to be her final album but before it's release, they decided not to let it be and use it to be the rival album to Utada's distance and let Ayu continue with her music career against her. *shrugs* and she hated that idea... but she continued anyways for her fans and b/c she loved it. *shrugs* got to watch it again... but i lost it. kuso!

Chibi_Venus · #25 10th August 2008, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by prussian blue

wow i didnt know about that! but there's A BALLAD and NEVER EVER pic too, are them involved with this case too?

I believe that's true, that "NEVER EVER" and "A BALLADS" were both released against Ayu's will/opinion/choice.

GRACE · #26 10th August 2008, 07:42 PM

I didn't know A BALLADS was beyond her will as well, I thought it was just A BEST and NEVER EVER, which is why there was crying in A BEST, and the whole prisoner theme in the NEVER EVER promotional clip (I love how symbolic that clip may be),

Chibi_Venus · #27 10th August 2008, 08:20 PM

^ I'm actually not quite sure if A BALLADS was against her will (I should've stated that in my post), but maybe it (the cover of A BALLADS in the "ourselves" PV) was symbolizing "regret" because of its low sales.

GRACE · #28 10th August 2008, 08:22 PM

^A BALLADS cover wasn't in the ourselves PV, A BEST's cover was.

I always though, based off of the fact that the RAINBOW PV had the dual Ayu's and it was used to promote the album, that the A BALLADS cover represented self-forgiveness.

KarenPang · #29 11th August 2008, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by GRACE

^A BALLADS cover wasn't in the ourselves PV, A BEST's cover was.

I always though, based off of the fact that the RAINBOW PV had the dual Ayu's and it was used to promote the album, that the A BALLADS cover represented self-forgiveness.

A BALLADS cover was in the ourselves PV alongside with the A BEST , NEVER EVER covers

you see ->

NEVER EVER -

GRACE · #30 11th August 2008, 04:19 AM

^So maybe A BALLADS was released outside of her will o_o...? If NEVER EVER and A BEST where, and they're there, then A BALLDS must be too right? Where there any other singles/albums in ourselves?

KarenPang · #31 11th August 2008, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by GRACE

^So maybe A BALLADS was released outside of her will o_o...? If NEVER EVER and A BEST where, and they're there, then A BALLDS must be too right? Where there any other singles/albums in ourselves?

I don't know about the whole release of A BALLADS against her will issue .

& I only managed to spot the covers of A BEST , NEVER EVER & A BALLADS in the ourselves PV .

NEVER EVER appeared 1st followed by A BALLADS assuming if you exclude the covers of A BEST in the video

prussian blue · #32 11th August 2008, 09:13 AM

^yeah it was such a pity NEVER EVER doesnt come out with a PV

i dont understand why they make a short clip for the song though

Chibi_Venus · #33 11th August 2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by GRACE

^So maybe A BALLADS was released outside of her will o_o...? If NEVER EVER and A BEST where, and they're there, then A BALLDS must be too right? Where there any other singles/albums in ourselves?

If I remember correctly, the cover of the first ayu-mi-x appeared in the "ourselves" PV as well. At least, that's what I thought and remembered. (I tried to get a shot of the video, but "ourselves" is, unfortunately, one of the lower quality PVs I have.)

EDIT (from ayu-vogue.net):

Spoiler:

GRACE · #34 11th August 2008, 06:40 PM

The ourselves PV really was a BOLD move on her part, I'm surprised avex let it be released.

And for NEVER EVER, I quite like the clip the way it is, it's LOADED with symbolism.

pommy48 · #35 11th August 2008, 06:42 PM

hmm the ourselves pv have a lot of ayu releases lol, i think it would be cool if ayu did a ballad for her 10th anni, and the pv is of her visiting a museum of all the music she did~

i would have loved for NEVER EVER to have a pv~ well at least they had a short clip....but i think talkin 2 myself is a sequel to NEVER EVER, the bars, military looking clothes, dirt on her face~

GRACE · #36 11th August 2008, 07:00 PM

NEVER EVER did in a minute what a lot of full PVs can't do. Hearing she was forced to release it makes the whole prisoner angle make lots of sense, along with the dog.