You were... / BALLAD information thread [V]

[Ayu-me]

NOO!! Why did they have to move the date!? I was hoping my parents could buy this as my christmas present and have it on the 24th! I'm even planning to not listen to a single preview of any of the songs so that I can get into the feeling of them on christmas eve, but alas. I hope I can get it as a belated christmas present at least, I really want this single, but I doubt I'd be able to have the money myself.
Not to mention the fact that the sales will prolly go down a bit compared to if it had been released before christmas, making people buy it as christmas presents; the days before christmas are the days when sales are best during the whole year when it comes to these things, after all.
Anyway, enough about my criticism, the TINKERBELL MOVIE? Woah, where did That come from? Well, Tinkerbell is a well known Disney figure, so hopefully it will act as good promotion. Though the promo pictures are bit weird; a too white Ayu against a blue background? No, it doesn't appeal all that much to me, but Ayu does look nice. But I guess they have to suffice, with those clothes and the christmas theme in it I think it's hard to make a good picture. The dress should have more colorful details, completely white doesn't fit her, IMO. Especially with the kind-of tanned skin, the dress melts into the background too much.
Unnecessarily long post, wooh. I'm veery, VERY excited for this single! I hope the songs will be awesome, and a RETAKE VERSION with Different Vocals!? That's amazing, I will love to hear it!

[shineestar]

oh. my. god. *____* the cover is absolutely gorgeous..just no other words. wow i am in complete aw.. *_____* will def be buying omg... *dies* and not only buying for the covers of course, lol. the lyrics to the songs seem so beautiful and i can tell its going to be an amazing single no doubt/. sfsdfsdf!

[AyuMyu]

really like what she said it was different

[Kanzaki]

Wow, AHS is laggy! I guess the covers made everyone go crazy.

And I must say; I am in love. She is beautiful in those cover pics. My fave is Jacket B ^^

[Emperatriz Ayumi]

I love the cover!!! It´s OUTSTANDING!!!!

But I must say I don´t like the nail art... They could have done it better...

[ren'ai]

why is it postponed??

but wow I love these pictures, she looks so gorgeous

[truehappiness]

the release date change is really annoying. could they really not have invested enough in the promotion to drive sales?

I think that perhaps the promotion was the reason why the date was moved, since the drama and the Tinkerbell tie-up are really close to Xmas/the end of the year.

It makes more sense to release a single after the things you're promoting come out imo.

The -Music Box mix- of You were... has a rerecorded version of the You were... vocals.

[love in music]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

The -Music Box mix- of You were... has a rerecorded version of the You were... vocals.

that's really interesting. i wonder if she will have softer vocals for that compared to the original or something

[JackieRos]

why the hell they postponed it!
jesus christ

[Diego-kun]

The covers are AWESOME!! They are almost as good as the Mirrorcle World ones The date change is very annoying specially because we won't be able to know the exact amount of sales until 2010 due to Oricon's holidays...

[truehappiness]

発売日変更について

ニューシングル「You were... / BALLAD」の発売を12月16日と告知しておりましたが、タイアップ時期、及び、プロモーション展開上 の理由により、発売日を12月29日に変更させて頂くことになりました。
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This was their reasoning for changing the date.

Something about promotional reasons, or something? [Though we sort of know that Masaharu might've been part of it.]

Now that it's moved though, some seem to think that it'll be in the same Oricon week as the 3 limited Kanjani 8 special Christmas singles [GIFT -red/green/white-]

[Yumsushi]

Dark hair always looks good on her. Is it me or does she have really plain (cheap?) looking nails this time around? No feathers or sparkles?

[happiholic★]

Originally Posted by Yumsushi

Dark hair always looks good on her. Is it me or does she have really plain (cheap?) looking nails this time around? No feathers or sparkles?

They look like stick-on nails.

[TITANIC]

Originally Posted by identity

that's really interesting. i wonder if she will have softer vocals for that compared to the original or something

this is interesting. now I imagine the version like Dearest original remix and dearest acoustic version

Originally Posted by bluegie

OMG... Kanjani 8? How many copies do the Christmas single have? It's even harder to beat Johnny boybands than fukuyama... I dunno what avex is thinking now..

hopefully this time she would be lucky like HEAVEN won the competition

[happiholic★]

I think that the covers are very pretty, but they seem like typical winder ballad covers. Kinda like Kuu's stay with me, or Kana Nishino's latest release. I love love love the promo pics, though.

[maze]

I really like the promo picture better than the covers.
even though it was so photoshoped, she looks gorgeous *O*

at changing the date...

[yuki_unmei]

my heart about stopped when i saw the covers
sooo gorgeous!! definitely some of my favorite covers ever!!
so proud of her right now

[Bigtop]

I was really expecting about a date change - why is that? Fukuyama response?

[Tom Punks]

^ Yeah, they're really cheap and ugly looking.

[Mai82Go]

That release date change is not good. Does she really clash with Kanjani 8 now? Then all the people hoping for the streak to continue will have a problem now.