New album 'Love songs' & Ayu-produced single 'Dream ON' 12/22 [VI]

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Personally I'm excited for her to not be working with her usual composers.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

I don't understand, she goes all the way to LA so she can record tacky anime theme songs? I really hope the other songs don't sound like these.

These have TK written all over them too. He's such an awful composer. Sure, he has some gems.. but for every good one, he has like 15 awful ones.

Dude, chill xD These are so LQ that we're barely hearing the songs

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Have faith in ayu. Stop *****ing about everything.

(This needs to be the slogan for AHS. SERIOUSLY.)

Or maybe: In ayu we trust.

[Coelacanth]

I'm just judging on melody, and they tend to not change much in HQ.

[jbrat2219]

Oh great! Insomnia's an interlude? I was really hoping it would be a full track because insomnia is the story of my life LOL. So that means Like a doll could be sandwiched, huh? I'm not TOO upset about that because I happen to ADORE all of the sandwiched songs! Marionette, NEXT LEVEL, Don't look back! But still, I don't want to sound rude or ignorant but I REALLY hope you're wrong, tokyoxjapanxfan. I was starting to get use to the idea of only 2 interludes >_<;;; But it is what it is I suppose.

[EDIT]

Meh! I guess it is an interlude T________T Oh well.... let's hope it's the best one! ;D

And seriously, what's with all the TK hate? The man has more than redeemed himself with crossroad, Last angel and Virgin Road..... I'm actually looking forward to his compositions! To be honest, I find them to be the best she's had in a while...

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

^^Even though insomnia is an interlude, that doesn't necessarily mean that there are definitely going to be more than two.

ayu always surprises us. aria or overture could be a full song.
Overture could be some really dark rock song, who knows.

[roanmy]

I'd love a Komuro-heavy album! =D

[Michan]

At first, when the tracklist came out I thought for sure insomnia would be an interlude. This title remebers me Marionette prelude. So for me isn't a suprise at all .
Anyway, I won't listen those chaku uta previews because I hated RnRC previews and I still don't like much of the album. I prefer listen to full album in decent quality.
Also I don't understand why everbody's seems to hate TK. I think he composed some of the best ayu songs ever and I'm very happy she isn't using the same composers. So TK gives a breath of fresh air for ayu comparing to the releases of last year.

[Kazeyomi]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

I'm just judging on melody, and they tend to not change much in HQ.

Yep, but they sound MUCH better in HQ.
It's the same as crossroad, it sounded boring and crappy by the chaku-uta preview to me but then.. it turns out in something amazing.
I mean, you should wait for a good quality preview before to judge.

However I listened to chaku-uta previews and.. wow D: insomnia and sending mail sounds quite interestings. I don't know what to think about Thank U though, I dunno why but it sounded a cutie song like HONEY or Replace to me lol.
But I'll wait for my Love songs copy if I can resist to the full album leak ;_; please FedEx be very quickly .

[Kanzaki]

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

Looks like I may have to stay out of this thread for a while to avoid the BS.

Obviously chaku-uta previews are going to sound like crap. Wait for the full versions before you make an opinion that you're going to change later.

Although I do agree about TK, but saying "every song on the album is composed by him" is a bit of an exaggeration. So we have credits for all the tracks now?

I have to agree completely with what you're saying here.
EVERY DAMN TIME I've been so dissapointed with a preview, I've been like "wtf is this ****, is this what's she's been so excited about?" And every time; those songs became some of my favorites.

If you're like that (like me) stop listening to the LQ previews! They'll just mess you and your expectations up.

[dreamland2.0]

All songs sound interesting so far!!
I can't believe it's just 2 weeks till the release!!!!!!

[koumori]

The only chaku-uta I've ever listened to was for Crossroad. And I still don't like it. I find it boring.

So...I vowed never to listen to chaku-uta's again Bring on HQ goodness!

[Ranma Matsuri]

Originally Posted by !Lawi!

Please, try not to frighten people who don't listen to the chaku-utas xD

IKR?!!! I'm placing $100 smackaroos on this thing... the most I've ever spent on a single album, I don't want to hear that 3 of the new songs are horrible!!!

Though if they do really sound anime-ish, I honestly wouldn't mind. (Good) Anime tends to have pretty solid soundtracks... and Ayu is nothing but good.

I was hoping insomnia wouldn't be an interlude but in my heart I figured it was... *sigh* The descriptions of the 3 tracks doesn't really surprise me.

Surprisingly, I don't mind the TK heaviness either. Like jbrat said, he seems to be redeeming himself this year with crossroad, Last Angel, and THNX A LOT... he hasn't done anything disagreeable so far. But I still want that Kikuchi song... so so bad. xD

[My Rainbow]

Once again, people here LOVE to complain!

I hate this, I hate that! I don't like this! I don't like that! It's the only forum and Ayumi is the only artitst whose fans are like this... People can express their opinion, that's so true, but here there's too much hate towards ayu's work, so these people should consider be ayu fans. I don't mean to create controversy or attack anybody here, it's just that I'm tired EVERY YEAR the same...

Haven't heard the previews, but if they are LQ what do you expect?

I just hope there's no more than 2 interludes. We should complain more about the amount of interludes in her past 3 albums... that's the most annoying!

[ohsixthirty]

sounds great to me!!!

i love how creepy insomnia sounds!

[My Rainbow]

so, for what we see:

01.Love song
02.crossroad
03.MOON
04.sending mail
05.Last angel
06.insomnia
07.Like a doll
08.Aria
09.blossom
10.Thank U
11.Sweet Season
12.overture
13.do it again
14.November
15.Virgin Road
16.SEVEN DAYS WAR

interlude

possible interlude

I hope ARIA is a full song! I think this position of the interludes killed NEXT LEVEL and ROCK N ROLL CIRCUS as a whole album...

[love in music]

so, I'm a little worried for sending mail. of course mic previews will sound bad but from what I can hear it reminds me of one of those typical TK songs that really have nothing special going for it. like, I could imagine it to be some random ami suzuki song. what I'm hoping for is that in HQ, it has that special ayu touch that doesn't make it seem so typical. I'm surprised insomnia is an interlude.. but what I can hear sounds amazing.
"Thank U" really doesn't sound like ayu to me. at first I was like "wow.. her voice is high.. maybe she's using her HONEY type vocals again?" but they seem even higher than that. the song itself sounds promising though. I'm liking what I can hear from the chorus a lot, it sounds so peaceful~

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

Personally I'm excited for her to not be working with her usual composers.

I like this too.. it's giving her a different sound that's for sure. I enjoy things that sound completely refreshing, and that's how most of her music has been sounding lately.

[Rebirthia]

I'm afraid Like a doll will be a sandwiched song, I think that's too much interludes, but I'm almost sure there will be three of them, so what can we do about it?

listen to them or not listen to them! see how easy it's!

My Rainbow, looove your set!

Btw, could anyone tell me this little thing... is SDW version is CD version different from CD+DVD version, that it so say, it's the single version?

[pepper]

So Like a doll can't be interlude cause there will be 2 in a round. So it's a full track...
And I don't think that will be interlude-song-interlude, so i'm expecting that Aria is a full track.

Not listening to lq. They ruined my thoughts about 3 albums in a row

[truehappiness]

Woah, the previews are awesome! sending mail really has that anime opening feel. It's kind of hard hitting and it's rather catchy. Thank U's got this really sweet feel to it! La la laaaaaaaaa~ It sounds a bit like Ayu recorded it years ago, haha!

insomnia creeps me out, haha.