"how beautiful you are" Jacket Released

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

^oh no %) I hope he will never come here

MTE, poor guy would be devastated by the negativity on this forum, not nescessarily the download section xD

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by artcika

MTE, poor guy would be devastated by the negativity on this forum, not nescessarily the download section xD

you're right %) I forgot about endless holy war in twitter thread

Originally Posted by ohsixthirty

What Jpop forum did he join??

http://jpopcentral.yuku.com/topic/11...D-POWE?page=31

[Kanzaki]

Yes! Tim! He'll be our Ayu-insider!

[Aderianu]

don't want ayu's staff to see Downloads section %)

[pommy48]

Lol they'll be stupid to think we don't have one.

They already know about Ayu China always

And I'm sure...Dave(?) (do it again composer) saw it when he came by a while back.

[Aderianu]

^it's a shame anyway %)

[truehappiness]

I don't think he'd care about that anyway. He just wants feedback on the new releases and isn't around to patrol for Ayu/avex.

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I don't think he'd care about that anyway. He just wants feedback on the new releases and isn't around to patrol for Ayu/avex.

actually...i kind of don't think timmy would join ahs.

sure, david reitz joined and posted here, but he isn't an avex employee. timmy actually works for ayu/avex and thus i don't think it would look good to them if he were posting on a forum where there are downloads. i think to avex it would be like taking part in something that hurts their business and they would not be happy about it.

[ohsixthirty]

What Jpop forum did he join??

[OyTony]

^jpopcentral =)

[ALfromHELLSING]

Cover is great, but the song itself is even better. it's so SO amazing! <3

[roanmy]

I hate her voice in this. It has become way too apparent that she struggles to sing. I thought she was getting vocal training now?

Anyway, I will probably get PQ since I have all her other albums, but I am glad I am getting the CD+DVD version this time, so I can listen to the previews first.

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Whenever people say her voice is bad on this(or any FIVE song but progress) I just laugh by now. The ONE thing that can be 100% objectively said about her current era is that her vocals are much better than they have been from 2006-2010 and her vocal technique is the best of her career(she used to use completely wrong vocal technique, even in the eras she sounded good in, now she uses correct vocal technique)

absolutely not true

Originally Posted by roanmy

I hate her voice in this. It has become way too apparent that she struggles to sing. I thought she was getting vocal training now?

this is what absolutely true

[isthisLOL?]

Originally Posted by ayu_ready?

absolutely not true

Yes it is, her control has greatly increased, as has her range. Her tone has gotten clearer and her vibrato isn't all over the place anymore. Liking it or not is another thing, her vocals have increased like crazy lately. Fact.

[Maemi]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Yes it is, her control has greatly increased, as has her range. Her tone has gotten clearer and her vibrato isn't all over the place anymore. Liking it or not is another thing, her vocals have increased like crazy lately. Fact.

Are you deaf or simply ignorant?

Originally Posted by PoetGirl

I think thats Virgin Elizabeth http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...th01b.jpg/sr=1

That's what I thought, but there's no portrait like that on net so we can be 100% sure xD at least, google haven't showed me it yet ...

[isthisLOL?]

Originally Posted by Maemi

Are you deaf or simply ignorant?

Neither, I just know enough about vocals to realize that anyone calling Ayumi's vocals right now worse than before is talking crap. Especially since the quality of someone's vocals are to the biggest extent objective. I can see how some people may not like her vocals nowadays since they are very different from before and her nasal tone has a quality of it's own but it's a fact that her technique has increased a lot. She didn't even breathe correctly until 2011.

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Yes it is, her control has greatly increased, as has her range. Her tone has gotten clearer and her vibrato isn't all over the place anymore. Liking it or not is another thing, her vocals have increased like crazy lately. Fact.

how come vocal has increased if she can't hit high notes in HBYA second part of the song in its peak, aka starting 4:19?

[isthisLOL?]

Originally Posted by ayu_ready?

how come vocal has increased if she can't hit high notes in HBYA second part of the song in its peak, aka starting 4:19?

Because the song was not written specifically for her vocals. Timmy said himself that before writing for Ayu, he has not listened to her back catalogue, he didn't know exactly what she can do with her voice. And she can hit them. Not very well but she can. A handful years ago she would have done it much worse.
Also, vocal control is not all about pitch. It's about tone, dynamics, even vibrato...things she has gained a whole lot control over.
While pitch is the aspect influenced by her hearing. And her hearing hasn't gotten better obviously. It can't get better. She learned to deal with it better though.

Learn more about vocals before you continue please, you have yet to bring a valid argument aside "she can't hit the notes in this specific song we have never heard her sing before her vocals changed well".

[ALfromHELLSING]

I really love her voice in this song. I can't wait to hear previews for other tracks.

[OyTony]

Does somebody know the two fonts on the cover? ^^