[Official Message] New Album; Tour: ayumi hamasaki PREMIUM SHOWCASE ~Feel the love~

[Coelacanth]

Yeah, I think Madonna is fabulous but I think Ayu has become more adept at seamlessly integrating new styles as part of her own unique sound without alienating most fans.

I have faith that Ayu will somehow make the new tracks by Western producers her own. Hopefully, they've listened to some of Ayu's back catalog so they can get a sense of her style...

[brener]

I'm really enjoying her effort to creat something new but at the same time carring her own mark

[truehappiness]

The Ayu sound and feel will still probably be preserved. With My Way, it wasn't an Ayu track so it's understandable that it'd be more m-flo with a dash of Ayu, but Merry-go-round was pretty refreshing and still had the vibe she tends to have.

[adantatu2]

Oh ayu, the waiting is killing me

[tasking]

The album is called "New grounds" according to LINE... or maybe it's just a weird choice of words?

English:

Spoiler:

Japanese:

Spoiler:

[RealLight]

/\ Official or not, i liked the name

[Akutenshi]

I HOPE that is the name, I love it so much.

[Kouyou]

I think I'll just be happy to find out that the title isn't "Feel the love". Preferably, I'd like the title not to have the word "love" in it at all. "LOVEppears", "Love songs", "LOVE", "LOVE again"... I think we're all kind of over it.

[chocopockymaster]

There's nothing in the Japanese post that says "New grounds" is the album title. I'd just chalk it up to a (really) awful English translation.

[AyuGAME]

yup...Japanese always give this kind of symbol [] for the title...we will see it as [new grounds] if its really the title...

although [New Grounds] sounds cool

[truehappiness]

Yeah, it looks like a weird translation of '新境地' from the Japanese post.

Basically, it was intended to say that this album is treading on new ground for Ayu or something but instead somehow some quotes got added in and they made it seem like it was the album title.

Also the English message that followed is weirdly worded as well...

The sage performance is adopting a leading edge tech for a new style.
This album was a favorite for many fans for a long time.

Everyone is very inpatient waiting for the album.

It is not only expected. It is very desired♡

Everyone who have read these rows, let's meet at the live shows and have a good time!

So, I will come again♡

ayu

The LINE translations used to be better.

[ayumint]

I also got message from ayu's official line account in Thai that name of the new album will be "new grounds"

[cosmicfirefly]

I'd love for a title with the word 'new' or some other variation of that.

[RealLight]

And then she surprises us with ''A New love...'' -_-

[truehappiness]

Something with 'new' seems likeliest.

If it has love in it though, I think people might riot.

Tony, I think Hello new me might be cookie cutterish since it's the same production staff behind that song. However, it might be an outlier given the other songs' producers.

[kagami]

I really hope the album is titled 'LOVE LOVE LOVE' just to give the people that can't freakin' get over it aneurysms ^__^

[orangeakira]

Originally Posted by kagami

I really hope the album is titled 'LOVE LOVE LOVE' just to give the people that can't freakin' get over it aneurysms ^__^

I really hope the album is filled with club banging dubstep and trance music to give the people that dislike remixes aneurysms.

[Luther10]

(A) new LOVE

I'm 96% sure that's the title of the new album

[Deep snow]

Goodness gracious I would actually love it if the album's called 'New grounds' *o*

[truehappiness]

That's a very DREAMS COME TRUE-y title.

I do think that having LOVE again so soon after Love songs was a bit much. To have more love directly after might be bad. It's not like Ayu has the Kana Nishino pattern thing going on either so....