new album "A ONE" 2015.04.08 in stores II

[cosmicfirefly]

I'm really looking forward to the album after hearing the previews. The upbeat songs sound like they're going to be great, and I don't think the ballads are terrible at all. Both Story and THE GIFT sound sweet. The Show Must Go On does remind me a lot of snowy kiss though, but she might be alluding to it in the lyrics.

[Irish_Ayu_Fan]

No Future's intro is perfect!
The rest are pretty bland to me so far, but I think ill enjoy Warning aswell! Really hope the other 2 tracks aren't interludes (I know they probably will be). Feel like this album needs more upbeat songs, maybe she should throw You & Me in at the end hahahaha.

[truehappiness]

The GIFT takes some time to get used to IMO.

[Zeke.]

Omg letter and call are like the absolute worst of her discog for me. I hope it's less like those and more like the standard concert Enders from yesteryear or at least something like Life?

[Chris85]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

Omg letter and call are like the absolute worst of her discog for me.

It's always fun when people have opposite tastes: these two are one of my favourites!
I can't get how for example Shake it can be considered better.

[adantatu2]

If THE GIFT was made for the chinese fans, she should include it in a chinese edition, I can't believe she made a PV for it.

[Isicio]

I really love how some intros of the songs have samples of epic ayu music :')
With the previews leaked I only pray for epic covers *.*

[Raiu-Ayu]

I'm actually super excited for this album now

WARNING - total epicness! I already know I am going to love this song in full and will probably be my most played on the album with Last minute. The "LA LA LA"s are awesome and so catchy lol Ive been singing them all night. If she doesn't sing this on the tour it would be a waste.
The GIFT - Its ok. Nothing special and not as amazing as ayu was making out. I think it would have benefited more if it was just a piano piece with ayu on vocal.
NO FUTURE - Confusing. The intro and the title make it seem as though its gonna be kinda dark but then this upbeat and bubbly melody and rhythm kick in. It's very J-Pop (sounds actually like AAA's recent stuff), Japan should like this kind of song I think.
Out of control - Reminds me of Letter and call from Party Queen. Nothing special. Just album filler.
The Show Must Go On - I like it but then again this is the kind of music I like. It is very snowy kiss part 2. I could only guess its done on purpose. Surely she wouldnt miss the fact they are soooo similar. It also reminds me of Destiny -Taiyou no Hana- by Hitomi Shimatani for some reason...
Story - Standard ayu ballad. I usually take a while to warm to ballads so I'll see how it goes.

[truehappiness]

Ayu needs tracks like Out of control IMO. They're perfect for encores and such, or before/after emotional rock tracks in lives.

[rikku1994]

I'm actually excited on how she will sing these songs live tbh. But it is a really good album, more of a throwback and not as random as Colours.

[hayasaki]

I just noticed how The Show must go on is more EDM inclined than Snowy Kiss... They both have grand string arrangements and shifts which make both of them sound like sisters. LOL it's gonna be my favorite album track i think

[DevilHunter_04]

I love all the songs for the most part. "the show must go on" confused me a little bit. It went from being upbeat to kinda slow and I thought it was the next song at first. I can't wait for this album to come out though.

[ExodusUK]

Seriously judging Ayu's taste level after hearing The Gift.

[freedreamer]

i think The GIFT will sound normal as a C-POP song and if JJ sings it HAHHA. I can totally see him seeing it (and duh, its obviously not his best work...which he just gave to ayu LOLOL)

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

i think The GIFT will sound normal as a C-POP song and if JJ sings it HAHHA. I can totally see him seeing it (and duh, its obviously not his best work...which he just gave to ayu LOLOL)

I kinda like his song with Selina a little, lol.

I feel like NO FUTURE would fit on LOVEppears.

[js_surrealism]

Hey look, an album that sounds like I am...!

Love all the new songs except for STORY and THE GIFT.


THE GIFT - yea, it's basically a CPOP song that blatantly rips off the verse melody from this Jay Chou song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_MYq7U3yZ8

[dumbellz]

Originally Posted by js_surrealism

Hey look, an album that sounds like I am...!

Love all the new songs except for STORY and THE GIFT.


THE GIFT - yea, it's basically a CPOP song that blatantly rips off the verse melody from this Jay Chou song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_MYq7U3yZ8

You are right!!!!!! It sounds so much like 楓!!

[truehappiness]

More like Life than call and Letter. But same general vein of "midtempo goodness".

[waterballoon]

not sure how to feel from the more HQ samples...

I miss the cohesive sound of Love songs, LOVEppears, MY STORY, RAINBOW...

but yeah the songs sound all over the place lol. individually they're mostly decent, but they're all gonna be in album? along with the Zutto... single? lol

old opinions stay the same; The GIFT is so atrocious, Story sounds really really good but her voice sounds weird in the chorus, WARNING sounds like the most interesting, The show must go on.. liked the similarity to snowy kiss then I lost it at the Engrish, ugh why.

i don't remember much of the rest but there was one song, was it NO FUTURE? sounded like it came from the ASFxx album lol

[truehappiness]

I don't think anyone expected major cohesion with this album.

There's a little of everything here and it'll probably end with Story and begin with WARNING...

Something tells me we'll get the usual song clumps.