[Official Message] A ONE tracklist

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Aderianu

yes, I'm greedy. I think it's better to wait longer and work slowly to release full album, than make something between mini and full but to special date.
Who ask Ayu to release something so soon?

She probably really wanted to get it out before the tour. I wonder if we'll get a winter album this year.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

She probably really wanted to get it out before the tour. I wonder if we'll get a winter album this year.

YES, a winter album would be cool! I know it might be unfathomable that even with this new album coming out I could still get so excited about another new album.

[orbitalaspect]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Yeah, it seems that the album is more cohesive on the lyrics side (and there's a long ballad section so a part of it on the musical style as well).

I think that a Bell is an interludes and Anything for you is a full song. We can't know for sure though.
It would be 7 new full songs though which is good.

I don't think we can complain on the number of new songs though. Colours was released barely 9 months before A ONE's release.
And 6-7 is not too bad. We got 6 with Colours.

Well, 10 full tracks is OK. 9 isn't. It's bad enough this release and the last one seem to be skimmed of the bells and whistles of even records like La and PQ. The least we could get is 10 tracks in total and one interlude. If Anything for you is an interlude, I'll be disappointed on the merit that we should have had an actual album.

And don't forget that PQ was released about 7 months after FIVE, and all 11 tracks, 3 interludes, were brand new.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

Well, 10 full tracks is OK. 9 isn't. It's bad enough this release and the last one seem to be skimmed of the bells and whistles of even records like La and PQ. The least we could get is 10 tracks in total and one interlude. If Anything for you is an interlude, I'll be disappointed on the merit that we should have had an actual album.

And don't forget that PQ was released about 7 months after FIVE, and all 11 tracks, 3 interludes, were brand new.

But then with FIVE and Party Queen there were 16 full songs overall in a span of 7 months. Colours and A ONE are 19 full songs (if Anything for you is an interlude).
It's an extremely normal output in the the of 9 months and we have to thank for that. Not even other artists or female singers do that (even in Japan).
Maybe it's good that she doesn't do more than that in that time span since she would have ended up making filler over filler songs just for the sake of having songs. At least she puts a lot of effort into it and try to build a lyrical/musical idea about something even 9 full songs is not so bad. It's just that we are not used to it.

It's 10/11 full songs on the TA version =P

[douggn]

^ getting ready for an Asia tour

[pepper]

Please, let it a Bell be awesomely lyric intro!!

[chocopockymaster]

I miss her lyric intros so muchhhhhh

[Zeke.]

So I decided to check out the preview of the GIFT.

Terrible. And I don't actually believe it's the composition or the song itself, it's ayus voice! It totally clashes with the style of the song, which is very A Song For XX era. You can literally hear the filter they have place over ayus voice at certain parts. She's just all over the place in this song.

[thinkingoutloud89]

I rather have 6 new songs to concentrate on than 15. Its is enough since I get new ones every year. i would even go as far and say I could live with having 1-2 mini-albums a year.

[pimenta]

I like the titles

a BELL is probably an interlude, but the rest may just as well be full songs. I hope so, since the tracklist isn't big.

[chocopockymaster]

I hope we get to see the covers soon

Prolly 5 covers like we got with Colours...I forgot there wasn't a TA CD-only edition. oop

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Listening to The GIFT's official preview on her Discography page and it sounds really good imo. *shrug*

[stickyrice]

The GIFT isn't bad. It's just boring (for me at least).

I am looking forward to the lyrics though cause it seems like she loves this song a lot so I'm just going to assume she put a lot of thought into writing this.

Hopefully Anything for You is a full song.

[chocopockymaster]

I posted a tiny snippet in the album thread if you wanna go look. It's missing the first two verses bc I'm not entirely sure of a few words.

[Heavenly]

In French, "a bell" (une cloche) is how we call a dumb person :3

[thinkingoutloud89]

^you are in the space of the japanese idol sytsem...altough she has many features of an artist, she remains and idol - who has to stay on the scene as much as possible. She has the luck that, despite her ppor sales, her live shows are still selling...and she needs new music for that.

The reasons she is releasing this so soon can be of different nature - it could have to do with her label, the japanese music-industry or personal needs. We can just speculate about those, but 11 tracks to e is already a full album.

Moreover - only very few albums are better, just because she took 2 years (and she probably wont. since almost always - asia or western countries - albums are produced and recorded 2 month before its release date. You just think they took so long because there was a gap)

[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

Moreover - only very few albums are better, just because she took 2 years (and she probably wont. since almost always - asia or western countries - albums are produced and recorded 2 month before its release date. You just think they took so long because there was a gap)

I'm not really talking about how long it takes to record the album.

Just because she recorded the album in a 2 month span doesn't mean that's the entire time she spent conceptualizing and creating the album. Ayu doesn't really compose anymore, so she doesn't have the "excuse" of spending excess time writing new material, but there's still plenty of other factors. For example, MY STORY ended up being her 2nd longest album and the first one she started conceptualizing from the very first single. I don't remember exactly how long it took to get from Moments to MY STORY, but she did spent at least about a year planning out and conceptualizing that album, and had definitely started picking out tracks for it long before the "2 months" period before it was released. (I seem to remember the About You CM coming out eeeons in advance at least.)

Furthermore, I wasn't even saying she should literally spend 2 years making the album in the first place lol. I was saying she should take 2 years to RELEASE one. That's why I said "she should take 2 years to RELEASE", not "take 2 years to RECORD." As in, wait until she feels inspired, has something to write about, has a clear VISION in her mind, and has a good selection of demos that make a proper album.

I mean, you're basically just reiterating that she's releasing it out of contractual obligations, which is what I already said in my original post lol.

[chocopockymaster]

I find it hard to believe A ONE is being released out of contractual obligations, as it's only been 9 months since Colours was released. She sounds like she's really pumped up about AT2015 and probably wanted a new album to be able to promote while on tour.

[Surreal17]

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

I find it hard to believe A ONE is being released out of contractual obligations, as it's only been 9 months since Colours was released. She sounds like she's really pumped up about AT2015 and probably wanted a new album to be able to promote while on tour.

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[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by chocopockymaster

I find it hard to believe A ONE is being released out of contractual obligations, as it's only been 9 months since Colours was released. She sounds like she's really pumped up about AT2015 and probably wanted a new album to be able to promote while on tour.

Maybe that too, but they're both equally bad to me lol. I hate the idea of releasing an album just for something to tour with. IMHO it really shows and makes for poorer music quality when artists do that.

I'd rather she waited and produced an album because she actually felt like making the music itself, not because she wanted to tour or avex was holding a gun to her head lol.