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

[Ranma Matsuri]

Originally Posted by ComatoseBunnySnatcher

I'm getting it shipped to a P.O. box, and I've never done so before. can anyone tell me how I do that? Do I just put the P.O. box as the address line?

I REALLY want the album... it's to commemorate my re-birth as a fan lol

Tbh, I don't think you can even ship stuff like that to a P.O. Box. Do you have a friend or family member who you can ship it to? I think that'd be the best way to do it.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

So now we have confirmation that November is a song!

[truehappiness]

AHAHAA.

So I think they're [newspapers] calling the Love songs covers a "reproduction of teenage Ayu" though I don't really know if this is a good thing or bad thing. Considering that it's been like more than 10 years since Ayu was a "teen"... maybe it's a little bit of both?

[fantaisie.sign]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

So I think they're [newspapers] calling the Love songs covers a "reproduction of teenage Ayu" though I don't really know if this is a good thing or bad thing. Considering that it's been like more than 10 years since Ayu was a "teen"... maybe it's a little bit of both?

I wonder if they're talking about a desire to be *like* a typical teenager again? Carefree, easy-going, fun, immature, young? It's a very ambiguous statement. Maybe it's a good thing if that's the version of Ayu that the Japanese love the most: the younger, fresher Ayumi.

[Yukitora]

WOW CD+DVD is suddenly my favorite after seeing it in better quality. CD only looks like creepy, or tongue in cheek now, and the LE still looks nice, but not as powerful as ayu's CD+DVD glare.

[love in music]

the covers are so lovely in a little higher quality. I hope they'll update the sites with the super HQ ones soon!

[Kingdom]

CD > USB > CD DVD

They are all great though, her best in a hot minute! I just wish she didn't have that dumbfounded expression on the DVD version.

Her natural smile is so pretty.

[truehappiness]

First article for the album: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/82653/full/?from_al

It mentions that the covers were shot by Kazutaka Nakamura in the suburbs of Los Angeles. There is also a larger CD+DVD shot there.



Yeah, I don't see the problem people have with this cover. Gotta go crop the newer set~

[love in music]

^nice.. here's the larger shot I saved

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by identity

^nice.. here's the larger shot I saved

Um... actually, that doesn't look that bad...

[4minute Girl]

Originally Posted by identity

^nice.. here's the larger shot I saved

thanks for posting it! i was trying to save the picture but it didn't let me right click

[relmy]

^ CD+DVD looks so much nicer in better quality and larger. Thank you! The CD only is still my favourite though~ ♥

I went for SAL at CD Japan and free shipping at YesAsia, hopefully ONE of them will arrive before I got back to Uni! Definetly downloading the leak this year. I held out with RnRC and it didn't do anything to my appreciation of the songs!

[love in music]

^ yeah it's growing on me as it gets bigger and bigger lol

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

^^It looks so nice larger! So beautiful!

[jbrat2219]

So I found this video, it's somewhat related... emiko and I had a discussion about audio quality on a CD versus what could be on the USB and this video helped clarify some things for me so I thought I'd share.

The Loudness War

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

So I found this video, it's somewhat related... emiko and I had a discussion about audio quality on a CD versus what could be on the USB and this video helped clarify some things for me so I thought I'd share.

The Loudness War

Another good thing to look at, for people who are interested in this quality stuff...though it can get tedious, is to look at the quality between Vinyls and CDs.

Everyone knows that there are all those elitist people out there whining always about the superiority of analog LPs to digital CDs, well, these 48 kHz tracks overlap with that a little bit, as far as the frequency stuff goes.

There really is a war going on right now, and sometimes I think it's hard for the recording people to actually *know* what to do right.


This is probably so boring for everyone, but it's exciting to me, because it's like, the beginning of the CD becoming obsolete, well it's not the *beginning*, since we have downloads and stuff, but this is like...REALLY making it obsolete, because soon, they just, wont be sufficient enough for the space and quality that these HQ tracks need.

And it's like...either CD type media is going to be more expensive because they're going to use the Super CDs, or...it's just gonna die out, and everything will be digital then.

It's just cool lol And Ayu's like, at the forefront of the future. She's always been like that. TAKE THAT GAGA.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Originally Posted by emiko

It's just cool lol And Ayu's like, at the forefront of the future. She's always been like that. TAKE THAT GAGA.

[hsienko]

The only one I don't like is the CD+DVD cover.

Originally Posted by emiko

Another good thing to look at, for people who are interested in this quality stuff...though it can get tedious, is to look at the quality between Vinyls and CDs.

Everyone knows that there are all those elitist people out there whining always about the superiority of analog LPs to digital CDs, well, these 48 kHz tracks overlap with that a little bit, as far as the frequency stuff goes.

There really is a war going on right now, and sometimes I think it's hard for the recording people to actually *know* what to do right.


This is probably so boring for everyone, but it's exciting to me, because it's like, the beginning of the CD becoming obsolete, well it's not the *beginning*, since we have downloads and stuff, but this is like...REALLY making it obsolete, because soon, they just, wont be sufficient enough for the space and quality that these HQ tracks need.

And it's like...either CD type media is going to be more expensive because they're going to use the Super CDs, or...it's just gonna die out, and everything will be digital then.

It's just cool lol And Ayu's like, at the forefront of the future. She's always been like that. TAKE THAT GAGA.

I don't know if its really a war. A war is when people die and/or get hurt, this is more of a dispute between people who have no lives.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Originally Posted by hsienko

The only one I don't like is the CD+DVD cover.



I don't know if its really a war. A war is when people die and/or get hurt, this is more of a dispute between people who have no lives.

emi was obviously being hyperbolic.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by hsienko

I don't know if its really a war. A war is when people die and/or get hurt, this is more of a dispute between people who have no lives.

...and people controlling the quality of your music