[Official Message] LOVE CLASSICS in stores 2015.01.28

[NintendoHTF1242]

Not sure how I feel about this release tbh. The tracklist is shit; I need more recent stuff (and only looking forward to Days) but I'm in love with the concept and looking forward to previews.

[ExodusUK]

Would be interesting to have this concept with more upbeat and poppy songs..this TVXQ song uses the song that Voyage is paired with...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtx...hoshinki_music

Works really well!

[xLuna&1LOVE]

So she is featurig classic musicians and composers...
Bach, Handel, Dvorak, the Raindrops of Chopin I love so much.

I am excited and really, really scared. Seriously, it is not even funny. I listen to classical music a lot, know all these musicians/composers and most of the classics featuring on this LOVE CLASSICS complication. I just hope it is really good, because this is a dangerous risk she is taking. One does not simply mashup legendary masterpieces from music history.

I will definetely scream if this turns out ugly. For now I will pray for a good result.
Eventhough I am scared to death. Ok, gonna try to chill now.

[krtman2002]

I'm a bit dissapointed about the tracklist. She has SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many songs and they keep releasing the same songs again and again... I'm sure it's going to be really interesting, but they should have use diferent songs, like 1LOVE, GAME, do it again, last angel... I don't know... I want to be impressed by changing a song's style.

I'm still waiting for a ballad "evolution" like the one she started singing in one of her tours... T_T

[love in music]

HONEY again? are you FUCKING kidding me?

Yes avex, yes. We all want to hear her helium voice with the Hallelujah Chorus

[Yoake]

As expected, She chose classical pieces that are the most famous because of their over-use in movies, cms, dramas, animes, ... I think we can assume that she isn't a classical music fan. He would have been great to see others less famous/used pieces that would have shown her personal tastes. But this tracklist reveals a commercial side more than a musical side.

However I'm waiting to hear that album. Honey and Handel...I really wonder how it'll sound. And how every songs'll sound.

It's funny; For the first Saint Cecil Mass's concert, the young musicians of our wind orchestra performed the second movement of the Symphony From the New World.

I checked Aki Miyajima's works and they're nice. How will she decorates with flowes Ayu? Eager

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

This is a LOVE SONG REMIX ALBUM.

I understand that people want other songs. But this is not the album for those.

Yes there maybe other love songs, but they're obviously going to use her biggest hits for the majority of the tracks. That's just business.

It's a lovey dovey happy cute concept. Not some dark moody release.

[primavera♥]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

This is a LOVE SONG REMIX ALBUM.

I understand that people want other songs. But this is not the album for those.

Yes there maybe other love songs, but they're obviously going to use her biggest hits for the majority of the tracks. That's just business.

It's a lovey dovey happy cute concept. Not some dark moody release.

Yeah this. This isn't just another classical album with the purpose of only being a classical album. If it were, then we'd probably get different songs. But it's not.

[Bigtop]

Disappointed that JEWEL isn't part of it. But...

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

This is a LOVE SONG REMIX ALBUM.

I understand that people want other songs. But this is not the album for those.

Yes there maybe other love songs, but they're obviously going to use her biggest hits for the majority of the tracks. That's just business.

It's a lovey dovey happy cute concept. Not some dark moody release.

Agreed. JEWEL was pretty much underrated. I'm not sure if I'm going to dive in though...

[perfectodub]

i have no expectation for this one really.
i don't like when background music have different musical chords than the original song :/
maybe with dance remixes that could work,

[orangeakira]

Boy, a classical version of Dearest, what a surprise.

I was excited because winding road and Honey are there which aren't ballads, but then I remembered they both already have classical versions.

[ExodusUK]

Someone should tell her about the word "Adore".

AYUMI HAMASAKI "~A~DORE U" NEW ALBUM NOW ON SALE~*

[Gustavopc]

I actually liked the title, making a pun (?) on a classical album consistend of her classic songs This is not a studio album, I can deal with a not-deep-mysterious-omg title

[orbitalaspect]

AYUMI HAMASAKI Last minute Walk with Zutto... again ON SALE NOW

[brener]

ok why the hell in the universe HONEY is doing there?!

[Deep snow]

Tracklist not impressive, but these are songs I'm OK with at worst, so it's a good thing. I'm more curious with the mashup arrangement.

And I have a gut feeling that tells me to start being disappointed at the cover right now.

[BlackSilence]

^actually I also googled the artist that is supposed to do the cover. Some or her stuff is just plain well done minimalistic portraits, but some illustrations are really lovelly and involves quite a bit of colour and interest. If they go for the later type, we might get a rather pretty thing for a cover. She is very good in what se's doing though. So i wouldn't start judging before we see the actual thing.

Also LOL at people who expected something out of teh title of the album. It's not an original studio album, people....lol And the tracklist was so predictible, well i've already left my reaction on that in a first page lol

[DA1SUK1DAY01691]

I don't think she'd choose obscure classical pieces because then no one would recognise them—I think the point of the album is for people to distinctly recognise the mashups and appreciate the different flavour of the new arrangement.

In terms of track list, yeah it's not groundbreaking by any means, but as Japanese music fans we all know artists are known by their "representative songs," or songs which can be immediately recognised as a certain artist's. "Dearest," "Voyage," and "SEASONS" are all classic examples for Ayu—we do it to other artists we don't know much about, too. Sure some of these songs are way overdone, have classical arrangements, or may not even be explicitly love songs, but I think it's an expected track list for an artist whose prime is in the past now. Don't get me wrong, I still like her, but I don't think she's anywhere near as relevant as she was a few years ago.

HONEY is a big risk considering there isn't a studio rerecording of it, but there's a chance the rerecordings of TO BE, Who..., and YOU could be used. A very slim chance, but a chance nonetheless.

[chocopockymaster]

Originally Posted by DA1SUK1DAY01691

HONEY is a big risk considering there isn't a studio rerecording of it, but there's a chance the rerecordings of TO BE, Who..., and YOU could be used. A very slim chance, but a chance nonetheless.

I would rather her use the originals, tbh. I think her voice sounded pretty rough when she released the re-recordings in 08-09.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

OK, but since WHEN are HONEY, Winding Road, TO BE, and YOU considered to be her biggest hits...?