[News] Winter diary ~A7 Classical~ - release 23rd December 2015 (Thread #2)

[NintendoHTF1242]

I just hope Winter diary doesn't become a parasite like You & Me. That song was on literally everything after A SUMMER BEST lol

[DonkeyKongRemix]

I really like You & Me and the way she made it her "theme song" for a while...

I confess...I really like Winter Diary, probably because I had no expectations. If it ended up on an album, I wouldn't mind terribly, even though it would seem kind of like a scam what with it being the only technically new material on this winter release.

I do wish they had another version of it to where it matched the rest of the CD.

[js_surrealism]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

I just hope Winter diary doesn't become a parasite like You & Me. That song was on literally everything after A SUMMER BEST lol

Except that You & Me was actually a great song. Winter Diary is literally her worst song of the last 10 years.

I hate it more than Eyes, Smoke, Magic, Like a doll, November, everything on sixxxxx, AND Anything For You, which -- trust me -- is an incredible feat.

[280301]

^ We have very contrasting tastes in music, I think Anything for You, Shape of Love, and Like a doll are all excellent songs, with the former being the best ballad she's released in a looooong time. xD

Back to Winter Diary though, do we even know how long the track is yet? Who knows what it'll sound like as a whole. Also, if it is put on her next album, I imagine it'll be an album version with the omission of the 'holy night' part at the beginning, and perhaps a different arrangement overall.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by js_surrealism

Except that You & Me was actually a great song. Winter Diary is literally her worst song of the last 10 years.

I hate it more than Eyes, Smoke, Magic, Like a doll, November, everything on sixxxxx, AND Anything For You, which -- trust me -- is an incredible feat.

All songs which I see as great works in her discography. XD

It just cracks me up how I must be the ONLY person who loves Eyes, Smoke, Magic and the next love.

[Matt_rq]

Originally Posted by nalini-dahlia

All songs which I see as great works in her discography. XD

It just cracks me up how I must be the ONLY person who loves Eyes, Smoke, Magic and the next love.

I really love Eyes, Smoke, Magic I feel so related to the lyrics

[KarenPang]

I'm 1 of the rare few that actually likes Party Queen material wise even though visual wise it's my outright least favourite for obvious reasons

And considering that Ayu has put out so many great Winter inspired songs in her discography , Winter diary sounds very pale in comparison :x

I don't know if the full version will make me change my opinion on it but regardless I will still buy this new remix classical album since I bought the previous 3

[js_surrealism]

^ Party Queen is actually a solid top 3~5 all time original albums of Ayu's for me, personally. I love the album but I think it would be 50x better without Eyes, Smoke, Magic on it.

I really don't understand why she's putting out Winter Diary. I refuse to believe that this is THE BEST demo that she was presented with for the purposes of this release. ANYTHING ELSE could have been better. She could have just re-recorded Powder Snow and even that would have been better than this ball of dust of a song.

[KarenPang]

Party Queen had a lot of big time dislike when it was released and the covers didn't helped matters either

Let alone , Timmy was literally everything on the album but I don't really have that much of a problem on that

In fact my 2 least favourite Ayu albums is actually LOVE again and Colours . A ONE was slightly better but still not good enough for me

I normally like Ayu's Winter ballads but surprisingly not the Winter diary preview . I didn't liked Zutto... (but the PV wasn't 1/2 bad) but come to think about , now Zutto... is somewhat better :x

[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

I'm 1 of the rare few that actually likes Party Queen material wise even though visual wise it's my outright least favourite for obvious reasons

And considering that Ayu has put out so many great Winter inspired songs in her discography , Winter diary sounds very pale in comparison :x

I don't know if the full version will make me change my opinion on it but regardless I will still buy this new remix classical album since I bought the previous 3

Party Queen is a great album music wise. I totally love it and always did. Sadly the concept was once again executed poorly.

[aliceshields]

Originally Posted by nalini-dahlia

All songs which I see as great works in her discography. XD

It just cracks me up how I must be the ONLY person who loves Eyes, Smoke, Magic and the next love.

I'm second, who loves the next LOVE & Eyes, Smoke, Magic

[LONJJONG]

She's going to Taiwan to shoot the PV for Winter diary!!

[Gustavopc]

Album comes out next week and she's going to record a PV now? Stakes of WD being included on her next release now are at 78.2% it seems.

[Aderianu]

http://www.wownews.tw/article.php?sn=33352
Ayu will be on Taiwan from 18 to 20 December for shooting PV. Dates, time and № of flight in the article^

Taiwan version of CD on sale from 31 December

[se7entheaven]

I known I'm very bitter but this better don't be another video of her "holiday-ing" with shuya in Taiwan and he died in the end

[freedreamer]

Originally Posted by se7entheaven

I known I'm very bitter but this better don't be another video of her "holiday-ing" with shuya in Taiwan and he died in the end

the song sounds WAYYY too happy for a death PV LOL

I think Winter diary is so gonna be on the next album. Hopefully with a remixed version minus all the x-masy sounds LOL

[aliceshields]

May be "Winter Diary ~ after Christmas ver.~"

[Aderianu]

The GIFT (Winter diary Ver.) on KKBOX from 18th

(we'll get full song 18th december)

[aliceshields]

^ Digital released?

[KarenPang]

http://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/1540334

Summary from the article , translated by me

- Ayu will be in Taiwan from 18th Dec - 20th Dec to shoot the Winter diary PV for 3 days 2 nights

- Ayu will arrive in Taiwan this Friday at 3.50pm local time via ANA's NH853 . The plane will touch down at Taipei Songshan Airport

- Ayu will depart Taiwan on Sunday at 4.50pm local time via ANA's NH854

- Location where exactly in Taiwan Ayu will shoot the Winter diary , it's not disclosed by avex

- Hotel accommodation wise , Ayu might be staying at Regent Taipei . When she went back Taiwan in February (when she was a surprise guest at JJ Lin's concert) , she stayed at Mandarin Oriental

- Taiwan press of Winter diary ~A7 Classical~ will be released on the last day of 2015