15th album out July 2nd + PREMIUM SHOWCASE ~Feel the love~ starting May 30th~ [II]

[PattyMcPat]

Anyone interested in a ticket to the Osaka show on the 12th? The friend I bought it for can't make it. Message me if you're interested.

[LEOyumi]

NOW & 4EVA is a very good song! Nothing groundbreaking, but it's classical ayu, very close to what she does best. The anticipation for this album is killing me!

[Ruan Borges]

I loved NOW & 4EVA <3

it's just like she said to that magazine after Pray was released, they change the direction of the album to sound like "classical ayumi hamasaki" + new/different sounds in ayu's discography

This song is clearly in the classical part! But still fresh to me!

[Ashen Twilight]

I wonder how the album would have sounded like if she didn't receive those comments after Pray was released... Maybe NOW & 4EVA replaced a song, or it was rearranged, or maybe nothing changed to begin with. I'm thinking the latter.

[NintendoHTF1242]

LMFAO The Beyonce shade in that Ayu instagram picture though LOOOL

[waterballoon]

with the full NOW & 4EVA I feel like we're getting another Party Queen album.. maybe a handful of EDM songs and a handful of classic J-Pop with the obligatory ballad to end the album (how beautiful you are, Pray)

[terra]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

I'm also craving a "real" rock song like 1LOVE or identity where the guitar is prominent and not heavily programmed. Both those songs had real drums/bass as well, which definitely makes a difference.

Ever since TK and songs like progress/Song 4 U/Tell All, it seems she's adopted this synth-driven anime/VGM "rock" style, which I don't mind—but I want to be REALLY ROCKED god dammit!

I miss that kind of super badass song where I feel like slapping someone with an electric guitar lol

[Nu-NRG]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I figured it would be Terminal by the title (although armin might've not had a say, it did strike me as such an armin title) and the preview we got had strings or semi-orchestral which is armins thing as well and prominent in trance music. Sounds good.

exactly!! Terminal has this Andrew Rayel sound to it too but it does sounds a lot like Brute!!!

edit: ...the more I listen to it..the more this sounds like something Andrew Rayel would do.. hmmm

[yamadashun]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

I'm also craving a "real" rock song like 1LOVE or identity where the guitar is prominent and not heavily programmed. Both those songs had real drums/bass as well, which definitely makes a difference.

Ever since TK and songs like progress/Song 4 U/Tell All, it seems she's adopted this synth-driven anime/VGM "rock" style, which I don't mind—but I want to be REALLY ROCKED god dammit!

agree but i feel Tell All is considered a badass enough rock song. and i do wish it is included (with new studio recording) in the new album (hidden track is fine).

[xLuna&1LOVE]

The arrangement of NOW & 4EVA is nice. Not really refreshing, but very likeable.
Typical, lovely Ayu sound. I am more thrilled about her 'new' stuff.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Ashen Twilight

I wonder how the album would have sounded like if she didn't receive those comments after Pray was released... Maybe NOW & 4EVA replaced a song, or it was rearranged, or maybe nothing changed to begin with. I'm thinking the latter.

I think she had been originally planning to have the entire album be electro-ish judging from what we got from Feel the love/Merry-go-round and her comments about development until January-ish. Perhaps some of the tracks like Hello new me and NOW & 4EVA were a bit later in the production process?

Ooo!! La la la la la la.

Let me love you 4eva.

[marcoba]

NOW & 4EVA is really good!!!, But I can stop thinking it would had fit great in the LOVE mini album. With Missing and SONG 4 YOU xD. So I guess it's really nothing new but still pretty nice n_n.

[Onton]

Lelio is so brain-washing lol

[tenshi no hane]

I like NOW & 4EVA. It's not mind-blowing or anything, but it's nice.

I translated the lyrics, for those interested:

NOW & 4EVA (translation)

Spoiler:

I wanted to see you. I wanted no one else but you
I’d dream about you and cry after waking up

I felt we were drifting apart. I felt you had moved away
I was about to forget how warm our linked hands had felt

*For example, for only a second longer
I want to be beside you. I won’t go home, can’t go home
Just a brief moment is enough
Let me have your smile all to myself

I screamed again and again. In tears, I screamed
"I’m still seeing the same dream"

Everything was the same. Nothing had changed since that day.
I felt insecure and thought “I’m sorry”

The memories don’t lose their shine
That’s why I don’t change, can’t change even a little
I’m always so insecure nowadays
That’s why we do nothing but fight and fight

I screamed again and again. In tears, I screamed

I feel you. I can hear you
I thought I could only see you in my dreams, nowhere else

*repeat

I scream again and again. In tears, I scream
I want see the same dream with you forever

Lalala
Let me love you forever

[Corvina]

Like I thought, NOW & 4EVA is a typical Ayu song. Nice, but nothing more for me, doesn`t grab my attention. Meshes well with everything on LOVE again.
I`m much more interested in the different stuff.

[Ashen Twilight]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I think she had been originally planning to have the entire album be electro-ish judging from what we got from Feel the love/Merry-go-round and her comments about development until January-ish. Perhaps some of the tracks like Hello new me and NOW & 4EVA were a bit later in the production process?.

Do you really think Hello new me was made that late? I'm sure it had to have been produced during the filming of the drama it's on. I think all the tracks were pretty set even before Ayu did that interview.

[Livey~]

I want a bonus secret summer track: July 2nd

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Ashen Twilight

Do you really think Hello new me was made that late? I'm sure it had to have been produced during the filming of the drama it's on. I think all the tracks were pretty set even before Ayu did that interview.

I think it's possible. She did the interview in late January/early February probably?

To tell you the truth, I was making an album with a completely different direction up until I came to Paris. But "Pray" was released, and after hearing everyone's impressions and reactions like, "This is what we've been waiting for!"

It just doesn't seem like Hello new me was a part of that album if the collaborations were the center of that different direction.

[~StarCatcher~]

Oh the lyrics for NOW & 4EVA are so touching. I can totally relate to them ...

As for the new songs. I will wait until I get my copy of the album to listen to them!!!

[pimenta]

I love NOW & 4EVA full

Thanks for the lyrics tranlation tenshi no hane!