I like what I see. Simple, beautiful and looks of a higher budget. The snapshot they had wasn’t that great but she looks good in the video. Hope that we will get to see all the PVs someday (including those that she filmed for 歌姫ベスト) …
Ballad Best DVD Face
Jerry is the first amongst us overseas fans to receive his copy of Ballad Best and he sent in a scan of the DVD face which sees a bit of creativity and humour reminescent of her works in the 80s. thanks Jerry!
あの夏の日
The Hamu is alive!! thanks for the wonderful translation!! beautiful new song and words. the song reminds me of those from "I Hope So", and sounds much like an Ayumi ballad. her weather-beatened vocals suit songs like these to a T. i think she should just focus on new releases and not resing old songs. [...]
What’d ya think?
I have been reading this Japanese Music blog for some time and I don’t think the blogger likes Akina very much. He seems to have a bias towards her and today made some semi nasty comment about Akina’s good chart position with her new best, along the lines of "Another useless Best. How many Bests [...]
Lucky No. 7
That is the debut position for バラード・ベスト －２５ｔｈ ＡＮＮＩＶＥＲＳＡＲＹ ＳＥＬＥＣＴＩＯＮ－on its first day of sales on the Daily Oricon Chart:
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/
The race begins once again …
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Counting down….to BALLAD BEST!
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会報21+Ballad Best ポスター
Highlights of 会報21:
1.Msg from Akina : There’s more to come in 2007!!
2.Ballad Best promo + Akina calendar 2007
3.Interview with Akina : Utahime Best (no plans for concert this year, at this point of time)
4.A page on DS 2006 ( BLONDE was mispelt!!! –> BLONED)
5. HMV event in orange overcoat
6. The Last Destination DVD
7. 食べわず嫌い (TV [...]
私は風
私は風
作詞：Maki Annette Lovelace
作曲：春日 博文
あまりに悲しいことばかりで It is just a very sad matter
どこか遠くへ旅にでようと Going to travel far, to wherever
ポケットに思い出つめこみ Pocket is filled with memories
ひとり汽車にのったの I took the train ride alone
汽車の窓の外を走りぬける Outside the window of the train was flashing
昨日までの私のにがい人生 my bitter life story until yesterday
もう二度と戻ることのない Not to return for a second time
この町ともさよならね Together, ‘goodbye’ to this town
あぁ もう涙なんか枯れてしまった Ah….Tears are all dried up
明日から身軽な私 From tomorrow, a relieved me
風のように自由に生きるわ Living freely, [...]
Ballade Best – HMV PreOrder Charts
Rising from its surprising 4th position on the daily preorder chart yesterday, Akina’s upcoming release "Ballade Best" hits the 2nd spot today. Maybe Danny Bunny can give us some nice visuals again.
I guess the various promotions that have been going on in the various sports papers have helped the album to gain some [...]
