Heaven is where we are, with After School it's never far

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

After School is set to release their fifth Japanese single Heaven on October 2nd



CD Only version:


CD+DVD version:


CD+Photobook:


Tracklisting:
CD
1) Heaven
2) Crazy Driver
CD Only bonus tracks:
3) First Love
+Instrumentals for these three tracks

DVD
1) Heaven
2) First Love
3) Making Video

-Title track is produced by Shinichi Osawa.
-Photobook is 36 pages and is said to have a 'private and sexy' atmosphere.
-PV for 'Heaven' will have a new pole dancing routine.

Adding Jooyeon's Maruko CM, since the song featured here will most likely be on this single:

Official JP website (relevant info translation: Osiris), Natalie.mu (relevant info translation: lanfix @ tumblr), marukosns

Eyoung an Kaeun always pose so awkward, wtf. The girls look great but the shots are pretty... creeper-ish? Anyway, I am very excited for this. Their Japanese discography is quite solid imo and now that Shinichi Osawa (HE IS GOD) is involved it can only get better.

Comments

[torontok.livejournal.com]

The second girl from the left in the first picture looks terrible.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

thats raina and uhh

ummmmm

kinda yeah

[150daysoffall.livejournal.com]

This looks so cheap


Waiting for the legend that is Orange Caramel's comeback tbh

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Legendary is a good word yes, I'm pretty sure I recently saw a girlgroup who jacked their Lipstick outfits so obviously people are paying attention.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

AS needs a new subunit. OC is awesome but the other girls need something.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

band subunit except it's just eyoung on every instrument + vocals and she plays a diff instrument live each week

rly tho i just think pledis probably feels like they've already got too much on their plate w/ AS + OC + HV + NUEST + 17 or w/e that number is

really if this were a just world we'd have a new AS single every few months and world peace would follow shortly

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

I could agree with that. Maybe have jooyeon in the back ground with a tambourine.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

she'd prob throw off eyoung's timing :(

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

ia, but i feel like they forgot it was the initial plan.

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

AS Blue & Red comebacks pls ty!

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

i actually agree about oc's comeback, they need to do it asap before everyone jump ship to crayon pop.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

that's a good point actually

it may already be too late for the biggest OC fan that i know

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

i think they still have their space, after all they were the first girl group with the wacky concepts on puporse, but pledis cannot sleep on this, they have to take advantage of cp's momentum.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

for me their japan stuff tends to sound good and look not so good (except the Bang! remake which was the opposite) but i mostly like what im seeing here (main exception: nana's horribly clashing shirt/shorts combo in the first pic smh gurl)

[allthingsgood.livejournal.com]

Has After School actually promoted in Japan, or are they just releasing singles in Japan without doing any of the actual legwork? Have they been on Japanese shows? Can they speak some Japanese?

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

short answer: yes no yes yes

they say kaeun's fluent in japanese (i've never heard her speak it though so idk), they do go over and spend time in japan, they've done a bunch of concerts in japan + have a japanese concert DVD (actually now that i think about it have they even had a solo concert in korea? i don't think they have), and nana's been a panel member on a japanese fashion TV show

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

kaeun studied in japan so shes fluent!!!

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

there were plenty of foreign ESL students at my high school that i wouldn't really describe as fluent by the time they left though

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

tru idk but she's at least top 3 in the group for now

[sakuragirl24.livejournal.com]

idk much about them or their japanese releases but Dilly Dally is my jam so I'm looking forward to this. Were the other singles good?

[girlsday.livejournal.com]

they just have absolutely zero going for them anywhere. i wonder when the last time is that pledis made a profit.

[kjc48.livejournal.com]

I feel like half of afterschool will eventually leave the group to become full time models in Japan.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

lol this looks almost AVish (but ngl i like it).

but i cant wait, as' japanese discography is fucking fabulous.

lol every time i see that jupal cf i laugh, bb cant even act in such short cf.

[bmo.livejournal.com]

LOOKS HOT IM EXCITED WOOHOO

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

i love the hot mess styling!!! pledis has been on a roll with the low rent acid trip jankness.

also no the cf song most likely won't be in unless it's been renamed bc cf song is called miss independent :(

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

I thought there were two Rainas at first...sorry, Uee, for sullying your name. ^^"

Jooyeon and Lizzy look fantastic, and Eyoung is beautiful as always. <3

[thomaswilmoore.livejournal.com]

Can't believe nobody commented on the Queen Namie reference, Heaven is a perfect song.

I hope this is better than First Love (not difficult though).
Shinichi Osawa is god indeed.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

The 'Feel' album is so good, I hadn't liked a release of Namie in a good while and then BAM we get such a flawless release.

[thomaswilmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of a recent Namie fan, I've liked everything she released since Play but Feel is perfection. Can't get over how flawless it is!

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

I'm an older fan myself. I wasn't really impressed with most of what she released in 2010/11/12 (with the exception of NAKED and some tracks from Checkmate.) so this album kinda blindsided me. Feel is just a very well produced album, it's really great.

[molly-hime.livejournal.com]

Raina and Eyoung are flawless queens.

[pinklunacy.livejournal.com]

The entire thing is so infuriatingly tacky, I can't even appreciate UEE's perfection D:

[zutterwacke.livejournal.com]

ugh stop it with this terry richardson vibe in kpop, I'm not having this crap

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

That cf is flawfree though.

[sowahso.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmmmmmmm i see those leather pants ur workin eyoung keep it up

I just hope this single matches up to Dilly Dally because that is forever my jam i love it (wtf did lady luck get a cf for dont tell me that was a pv with those fuckin purses bein waved around)

[carlenne.livejournal.com]

Love the girls but not really feeling these covers. I wonder if Lizzy was well enough to be able to participate in the pole dancing this time around...

[cettefemme90.livejournal.com]

Some of the shots, especially for the CD-only cover, remind me of American Apparel ads :/