http://youtube.com/watch?v=WJesOagpRuM

What did Ai do to her hair?!?! D:

I don't think it looks that bad...
Not really a fan of what she's wearing though...

I actually like it, looks cool. :) The outfit is a little questionable though, haha.

^ agree with you

I like her hair, but dunno what happened with her hippy-style XD
btw... cool performances... where can I get those? O_O

I would have liked that hair better if well, my grandma has the same hairstyle right now...

Is that Maki Goto I see at the end?

yep that's Maki :)

ohh the guy at the bottom seemed kinda bored by onextime. is that a bad thing?

OMGOSH lol she dressed so weirdly there lol ~! I like her other hippy look T^T

eeww. i dont like this.. it looks like cheap cover..:no

Makes for a decent BACK cover, but I think it looks a little cheap for a front cover. Her best DVD cover IMO was the LOVE COOK tour one.

I think I know why bubbles can be considered sad things. Because although they are pretty and they bring joy to people, they only exist for a few seconds. They have such a short life span, so it's kinda bittersweet, you know? :)

Sorry, I know that was random, but I'm currently listening to "Shabondama" and I just love it so much and it reminded me of this discussion.

^ lol I see what u mean ~! But still T^T ~! lol!

Anyways Is anyone else kinda sad about Ai's sales recently? XD I know its not that bad but its such a big drop T^T and I like Ai and I don't want her sales to drop.

^ me,Vinh though i'm not Ai big fan as you i really care with her sales that drop since LOVE piece

I'm sad about her sales in general, not particularly with this single cause I didn't think it was very good but Pocket deserved a lot more...

I know ~ I seriously thought pocket would sell at least 100k =( ~! and yeah her sales have gone WAY downhill since Love Piece =S ~! I don't understand why tho ~ Maybe she was just a fad in japan? =( ~! That would be horrible T^T

I always kinda though Ai was a big deal kinda like BoA. They're both having a slump in music sales and I think they both need to just re-invent themselves or something cause maybe people are just getting bored of the songs. I mean all the happy summer songs can get a little monotonous...

^ lol I hope so ~ I unno I think Japan will never get tired of her SUPER upbeat songs like SMILY, CHU-LIP, and sakuranbo lol ~! it just seems to be their style of music XD But other than that I think they're tired of everythig else XP she should try mixing in a country sound to her music like aiko did for boyfriend. it sounded SO good LOL ~! IMO aiko and ai are kinda similar XP ~! just my opinion tho

hmm i agree coz i'm quite bored with her song now but i still love her voice

btw RS/OXT posiion
88 *,*43,334 ***,822 ロケットスニーカー/One×Time / 大塚 愛 08/05/21
T__T

^ lol ~! KEEP FIGHTING FOR 50k AI XD ~! I'd be so happy if she could just sell 50k =) ~! if she can just keep holding onto that kind of sale she'll hit it for sure ~! But its kinda hard >< ~! Lol

hoo,Vinh.. I would be happy if she could sell 45K...

^ lol ~! I think she definitely can sell 45k ~! lol I might be wrong tho =x ~! Her next single better be a BIG hit XD Or else the next albym won't look so good for her =S

I've just started to really give a good listen to Rocket Sneaker ^^
it's such a cute song ^^ i love it :P

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Ug...I'd liked it so much better long. :( It's not that she's not cute with short hair, it's just that that style is a bit weird to me. :no

And I actually like the LOVE PiECE tour cover. I think it'd make an even better cardboard case...case cover. :P

lol I know Rocket Sneakers is a pretty darn good song =) ~!

lol I know the style was weird to me too @_@ Ai is weird to me sometimes lol ~! But I still love her =) ~! I thought the cover was kinda neat too lol ~! It would be cooler in cardboard =D ~! I hope it has that bumpy feeling to it lol

Haha, props to riozz! I love this thread's title! :laugh

Anyway, even though it's only been a short while since ROCKET SNEAKER/One x Time was released, I want another Ai single! Rocket Sneaker was a great single even though Sora to Kujira was a tad on the mediocre side. I want another tears-style ballad.

^ OMGOSH NAMIIE~! I haven't seen you for so long lol ~! How are you doing ^^

I agree I love Rocket Sneakers AND I want a new single. I really want a SMILY single lol ~! Someting UBER FUN MAN ~! WOO~!

Is anyone else annoyed that Love Piece didnt sell 400k yet? >=( Thats dumb lol

hehee.. thanks Namiie..hehe
welcome back..

uhh it's not annoying because LOVE piece got #1 weekly..hehehe

Usually I'm all for artists to keep releasing upbeat singles but I want Ai to give us another ballad!!
Something like Kingyo Hanabi or Daisuki da yo!!!
Ooh, I'm ready for a surge of popularity. Maybe she should do a triple A-side!!! That would be great ;)

Also, Planetarium is being used in avex's new musical...yay?

^ yeap.. i'm glad they choose planetarium because it's My Ai's first song

Awww!!
I love her hair short like that!
She looks more cute I think :D

Glad Planetarium got chosen for the musical. Next to Sakuranbo, it's Ai's signature song, I think :D

hmm i've never heard of these avex musicals before...but i love Planetarium lots so yay ^^

lol yeah Love Piece got number 1 but it could've sold more T^T ~! lol!

Aww I was hoping Sakuranbo would be in the musical instead but oh well ~ Planetarium is still good ^_^ ~!

hmm I prefer avex use Planetarium to Sakuranbo though sakuranbo is her best seller single..hehe
i think avex never make musical theatrical

yeah, this is the first one they're doing to commemorate their 20th anniversary.

http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...ert/#more-2534

wow this's unexpected

ummm...yay?
XD

:roflmao

I also don't see the link between Ai & Avril , music wise

maybe if Avril were to pick YUI , I can understand

I don't particularly care for Avril's music...
Oh well, yay for Ai I guess

lol that's harsh on what you said about Avril

hehehe, nothing against her or anything but...yeah...
I just don't see the two as a good fit...like at all...maybe they'll surprise me though

Ai?......waa.. it's unexpected too..hohohoho.........

I cant imagine this
that's great..
that's her concert this year,right?

Ai doesn't seem like a person that can rock out onstage

I could be wrong though

she's pretty energetic though, right? so you never know. :P

i think she can rock out if she wanted :P
just thinking of the pun pun performance from the Love Cook tour dvd, so alive & full of energy ^^

omg thats so cool ~! This is a good promo for Ai ^^ ~! Maybe she can regain popularity this way ^^ ~! I hope so =D

haha that's true Lisa :laugh

I hope so since Avril's quite big in Japan judging from sales of The Best Damn Thing which was certified million

^ lol I agree ~! BUt its sad how avril is soo into rock, but her music is so the opposite >_> LOL ~! I dunno I just think its ironic

yeah it's that's why when I found out about this piece of news , my 1st reaction was huh

^ LOL same I seriously thought she figured out she was more popish by now with Girlfriend but I guessn ot XD ~! I Still like her music tho XD I just like Ai better ;D A LOT better LOL ~! I created my A TEAM LOL

Ai (Leader), aiko, Ayu, and Ami LMFAO GO A TEAM GO

haha.. At least Ai chin not other artist.

haha :laugh

that will be cute

^ lol ~! If they were to do a quartet it wouldn't be so bad IMO ~! lol they all sing pop songs =) ~! and their voices would blend pretty nicely IMO XD

i started off not really liking Rocket Sneakers..but then, somehow the verse was stuck in my head...so i kept listening and now, its nice hahaha

^ lol thats good ^^ ~! I think Ai's next album won't sell as badly as I think it will XD lol a lot of the songs seem to be the type where they grow on u ~!

^ yeah.. i hope so..
but i dont want she changes her image into mature girl..hell nonono

^ lol same ! She's not old yet anyways XP ! Lol !

Does anyone know the sale of RS/OxT? Too bad RS/OxT didn't help Love Piece's Sales go up =( lol ~! I really want Love Piece to hit 400k

according to wiki , sales of Rocket Sneaker / One x Time currently's 43,334*

it's even lower than Pocket & her debut single Momo no Hanabira :S

hmmm...Momo no Hanabira was THE BOMB!!! One of Ai's best singles...seriously!!!! I'm not surprised that the new single isn't doing as well but maybe it'll keep inching throughout the rest of the year?

Ai can do it I hope, i think she shud be a bit more popular....

Ai will probably perform Happy Days or something

I know >< how is Ai's recent single doing worse than her debut one T^T ~! thats just not right to Ai T-T ~! I hope ai's sales will go up somehow.... maybe after the avril concert ? =)

^ I know X_x ~! lol I still like RS/OxT not tired of it yet =D I am so surprised ~! lol! Its a pretty good single =) ~! Hopefully it'll stay on the charts forever XD

I think it hasnt ended at chart right?

Nah, I'm positive it's still charting. I'm not 100% sure since I have nothing to confirm this. xD

^ okok.. i'll find it..

http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/...7m_15f0ccf.png
does anybody have seen mihon seimei CM?

^ OMGOSH SHE GOT FATTER XD ~! I think its too much T^T ~! Is that the commercial for the job finding thing or was that something else XP

lol I hope it hasn't stop charting T^T ~! GO AI GO XD ~! make it to 50k ~! At least XD

Woah, Ai looks heaps different in that screencap!

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6...ympckw2.th.jpg
http://www.mediafire.com/?jjzunmnv0dm

credit : eye@JPM

Vinh : really? i dun see she looks fatter :D

aww i found it

138　*92　***,696　*,*44,030　*6　大塚愛 「ロケットスニーカー/One×Time」

hehe... in 2 weeks it'll sell 45K..

Ai is binge eating due to lack of sales? :( joking
realax people, i bet she just looks a little chubby here maybe she ate before shooting or had a big feast the night before shell work it off lol

it's still lower than Pocket & her debut single :S

i think even the shortest single on chart.. IMO

^ lol I Think it is her shortest charting single ever @_@ ~! I think its time for SMILY Ai AGAIN LOL ~! XD ~! Seriously.. we need a uber crazy happy song XD ~ and it seems to sell WAY better than anything else =x

I HOPE SHE LOSES THAT FAT T^T thats horrible lol ~ Too much ice cream for ai from bad sales XP ~! Or maybe she killed someone ._. LOL She does like horror movies AND she plays GTA series o_o ~! Violence ~!

=O U don't see it ryo? XD I think she definitely got fatter @_@ lol ~! like look at that and look at pocket ~! they're so different =x ~!

lol

the camera can add a few pounds you know

doesn't mean what you see in pics & etc , it's the real McCoy

LOL i dont see it,Vinh. your post very funny..hohohoho
so you think she's fat now?
maybe because of her chubby cheeks now
I thought SMILY Ai Again means she'll realese new stuff..

well
AI's DVD realese this 30 july.. let us see if it do well or not..

lol I know but even in her live performance she looks fatter than the one in pocket @_@ ~!

I guess its just what I see XP ~!

Anyways XD ~! I think we're going to be seeing an album soon from Ai chin XD ~! usually after three singles she releases an album right? I hope this album doesn't bomb ._. ~! < I have a feeling its coming to be named Love World> LOL after her photobook and the earth which she seems to be so interested in atm ~!

^ ur right ryo XD We'll find out how ai is in japan wit hthe DVD >< ~! I hope its a positive thing =)

I like the sound of Love World , hope she can continue with the whole trend of naming her albums with the word Love at the beginning of the title

I wonder if Pocket was included in LOVE PiECE , do you think it would have done well ?

The album I mean

hmm. pocket didnt sell well so it didnt effect to LOVE piece sales..

wait... next week RS/OXT gonna outsell momo no hanabira..
haha
well, at least RS/oXT is not her lowest sales single :D

^ I think so lol unless she changes to some emo styled music XD ~! then its all good =) ~! Hmm.. I think it would boost it up lol ~ but then again Pocket was a pretty good song even if it didnt do so well on the charts XD Maybe it'll help her newest album =)

sorry what I meant was if Pocket was included in LOVE PiECE , do you think the album will sell better ?

Didn't people complain that there wasn't enough newness on that album??
As long as it didn't replace a new track then perhaps...although it didn't garner much sales so I don't think it would've helped.

It kinda makes me sad though. Pocket was really pretty and I felt it was a step in the right direction for her to win back interest...and then came Rocket Sneaker / One Time...

I guess Kevin

bcos 1/2 of LOVE PiECE was already released prior to the announcement of the album

no wonder people will feel short change over this

Yeah I agree that there wasn't enough newness on it
6/11 tracks were already heard and honestly I absolute hate the way they market her CD + DVD versions by not including the single PVs on them...maybe that has something to do with it cause I know it pisses me off :grumpy
Also, I just think it was her weakest album to date...

DVD content - yeah it's so silly to include only PEACH & the HEART PVs . Where're Renai Shashin , Freigner & Yumekui to begin with ?!

It makes me sooooo mad. Cause I wanna buy her albums but I would like to just buy a CD + DVD version so I can have all the PVs on one disc to watch. Basically I now collect the singles CD + DVD of the songs I like...so far I only have 2 singles from her [Pocket and Kingyo Hanabi]. Yeesh...

well all the PVs are included & left intact in her Ai am BEST ie if you bought the CD + DVD ver of it

it contains from her debut single all the way to Planetarium + LOVE MUSIC & Cherish too

it wouldn't hurt to pump the DVD content of LOVE PiECE with all the PVs that were released prior to the announcement of the album + also making of/behind the scenes footage too , Avex :eviltongu

That's true...but I didn't buy Ai Am Best XD
I wonder why avex does that with her...Kuu and Ayu have very nice album DVD stuff so that's why I love watching but Ai...that's not cool.

eh you didn't buy Ai am BEST ? you should have dude

you can definitely tell the way that Avex promote/market Ai is so different from the 2 ladies

it's a shame that Ai is not getting the type of promotion/backup support that she should be getting

I was gonna buy it cause it was actually responsible for getting me into Ai in the first place. I sampled Momo no Hanabira and Kingyo Hanabi on iTunes and from that moment on...:)
I don't actually know why I didn't buy it XD
I really wish Ai had that type of promotion because she deserves it. Hopefully those creative juices will flow again and she'll deliver a BOMB single next time :) It'll garner good sales and then help push the album...we can only hope

^I agree =S wasn't Ai popular before kuu? I'm not saying kuu doesn't deserve her promotion but I mean shouldn't they give Ai lots of promo too? =S I think its because Ai has a diffferent manager than Max Matsuura so he doesn't pay as much attention to her ._. ~! while ayu and kuu were picked up by Max.

I KNOW she just needs 1 HIT single and her album will sell XP ~! I just hope she can pull it off >< ~! GO AI GO O<(^_^)>O

^ yep yep, I think if Ai has one hit single then it'll defintely her album. Her sales have been kinda slipping so if she has that hit single, it'll stand out to the crowd even more!!!
I'm rooting for ya Ai!!!

Jumping in, it's absolutely ridiculous that they don't include all the PVs in the CD+DVDs. :/ I mean, I understand it's a marketing gimmick to get the people to buy the singles more, but that means they'll also buy the albums less because of it. Unless they think people will still buy album anyways... :/

And going back just a little bit, I actually think Ai looks cute with a chubby face. :laugh

^ yep yep, it just pisses me off XD
I mean sometimes people just want to wait to get albums instead of buying the singles. But if they want the PVs then guess what? You gotta buy the singles...I agree it kinda makes the album's worth less...particularly when there isn't very much newness on the album to lure the buyers...

Is Ai the only artist they do this with?

I think soo...
Other avex artists don't do it...BoA, Namie, Ayu, EXILE, Kumi...

Butttt, Suzuki's last album, DOLCE, was like Ai's usual thing as they only included the PV for "Bitter"
so maybe she's no the only 1...

^ lol ~! I guess at least someone agrees with me she got chubbier XD ~!

Yeah I think Ai is like the only artist that they do that with besides DOLCE like Amai said =S ~!

no I don't think so

I think other artiste who're under avex also suffered the same fate as Ai

they're not as lucky as the 2 or is it 3 queens in Avex though (ayumi , Namie , Koda)

^ =O really lol I think I need to pay more attention to avex releases then XD ~! lol

Yeahh the Ai news has been so dead lately lol ~ Avril isn't such big news to us I guess LOL

I think currently , avex spent less effort & time on Ai . You look at the budget of the Rocket Sneaker PV & the covers too , it's quite low budget as compared to her debut single

the PV for her debut single looks expensive & has substance unlike Rocket Sneaker which looked quite cheap