@ Honey: please read next time!
that wasn't a rant sweety! I was explaining myself! ^_^*

^ you could be a bit less defensive dear :)


now, will YOU buy the single?

:P

Yes I already pre-ordered the thing! I wont cancel it.
Would I be so riled up about this if I didn't? :laugh

haha the more i look at the ayu covers the more i wanna caption them with "o hey" or "sup"

lol lol lol!!!

and people laa don't fight laa okey ne?!

^And jet in some way I just can't stop thinking more of Shakira got inspiration of Ayu's H single cover. Same bikini and yes there's an H down in the left corner. Then also, Shakira did had another cover that reminded me of I am... too. :P

She probably will have, but those are TA members. :yes
Like all artists she will follow the direction her fanclub wants her to go in. Sorry to say but it's the TA members that are important to Ayu. ;)

I want Sunset preview too. :(

^patiently waiting for sunset preview too..hope there won't be server crash :no

Uh probably. When have you known AHS stay up when Ayu releases something? XD

Ayu <33333
The cover is so beautiful and the pictures are awsome!
I love the song <3

The first time I saw Sunrise/Sunset covers, I thought of Shakira :D

From what I can see in Mixi there are more that likes the cover then dislikes it. So I hope she will keep this cover. ^^

It's funny to see how some fans from AHS have more creativity than Ayu's staff members. It's funny and sad at the same time.

Ah.. I don't really care the covers. I buy a CD, when I think, it is a good one.
And I mostly decide for the CD+DVD Version, because I also wanna have the DVD.
So.... I don't really matter, if a Cover looks good, or not.

do you think both songs/PVs will be on the album?

I have the urge to buy the cd version (gosh, it's SO BAD, I NEED TO HAVE IT), but it's useless if there are PVs left off like with MW.

^ I doubt it'd be left off the next album. MW is a totally unique case.

MW was included on A Complete though.

Yea, the only reason it was left off NL is because it was a 10th Anniversary song. No real need to have it on 4 different cd's. It's already on 3. xD
So...when is the PV supposed to be airing? Any info on that yet? :P

u noe...after i see people's sigs with the covers...they are starting to look quite ok hahaha....yes its Ayu and her bod. But the colours editted make them look cool too...
and Ayu' expression has that "Ooo...I just stepped out of paradise" feeling...*she is so lost*

after see shakira version, i think ayu version is better...

Shakira's is better...Hands down. She actually LOOKS like she's aware of her surroundings.

And dude, ya'll need to just leave catcher in the light alone. He just can't handle this kind of stuff right now. Let him express his opinions just like we did.

best post ever! I think everyone here should read that.. :P

Shakira's is better...Hands down. She actually LOOKS like she's aware of her surroundings.

And dude, ya'll need to just leave catcher in the light alone. He just can't handle this kind of stuff right now. Let him express his opinions just like we did.

Oh god...Ayu dont blind u huh? Look at the ocean, which one look faker?

aaa, please stop judge the single by the cover... :(

why are you attacking him just because he likes ayu's covers more? damn.
he's not blind just because he likes it more. i like it more as well and i have perfect vision.

I'm utterly shocked by the covers

^My initial reaction.

Did the guy who shot the covers for Ayu's single shoot this, too? lol They look EXACTLY alike, it's crazy!

I have to agree on that.

I'm still ordering both because I love to collect everything Ayu, that doesn't mean I like the cover. Though I do love Sunrise quite a bit.

Fortunately, the quality of the cover does not in any way reflect the quality of the song. People can do whatever they please with their own money, but personally I'd still get this if it was good regardless of the cover or not.

I guess that's very hard for a lot of people to do.. Which I understand, because well.. a cover is kinda supposed to represent the single. It's supposed to be eye-catching and beautiful and make people who walk into stores think "hey that's a nice cover, maybe that single is good!"

However.. since we're all on an Ayu forum here, and we all know what Sunrise sounds like, there should be no reason to COMPLETELY judge on the covers.

Of course, the covers are disappointing and yes I was disappointed too.. but I'm not gonna cancel my orders because of it! I pre-ordered both versions and I won't cancel any of em :D

It is very difficult not to!! And yes, a single does represent the single ( :yes ). And that's what bothers me cause I really like Sunrise.

at least in this picture the background looks natural :grumpy

I don't totally disagree with people that are canceling their orders. The covers are indeed a part of the product that you are spending your own hard earned money on and in this day and age where you can easily get the content of the actual disc for free, I'm sure for many people the quality of the cover is the make it or break it item.

I agree. When you're actually buying the CD, you're buying the whole package, not just the music. If one was just buying the music, they could do it digitally, or download it for free. When they're buying the CD, they want the whole package to be good. So if there are people who dislike the cover that much, it ruins the actual product for them, and CDs aren't cheap, especially from Japan. Why waste your money on something you don't like after all?

It's true. The whole point to buying a CD as opposed to downloading it, is because we like to pictures, the extras etc.

Maybe we'll all be surprised when we get a higher res picture to admire.

are these covers a 100% confirmed?

I am so sick of these "Are the Covers real" questions...
I really have the feeling next time I should wait for official site to post the Covers <.<

It's all right... you must understand that the covers are so horrid that a lot of us are also wondering 'Are the covers real...' cos we really don't want them to be. :(

And I agree 1000% with SunshineSlayer, GRACE and oneheart. The reason why I own albums and singles is because I like looking at the covers and the scans... I at least deserve the right to save my eyes? I bought Mirrorcle World and GREEN/Days cos they were beautiful to me. This, is not, unfortunately.

The covers are a tragedy.

After the album comes out, I just delete the single's cover and put the songs with the album's tracklist and artwork on it so I can listen to them together anyway.

I love Sunrise, and even the cover's ok, I just wish she didn't have that blank look on her face. Oh well, better luck next time!

Ooh... I'm really not feeling the covers. Oh well, great song!

They are still not worse than (miss)understood's cd only version :x

That's how traumatized people are, don't you get it ( :P )? It IS hard to believe that this shnitastic cover is real.

You guys... I came up with a thought!
What if... Ayu purposely picked an obviously-photoshopped picture to express something!? 8O.......
....
;~;

Oh, and I don't get why people hate the (miss)understood cover. I think her smile is pretty, AND AT LEAST SHE SMILED.

What does she want to express? Tackiness?

D;
No, this would be tacky:

http://i28.tinypic.com/20j68wo.jpg

I liked the CD-only version of (m)u, too. It's not horrendously photoshopped, and her smile actually seems genuine.

Anyways... when I buy Ayu CD's, it's to have them in my collection, whether I truly like the covers or not. There are many Ayu fans like that, too, who want all of her CD's and buy them regardless of the bonus material, covers, PVs, etc. They just want to have the CD to own it. Of course, if you aren't like that, and you really don't like the songs or cover, then there really is no point to buying the CD.

I have to agree with this. I usually only buy her singles if either the songs or covers are amazing. With Rule/Sparkle I was kinda meh over the covers but I thought both songs were incredible. So I got it.

Sunrise is a nice song, but definitely not enough for me to buy it. That's where the covers come in. And I'm not impressed by them, so I'm not getting this single.

Another problem with bad covers/PVs imo is that they ultimately stick to the songs mentally. I can't help seeing the covers for Sunrise when I listen to it now, I hope the PV will save that.

I LOL'D HARD.

Sure I agree, but it all depends on the reasons why you're getting the single in the first place. For me it's just for the sake of collection. I personally think that Ayu had worse covers (appears?) in the past and to be honest I haven't really expected amazing covers as even though I loved MW and Days ones, as I said before her covers are lacking creativity lately. I am not too keen on these either :yes

Definitely :roflmao

LOL

:roflmao

*joins the official ayu's new single cover sucks club*
Umm yeah these covers look really bad.... I don't like them at all, I also think that they looked photoshopped or something. >.<''

the covers of (miss)understood actually HAD meaning and were connected to the lyrics of the songs, I think both (m)u covers are quite good actually(- the heart)

OMG what if... the music video comes out like the covers? X__x

Maybe Sunset will be about making cheesy single covers as the sun goes down!? 8D That would work, yeah!?!?!... Dx

^ Yeah, I would love that! But dont forget it needs to be about photoshop, tanning and feeling lost as well!
Thats hard work!

Motto making bad covers
Motto many bad covers
...

:laugh:laugh

I laughed REALLY hard... hahaha

We could totally predict the Sunset lyrics!

もっと悪いカバーを作るよ
もっとたくさん悪いカバー。。。

(Horribly translated what you said lolol)

thats perfect! LOL

:roflmao

While these covers aren't that good, I don't think they're as bad as many of you seem to be making them out to be.

But the covers themselves did that ._.

This is reminding me of when people blame the guns when shooting someone. "The gun made me do itz!" or something.

Surely, you don't believe that the people behind these random photoshops [myself included I guess] are blaming the covers.. I mean, someone has to open a photo editing program to do them.

Maybe they meant that if the covers were amazing in the first place, we wouldn't be inspired to make spoofs of her covers. :s

that... makes no logical sense whatsoever and isn't what I was saying at all ._. I was merely saying, you can't complain about people making random photoshops of her if the covers themselves are random photoshops of her =/

That is obviously NOT what they meant, haha.

Anyways, if you're gonna continue doing this, please make a new thread in the Fan Works / Chat Room, because I don't think much of this has anything to do with the discussion of the news of the new single.. and rather has a lot to do with the dissatisfaction of the covers [which I don't completely understand, but hey.]... -sigh-

It makes perfect sense, and you/I/whomever can complain about these dumb shops because these [in reference to the covers] aren't random photoshops. They're just Kazuyoshi's specialty. Regular photos of a beautiful person looking like crap that "appear" photoshopped. I'm pretty sure everyone and their mom thinks his covers since A BEST 2 / t2m / A COMPLETE / MW / whatever thinks those are photoshopped-looking [which they are] but they are not photoshopped, I think. He's just very good at creating that sort of crappy effect in his photography [ARGH]. Which I hate and have hated since he became her go-to photographer.

I think he costs 10 yen per project, so that she can save up for the concerts' awesome videos and shooting of the concert by people like Leslie Kee and Shin Watanabe, ugh.

Yeah, but in this case, that's not her body, that's not her hair, I'm not even sure if that's her face ._.

We can't be sure if it is or if it isn't, but I think that it's probably safe to assume that it's her body. She's been extensively touring since April, so I feel as though that has probably changed her body from when we last saw it in the initial photos for the concert/whatever.. it'll probably take a bikini shoot for the promotion of this single to show people though, haha.

I'd bet that Ayu wouldn't get a body double for a shoot.
I mean, it's Ayu.

^ yeah, but I guess the "its not her body" was meant more like: it was photoshopped as much that it doesnt look like her body anymore

;_;
Man, I'm so stupid.

LOLZ @ GRACE! I'm not even sure its her facE!! :laugh *died* that was classic!!
Def. one for the books!! ^_^*

Please, stop arguing about the covers...! Pleeeeeeease...
And stop making fun of it too...
I'm sure Ayu would be so sad if she sees the pictures posted here...

So, she just magically gained bigger breasts and her abs all of a sudden create their own shadows because she's been extensively touring?

http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/8601/heyguys1.png

okay so what I don't get...is she supposed to be in water? Is that water?

I don't see how people can assess the photoshop job from pictures that are 200x200px. O,o

Yeah... Or maybe it's a floor and her legs grew shorter... Who knows.

^ maybe its a piece of wood painted green(so it can be easily replaced by photoshop) with a hole in it so ayu can put her feet in it!

Oh my goodness, and this is what the economy has lead to!
Poor Ayu...

They might have shot the covers in this pool. Where those bushes came from, idk.....

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/186...esortbalil.jpg

Well, we should expect that when Kazuyoshi's doing a cover, they're going to be overly contrasted, very shiny, plastic-looking, with kind of bad composition...

And that's exactly what's been wrong with the last 4-5 covers that he's done for her. Can we please just get ANYONE else back? Even Mikajohn would be better.

The bikini top/bra thing probably enhanced her breasts [shadows and etc. yo!] and her abs could easily be from months of dancing/working out. I mean after a few months of exercise, I'm sure some results would show! She doesn't exactly just sit there when she does a concert, haha.

I think it would be cool if Ayu gave a transparent png of herself and held a little contest thing for fans on who can make the best Ayu cover, which would then be used.

And the cover would hopefully kick Kazuyoshi's overly photo-shopped bottom. (8

I realize that we'll probably see the 'making of' these covers in the next DejiDejiDiary [this next upcoming one next week] so, wait for those before you assume anything!

Assume what? x.x

we saw a picture which shows that the bushes are real and it actually is the pool zoomzoom posted

Photoshoppiness among other things.

They show how much they photoshop in those making-of shots? o.o

Ok now, before I say this I want to say i have no problem with Ayu using photoshop. its usually used effectively and proffesionally and has really been used to create a specfic feel with her photos (ie glitter's cover wa smad emore dreamy). like I said the only photoshop that doesn't look effective/welldone is Sunrise. Anywho to the point:
Do you really think Ayu's eyes are simply a result of his "technique".
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...miHamasaki.jpg Sure he isn't the best photographer, but you can't put all the blame on him. Ayu uses photoshop and like I said thats ok and usually it looks good. but I don't think he has the ability of making eye blood vessels dissapear...Evryone should stop putting the blame on him.
And like i said, its always Ayu's final choice...

@Anthony: I had no doubt that she has definition in her abs and stuff...but this photoshopping kinda pushes it...although it's no where near the amount they used on her breasts.


but yeah, I think the wierdest thing is kinda the background...how like the pool just ends...and then there's the wierd plants that look cut and pasted in...the edges are like...wth...


I don't know...that cover is just really odd to me.

oh not to mention...I just saw when I made them bigger...that there's this weird thing on her arm...is it in her hair? on her left shoulder. You can see it in nacho's siggy...what is that?

You're right, which is why I'm more upset with her decision making than him. :irked

But you know what, I'm over it. I don't care for the covers, but they could be worse...

LOL ...

I don't think Ayumi's biggest concern is the economy... I think she could retire tomorrow and be fine.. :P

But that was a very clever post... The economy never even crossed my mind..

Although it would of been less expensive and probably a lot nicer without the intense photoshop..

Yeah i'm starting to get over it myself. Still not fond of them but whats done is done I guess!

I think it's just a part of the costume.
It would be odd if it was in only one of the pictures though.

Haha, thanks. (;
Yeah, if Avex was having budget problems, I'm sure Ayu could've funded the money to finish her own project...
In fact, she could also hire someone better to make these covers. D8<