Why didn't they use these as the CD and CD+DVD versions? At least then they'd be different! I like the single's cover though. Very... ethereal?

Okay so "Lucky Star" sounds way better than the other one. Like, I couldn't even finish watching the first 20 seconds of the PV because she sounded... horrible to me. :/

^ Those are both actually very pretty! :D Dunno what happened with the other promo and cover, 'cause these are great. >_>

I love those pictures!!!! They are so pretty!!! :heart

She looks great better than the real cover

lovely covers ^^

^ I wish they actually were the covers :laugh They're so pretty! :heart

promo pics are not pretty to me...
the whole photoshoot must have been a disaster. :(

I love everything about the photoshoot. They're perfect, IDGAF what anyone says.

I just realised that the single will be out next week

but eh I'm not terribly excited over it D: :dead2 , I haven't even hear Zokkondition & let alone see the PV of it T-T

How's promotion for the single been? I know her single sales are no longer that great, but I'm hoping the low sales of Bye Bye are just because it's a recut, not a popularity problem.

NINKI index for the single

http://i44.tinypic.com/2iafspz.jpg

the single will get a Taiwan press release on 9th April ie. next Fri

收錄於4/9 預定發行單曲「大塚 愛 / 想婚頭／LUCKY☆STAR」中

oh dear... looks like LUCKY STAR gonna get bad sales again

NYC will release their single next week so no way for Zokkondition / LUCKY☆STAR to get #1

this's bad but I haven't heard Zokkondition yet :dead2 , I'm downloading the PV now , will give my thoughts on the song/PV later on

EDIT ok my quick thoughts on Zokkondition

PV - quite ok but the last part where she opened her mouth , that expression she made was priceless LOL

song - >_< , her voice's a lot more squeaky here than usual . I was trying to strain my ears especially in the beginning of the song @_@

I don't know but I think the song sounds... lazy in general

It's quite sad that overall Zokkondition / LUCKY☆STAR is even worst sounding than her previous singles to me

is she running out of musical ideas or what ? D:

poor thing , this's really sad :( & I used to like her a lot but ick , I'm not sure what happened after she released LOVE LETTER . It's like everything went downhill for her , music wise & then some

I'm honestly not expecting anything amazing from her anytime soon - music or sales-wise - but I really do hope she climbs back up a bit in the next few releases. :(

unfortunately but true

she frankly hasn't wow me since Kurage Nagareboshi

she needs to release something around that level again man ;___;

Oh, wow. Karen, consider yourself lucky. She hasn't wowed me, at all, since Yumekui! (Holy crap, was that really almost four years ago now?? :thud) And I'm just now willing to set her free, lol. :( I'm still following her, of course, but like I said, I'm not expecting anything.

O_O

wow Yumekui ?! I can't believe it myself that it has been that long since it was being released

I'm not sure what happened to her honestly . She frankly was really good at what she was doing then suddenly she went downhill

I don't know if it's because she's running out of music ideas or something , she just needs to come back with a she-banging one , not something that's being recycled over & over & over again

The turning point for me was at LOVE COOK. It seemed like she was trying to take a slightly more mature turn there, and she followed through with it past LOVE PiECE. And it worked. She didn't seem so childish, but she still had that cutesy, fun, bubblegum pop image going on in certain songs. But then with LOVE LETTER and beyond, it seems like she trying to completely move past those, both with image and music.
But in my opinion, a 'mature woman' direction just isn't her. And neither is this.....freaky (for lack of a better word, hah) style she's going in to now. She's cutesy little Ai Otsuka, hah! And if she doesn't want to fully play out that image, she doesn't have to completely change herself. Songs like Yumekui and Cherish, or even Planetarium and Kingyo Hanabi, are all very mature sounding. She doesn't need to do a full 180 to get out of the kiddy-rut. :no

And yeah, maybe she is running out of ideas. :X She has been around since 2003, which is a fairly long time. I honestly don't know how much of her lyrics/music she's involved with, though.

yeah I know what you mean

she did had some mature sounding songs in the past while in the process of cultivating that cutesy happy go lucky image she had & that worked pretty well for her to a certain extent & sales that time were relatively good/decent for her

it's like after LOVE PiECE onwards , she tried to shake off that image & do a 360 degree overhaul but somehow or another it's not working big time in her favour

the public will always/forever remember her earlier works that were crazy & somewhat mature & it's a stigma that she has to live with it , whether she likes it or not

oh I have all her studio albums xD ... pretty much she does everything from writing to composing & let alone producing