O_O

this is coolllllll!!! love it!

I love the image :D I wouldn't worry about it being too dark, some parts are probably dark so as not to reveal the whole shot, leave some surprise. I'm looking forward to seeing the cover now - will be really happy with the poster if it's anything like this :yes

Come to think of it, Kuu's new album is also quite dark yet classy. But the too are very different.

(right now I prefer Kuu's :P)

But of course, this is only half a picture...

Popteen photos aren't exactly dark..

The VOGUE from two years ago is more of a dark photoshoot..
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Oh yes.

I would rather to see a dark, stylish cover... avex can leave the sexy to kuu :P

I have been thinking about RAINBOW covers since the start.. Never expect it would be that darkish. It makes my interest increases all of the sudden.

Plus maybe the CD might have lots of experimental awesomeness with sucha cover. Although the colours doesn't suit BLUE BIRD, Beautiful Fighters, Startin', or BTB, not even a bit. D:

I don't like the tattoo and the "A" symbol.....
i hope it's just painted on her for this photoshoot..
but i want to see the full cover soon ..
only 3 weeks left till it should be in stores...
i think now i'm going to pre-order it somewhere...
let's see ^^

I WANT THAT FOR SECRET :luv2

Funny how many people were expecting a very poppish album this year from the singles....

well, i think it suits startin' very well, but beautiful fighters and born to be and blue bird (all the 'b' songs :P) really not a bit

Honestly, I don't think Ayu is one to make an album all-of-one-genre just because of the singles..

I wonder what the BLUE BIRD 3rd A-side was.. I hope it is revealed soon! :)
The Ayu A might be scarily fancy this year.. O_O

somehow i got a feeling that ayu can put a really mysterious song after BLUE BIRD..

now my mind's flying all over the place..

Of course it's just painted on her for this album. I dun think ayu would put such a big real tattoo on her arm. If so, she has to give up lots of other possible styles/fashion later on :P

I think that the entire album will be this HUGE surprise to everyone since .. yeah..

It's really hard to tell where she'll be going with this album..

i hope the new songs ARE rather poppish because i think to rockish songs won't suit the singley, won't they?

Wasn't the third A-side supposed to be JEWEL or 1LOVE?

I personally can't wait for the 3 new videos, NONE OF THEM HAS AIRED YET! :bshake They will soon, all three of them I hope. They cant avoid airplay for long.

Sexy. I like

I know... with only five songs revealed so far, we can't really tell what the remainings are (not even 1LOVE, since we've only heard 15 seconds of it).
I bet the unicorn/pegasus will attract more buyers this time (... instead of the horrible smile on (m)u cd only cover..)

I don't think so..

I think they'll say which was supposed to be the 3rd a-side when they interview Ayu about each song and stuff..

I'm sure the third A-side is one of the 3 new videofied songs, since it must be good enough for airplay, promotion, and a video treatment if it was considered as an A-side.

let's say she was supposed to release a 3rd single --> JEWEL/1LOVE. That means one of them should be the 3rd A-side on the 2nd single. Unless... the third unknown song on the original mini was the 3rd A-side... but that sounds quite unconvincing..

If she released BLUE BIRD/ BEAUTIFUL FIGHTERS/ JEWEL as a 3A-side, it would have been very successful I think. Maybe 350 to 400k with proper promotion. JEWEL has so much potential. D: