its not just a picture. its picture of ayumi the legend hamasaki. so please, dont act like its nothing

lol

I don't even know what Leslie has done to that photo. Why? Does anybody look like that?

Ayu, please, I ask you again - look at these photos (edits, I should say) of you that Leslie is posting on Twitter, then ask yourself this simple question: do I look like I was drawn in using photoshop?

If the answer is yes, send it back to him and tell him to take off all the terrible filtering. Re-post photo with crappy iPhone blur to maintain ideal of flawlessness. I'd rather that in every photo to whatever Leslie is doing.

They edited it crazy and shadows came out that are unflattering and downright ugly.

It's not upsetting to us, stop being ridiculous. We're just stating the truth about how awful it looks.

It's not even about the tan.


If they want to be all "this is what ayu looks like" okay. Fine. Be prepared to hear opinions and sometimes truth from people :shrug


oh and for that iphone blurring we were talking about earlier...

a little blurring goes a long way lol

Both Ryan and Leslie's faces also have a bit of weird shiny dimplewrinkle-action going on so I think they edited it really oddly...

Also Leslie did not set a timer or anything for this shot, it was taken by an assistant or something named Ryo Nakagawa.

Anyway, she just mentioned finishing a godly song it seems?

hoping it's not a spray tan! - we shall see when she posts another twitpic :)

Oh Leslie....what happened to the genius you did with &? T_T

@ emi
lol, its the tan! its horrible! But to be fair, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so someone likes it!
But those two pictures! look at all of the editing! and thats just from a blur?? amazing how lineless she gets!

I miss the old magazine shots, maybe even before LOVEppears era. Her uneven teeth, no hair extensions, no special makeup, no obvious photoshopping, no pseudo-sexy poses. Just the little lost girl that I fell in love with.

I have a file just with "Young Ayu" pictures and everytime I got to see such hideous stuff like now I get back to those pictures :3

^ Maybe you should share that folder? :P I mean, I would love to see an Ayu like that.

Too much photoshop = omg leslie you keep making her look bad omg where's old leslie she looks fake i love seeing her flaws i want old ayu

Not enough photoshop = omg this is the worst picture ever she looks so bad and sickly i wish this and i wish that

Just some observations.

oh my god the difference. :shakehead


anyway, if she's making GODLY music, like literally, all abominable pictures would be forgiven. :luv2

bottomline, they don't know how to use photoshop. someone teach them, ahs :innocent

Lol! It's really ayu's fault for not being perfect enough to take a decent picture in the first place. I mean gosh... why does she have to have flaws. It's so human... Yuck. :grumpy

This one has just as much photoshop as any over photoshopped plastic ayu. Just the wrong kind lol

I don't think we actually ever get any unphotoshopped/unfiltered ayu pics, unless you look at fan photos which we havent gotten for a long time.

that tan is soooooooo bad
it ages her like 15 years... idk the whole thing just looks fake and blah with the blue contacts and bleached hair too. she'd look much better than this just stripped of all makeup and tan and with her natural hair.

"Natural hair"? What do you mean by "natural hair"? We don't see it since... 1996? o.O

i should wait for the final result before judging =))

Any hair color looks good on her except the blonde.. and I'm sorry but that pic is just plain awful, too much photoshop or too little, no matter which but it's still a very unflattering photo.

:laugh oh yeah

Why are people making such a big deal about this picture like it's going to be on the cover of a magazine or an album =___=. It's just a picture...a bad or good picture, but a picture nonetheless, nothing official. Everyone has bad ones...

dying :roflmao

And I don't get why people are so upset about some users not liking the pic... Some people hate it, others might love it. No big deal.
I think the editing is terrible and I don't like the tan, otherwise she'd look good.

Ryu Nakagawa... Nakagawa... Nakagawa...SHOKO NAKAGAWA

I don't know, some people still aren't over Sunrise/Sunset... and those were some beasty summer songs lol

I just dont think she looks good with a fake tan... and it looks like this was a spray on tan... done horribly wrong...

that actually made me LOL. However, I'm saying that everyone should praise ayu's pictures, but damn, some people are so harsh and I'm not even sure that they could do better. J'sayin.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6...69b0o1_250.gif

someone likes to play too much with Photoshop, I guess.

yuck. yuck. yuck. Ayu, seriously, wtf.

i used to think leslie kee was great, but the more he's around the more i think he's not so hot. that picture seriously looks like he just discovered topaz or something. a professional should know better.

By natural hair I mean her natural hair color. I'm aware we never see it lol, was just saying it'd be a lot better than this crap.

yep the colour is terrible..hope photoshop will help her look better

@ayu_19980408 : よっしゃー‼ 出来上がったぜ神曲‼ とさかディレクターに送信して寝る。寝ちゃう。寝ちゃいな。
@lesliekeesuper : Can’t wait to hear this new song ! See u very soon after our Europe trip!

Europe trip!!!!!!!! D:

This new single needs to hurry up, seriously.

At least the damn announcement, prease.

Europe trip? Europe Trip? .,... EUROPE TRIP... OMFG

It seems Leslie meant after the trip he and ryan, not ayu, will do to Milan xD

lol Leslie means his trip with Ryan, Ayu has a tour and a-nation still going on

Milan??? Impossible can't believe this.

new song! YAY!!... Which I forgot to mention, but Timmy said a few days ago that is was working on a new song as well...
I hope its for a different artist because I want to hear something different...

... so close yet so far away. if ayu went to milan id be there in a second.

New song. I need this new song!

T______T

that's unfair


But yay for new song :D summer single plox lol.

She speak about summer song, right ?

Single announcement pls ayu. My body is ready.

"This year's summer song is just too amazing!" is what I see the last line as, haha.

I hope it won't be released in September. If she does intend to release an actual Summer single I sure hope it'll be announced SOON.

I wonder if she's trying to gear up for another mini album/FIVE-ish deal... or maybe a summer 4A?

^a 4A would be awesome, but as I said, even a single new track would make me happy at this point, especially since we haven't had a REAL summer single since 2009.

At this point she has the prepared Xillia 2 track, a new song she just recorded, and another song that she had previously been working in before the 'demo' she mentioned on Twitter.

This should be interesting... once she goes on PV shoots, then it's only a matter of time!

that picture is just so funny

Didn't she also mention being recording something before going to the AAA concert? I can't remember well, it was when she took the pics with her long hair and greenish top.

Europe...? Wait a minute...is it Ayu? Leslie? Ryan? Or any combination of these three? Hmm...

I hope she announces a new single soon!

Just Leslie and Ryan will going to Europe.

Yes, that's the song she was working on a while ago. She mentioned a new demo a while after the AAA concert recording.

What it looks like to me at the moment:
Tales of Xillia 2 theme song was finished a while back [never mentioned on Twitter]
New song was recording around two weeks ago when she saw her first AAA concert
Another new song was being planned... the 'godly' song/summer track that she's mentioned

I kind of either see a mini-album coming up or a 2A with Tales of Xillia 2's theme being saved for Decemberish?

tired of these photo books already, just announce it Ayu,the new single or what ever piece of music that you got

i'm so tired of all these teasers. now they're just annoying me. -_-

thanks for having blown out my fire LOL

this 'godly' summer track neeв to be on the summer compilation album

Hmm it seems something happens between BIGBANG and Ayumi Hamasaki ?

https://twitter.com/#!/Daesungyuri

^
yeah i think so too!!
"早速うちのスタッフとBIGBANGのスタッフ、連絡を取り合っ​たらしい。まぁどうなるかは解らないけ ど、とりあえず恐るべしT​witter。" from Ayu's FB...

not quite sure what it meant though...
But I believe there is some form of 'communication' between Ayu and Big Bang!

hehe... i was hoping for a collaboration!! >__<

Ayu's staff and Big Bang's staff have been communicating. But they don't know what will come from the talks.

Is'nt she went to their concert recently? Or was another kpop boyband? Sorry, I tend to confuse them all lol.

If she's going for another collabs, this forum will explode soon though :laugh.

^ Nah it was 2pm (:

I don't think they will collab, it would be really unexpected, but it could be interesting.

BIG BANG and 2NE1 need to do another collab. I don't think Ayu would fit in with the BB boys very well... :no

I would love to see ayu and big bang do a collaboration together =D
And please be a hit song with nice PV!!!

Actually, SOL and D-Lite have really great voices, I think it'd work out fine.

And actually, the quality of Big Bang's videos are much better than what Ayu's been doing lately, imo. haha so I'd be all up for it. :)

Ayu x G-Dragon = new OTP

Personally, I'd prefer Ayu x 2NE1, but it would be interesting to see her collab with BIG BANG, as they're so different.

Although, Ayu just being used as a platform to promote other artists, rather than for the quality of the collab, is bit annoying

I think it's a bit of mutual here as ayu needs big bang to get into the younger generation market too.
It's a gd deal for both of them. And I think Big Bang is pretty well known in Japan already so it actually doesnt matters much to them.
Still, I really hope this work out somehow ^^ ayu pls show some gd quality PVs! No more PVs like NaNaNa and Shake it =.="

Doing anything with 2NE1 would be a huge mistake from my angle. I am hoping Ayu still has some sanity left and knows that she shouldn't mix with groups like that. I'd survive BIG BANG, but she should stay away from anything kpop related. JJ and Juno were more than enough for me. Imo even considering a song with 2NE1 would totally crush Ayu's image for me as they are the thing in Asian music I dislike the most, while Ayu is a complete opposite.

I don't think avex would allow ayu to work with flops like 2NE1, she needs help herself, she can't be carrying dead weight like 2NE1.

I think that Ayu knows better :-/
Although I have no knowlege (or interest) in those bands,i really don't think it would mix all that well.
Ayu is more like insitution for me while those bands are kinda like ''the today's big thing''
until the ''thing'' part evaporates.
They all sound/look identical,its a serious case of dejavu,at least for me :-/
Ayu still has it in her to make good songs,let's be patient...

I'm totally in for a collab with someone that's actually famous, known and in... This is one of the oldest and most effective ways to really fresh your image and expand your fanbase.^^

And I don't really care with who she will collab... I don't like Kpop groups and still loved Namie's collab with AFTERSCHOOL.

I don't want collabs :/ I want ayu, only ayu...........

Is it just me...or why are we having another collaboration...? Oh please...

Don't worry ^^ nothing is confirmed ! even, it's just one song ! we will get our summer single =)

Definitely this.. Ayu collabs do not work.. (nope, not even the one with Keiko)

Top tweet: “Big Bang’s member (Seungri) said it on the radio that they (Big Bang) would like to collaborate with Ayumi who is under the same company.”
Ayumi (ayu_19980408): Really~!! I would like to try.
Bottom tweet: It seems like my staff immediately contacted BigBang’s staff, even though I don’t know how it’ll turn out, but twitter is really awesome

credits: BBU http://tykd.wordpress.com/2012/06/26...bout-big-bang/

Oh please Ayu, no more collaborations. Im still kinda full with your last collaborations, either with Urata, JUNO or Timmy.

Well then she can pull a Namie CHECKMATE thing to get the collab thing out of her system
And THEN TO FOCUS ON HER S - O - L - O WORK
Thank you!

i mean, we've never seen her collab with somebody as famous as Big Bang.
i think it'll work if she decides to. ;)

globe/KEIKO were more famous in Japan than BIG BANG ever was...

I think it would work, it would be interesting to see.

flops? :laugh

2NE1 and BIG BANG >>>>>>>>> anyone she's done a collab with.

Honestly, I think they'd outshine her :shrug

I don't get the hate for 2NE1. I don't like their music that much, but they are a great group :/

I have never heard of either of their music... But I would imagine it is vastly different from ayu's. A collab with Namie or Kuu would make sense, but with ayu? I can't see it...

pop, pop, pop, pop, pop...there are so many amazing rock musicians out there, who ACTUALLY compose,write and pruduce music...kinda sad that she is skipping those for collabs... :( but i am more for solo that duets.

Also her collab with KEIKO was really good too, their voices went well together and they both had a lot of emotion. I'd really like to see Ayu collaborate with another female singer songwriter ):

What? Please tell me she's trolling us again, I seriously do not want her to collaborate with BIGBANG. Damn... She's doing it wrong! I want her to collab with Namie amuro or Utada Hikaru not some overrated Korean boyband. :( ....... at least I'll have the Tales of Xillia song......

She should collaborate with females, she had enough male vocalists for now.

Yea, that's what I think too..

U had no idea who produce most of big bang's work do ya =.=

That's cute they want to collab with ayu :P
I'm definitely interested in hearing the final product. I just hope it's an upbeat song. It's pretty hard for me to imagine ayu's vocals in a BIG BANG song.. but as long as she uses her deep voice it could be really hot

BIGBANG is not a manufactured pop group, sorry. The leader, G-Dragon composes and writes all the songs for the group.

I just checked out three vids from each group and to be honest... meh.

Out of the two, I think I prefer 2NE1. But, the overall sound of both groups is rather basic to me. If ayu does collaborate with them I hope she adds some depth to the sound.

Would really love for that to happen!!!! that would be a perfect mesh of my favourites. I hope G-dragon can right a song for her. I could never see Ayu doing something like their style honestly..but it'll be SO AMAZING

I actually like Big Bang, so I guess that's why I'd be into it.

They're really creative, and considering it was Big Bang who made the first move is kind of cool. I mean, they obviously must like/respect her otherwise they wouldn't have said anything. :)

It'd be unfortunate for me if nothing comes from this haha.

I'm interested. lol

I'm really curious how ayu x BIGBANG would sound like (if they are really working together later on). I consider BIGBANG as a better band in KPop. At least they are not doing bubble pop/r&b/hip hop compared to the other Korean acts.

Of course I would die to see ayu collaborates with hikki/namie/etc., but mostly they won't at this moment :P.

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just read this on bigbangupdates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg i could not be any happier right now. Ayumi and Big Bang are literally my two favorite things in this entire world and i cant even believe this could be happening. when my shock and awe and disbelief wears off i will cry.

...........big bang writes their music and their lyrics, G-dragon produces not only for their band but also other people in the entertainment company and composes the music. all those things that you said other bands ACTUALLY do big bang ACTUALLY does.

I think a collab with 2NE1 or BIGBANG would be great for Ayu's popularity! I'm not a fan of either group but anything to help Ayu out right now in that department is definitely needed.