:luv2

i second the first part...not sure about them getting married xD it just doesn't click in my imagination xD

XD there can be so many jokes made on behalf of Gackt and his relationships.

^ omg... :D

Ayu and Gackt together musically or in a relationship is just too much for my weak heart <3

Ayu basically sounds like Gackt during Last Links so I think with Ayu's voice now-a-days (much different than when they collaborated on that live x'mas performance) would be very interesting with Gackt's on an actual recording.

Ayu and GACKT need to be together like now.

No duets. Ew. Just get married.

Gackt is so ugly these days now. Yuck.

She's recording at the Record Plant Studio. :P http://pics.lockerz.com/s/257030114

coolness!
hope for some really great music!

Cannot unhear

Especially the part "kono aoi hoshi o"

wish i could go to LA right now!

Curious where she's staying... wonder if she'll give any hints?

i hope she stays for some time and tells us where...
i need a vacation.

Yeah, I actually think that especially now there vocal styles suit each other.

Huh at his fat thing...yet he went on stage every weekend to thousands of people lol?

He scares me a bit >_>

he is too skinny in that video...
but, lol... him saying that he was fat... now i feel horrible... XD

no wonder he's scary with make-up, he's quite creepy without it, making all those faces..lol

:laugh I love him omg.

skincare ftw.

GACKT is just special all together. Has always been and will always be. <3

It's cool he and Ayu drank together, would have loved to see that 8D

^
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c7...ifs/dfhfge.gif

GACKTさんは最高。♪───O(≧∇≦)O────♪！！！！！

LOL @ your comment. Let's not forget music videos.

But, its funny that he talked about Paula's Choice. My best friend loves it and gave me some samples of it, just days ago. I used it for the first time last night and I still have some of the cream on my face making it soft. My like of Timmy just went +1.

omg @ Tim :rofl he's amazing

there are so many gif worthy moments in the video :laugh

"AHS is having fantasies about Ayu and Gackt again. UGH."
-that ahs tumblr thingy

I DIED when I saw this. I love this tumblr.

Anyway, personally, I'm not here for that kind of musical collaboration. I hate songs which feature artists. But if Ayu wants to... ever date gackt... Not that Iconiq will let her... but Gackt dates women? Gackt dates humans? Oh no, here come the jokes... Must resist temptation.

^ man, make us all look crazy.
lol

So, there are members that come on here and read our posts and then share them on Tumblr? That's a little creepy.

Also, I read on Arama, or whatever that LJ is called, that Gackt has a lovechild that he forced to live in Vancouver, Canada :laugh

^ you havent seen it...
its sad really. I cant image the poor sap that has to comb through everything to try and find something so they can post it out of context and make themselves feel better...
although now I think anyone can post.

Ayu was drinking with Gackt? Nice. :D I'm not a fan of him but I've known him since 2005 I believe. I never got interested in his music, hmm...

AHS tumblr has updates? Gotta go read 'em and die of laughter ->

I just read the full AHS tumblr thing. It's a funny idea but I can't stand whoever updates it based on the tumblr. He/she is dead-on sometimes and plain insulting, ignorant and dumb in his/her comments other times, it's...interesting to say the least.

^ not to say taking things out fo context too.....*rolleyes*

lollol that was an other tabloid fairytale xD acording to them that's why he doesn't pay taxes...the kid with mom probably eats a lot so poor man can't pay taxes xD

^The post on Arama made it seem so legit, too. Like, its such a far-fetched story, but it seemed like people really believed it.

well when they focus more on teh fact that he has a kid and a "lover" instead of actually focusing on acording to them a fact that he doesn't pay taxes, the whole thing just loses the credibility... at least that what made me go "oh c'mmon"...actually everyone already forgot about that lol

Can someone tranlate the most recent tweet? And while everyone is off topic, does anyone know if Erika Sawajiri speaks english? I just noticed we have mutual friends that invited us both to the same facebook group.

^ lol, Erika doesn't have Facebook, at least as far as I know. She doesn't have Twitter either.

Yes, she has facebook, a filmmaker she's acquainted with invited her to the group I'm in. She hasn't posted at all in it from what I can see and everyone seems to type more in english than Japanese, but she's one of 25 members of the group. That's why I was asking if anyone knows. But now that the filmmaker is replying to me, I'll ask him, so nvm.

It's an easy to miss Facebook, because she's using a nickname in place of Erika

which phone application can i make the exactly same effect as ayu makes on leckerz?
such as this: lockerz.com/s/257030114
look so pretty!

COVERS DONE!

i wonder if its going to be beackie or parkie... hmmm.

OMG RYAN SHOT THE COVERS THEY'RE GONNA BE PERFECT.

lol beach cover in winter

lololol

i hope it's not sweet as LOVE cover though.

nooooo
I don't want a beach theme. It's winter.... The songs have to be better than fairyland then. fairyland is my winter jam, so...

it's mine too, (miss)understood came out in winter, and I was listening to fairyland very much, cause I wasn't really a fan of it when it came as a single.

On the beach?! Wonder what they're gonna go for with these~

The photo she posted looks more like it was in the GUILTY-mansion-y area... and he mentioned a Halloween Ayu. Guess we'll see what's going on.

Hey, wasn't she in LA two years ago during Halloween for Love songs stuff? I remember Record Plant was decorated for Halloween/Thanksgiving while she was there.

I hope the photos are like hitomi's love concept and she can have a pv just like ai no kotoba on the beach too omg!! Sick of the pretty dress and posing diva aesthetics.

I'm so excited to see these covers lol

I swear this is the first cover Ayu has shot specifically for the album since FIVE or something. Party Queen covers were recycled, from what I remember and LOVE was some sort of fashion shoot, no?

^ Im pretty sure LOVE was just shot on set to save time.
I thought it was two different photographers?

I thought that for Party Queen, they had the original photoshoot in London, but decided to go with the photoshoot in New York?

yay excited for "again" cover
hope it's gonna be epic one like "LOVE"

Watch, it will be a re-creation of Sunrise/Sunset, lol.

Ayu posted a sexy pic! <3 http://pics.lockerz.com/s/257945489

I need black hair on her more often.

And timmy lol.

that would be her Halloween costume. looks as if she's a zomebie schoolgirl

Well, she looks the exact same. Even with two different photographers its still kinda... lackluster.

My question is, did the original PQ shoot actually happen? Or maybe it did and Ayu didn't like any of them and said, "To hell with it, just use those trashy NY photos. I can make up some bull about a sad queen". :laugh

Ayu looks like she's Koda Kumi circa 2005 for Halloween.

We know it happened because how beautiful you are used the shoot and also because all of the shots that came out for SUPER AYU were confirmed to be 'cuts' from Party Queen.

^-- this photobook ended up being "SUPER AYU" (not the exclusive one, but the one sold as a tour good)

http://i.imgur.com/1VjZu.jpg

I have a feeling Maro may be in a PV in LA. There's no reason he'd be with Ayu otherwise imo.

she's sooo sexyyyyy!!!

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD *****es, *****es everywhere!!!
LOL
Funny as hell!!

omg what is timmy doing in the first photo
http://i.imgur.com/WzkDG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dygIg.jpg

OMG, those Halloween pics xD

I love more and more maro xD

Man i had never thougt i'd see anything like that on Ayu lol sexy..unusual...lol

she reminded me of t.a.t.u. haha :P

Lol love those pics!

But..
At least Ayu had a good Halloween. I had a date with syntax. I blew it off faster than when Square is questioned about Versis 13.

lololol look at ayu's face, now look at maro's...now look again at Ayu's..now at Maro's...."Someone shoot me please?" xD

oh and um christmas on the beach do happen, no? xD

Ayu's so sexyyyyy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ and LOL at Maro...also Timmy..

holy crap... looks at those pictures... XD
love them, lol.

just make a Rock song PV with that halloween makeup on the spot already XD

Lol, you're right! :'D They always have so much fun! <3

I thought for a second that Maro is just a manly girl.

^lol

Maro is sporting so impressive abs in that picture.

Do any of you guys think she'll be meeting any fans?

LOL those halloween pictures! xD

@ayufan777 maybe if more people take the time to tweet. That is if she wasn't on this morning's flight with Ryan. Timmy tweeted he was packing too, but Ayu didn't tweet since the recording studio and I'm pretty sure she still has more tracks to record (if she still records at the same pace) and pvs to film. So far I've only seen tweets of 2-3 trips to record and the trip to Santa Monica for the photoshoot for the covers. She'll probably still do the calendar shoot with a different photographer while in LA too if it wasn't completed yet between Vegas and LA.

Ayu looks sexy but the first thing I thought when I saw the pic was, omg that skirt is really short! 0.0

If Ayu is in Los Angeles... and these Halloween photos she posted... I wonder if she went to to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival... not that it matters anymore. LOL.

They went to Fodo De Chau for dinner in those costumes & to Record Plant to record at 5am, but I didn't see any posts about the hours in between.

why Maro was there? she didn't twit about PV filming... so maybe another photoshoot for magazine?

Gotcha, thank you. :)

I think Maro and Ko are both there for PVs, Ko tweeted about jetlag about the time Ayumi went from Vegas to LA. I don't think they left when Ryan did, they will be on schedule just like in 2010 if they stay for 2 more weeks to finish Again and the calendar shoot.

It's not a new related to her tweets but I don't want to open a new thread ...

It seems that Ayu is 50th at the Favorite Artist Ranking 2012 (Oricon survey)choosen by 20 000 people !

【音楽ファン2万人が選ぶ！好きなアーティストランキング 2012】

*1　嵐
*2　いきものがかり
*3　Mr.Children
*4　福山雅治
*5　ゆず
*6　B’z
*7　サザンオールスターズ
*8　宇多田ヒカル
*9　コブクロ
10　ポルノグラフィティ
・
・
・
50　浜崎あゆみ

It's not particularly good but considering her actual popularity it's not that bad isn't it ?
She was 18th in 2005 http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/050727_01.html

She never really ranks high on that poll. It's always Mr. Children, B'z, or Utada doing well... even if they're not doing anything in particular that year. Perhaps Oricon Style subscribers are just not Ayu fans.

Just FYI, the top 10 of this poll almost always consists of Utada, B'z, Mr. Children, Masaharu Fukuyama, ARASHI, Ikimonogatari, Yuzu, SOUTHERN ALL STARS, Kobukuro, and aiko. Some years they may fall out of the top 10 but usually the same artists always rank near the top on this.

Where did the "#50" placement come from, btw? All I can find is the top 20 in the usual places.

http://awabi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/m...1351826534/l50

I see... I don't think she actually ranked on this poll. Someone probably just made it up.

I find this on 2ch http://awabi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/m...826534/201-300 the list is not completed after top 20 just for the position of ayu :(

The 2ch source makes me think someone just took the top 20 and added Ayu on as "#50". That's probably not actually where she placed.

Oh yes it's possible Ayu is particularly bashing there lol

I'm actually a girl. ;) I'm not trying to "shame" Ayu but I don't like skirts that short at all since they give off the wrong impression sometimes. I know it's a Halloween costume, but still.

I know that one of the pictures where she is half turned and the skirt doesnt even cover her butt... I was like, whoa girl, lol.

Hehehe..short skirts give off wrong impression? I don't think her LOVEppears, Party Queen and RAINBOW album covers give nothing but a right impression then :lech:lech? Hehehe

omg really sad for Ayu's career, wish she could be the queen again but i don't think she gives a **** honestly

I never looked to start an argument but I don't have much of a problem with RAINBOW and LOVEppears since they were tastefully done. But that skirt doesn't look like it's covering her butt, like TeamAyu2004 said.

Ayu mentioned 'okama' when she brought up Maro... perhaps she outed him? Or maybe just him-dressed-as-a-woman next to Timmy?

She is really, really, hot and her body is.. wow.. perfect.

Where is this coming from now

okama?

^