[pic] official STEP YOU/is it LOVE? CD, CD+DVD cover
 

http://tvstation.jp/special/artist/htm/hamaayu.html
whoa its different from the official one...I think its better than either official or teamayu

http://tvstation.jp/special/guest/05/03/ayuJ2.jpg

*blinks at it*

She's definetly going glam on us... not that it's bad or anything... just comparatively next to the MY STORY cover, it doesn't look original. But that's just me. Still comes down to the music. *nod*

I think this looks much better than the pics I'd seen before. If this is the final version of the cover I don't have anything to complain about. Some of her best singles have covers I don't like at all, so even though a good cover is nice to have it's the songs that matter the most.

Hmm, not the best cover - will wait and see what the songs are like.

oh my gosh, THANK GOODNESS she's using this cover!! It's not my favorite pic EVAR but I'm so glad this is the official cover compared to the other four pics we saw. Glad to see it's a closeup of Ayu wearing a different outfit and NOT showing off her body~

IM SO GLAD they did not pick the ****ty ones! this one is actually cool@ thanks for the pic!

It looks so 80's! Maybe that's just me, but it's all right. I agree it looks a little unoriginal only in comparison to the recent My Story covers, but that's all right. As long as the music's good. :yes

Meep, i like this cover waaaay better then the 4 pics that were shown to use from her site, this looks nice

Ooo I definitely like this better than the other four.

aaaaah no more Dirtyness! XD :(..... i knew the picture would turn out to be something like that!..... she seems chubby.... for some reason... :P

Sankyou kotora!

i prefer this cover as well, she isnt tht ****ty sort of sexy way as in the other possible covers. The background is lyk the bak of MY STORY CD, black and pink. Maybe coz it has my name's WOMEN pv

Can someone please host it on something like photobucket or whatever? I can't access the site due to work blocking it >.<

better than those photo shoots. thanks for posting.

ohh... thats awsome!! I love it!! *heart eyes*
thanks!

This cover is nice


thanks for the pic ^^

kawaii! thanks!

..She looks .. so pink. What happened to the covers where she's smiling and looking natural?

wow, this is sooo much better than the other four. I actually kinda like this one.

But, yeah, it's the music that really matters. I can't wait!

EW.

I saw it and it's digusting. Her eyes are red, and her skin is pink.

It isn't just about the music. Ayu is a very fashion-foward guru and this just isn't up to par with her other works. Her covers have become boring. There's no art to it, just her face.

...It´s not THAT bad... Definitly better than the other four pics!

ek nice, thanks for the pic :) i dont too like the font though :rolleyes

It's absolutely disgusting. Ack. None of the photos from the shoot are good. What in the world is she thinking? Or, if we doubt the credit there, what in the hell is her stylist thinking? Yucky. Pure yucky.

..let's hope the single is good this time.. not generic.

It might be an 80ish song, this is actually a good close up of her new single, and also it looks great...but you do know that the rest of her photoshoot will be in the single, so don't bother complaining, enjoy!...lol

I'm glad that they're using this pic as the cover than using the other ones. But I agree that this cover isn't her best and she looks too pink in the pic. She should look more natural on her covers like she used to :yes

I hate that cover. It's so amateurish. That font is ugly as hell and the picture isn't the best. I would like to think that the music is what really counts too, but I consider cover art and packaging a big part of why I buy the singles and albums. Oh well, I'm gonna buy it anyway 'cause it's Ayu and I like what I've heard so far of STEP you.

Sorry to be off topic, but I still wanna to say that I'm glad to see that nobody hates the song title anymore.... at least in this thread.

OK, so to some of you, this might not be a good picture, but however, we are not certain that whether they are confirmed or not. If they are confirmed, it is absolutely at our will to buy it or not. :)

I like that SO MUCH more than all those other images we've seen. I really hope it will for sure be the cover!!! :yes

I like that picture

's okay. Thanks for the pic!

Not original but I think she looks cute...

not bad not bad~ thanks for the pic!

it's better than the other pictures..
but still nothing special

ugly ass font though

She looks pretty. <3

Ugh, she looks like a prostitute. I don't like it. I think the whole photoshoot bites, frankly.

Excellent cover, two thumbs up. I love its retro feel.

Sorry Ayu, I don't like it.. you look like a ***** :( BoY was something close to this, but it was still pretty, not nasty.

I like the other four pics better...

Thanks god, I thought I was the only one :innocent :innocent

eeeeeeeeeeeew I can't stand it! Ayu is deffinately going downhill, she's not what she used to be T__T It's O.K., but the font O___O take it away! Thanks btw

Looks kinda 80ish, no?

WHAT THE ****?!
i don't like this cover at all....i hated all the pics i've seen...
why can't it be a fancy/artsy cover like her older covers

It's not bad. Better than those 4 pictures that was previously posted here. I'm glad this picture looks better. It's really not her best work, but i don't mind that much since it's just a cover after all.

After you said it, I hate the song title LOL. jk ayu just wants to try something new, but can't do something like her past recently.

Horrible?

Thanks for the pic! Looks okay, I suppose.

As with most of her pictures nowadays, terrible application of make-up. Though it's better than the other promotion pictures from the same photoshoot.

It's not too terrible.. it could ALWAYS be worse

as least it looks better than those horrible pics with horrible poses before...

Eh...I really don't see much difference in "liking" it between it and the original photo shoot. They both kinda suck on the same level.

Although the cover would look 10x better if the font was changed (maybe not so big x.x) It just...completely detracts from anything nice in the photo. Although I do have to admit that I like the colors...

Thanks, Kotora!

one word : Ugly..
Ayu should wear something like what she weared for her ourselves perf on ayu ready.

^Totally agree!

It's nice and simple, but petter than the other pics from this shoot that were on the TeamAyu site.

Thanks for the news!

hey i like it~!!!

everyone is so harsh using the words "suck", "horrible", "ugly" and "disgusting"....because i dont get why it's disgusting? its not like your looking at some dead animals with their guts everywhere, thats wat i call disgusting :yes

I hate it! Her face looks terrible.

i definitively dont liek at all the new style of ayu she seems to kogyaru . ayu blond is not natural rock is not her style . i think the decision of this cover dont come from only her . i hope the songs are better than the cover. i prefer ayu natural she is so beauty

I personally LOVE THE COVER!! I can't stop staring at it. At least this one as a retro feel and theme. Her other covers weren't really THAT creative in comparison, everyone is just complaining cause she has make-up on (LIKE OMG...) and it's pink.

Well I think pink is hot. ^__^

She still got the best fashion sense in the JPop industry.

I love the theme and pics for this single. I really like the 80s glam rock feeling that it has. What's the problem with it looking 80s? I just don't get it.

looks good! it's better than those 4 pics definitely.

i don't like it very much ... :no

I actually liked the 4 pics from the official site more than the cover chosen for the CD. Gotta agree with others, though, the make-up is pretty awful.

this cover is way BETTER than those 4 pictures

So much better than the other pics I saw... I mean, they were not the best ones

i did not see the other 4 covers that u peeps have mentioned before.. and since this is the first time looking at this cover, i will give my first impression... ayu did not really look like her... somewhat like a different person and that the feel of the cover looked slightly amateurish like the doing of beginners of photoshop... pls pardon me for saying this as this is what i feel honestly

its better than two of four pics that we all have known
but i stil thinking that she looks older than she was
it's okay but not her best
i hope the song and the pv is good enough
i'm still buy it because i think there will be my name's women pv in her next album dvd compilation

well um its okei... but..... is this the official cover of the album?? the font look svery plain though >___< i hope they come up with a better one ^__^ ahehe ayu looks like she advertising harley's hehe ^___^ its very pink though! hehe

yep! i agree to ur speech cyborg kurochan!

It's not too bad ^^
I imagined it much worse o o;;

it looks very cool!
I like it!
thank y0ou

=D well this is better than the other piccies so far. So i like it! ^^

i like it. :yes

wow!! i think this is better than the previous few we saw!! thanx!! ^^ cool!!

this cover is nice~~!!

It's very pink... I like it. :thumbsup

I actually like 1 of the 4 pics better, the one she was lying on the bike.This official cover, her expression is little weird. Don't want to sound like I'm complaining, but ayu has much more prettier pics than this ^__^

i'm glad ppl hav stopped saying it's bad and saying it's good, coz i like it too!
and there could be some sort of meaning to the cover.. relating to the new songs. ;)

hmmm..... nice eh?.... i love those.. but i dont like her pony... hihihi ^^

for some reason i can't access that site at all..

Cute lookin cover, looks rockish 80s. Wish she could b more natural lookin. Wats with the rockish look these days, not original enough. I hope the songs are good... tat matters the most.

Just a word : horrible !! She looks like a "yariman" (japanese word). I don't like this style at all !! The pinky atmosphere makes her come back in real Idol style and gay icon...don't like and she doesn't need this to get success...It's a shame 'cause the song step you seems to be good and such a ****** cover ...so sad ! Hope the next cover will be better... :)

"is this you, STEP LOVE"?

am I the only one seeing this??

sorry if it's been posted before.

pretty cool but not the best cover I've ever seen (I think INSPIRE cover was the best :D)

well... i think it's OK, i'm glad that no motorcycles on the cover, and IMO hamasaki is still trying to rise-up her sexy image, first is MY STORY, now this, well MY STORY isn't a very good cover is it [all four of them, yuck...]?
and i'm glad that this one isn't that bad, it's not bad at all actually, it's just...OK.

well, the atmosphere is kinda 'pink' in the cover, i think her skin looks irritated or sth there, and those red eyes, oh god, looks a bit disturbing to me...

hamasaki should make a better cover for her next single :yes

no bad what. this 1 is better as a cover instead of the previous 4.

too much pink again. I think my story is her worst cover ever.

i have no comments.

she looks okay, looks like a moulin rougue theme kind of way o.O

Yuck.

I don't think it's Moulin Rouge at all. She did the Moulin Rouge thing in Arena ghouh.. and this is nothing like that.

It's not bad, but the lighting is terrible. :no

Oh dear god ...I hate it. EVEN I COULD HAVE MADE THAT ... its ... its ... SO CHEAP!

AMEN. I want a ****ing creative ayu single. ._. (maybe she just got tired of posing mostly/all nude though ...)

Only because its pink. :rolleyes Kristen kristen kristen ...

she looks WAY better!!
absolutely better than the other pictures posted before. the other ones sorta made her look like a ****.. -___-
~~ good cover~ lol

uwaaa heh new style heh
i like this cover how cool i'm considering buying it ^o^ shall be cool
i wana see the pv alreay lol can't wait

i like it!!!thanks!

still looks kinda cheapish but........ i feel really relieved that it looks way better than the ones on her site .......!