What publicity stunt should Ayu pull?
 

Yes everyone does it. Especially you-know-who which I'm not going to mention as I see her name in every single thread these days. She has done her second stunt with the same-melody-different-arrangements thingy. Before that the heavily promoted quadro-A-side and photobook. Before that, the "subscribed" singles that comes every week whether you like them or not.

So for Ayu, what should be done to restore her popularity? Give your views and procedures or whatever.

I want same arrangements, different melodies. It will be so awesome, like a sequel of sorts. Lots of instruments for two A-sides, both of them exact same ones.

And a concept album. I love concept albums, especially experimental ones. They don't always do well, but they're awesome most of the time. Ayu's experimentation never ceases to amaze us. She should do more.

i think she must do a really HEAVY promotion...
many people missed her very much..so its the time to show who the real queen of jpop again...
i feel really sure that if she release a 2nd best album it will be a HUGE SUPER MEGA SALES number

Publicity stunts... like... run naked across the street?

I don't know, maybe a marriage would boost her up a bit? Lots of publicity.

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Maybe not 100% a concept album (For this the songs' themes are too different!?), but I want the new mini-album to have an overall feel. Just like "RAINBOW" which had a rainbow-y feel to it - from the cover, to the booklet, to the instrumentals and songs itself, that seem to represent different "colours".

I think she has her own concept for every album?

MY STORY was about her life, um, that's all I can remember, lol.

Well, (miss)understood was pretty random... mainly due to GEO. :curse. Although I liked it lots.

True. Every album except "(miss)understood". And even though all the others have themes, too, probably none as much as ""RAINBOW" (and maybe "MY STORY"). But this may depend on every persons, ern... feeling?

Yeah, well, she's sorta claimed that there's a reason behind everything she does, which is kind of saying out right - there's a theme/concept/hidden messages/whatever in what she does.

It all depends on how you want to see it yourself, what you feel and what you think.

All too often your (your as in anyone) personal feelings get very effected by the people around you and their comments. The general public is amazingly talented at seeing more messages than you yourself are ;).

she should get married and divorced in the same day. like britney spears did.

Publicity stunt, eh? Like... she could perform at the next Winter Olympics ceremony with Nagase. And at the end, he could grab onto her shirt and "accidentally" rip it off, exposing one breast.

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Wait, why does that sound familiar?

she should include more goodies with her releases like kumi. That would boost the sales. Also autograph signing sessions would be nice, and go to more talk shows like heyx3.

I'm also wondering what the theme would be for this new album. From the official site update, it looks like the cover would be pink with jewels...I can't think of how pink would go along with the songs. For some reason I keep picturing Rina Aiuchi's DELIGHT album cover

That'd cause riot on the streets. People would suffocate in the throng. Theoretically it would be pretty nice though :).

I'm thinking of something more like Hitomi's TRAVELER cover. Or maybe I am... or the H covers (although considering when it's being released...)

I mean, the songs we've heard so far are sunny and cheerful. That fits perfectly.

Some kind of bikini/whatever/half naked cover photo?

Probably.

Oh yes please mr.avex person

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How bout just like a Voyage-style cover instead?

Haha, well, it's basically what she has been doing for all her albums, except (m)u and Ma, I don't have any problem with that as long as it looks good :D.

Voyage... that's like the predecessor to m(u).

She should fake her death, then cover the BGs song "Stayin' Alive" naked on top of Tokyo Tower :yes

I wonder what people would be more shocked at: that fact she's still alive or that she's singing in English on top of Tokyo Tower naked? 0_0

GRAVURE AYU! Koda may be ero-kakkoi, Maki is Ero-Kawaii, no-one's done gravure yet!



THen she could be S(w)inging on top of tokyo tower.

She could bomb Europe with leaflets advertising her new upcoming album.

Then she could to the same for Asia.

Maybe even go for the US?

Then she could FINALLY swing round tokyo tower.

If she advertised in europe she might as well be swinging her stuff on the eiffel.