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Old 19th November 2009, 03:24 AM
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She's the only Japanese singer that has even a CHANCE of beating Matsuda Seiko, and people have known that for awhile. I could care less about some competition to "prove" ayu is good. and tbh, competetion between ayu and a male singer isn't competition anyway, they're not even the same gender--based on the current cd buying audience, males tend to always "win". real competition for ayu is amuro, koda and hikki, who have very similar listeners.
Ah, that's pretty much how I feel about it. Though I wonder if someone'll just say: "Oh, but Seiko deserved every single one of her number ones without scheduling things around others. HMPH. Why can't Ayu fail yet!?!?!?"

No other female singer is even CLOSE to where Ayu/Seiko are right now. I'd like to see Ayu overtake Seiko... even if the single after ends up at #2, haha. [She better pull out a 3A/4A to avoid that though.]

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Consecutive #1 singles:
1位 43作品 B'z
2位 29作品 Mr.Children, KinKi Kids
4位 24作品 松田聖子
5位 22作品 浜崎あゆみ
-huge gap including ARASHI and etc.-
22位 6作品 安室奈美恵, 宇多田ヒカル, DREAMS COME TRUE

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Old 19th November 2009, 03:26 AM
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@tokyoxjapanxfan: Excellent points!
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Old 19th November 2009, 03:42 AM
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few days ago I saw the tinkerbell movie cm on tv and I was laughing at it...and now ayu's song will be used for the movie...never expected it at all...lol.

Anyways, I really hope ayu will sing both songs on tv and not just one of them.
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Old 19th November 2009, 04:07 AM
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omg ayu is BACK!!

the covers are gorgeous, although they are INDEED typical winter covers.

luckily it's not the Tinker Bell promo pic as the single cover, which looks weird IMO.

as for the -Music Box Rerecord Version-, i'm really looking forward to this!!

and i'm also waiting for a wallpaper size pic!!
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Old 19th November 2009, 04:10 AM
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The promo image must've been inspired by Namie's ALL FOR YOU cover.
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Old 19th November 2009, 04:12 AM
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I don't see how it's being handed to her, she has some strong tie-in's and Ayu is still popular, despite what others say. And it only makes sense to move it so it's closer to the release dates of the tie-in's.
I mean in the sense that they're moving the release date because of the competition (it seems), so it's easier to get a #1 once competition is gone and that doesn't seem rightfully earned.
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The promo image must've been inspired by Namie's ALL FOR YOU cover.
Holy crap I just noticed xD
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Old 19th November 2009, 04:14 AM
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^ it's not exactly a unique theme... a blue backdrop with feathers.
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Tinkerbell makes me think that You were... will probably be something like forgiveness. D:
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omg... they changed the date :x I guess CDL this year might help sales too



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Old 19th November 2009, 04:24 AM
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These covers reminds MY STORY ones
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Old 19th November 2009, 04:28 AM
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Oh yes! The covers are so wintery and gorgeous!!!!
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Old 19th November 2009, 04:52 AM
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YES.

omg yes, finally, a gorgeous cover to show off how beautiful she really is.

promo picture has an odd face that reminds me of audrey tatou lol but still really nice.

I love the font of the cover too.

I'm really happy the cover is so great. Makes the single so appealing.


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Old 19th November 2009, 05:08 AM
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o.m.g

She's beautiful... these covers are even better than Days omg! <3

Only thing that sucks about the release date change is we get the songs later and no good chart battle between Ayu and the Fuku-guy~
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Old 19th November 2009, 05:11 AM
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whoever said that these single covers are the best since mirrorcle world, I completely agree. amazing. simple is usually best.
I'm sad though that the single was pushed back to a later date. But I guess it's worth the wait since the single covers are amazing. and off the top of my head, there aren't any songs I like that had bad covers (except rule, the only thing that bothered me though was the foot in the air thing and the yellow suit, but it was 80's looking so that part was ok, it was an exception). so I'm guessing with the tradition, these songs should be good. [/opinion]
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The cover is such a huge step up from the S/S covers, like two different people altogether. Haha.
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Old 19th November 2009, 05:13 AM
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The cover is such a huge step up from the S/S covers, like two different people altogether. Haha.
her hair color in You were... is SO MUCH BETTER than Sunrise!
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Old 19th November 2009, 05:17 AM
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IS SHE LAYING ON SNOW???

Omg it's so beautiful! And the release date... !
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Old 19th November 2009, 05:37 AM
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What's coming out in the week after ballad/You Were? Kattun hasn't had a single in a long time - it would be ironic if Avex did all this shuffling only to have Johnny's announce another new single for her to compete with.
mmm as far as I know not many prominent singles are coming out the week after You were ... / BALLAD yet

KAT-TUN wouldn't be putting out any singles for now D: (due to LANDS & Akanishi Jin's upcoming Feb solo tour) & that goes for NEWS too
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Old 19th November 2009, 05:49 AM
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that's right
it's almost starting to sound like feathers would be a ~namie copyright~

I think it's a pretty thing tho it is seen around a lot

this beautiful idea was actually even used in MY STORY ~

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Although I will admit, I thought of the Namie picture first too.... the background is blue with a white shine coming from the background in the same way, a similar amount of feathers, and Ayu centered in the photo and shot at a similar angle. Sure, feathers on their own aren't new. Blue on its own isn't new. A centered photo isn't new. And a circular gradient coming from the center of the background isn't new. But put them all together, and yeah, it's easy to see why the ayu photo would bring Namie's photo to mind for so many people, even namie-non-fans such as myself.
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