Ayu keeps quiet...

Its horrible to think what goes through someones mind to be able to bash someone like this over whats happened over the past few releases. And bashing her voice. I would like to see the reporter sing for going on 15 years without a break and tell me how his/her voice sounds. But I recon You & Me is going to do well. Ayu doesn't need to be always #1 because she been around for a bit, with the ups and downs and recon shes more of a legend than some new artist releasing an album. But I recon downloading has taken the real tole on avex's sale marks.

but with all whats shes done, I dont think they should have a quick stab at ayu
http://i49.tinypic.com/30llxro.png

Nudity??? Was she ever nude before?? 😳

^ its subjective much like the comment about her voice.
I love the way she sings now.
I loved the way she sang back then.

Her voice is amazing.

Sorry. More like taking your clothes off, like in the Party Queen covers.

i'm not fond of her later looks in magazines and the editing they do, but one thing I've gotta say, i still adore her music, every song she releases is for my ears good to listen even if nothing very special. And i absolutelly love her voice right now, so glad she got rid of the fake overdone vibrato.
I think over the years she's been on stage she's got eneough money, avex as well, she's a living legend, Avex has a lot of artists under their wing that are selling well so... Even the bigest legends of the music world never had all their albums to be on #1 by sales numbers....i think this is totally normal when you are on stage more than a decade.
Plus sales dropped not only for Ayu they dropped in general in the whole music industry...

LOVEppears, I am..., RAINBOW, that beauty saloon CMs... :P

"I am the naked queeeeeen" :P

^

was about to post the same thing, plus,the naked talk in ViVi,Mirrorcle World :P

Her semi-nudity is always in good taste. I was a little on edge when I saw her "Party Queen" cover, which wasn't even nudity, but mostly I think it didn't look tasteful because of bad photography honestly.

trashy vs. classy

They class Loveppears cover as a nude shot, and her nude talk in vivi but nothing ever exposed, but for a females view, Party Queen might not seem to appealing but it might of been shot for her male fans

party queen was shot for the media!

someone posted to Ayu's twitter the pics of A Summer Best billboards

^ I saw them today at Shibuya

Both can be acceptable.

wow! you are already there. good to saw some promo for ASB :yes

The "bad photography" look was intentional to mirror the look of tabloid photos

^it was intended for the whole New York shoots to be in the LIFESTYLE BOOK. All the excuses made for them later were just that, excuses.

what would be the difference though, if they came out for PQ or for something else?

Nope, we don't know those photos original purpose. they were intended to look like terry richardson's tabloid celebrity photography. Ayu said when they were shown that they're suppose to be a commentary on celebrity tabloid culture.
http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-...magazine-2.jpg
http://cdn.theblemish.com/images/201...02-750x500.jpg
http://thebestfashionblog.com/wp-con...-6-600x900.jpg
http://www.iamfatterthanyou.com/blog...magazine-1.jpg
http://www.thephotographylink.com/wp...cfc4c172e.jpeg

Oh well we learnt an important lesson, AHS wants Ayu to do something interesting/different and when she does they cry and wish she had use the "intended" shoot which is just typical old Ayu.