...but, doesn't ayu have the final say for the covers she uses? I mean, if she thought the covers were "horrendous" I think she would have axed them. She chose to use them, so it's not her design team that has bad taste, necessarily. Her covers represent what she chooses to show to the public, it's not like someone's forcing her to choose which covers.

Yeah Ayu has bad taste.

Sometimes. :laugh

I still can´t find a reasonable explanation for S/S covers mystery....didn´t ANYONE notice they were HORRIBLE???

Well, it could've gone like this:
a) Ayu approved initial designs and that was the last meeting for that due to no time for approval for some reason or another (???)
b) somewhere along the line, retouching went crazy
c) final product was released
d) Ayu was furious

That's the only way I see it "making sense" since I don't know if Ayu would approve the covers when her... head... looked like that...?

Actually on the dimensions thing, I think they will now post her CD+DVD covers with square dimensions... when the MOON / blossom CD+DVD cover came out on the site, it was a square and I thought it was weird, but when people received their copies it was still in the rectangular case, so I guess crossroad CD+DVD will also be in that type of jewel case :)

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Wow, Akira Noda finally got a blog and posted about arriving in an overseas location. *with Ayu, haha.

If he's there then she's definitely doing something big there. (He's her costume designer.) The baggage claim appears to be at LAX. (Los Angeles International Airport)

**His luggage states that they arrived in LAX. They are in Los Angeles.

^so this means covers or a PV for L are going to be shoot there, right? <3

Uh hope they do the new calendar or an awesome pv. : D

She said for sure a PV... and it's pretty much guaranteed that they're gonna milk this trip and do photoshoots too.

I'm scared that Luis Hernandez is doing the PV though since it's L.A. a la NEXT LEVEL and Curtain call though.

Someone is saying at twitter that she's at beverly hills.

Ayu replied someone asking for shooting a PV..saying something like it's a yes~
so guess that it's a PV~

@truehappiness Well i guess we'll see what happens. Also, location doesn't necessarily say anything about the video even if one or two shot in a previous location werent that great.

Also, those guys deserved to get fired by Ayu. If I was a popular singer and somebody made me look that bad I'd fire them too. However, I'd fire them BEFORE the CD and promo images got out to the public. Still glad she took care of that one. U know, u watch the making-of clips of her PVs and during interludes between filming each scene u see her walk over and be looking at the camera as they play back what they just recorded. Isn't this also what Ayu gets to do with the photographer when they're taking pictures of her for covers, magazines etc?

^
yes she does..
but weird though, why sometimes she would just choose some photos that the majority of the people will dislike~
Maybe her point of views are sometimes different from us~

Maybe she doesn't wear her glasses when the photographer showed her the CD pics :innocent

Well, we don't know what was going through her mind at that time of choosing the s/s covers. She could have liked them or she could have just been like "eh whatever I guess that'll do can I go to bed now I'm tired". If you guys are so curious maybe you can ask/spam her on twitter about it. Personally I don't think it's that important.

^I dont think we should. We might make her unhappy or sad if we start saying she looked unpleasant or ugly in pictures, and we don't need to be doing that to our poor Ayu. Shes right now working really hard on preparing the new singles for us and her 50th celebration.

Maybe for photoshoots of magazines or covers, she doesn't mind much? where it seems she is more interested in filming a PV..

I want a desert PV XD

^u mean kinda like some scenes from INSPIRE?

^ not really, I just want Ayu in jeans and t-shirt, crossing the desert and rolling in the sand and endlessly walking trying to find her way out XD