haha, i love that picture, she looks so other-worldly.

anyway, i would love a PV that was like the Dubai version of Mirrorcle World! :yes basically, if she is going somewhere, i hope she will really use that location in her PV.

^^Is she wearing a mask or is it just the flash? LOL

she's definitely wearing a mask.

but that doesn't mean she is sick, she wears a mask like all the time it seems. ^^

^^Yeah

god i wish this lady would just hurry up and give us another hint or something. i'm soooooo tired of waiting! :dead2

Tired of waiting too! :P I was hoping that the news released today is regarding a new single or album. But it's the tour dates...

yeah, same here.

i know tour dates are probably really exciting to Japanese fans, but for me they really mean nothing. :(

^ This.

Hopefully this doesn't sound super creepy but you were in a dream I had last night O__O Your username anyway. Must have been dreaming of AHS lol

^^I know, I want album news!! UGH this is agonizing lol

oh I hope she comes to Israel... but I guess the chances are extremely low for that... :(

Here : http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/120...0506001-n2.htm
and... Here: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...ent&1327356087

Is it because she's showing herself in public that she's utterly covered ?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but a woman in Arabic country has to be covered in the street, right ?
I don't want to be offensive, i'm just wondering...

Those pictures were taken when she landed at Haneda. She's back from Dubai.

Doubtless she's covered head to toe because she's not too keen on facing the press right now. After all, this is the first face-to-face contact they've had with her since she announced her divorce. These are the first pictures they've been able to snap of her. She's a smart cookie, she knew that, and was prepared.

Ok, apologizes then :)

Like expected...she back from Dubai

There are a handful of us here in the Philippines!

news of her coming back from dubai to japan

http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/01/ham...g-her-divorce/

why she looks like criminal? covering her face using her channel bag lols~

She looks like Michael Jackson lol.

Glad that she's back. But already I'm still a bit down with Ayu...

photos from news sites

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/3...sakiayumi1.jpg http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3...sakiayumi2.jpg http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/4...sakiayumi3.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2...gnc1201240.jpg http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/382...gnc1201240.jpg http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/826...gnc1201240.jpg

ayu shld have been there for Don't look back PV -.- but not complaining! hope we have a great PV!

EDIT: if the PV turns out like NEXT LEVEL PV i will be kinda disappointed tbh.

She's all covered up! That's a pretty interesting look for ayu.

Honestly, when I first saw this title for this thread, I immediately pictured ayu dancing on a camel in the middle of the desert singing "I AM YOUR PARTY QUEEN!" in front of all the nomads or something like that.

who's this guy in the right?

^I think that person on the right is a woman.

I'm quite sure that's a guy. And he's probably someone from her staff. Dunno who. I find it hard to think he's an sequrity guy hence his clothes.

I think she's Natsuki Toyoda (so, a girl) , a really good friend of Ayu, I looked for quickly, I just found this photo :

http://i40.servimg.com/u/f40/11/00/6...h/39989010.jpg

http://www.1oven.com/natsuki/index.html

I thought natsuki yohena (the one opposite toyoda in Linza Mo's pic)

christ, they're vicious.

Can't leave her alone can they? -_-

^ just doing their job, but their job happens to be total crap and invasive.

i don't understand...why ayu hide her head with her bag..
i mean she is not doing criminal thing...
it's personal thing...

There are times she doesn't like people shooting her photos like all of us, it's very understandable.
She is probably sick or not in the mood. Maybe she just didn't like to take photos that day.
It's natural.

video from other thread

Omg that was a girl? Crazy! I was sooo sure it was a guy. Haha. xD Sorry Natsuki~

Oh, Ayu is really pretty on that picture btw. I miss that haircut too~ Crazy nice angle to her cheek bones too for that matter. She should pose like that in all her fashion shots. Really! Stop that fishy thingy and do this instead!

maybe she was just being tired of being confronted with the breakup news and stuff? poor ayu :(

LOL ayu bowed to them before leaving that she wouln't like badass haha bless her <3

no, it's not Natsuki!! :O

LOL.i'm 100000000 % confirm that the person is not natsuki! natsuki isn't that flat! :P

lmao yes, that is so true to her behaviour

natsuki yohena is that flat even in her other pics, just not natsuki toyoda

yeah Arabic women cover themselfs, but not everyone who visit Arab countries must do the same..
so its not the reason :shakehead

I hope she is fine ..
and i am so so disappointed cuz i heared that she was in Dubai and i didnt meet her
am soo lucky!:grumpy

As i said, i thought that, but i didn't want to offend anyone or being unrespectful at all.
And as someone else replied to me, she wasn't in Dubai at the moment when the photo was taken, so it's definitely not the reason why she's been all covered.

she was covered because she has just broken out the news of her divorce to everyone and she knew the media would be there for some fresh news to tear her apart, I am sure she didn't want to comment it to anyone else and was hoping to be unnoticed

hmm sorry just wanna ask is the PV filmed in Dubai Return Road?

^ I don't think so, I think it was filmed in UK.

then what is the PV filmed in Dubai? =x

Besides them announcing a PV was film somewhere in the Middle East, there are no other news. To me I thought Shake it is going to be the PV filmed there, but it doesn't seem like it XD

Shake It, NaNaNa and Return Road was made in London
hbya in Japan
so seems she didn't shoot anything in Dubai

I'm really excited to have an awesome new PV, since the most recent ones were a little disappointing. Not bad, just not on par with her normal material. Anyway, I'm glad she's already giving us new material; I'll never complain about that!

I was really disappointed for Return Road PV, from the preview, I thought it was going to be something epic like Virgin Road.

She did shoot something there, but we don't know what yet.
She clearly said in a tweet that she was filming a new PV/video/something else if I remember well (lazy to look for the exact tweet -.-).

I wonder if the PV was scrapped or something...or maybe its for an upcoming single?

My personal opinion is that this PV was filmed in prevision to an upcoming (summer) single.

A summer PV in Dubai feels like what TRF did once hahaha

And also where is the Hawaii stuff that Ayu with summer clothes and sunglasses and the hello duckie ?

What if it's for an upcoming summer single, and she has it all planned out already? That would ROCK lol

I don't think it was a PV...
And for hawaii trip,i think...photoshoot?

^^I thought "PV" was specifically stated...?

^really??Well...i hope a summer single then

I sure as hell hope so! lol

:))))

AWESOME news!!! hot hot hot summer single :D

new song already? o.o....wow.....i love her

If shes doing a PV now then this most likely will be her Summer release single like she use to do. Fairyland, Glitter, Blue Bird, ect. My guess is late June or July

This was bumped and was originally from like... January. She may have new material on the way though.

Yes! I hope for mid to late June ... I like when the summer singles are released kind of early, with lots of the summer left to enjoy :)

For those who were so convinced I was wrong about it being her friend Natsuki with her in Dubai. https://twitter.com/#!/Natsukikey She knows more than one person named Natsuki, just she had changed her twitter name and I couldn't find it in January. This Natsuki was with her in Dubai, LA in January and February 2011, Bali (when everyone thought she was running to Mannie) and with her everywhere when she's in Japan. It's the one she's been referring to as Naachan or Nacchan.

wut

And someone said she was too flat to be Natsuki Toyoda, but her blog confirmed that's who it is.

Come on, Ayu. This PV has to be for the summer single people keep on mentioning. Or an angsty ballad (like MOON, but with better covers)

Just stop dude.

maybe...just maybe...she will re-record "evolution" with her new vocal, and become the B-side in her upcoming single? just maybe~

^ that would be pretty cool...
but I like it the way it is...

I'm rather hoping for the original version of evolution to become a B-side to a new dubble a-side summer single. :smitten What a perfect promotion for Ayu herself to use the old classic evolution on a new single. Also good since yeah, Helter Skelter.

Omg yay! & I hope it wouldn't be a remake of evolution...I never cared for that song in the first place & I somehow think her new voice wouldn't sound so hot in evolution.

Putting the song "evolution" in her new single would definitely boost up her sales, maybe~ :)

"evolution" deserve 15th Anniversary version remake

^ if there's an option for "Like" / "Vote up" in the forum you'll get mine for sure! :yes

this!

I am not sure if it really would. After all people who just want evolution can easily download it literally anywhere. Don't forget that most likely only us fans are the ones buying physical singles now.

^ I think when the movie comes out the digital sales will go up.
But it would be cool if she did include something on the new single.
Evolution 2.0 or something

I also think that will likely happen though it depends how popular the movie becomes.

Couldn't this Dubai recording be just a movie to the tour? The concert is hotel themed, and Dubai has the most amazing hotels in the world...

That could be true, but that is an awful lot of money for a 1 minute concert vid.

^Well, it's not like she doesn't enjoy her working trips... She could go there, record some videos and enjoy all the money she made those years to entertain herself...

maybe...next time they'll just release a bunch of unreleased clips for her 15th anniversay and misc videos LOL...
ah..i need new ayu material >.<

There was nothing so grand about the hotel in the tour vids that would make me think it was shot in Dubai. In fact it primarily looked like they were shot on a soundstage to me.

I'm definitely wondering what on earth happened to this middle east PV or if it even exists.

15 years in the business! baby!
I think next year is going to be stellar and she is setting up for it.

Well, that was just a guess... :P

Maybe she was justing chilling out and used the video as an excuse! xD

please someone twitt her so we'll have the answers ;D

I can't believe namie is releasing more stuff than ayu, XD
Is she working in something ??
I mean she is on her tour, but is she recording or writting something ?

Im hoping for another album this year!

Maybe "how beautiful you are" was really filmed there, but they felt it would be too indulgent so they re-filmed it and added more meaning to it when she returned to japan. :P

Anyway, she is in fact writing/making (not sure if she's recorded yet...) more material, and she's doing it with Max Matsuura, which she hasn't done in a while.

The articles also seemed to specifically say she was doing a promotional video in the Middle East.

I thought everything she has done has been with Max Matsuura?

Apparentely not. She did twit that she made songs with him lately (and they didn't do it for a long time).

I wonder what she means, because of her stuff says produced by Max...