yea! NO EARLY LEAKS PLZ! i think it totally harmed sales big time!

Ayu is so cute! young and hip!

ROCKyesh! finally

I don't want the songs to leak fast...

but somewhere I hope it does leak *evil laugh*!
I can't wait! :yes

I don't think leaking was at all a problem.

is this LOVE? came out EXTREMELY early and STEP you was her highest single yet~ :\

woow in LA again..
i prefer long hair to short hair

Wow, she looks great. And LA! Really hard-working Ayu, can't wait for new songs. It's cool that she posts new info ;)

Gah, I love short hair on women so much x___x

She looks great :D

Thanks for posting~

that's no where near CAROLS imo XD

more like About you/walking proud/Humming 7/4 imo XP

thanks :) looks nice ...her hair that is
I thought it was in US before I read the text~ ^^ yay XD

why do they fly over the world just to record 2 songs? they must have recorsstudios in japan right or are L.A better? :)

Wow! Great she already recorded those 2 songs :D And she looks cute with that short hair~ Just like in walking proud. But I think she looks a little like a mom with that hair ^^

ayu's new hair really rocks!And im so happy that both songs are going to be cool and rock ~~cant wait!

Gotta love the new hair. <3

I'd like to ask her the same question... some studios have better equipment and sound systems and such than others, but since the arrangements and production is done in Japan, the difference in studio equipment/system quality would only apply to vocal track quality (clearer, sharper sound).

It could be they wanted a certain studio to do post production on the track rather then any japanese one they have in hand, but even if so, it would have been enough to send just the track itself (with vocals recorded in Japan) for mixing...

Seeing how she went to New York to record (miss)understood, I think they're doing all this just becouse they can (i.e. becouse they have the money), not becouse it has much of sagnificant effect on the work they do.

Which is a shame, becouse it's useless to spend money on going overseas for recording sessions if the song is not good. No high-tech studio or expensive traveling can save a bad song.

So let's hope it was worth it.

BTW, she looks absolutely georgeous in the first pic. LOVE IT! Her hair is not exactly A BEST/evolution era, becouse if you look at the second pic, where she's wearing the gray top, you can see the back side of the hair reach the shoulders - they're longer on the back than they were during A BEST/evolution.

The hair is very "evolution"

yeah early leaks might hurt sales. but what are you gonna do? there are always people out there that think leaking helps us fans but in fact it just harms the artist.

i love carols hair

nice!! i so can't wait for the new cool rock songs!

ugh, that short hair.

She looks really good in that first pic~!

I can't wait to hear the new songs. I think the songs leaking early last time only affected sales because they're not amazing songs. I love them, but they're not her best. The songs from }{ leaked 3-4 months before the single came out, and it still sold 1 million copies (though that is in part because of the different covers). Moral of the story, good songs sell better.

I'm looking forward to the new single.

Piracy is not as rampant in japan as it is in america and europe so leaks would not hurt her sales.


Cool rock ey? It better be on par with her better stuff cos that hair is just ..