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.]

@tokyoxjapanxfan: Excellent points!

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.

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!!

The promo image must've been inspired by Namie's ALL FOR YOU cover.

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.

Holy crap I just noticed xD

^ it's not exactly a unique theme... a blue backdrop with feathers.

Tinkerbell makes me think that You were... will probably be something like forgiveness. D:
oh no! hope not!

lol at people xD



omg... they changed the date :x I guess CDL this year might help sales too :)



thanks for the new thread!

These covers reminds MY STORY ones

Oh yes! The covers are so wintery and gorgeous!!!! :heart

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.


@ALPHY: Hah.

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~

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]

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!

IS SHE LAYING ON SNOW??? :thud:luv2:love

Omg it's so beautiful! And the release date... !

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

And let's not forget "WHATEVER."

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6...tever02.th.jpg

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.