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OMG! That so reminds me of WEST EAST magazine!

That tattooed A looks like the A that her and "Tomoya" had together! :P

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<3

I think my dream came true! :o

gosh..i just went there and there were no updats...NOW!...that is freakin' cool dude...

NICE new A

Black & White cover?

The secret unicorn of exploding hotness! :00

I can't wait! She better not have some bald haircut to ruin it all. XD

She obviously still has her hair.. well according to my photoshop test xD

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...emacy/x212.jpg

That's good. x3 It almost looked like Bold & Delicious hair to me. XD

Also this cover will probably in colour..I hope. =p

The album theme looks so friggin awesome! I CAN'T TAKE THE ANTICIPATION ANYMORE!

Personally I want the album cover in black & white.

The B&W reminds me of NANA's THE END.

Not too fond of the unicorn tatoo or A, but FINALLY!!! O_O

I like the A! The unicorn though...:irked

i got goosebumps when looking at the pic... not what i expect.. OMG.. so excited...
and the Secret "A" logo is kinda cool :D!!!

Wow!
It's cool!
What's an Elegant & ROCK cover.
Really got a Secret feel.
And the tattoo is great!

The unicorn is neat.

To compare here's the WestEast from 2002:
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yes i agree~ very rock-ish style!

i love it

thanks for the info :)

Just noticed, again with the diamond jewelry :P

This album is gonna be SOO classy... unlike (m)u :D

I wonder if she's wearing a my name's WOMEN sleeveless dress.. :O

i'm not a big fan of that tattoo either, it just looks sorta dumb to me and the A is too fancy for me i prefer the other A's they are simple yet unique. However the colors i find pretty good, we can only hope it turns out good.

hmmn... doesn't look like it..
i'm just so excited now... :eyebrow

I hope there are lots of rock songs!

The unicorn isn't that bad, you guys. This will make for hot tour goods later on! :)

OMG FRICKIN AWESOME. I. CANT. WAIT.

The ayu anticipation is going up again! :bshake I love the dark concept.

unicorn usually refers to innocent... i wonder how it relates to Secret... :P

I wonder what people might negatively say.. LOL

"Tattoo is bleh."

"Eh. I want it in color."

"Why is there no hot background?"


I think she used a pegasus.. since this 'unicorn' has wings.. :O

Relax, there's not even a cover yet!

hotness...
I find the unicorn very complementing to the cover~

Well, some people just had a description of 1LOVE a month ahead of time, and they were all: "OMG AYU STRIPPIN!?!?@!@!"

does pegasus have a horn on its head as well..?:headache

oh well i dun care about what kinda animal it is... it just looks good on ayu's arm.. :D

Edit... I read wiki. it said pegasus was a "winged" horse... oh well so confusing now.. LOL

however, I hope they change the font on the actual cover...

Yeah finally!!! the whole cover must follow soon, I'm sure!!!!

Sometimes Pegasus have horns.

For example: Sailor Moon SuperS. XD
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3...pegasuslp2.jpg

The font is probably different..

HOPEFULLY. If there even is font on the cover..

wow!! ayu has a tattoo!!! :D thats interesting... and i like the A symbol!! *excited*

will it be a dark album? as in the theme is similar to something like About You? Since.. well the only picture we got about Secret is black and white and ayu even has a tattoo!

Another side of Ayu this time?

1. Innocent Bug-eyed Teen
2. Topless Diva
3. Kinky Kitty
4. Sad Mysterious Woman
5. Eve
6. Rainbow Goddess
7. "LEZ DO IT!"
8. Golden Nail Artist
9. Sexy Sleepover Woman
10. Rich Spoilt Lady
11. ...sexy, tattooed, vampiric stripper?!

Stripper? I don't think so.

I do wonder what sort of 'look' she has..

I don't know what to say. So far, I don't really like the design, but I'll refrain from giving comments until the real cover art is announced.

But I'd like a really raw, rough, tough, dark and sexy image. Ayu hasn't pulled that off yet.

She's done that in magazines, but not in CD-covers.. :<

I think a 'dark album' would fit the popteen photos, wouldn't it? i expect something like the popteen pics for the cover/booklet, in black and white and a little red

O_O

this is coolllllll!!! love it!

I love the image :D I wouldn't worry about it being too dark, some parts are probably dark so as not to reveal the whole shot, leave some surprise. I'm looking forward to seeing the cover now - will be really happy with the poster if it's anything like this :yes

Come to think of it, Kuu's new album is also quite dark yet classy. But the too are very different.

(right now I prefer Kuu's :P)

But of course, this is only half a picture...

Popteen photos aren't exactly dark..

The VOGUE from two years ago is more of a dark photoshoot..
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Oh yes.

I would rather to see a dark, stylish cover... avex can leave the sexy to kuu :P

I have been thinking about RAINBOW covers since the start.. Never expect it would be that darkish. It makes my interest increases all of the sudden.

Plus maybe the CD might have lots of experimental awesomeness with sucha cover. Although the colours doesn't suit BLUE BIRD, Beautiful Fighters, Startin', or BTB, not even a bit. D:

I don't like the tattoo and the "A" symbol.....
i hope it's just painted on her for this photoshoot..
but i want to see the full cover soon ..
only 3 weeks left till it should be in stores...
i think now i'm going to pre-order it somewhere...
let's see ^^

I WANT THAT FOR SECRET :luv2

Funny how many people were expecting a very poppish album this year from the singles....

well, i think it suits startin' very well, but beautiful fighters and born to be and blue bird (all the 'b' songs :P) really not a bit

Honestly, I don't think Ayu is one to make an album all-of-one-genre just because of the singles..

I wonder what the BLUE BIRD 3rd A-side was.. I hope it is revealed soon! :)
The Ayu A might be scarily fancy this year.. O_O

somehow i got a feeling that ayu can put a really mysterious song after BLUE BIRD..

now my mind's flying all over the place..

Of course it's just painted on her for this album. I dun think ayu would put such a big real tattoo on her arm. If so, she has to give up lots of other possible styles/fashion later on :P

I think that the entire album will be this HUGE surprise to everyone since .. yeah..

It's really hard to tell where she'll be going with this album..

i hope the new songs ARE rather poppish because i think to rockish songs won't suit the singley, won't they?

Wasn't the third A-side supposed to be JEWEL or 1LOVE?

I personally can't wait for the 3 new videos, NONE OF THEM HAS AIRED YET! :bshake They will soon, all three of them I hope. They cant avoid airplay for long.

Sexy. I like

I know... with only five songs revealed so far, we can't really tell what the remainings are (not even 1LOVE, since we've only heard 15 seconds of it).
I bet the unicorn/pegasus will attract more buyers this time (... instead of the horrible smile on (m)u cd only cover..)

I don't think so..

I think they'll say which was supposed to be the 3rd a-side when they interview Ayu about each song and stuff..

I'm sure the third A-side is one of the 3 new videofied songs, since it must be good enough for airplay, promotion, and a video treatment if it was considered as an A-side.

let's say she was supposed to release a 3rd single --> JEWEL/1LOVE. That means one of them should be the 3rd A-side on the 2nd single. Unless... the third unknown song on the original mini was the 3rd A-side... but that sounds quite unconvincing..

If she released BLUE BIRD/ BEAUTIFUL FIGHTERS/ JEWEL as a 3A-side, it would have been very successful I think. Maybe 350 to 400k with proper promotion. JEWEL has so much potential. D:

wasn't the third a side something like 'dear fine' ? or was this rumour allready denied?

and what if 'secret' wasn't planned as a mini album at all? i think they wanted to release as the full from the beginning but made it a mini album first only to make more people buy it because of the 'big surprise' that it is a full album

I have a feeling that the photo book is going to be good

That was a supposed theory, but I still don't think that as true.. :|

And IYFreak probably means the booklet with the CD, not a photobook.

So no one ask "What? Secret has a photobook?!". :)

Wow :O
I love it ^_____^
I would have preferred to see a different body art though =/ Not keen on the idea there, but oh well.

wait but if you look closely is that a guy's next in the picture?

WOW!!! this is amazing

i think its really COOL!!!
who think that she will use tattoo for her cover art
we are really want something different from her..keep complaining about everything she do...

what do you mean? isn't it her arm at all? maybe it is tomoyas :yes

I wanted black and white! WOOHOO! Hope the cover looks like that! It's freaking awesome.

Are you gonna change your mini banner, Leena? :3

Love it definitely.This must have some thing connected to the album cover and I know it willl be great

Sure will! But I'm going to school soon... Maybe tonight! :yes

THAT'S PROMISING. XD

ooh ooh! a pegasus/unicorn/horse!

looks promising!

Oh.......Another surprise from ayu!
Great look, but hope this will be some booklet pic instead of the cover!
Coz u know, last year, the first pic that the HP showed was actually the two scary covers.
But this type of secret shot should be something like fairyland or STEP you at the beginning, which is not the actual cover!

I don't think so .If Ayu could make herself gone wild and super sexy like Koda Kumi then the sales will increas like crazy but I don't like so BLUE BIRD itself is such a great single to me after all

I love the unicorn pic. :) Looks like it might be a good photo shoot.

I think it would be best to not compare.. :|

:no

OMG !
I LOVE This pics ! I'm very surprised ! O_o

I guess some of the Kuu fans are going to "bash" the cover for being as black and classy as Black Cherry...though I hope not...

That really should be left to the Koda Kumi thread if it were to happen.

But the users here are smart enough not to do that. :3

I like it :yes

I actually don't like it that much ... It looks weird to me.

WOW, great news, I can't wait!

Is it the tattoo that's turning you off? :o

THe website is so hot I love it!!

This looks way really cool and modern. i wouldnt compare it to Black Cherry cause those look kinda vintage. I really like the way they're promoting this album to fit the name of it by showing us a little bit at a time and not too much.

its hot way to go AYU!!! forget dem haters ur trendsetting again AYU is BACK!!!

I so like the idea behind this photoshot! ^^ But the pegasus-tattoo could have been slightly better... Less "girlish"(?) looking maybe.
I hope the overall photoshot will stay black and white - with maybe a little colour here and there. I LOVE the combination of black and white with colour. :heart

Thanks for the news! ^^

The "A" is the "A" single "A", right? It would be cool if they also used the "H" and "&" single signs in this photoshot. ^^

I really like the shot. I hope the cover is similar to this!

New layout for teamayu too.
It's mysterious... goood, though i'm not a huge fan of tattoos, but unicorns are nice

That's hot, and I love that the old "A" has returned (well, sorta0.

colors and style look like Nothing from Nothing^^

^haha i dont know that if you dont say it...

That was so totally my first thought :yes

Wow, looks awesome!! Thanks for the news :D

Wow, for a minute I thought it was picture from that West East mag o_o

The picture gives me a bit of an Endless sorrow vibe, for how the cover will end up looking.

This will be so awesome.