Sunrise / Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ information and covers [IV]
 

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Release date is August 12th, 2009.

Tracklist information


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Previews of the songs! / Full song leaks


Covers and performances and etc.


Links to previous threads:
New single Sunrise / Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ 08/12/09
Sunrise / Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ information summary [II]
Sunrise / Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ information summary [III]

Don't mind me. The other one is almost full, so.. post here when it reaches 500!

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CD-only

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CD+DVD

The new covers suck :( Honestly I wish Ayu would go back to making amazing covers.

Wow, already the 4th thread, and the single even hasn't been released yet :)

This thread should be retitled "Sunrise / Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ [IV] The End of Ayumi Hamasaki".

I'm just exaggerating cause I'm really shocked / a little sad.

the covers are OK, way better than next level. they kinda look fan made :shrug

her expression is kind of monkeyish on the cd+dvd. i'm hoping that's because the picture is so small. the cd only is better!

edit: i change my mind. they are both flat out horrible :scry

What the hell are those pictures?

i agreeee :laugh

When we'll get the HQ covers?

I'm listening to 時間よ止まれ by Eikichi Yazawa and I love how the covers feel! n_n

Why can't she just...SMILE? T___T Her face/expression looks so distorted in the CD only. CD+DVD has her usual fishmouth, and I don't mind that much.

I wanted a smiling Ayu in a colourful background. That would suit the songs much more.

Covers play a huge role for me in buying singles, and this is just so...D:

To be honest, I'm quite disappointed on the covers. The background looks really fake, and her expression looks weird. Plus the hair doesn't really match with the outfit (or vice versa).

And what does the cover do w/ sunrise and sunset?? :shakehead

if only they could re-shoot the covers...worst cover ever from her...
but then its that fella who shot this cover so was expecting the worst..
do she have contract wif the kazu(?) or what..mostly it has been him who shoots her covers,pv,etc....

and one thing they need to go bali just to shoot the cover...might as well they put a beach background:irked

I do not like the covers. Was this over her budget, perhaps?:no

:laugh people overreact a lot, but i think it's funny! if it was the end of her bc of a bad single cover it would have been the end of her during appears or kanariya :yes

she looks quite awkward in the covers. it makes me think of an inferior and non-urban glitter/fated. oh well, at least we still have the PVs to look forward to.

I think she looks hot.

And in the end, I think that's all that matters, hohoho.

To be honest, I wouldn't put hopes into the PVs. Just enjoy the new material and.. stop complaining about it, haha. It's not like she's not even on the cover, which happens to some artists, haha.

^She does look quite hot there. The thing is the cover doesn't have a theme at all. I can't really see how these two covers connect to the song title.

you can't be serious. appears was one of her most famous covers, and kanariya matched the theme of the song. This sunrise/sunset covers can't compared with those beautiful covers at all.

:laugh
Some people take the small details so seriously

I don't like the covers either, but the songs are the things I love about Ayu, not the level of photoshop, style, etc

lol @ beautiful. alrighty then. i disagree and sunrise/sunset covers are a lot better than those imo

Some of her covers are 'bad', I know I'm being a drama queen, but seriously this is the worst cover I have ever seen. Btw, appears is a great cover~ it's really famous too! And I forgive kanariya cause its a million years old.

totally agree!:yes
she looks so in shape that im jealous

My eyes starting tearing up because of how retching these monstroies are. If these are official... :pause: I feel so sorry for Dandy. They have to be associated with 'them'.

Yes I care about covers but to the point the person(s) look good. Can't say that about Ayu :weep

I love them =)

yeah lol i know. when i hate something i'm kind of a drama queen too. i was like that with the rule/sparkle covers

Stop listening to your testosterone! The truth is, I think her body looks really sexy and I was like "ooo" when I saw it but everything else is... well I've already said it in like 10 posts.

Funny thing is that the covers in the past generally don't relate to the song titles.. BLUE BIRD? Huh? INSPIRE? Wha? glitter? Huh?

Yeah.. haha.

I think people just try to make a ton of excuses to try and justify their hate for the covers.. to be completely honest, people who would say they would cancel their order because of some cover or something.. really aren't 'fans' in m eyes. Hahahaha. It's just a small part of the single, and the music is what should be in the spotlight, not some dinky covers or PVs.. and in the end, the music is all that should matter.

I WILL LISTEN TO MY TESTOSTERONE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. -raspberry-

You can just quote my name there next time TH. And FYI, INSPIRE was the starting point I felt ayu's covers going downward (actually... I felt a bit like that when Moments came out as well, cuz I was surprised to see her using flowers again. Not that I was picky, but I was used to see her giving fresh ideas so I was just a bit shocked to see the sunflower on her head... :P).



Yeah my last reply arguing with you (LOL). The beauty of appears and kanariya is that not only they're pretty, but also they visually provide the theme of the songs... (and actually, most of her older covers have abstracts to tell what the songs feel like). I can't see how those two new covers can make any connection to the songs.

is that her on the cover??? she looks so different :O she looks hot though :P

what a ***? what bad cover are sucks

yeah i just don't find them pretty at all. sorry if i offended you lol. but i agree, i think they could have done something much cooler with the covers (one with a sunrise, one with a sunset, it's not that hard!) so i'm disappointed about that, but the covers now are just fine with me. they aren't completely fug like some people are saying.

A COMPLETE cover - Ayu resembles Beyonce

Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ cover - Bad mix of Shakira and Mariah Carey, both with Japanese ancestors

^^You didn't offend me at all. We are just debating with our own opinions. I wasn't intend to convince you (or the others) to accept my thoughts, because I believe that people have different point of views. :P Sometimes arguments are fun as long as it doesn't turn into a quarrel :D.

Those are both pretty great covers so, I don't know what you're talking about. :shrug

I would think "wow what a hot body" too, if not for the fact that the picture makes her look so fake.

I would have prefered the covers to fit with the singles a little bit rather than the vague summer thing - these photos could have been from any old magazine photoshoot. Really what I would have done is have the CD cover as a photo of Ayu at sunrise and the CD&DVD at sunset or something. That would have been interesting.

Woaw. I'm... ah... disappointed?

I don't know the outfit and hair are the same as in that pic but there is something fake about these covers. They also are far too 'natural" for Ayumi. Plus as people have pointed out theres no "Love is All"

interesting! i had no idea people here liked those covers. i obviously disagree with a lot of the fans opinions here :P

yep! that's what i was saying. but it seems like the PV's will at least have something to do with the songs.. sunset in front of a sunset.. sounds pretty cool to me :cool

Have these covers been confirmed?

what the hell?!!! it looks like someone copy and pasted ayu's face on someone else's body...I hate the covers!

Do you think these aren't real or something? They came from TeamAyu after all.

Eh, so did glitter, but we eventually got over that, I think. It's a given with Kazuyoshi's photography that Ayu tends to look very inorganic in his photos [look from A BEST 2 / VOGUE NIPPON until now... it gets worse with every shoot!]

The thing about the covers that's hot IMO is that it LOOKS like it's not her body.. but it is... -lovey dovey face-

Hmm in this photo the feathers are in Ayu's hair not her hand as in the "covers".
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Calm down i didn't know they were from team Ayu sorry.
Well if they are real I can officially say it, never thought I would. Ayu has a bad cover. And they're not horrible just so not...her. And I'm mad Love is All is not on there.

Maybe it'll grown on me when larger images are released, as of now I'm still bleh about it. For going the 'NEXT LEVEL' poor Ayu isn't reaching for it with these, ^^;;

LOVE the song though! =)

Yea! Why isn't ~LOVE is ALL~ on the covers? >.>
Anyhow...I will wait to make proper judgment on the covers when there are HQ versions, because I can't really tell anything about them from the small pictures that are posted. By the way, thanks th for posting them. I am glad they are finally out though~

Ok, I looked them again and again.
They're not so bad.. but, they looks really cheap.
It seems a bikini catalogue photoshoot. :shrug

LOVE is ALL is there, it's just in very thin letters.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1...veisalllll.png

I can't believe those are the covers...what's the point of going to bali when the background is gonna be like that...I never expected shimomura to do a great job but I can't believe ayu approved the covers...like seriously?

lol fail again with covers! <3
Looks like a random tourist photo.

oh
my
god

Every single one of us could just grab their cellphone, put Ayumi on a REAL beach, make her smile and, just like that, shoot a cover pic that's one hundred times better than this.. this.. "travel to hawaii!"-pamphlet.

Atrocious.

(I'm a little bit disappointed right now, sorry. Might get better when high quality pics are released but this is just terrible)

Even if you didn't like NEXT LEVEL's covers at least the quality was a lot better.

And True, please don't listen to your testosterone this time. Strip yourself of your masculine desires and take a good look at it. That's what I did and then... ( :dead ) If you just not look at her boobs and stomach for a second!

DAMN those letters are small. These lack art. Ayumi has really made a horrendously bad cover. They're not gonna stop me from getting the single (thats ridiculous to not get them because of that) but man oh man I am dissapointed.

I wonder what the first press will be... better covers? ;) :D

o_o; Seriously? What's with all the hate on the covers? I can understand it's not "like Ayu" at all! But be thankful it's not like this!!
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2.../Kkanytime.jpg

She really needs to fire her photographer. Or give him to Namie! Or Hikaru (seriously, am I the only person who hates The One cover)!

She reminds me of Farrah Fawcett on the cover. XD Call me a drama queen but unless the PVs are kickass and Sunset is better than Fated I won't buy it.

^ I would rather Sunrise/Sunset have Koda Kumi on it than this. Or a kitten getting shot in the face, either one is better than what we have.

I'm not blaming the photographer I'm blaming Ayu. She makes all the decisions, her face isn't that bad but the colours are bland, the setting too ordinary, and a total lack of summer feeling. Wheres the dreamy dayglo visuals of fairyland or the brilliant colors of Blue Bird and glitter? They just look fake fabricated and over sexed.

oh god you should have put that in a spoiler :laugh NIGHTMARES!

I also can't believe that ayu approved the covers..

@HIKARU - Wow...Kuu looks really bad there. >.>
I am waiting on HQ covers. They don't look THAT bad right now, honestly. But I was expecting something more...fun, I guess?

Colors? Bland? The blues, greens, and reds stick out so much! I think some people are just being really really really really really really really overjudgemental on these, haha.

I'm also saying that thankfully Ayu didn't look like this. :P


:laugh Maybe I should of! XDD

She does... But I'm thankful that Sunrise/Sunset's covers AREN'T like that! :P

I do wonder why she keeps this terrible photographer around, but.. we'll never know!

I'm pretty sure that she's trying to be the best friend she can be for some reason.. blackmail? WHO KNOWSSS

Nothing compared to the colours of the covers I mentioned, nothing. I don't think they stick out at all. They're way to...pale so to speak, not rich or vivid at all.

Why? I think that looks quite nice. A lot better than the ridiculously bad covers for this single. Also the immense backlash to the covers is making me laugh so so hard.

People blame the director's and photographers but remember the largest responsibility is Ayus!

Take your sunglasses off then, haha. I hate when people put Ayu's older stuff on a pedestal like it's so amazing... when people actually complained just as much when those were released! HAHAHA.

I think she looks tired of what she's doing, haha.

Well "people" may have, but I always loved those covers they're breathtaking. And stop fooling yourself I don't mean to be rude but the colors really aren't that vivid. ;) :D Now granted these aren't hi-res but...

she indeed looks so hot n sexy. when was the last time she wear bikini on a asingle cover? Though it looks like glitter/fated cover (she poses in/on the pool), it's more cheerful than the previous. BUT BUT BUT. It really looks like some candid shots. Why does she has to look 'CONFUSED'???

LMAO!!!

I don't mean to compare covers but look at the blue water in glitter (specifically the body of water behind Ayu near the city. now thats vivid, rich, and lush.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...-yue/fated.jpg

Kuu in the anytime scans > Sunrise / Sunset ~ROVE is ARR~ Covers

Kuu went natural for those scans, the CD cover is nice. Although the CD+DVD Cover does make it look like she is a drug addict. Ayu's is just so tacky. So much potential at a beautiful location. But her and the photographer wasted that opportunity.

No problem. I'm not fooling myself. The blues/greens/reds look rather bright to me.. perhaps you're not looking at the same image? Haha.

To paraphrase from people back then:
"What the hell? Even the water looks photoshopped!"

I guess you have really really poor taste when it comes to colors, or something.. haha..

^Well i will give you that they are bright, over bright actually. :D brights different from vivid and rich. The thing is that usually I could look at Ayus covers for a bit and really marvel and their beauty but these are too bland for that.

I tot it was a joke initially...only to realize it is TRUE...

Yea, why did Ayu approve of this. =.=
Yes bikini but...so?...Ayu wants to continue the Wacoal thing?

I understand that a simple backdrop is used so that people will SEE AYU and it wont look so messy..but the backdrop looks really...fake this time

I dont understand why is Ayu looking so lost...like "HUh? you're taking a photo of me?" and "O you ARE taking a photo of me"

sunset better rock...coz im in love with sunrise....and i need a good PV so that I picture Ayu in something else while listning to it

^Because the PV isn't out yet? :laugh I like the covers! :) Note that this is better than most of her past covers (excluding MW). ^^

Because people love to complain? Haha. It happens every single with either the songs themselves, the PVs, or the covers.. or the promotion.

I'm really immune to it now since many people don't really seem to understand what looks good from a CD cover/design/whatever standpoint.. [but they think they do.]...

Not that these are fantastic, but they're not terrible. Overexaggeration is not your friend, children.

I'm sure I'll like these in due time, its just initial reactions. :D
And just for the record i never complain about Ayus PVs or covers I have loved everyone. I'm not complaining to complain, or whining i just honestly don't like them can we agree to disagree. :D

actually everything is fine unless she pose like she's happy or such...that's beter than that lost in bali face

YOUR JUST SAYING THAT CAUSE ALL YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS HER BOOBS. ( :yes )
Btw, I know no one cares, but I've never complained about anything Ayu has done to this extent other than this. I've never not liked a cover!

because that's all we have for now besides sunrise. once we get sunset and the PV's and some lives/magazine shoots we'll get loads more complaining :yes

Please, do not kid yourself.

And whoever did this needs to read this:
The staff knows who made the tags and when, so.. prepare for some punishment, yo.

I'm looking at her toned midsection, yo. But I occasionally glance at it as a whole and drool even more. It's fine though. I don't LOVE the covers, she just looks smoking.

What do you mean here? I don't know if your being sarcastic,but I don't think theres much arguing that those look rich, they're dreamy. i guess thats why people said they're photoshopped.

I have a hard time seeing how people can like these covers to be honest ^^;; Her hair looks fake, her tan looks fake, her body looks fake, the background looks fake...

I dunno, maybe I'm over judging, but they're REALLY awful. I mean, her face doesn't even look like her face on the CD+DVD cover. EVERYTHING looks fake. it's not exactly something I find appealing in a cover ^^;;.

Sigh, please stop. I actually have liked all her covers, especially recently (I'm actually usually saying the same things in the new covers thread as you are now!!) and don't like these, i tried to say we can agree to disagree, but i guess I'm just kidding myself. :thud

Maybe if i was straight I would like the covers a bit more since there's quite a bit of middrift! ;) :D

I've only been here for about a year but has there ever been such a backlash like this before?

I'm worry about how...well...non-ayu fans will respond. To me it looks like she's trying to be a sexy 30-year-old ganguro. They will compare her to Kuu, too!

Just about every time something new comes out, it's this bad, yo.

Nothing new here in terms of the complaining/backlash/fan-anger department. Satisfaction can only last so long before someone/some people/just about everyone freaks out over something that isn't to their liking.

But this isn't a very good way to start. :thud

Sigh...why can't Tohoshinki pose shirtless for one of their covers?

They may like it. its definitely going for the sex appeal. It isn't a ripoff of Kuu perse, just that it is going for sex appeal as Kuu does (though she doesn't always).

Are you sure?? Cause like it seems that the satisfaction rating is like -4324097%.

I'm tellin' ya! They don't look that bad! :P It could be worse.... It could be Ayu COMPLETELY white (as in the color white) and completely naked while splashing around in the water! XDDD

Well, in my eyes, it's like: Who really cares what anyone else thinks? It's just what you think that matters. Which is why I'm sort of just disregarding everyone's opinions as lame and totally overexaggerated at the moment, haha.

Well we who don't like it can ignore the positive feedback. ;) :D Like i said everyone can agree to disagree and be entitled to their own opinions.

i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the hi-res photos will shed more light and make them look richer. That would be awesome if the first press was holographic covers to make everything stand out more!

I'd rather her be pale then have this incredibly fake looking tan tbh =/...

I'm hoping they're better in HQ, and if they aren't, well, it's just the cover, not the end of the world.

I'd like to bring some positive comments to this thread by saying

I LOVE THESE COVERS!

The theme of this single is summer, and regardless of whether she looks good or not, they definitely fit that. So avex, ayu, and whoever designs the covers have accomplished their goal. Good for them!

I personally think she looks lovely... the only thing I don't like is the text, as usual. So hopefully when we get textless covers, I and some of the other shoopers around here can fix that. :)

The end.

Wow, these covers are great. Haha, didn't the Rule/Sparkle and Next Level covers made much more distress in the community?

I think Ayu looks hot, so different but still wow so hot.

True, very true. Like i said these aren't gonna stop me from getting the single. I listened to the previewes of Sunrise and i can already tell its gonna be a favorite of mine, so thats at least keeping me from being totally dissapointed with the covers.
I guess one wrong on my part is that i'm comparng them to her past summer single covers. these are ok on their own I guess. Just know she could do better.

But really, in your opinion, what's so good about it?