I was just thinking that the other day. They are still nice, but are pretty lazy when you look at ones she's done in the past. Duty, I am..., RAINBOW, A BALLADS etc. I would love another Rainbow type cover. Not the same, but something that makes you go wow. Remix albums can have good covers. ayu-mi-x 4. Even a best 2 black and white had a concept. But now a days, its just like she uses magazine photo shoots

Photoshopped the hair away just for the fun of it.

http://i.imgur.com/FkHVxJP.jpg

Any purchase count thread yet? :)

One of my favorite Ayu release cover in years...? (So understated!)

After a few days of this release mulling around my mind, I've realized that about half of this record are poor choices for remixes. I really wished she would have chosen Story, Shape of love, Zutto..., and Walk, instead of choosing Sky high, NO FUTURE, and The GIFT.

I don't think it's going to ruin the experience, but I do think Story, Shape of love, Zutto..., and Walk would have been better received with classical arrangements--especially in the case of Sky high and The GIFT.

As much as I am not fond of the release, I think that avoiding the strings-driven ballads is a great choice cause they are somewhat classical-ish already, these other songs have more potential to sound even better in classical, feeling like new songs (You & Me from A CLASSICAL eg) than a ballad that got more layers of instruments bit other than that was slightly changed

So much better omg

I agree with this; that's the appeal of this release to me. I honestly have no idea how most of these songs will be adapted and I find that exciting. Even if they don't end up working 100%, at least I can appreciate taking a bit of a risk to breathe new life into these songs and present a less obvious remix album. Something like Zutto..., Walk or Anything for You would've been on par with Voyage, M or Days from A Classical--nice, but not surprising. Almost too predictable.

However, I would've been okay with Story (since I don't like it much and might like a classical version better) and Shape of love (since it's great and deserves another bonus treatment).

^ THIS, this is why i'm so looking forward to this release, only three weeks left already

Wouldn't hurt if the picture had something like this

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...sKaIEJxTHxKoAJ

That would be really awful actually. I still don't forgive Mika for that.

^^ eww, no, that thing on top of her face looks terrible.

The cover looks so lazy and tacky, like one of those alan singles no one cares about.

the cover just makes it seem like this release really means something, her expression is inspired. I know some people don't like the hair but I love it. The colors used on this are perfection, especially those lips!

only if it looks more real, not like paper snowflake laying on the photo
maybe painting on a face, or frost from Zutto PV

Everything's beautiful and nothing hurts.

the cover is amazing, too bad it's not for original album

I wouldn't like this either, sorry, the snowflake is really distracting, hiding so much of her beautiful face :no

I like the snowflake idea but this execution wasn't very good, it looks like a wordart effect :dead2 I'd rather have ayu's cover plain and simple the way it is tbh

:roflmao:roflmao that "snowflake" picture has fail written all over it. At the beginning I thought it was a giant spider webbing down her face.:laugh