Pet peeves for CD covers
 

So what are some things that bother you about an artists' cover if they put it on there?

For me, it's when they put the CD number on the cover itself. melody. did this with her first few singles and Leah Dizon did this on her Communication!!! album! It's so annoying and ugly to see on the cover itself.

I never noticed the CD number thing until you pointed it out. XP But oh my gosh, that is ugly. :no

I guess what bothers me most is if you make something tacky or unprofessional looking. And this is almost always done by taking a crappy looking font or overly in your face colours. Prime examples would be things like Utada's This Is The One or Kumi's Gossip Candy. :innocent I mean, in Utada's case, they were probably going for something simple and all, but it just made it look amateaurish. And Kumi's cover was probably to be all fun and hot and summery, but it only turned out cheap...

Other than that, I can deal with just about anything...unless it's obviously just ugly or something, of course, hah (like Ayu's STEP you/is this LOVE? cover :weep). Even things like bad makeup or over Photoshopping don't have to always ruin a cover, in my opinion. I try to take everything as a whole, so if an artist breaks out a cover in some super-ugly ass outfit, but everything else is okay, I'll probably let it slide. :P

Oh god, unreadable text. >_< If you can't figure out a way to put text on the CD cover photo, don't put any on there at all. If there's a very obvious place to put the text so it'll be readable, don't put it anywhere else.

Bad typography is just... UGH I can't stand it O___O

When text takes too much of a place. And when font is ugly as hell.


When photo is so terrible that anyone can't stare at it:

I hate if the font is bad, or there's obviously a really bad photoshop job going on. Good examples of bad photoshop jobs that bug me are those newest alan covers and ayu's S/S and CAROLS covers. Also I hate if the artist is not on the cover and it's just a random picture of something. I hate that SO much.

Ugly childish gimmicks....such as speech bubbles...*cough*BoA*cough* :trolleyes

This. :lech ...i guess UTADA does it often. XD

bad cover. bad font. makes me not want to look at it >_<

OMG I hate this to! Like for GReeeeN or abingdon boys school. It's literally just a bunch of pictures and random images. It's sooooo ugly!

when the artist looks bad. like they weren't looking when the picture was taken, or they're stoned, or just had a bad day.

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...cc86281hv3.jpg

bad+unflattering poses/facial expressions - Ayu's m(u) monkey smile is a good example.

horrible outfits/hair styles - Kuu's COME WITH ME looks so trashy based on the outfit alone. i hate it so much.

ugly font, too large of font, and like identity said when artists aren't even on the single cover.

Wow, that is... absolutely horrible x_x

I don't mind when artists aren't on the cover of releases. I dunno, I'd rather not see a band on the cover, or if a singer does it, I don't care as long as whatever is on there is nice.

Sounds like you were describing this atrocity....

http://pandabutter.files.wordpress.c...ty-album-3.jpg

bleh. I don't care 'bout the fonts, texts, or anything else as long as the artists' faces are good... :D

like Ayu's fairyland cover, yeah, I hate those fonts but Ayu's face is just simply gorgeous there... :yes

Oh god, the font. x____x

If it's either small or too damn big. and if the text is unreadable.

I'm not so concerned when comes to font , it really depends what type of font's being used

but over the top photoshop , YES IT IS ANNOYING >_>

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...DVDTypeB-1.jpg

:no :no :no :no

DAIGO always suffered the blunt on this , I don't know why ZAIN RECORDS love to overphotoshop him like crap as compared to the other 2

it's probably payback for DAIGO cos he's always doing 'stuff' to the other 2 kids 8D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...CDDVDTypeA.jpg

something like this's nice I feel . I like the way Gekijou's spelt/written & DAIGO thankfully doesn't get overphotoshopped like crap

bad fonts you say?

I don't like unproffesional looking covers... I usually like simple covers, not too much photoshop and a nice font, anything else = wrong usually :(

I don't really go for bad fonts, amateurish covers or over the top covers.

But what I really dislike the most is when (mostly in the case of bands) the artists just stand there. I don't HAVE to see the artist on every cover. I know what they look like. I'd rather have an artistic cover than having the artist stand in a random boring pose.

first thing i think of with your post is JASMINE.