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Originally Posted by xiaou-xijiang
you took the words right out of my mouth. Isn't it supposed to be parody? even if the album doesn't have anything to do with covers of ayumi songs, doesn't really mean it isn't.
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Exactly, a parody cover doesn't necessarily need that the songs have also to be a parody. The person who produced the cover decided to use parody as a way to call attention of those who look at it. That's what happened in the Red Hot Chili Peppers case. C'mon, I doubt anybody would even be discussing about this artist if she had debutted with some regular album cover picture.
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Originally Posted by InoriNoUta
Well if she's going to try and carve her image out of mocking a more popular star, one would think she (or her management...) would have the intelligence to shape the songs off of it as well. Sort of like a gimmick. If she's serious about her own career, well--that's just silly.
These very-same feelings reflect onto the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album. Sure, both album covers are recognizable images, but to me it comes off as nothing more than a ploy to get attention by using a more popular artist's/bands' image. Pathetic.
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what's the problem of using image to call attention? That's what album covers should do. The album case is resting there at the store awaiting for a potential buyer to grab it. If the cover is plain it can go unnoticed. There's nothing pathetic about making a parody imo. parody is sort of an artistical resource specially if you use it well. The Beatles Sgt Pepper's album has got to be one of the most parodized (is that a word?) album covers (c'mon we have to agree The Beatles did have some AMAZING album covers). When you make a parody cover the content doesn't necessarily have to be a pasrody of the actual artists. That doesn't really demand intelligence at all in order to guess.