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For MY STORY, the backdrop of the album scan in her in that corset dress (her look on the covers) is extremely similar to like a house... it's like she's opening up. In the Light & Shadow interview in 2004, she has revealed her hometown etc... so I think it's her way to show that she's opening up to people...

And in the booklet scans, we see many faces of Ayu... emo and deep in thought... rocker... typical girly girl with tea and handphone... and bathing... and like having some weird pillow fight which resulted in feather rain... I mean, duh which normal person doesn't do most of these things?

It's kind of like her life... I mean, MY STORY is my favorite album; the title is so good in the first place... it's like the whole album - songs, lyrics, booklet, cover... it's like a mirror of life imo.

And well for Secret... the only thing I really noticed was that the cover and booklet were all very glamorous... like you know she's appearing to be so glam and high, but there's a "Secret" that she's hiding - whatever it is, we wouldn't know - no one would.

And I think people have mentioned that GUILTY's cover is very reminiscent of Duty, with the desert backdrop and all. But... it really appears to be the most shallow of all her album covers imo.

Nice interpretation of NEXT LEVEL btw; it was really cool!

And oh oh (miss)understood! Um well the fact that she engaged Peach Mama John or whatever her name is - an amateur photographer (okay not like Kazuyoshi Shimomura is any better...) to take the photos of (miss)understood... I think it's really showing that she may be the Queen of J-Pop, but she still has her friends; or rather, she doesn't need all that glam and professional people to make her "good"... she just wants her friends.

It's like "I am ayumi hamasaki but I am a girl/woman/human too." Very similar to Secret, but whatever, she's not a philosopher anyways.