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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
By the way... since My Story, the visuals of the tours are very tied with the visual concepts of the albums
My Story - Ayu like a doll in a place like a glamourous doll house
Tour - Ayu is a princess or something like that in every moment...
(miss)understood - Very vintage... the music, the pics, her looks on the pics
Tour - Very vintage too... remind me a lot of the 60s
Secret - Very simple, and very clean... yet, very glamurous... ayu is like a diva
Tour - It was her "cleanest" tour... It was very focused on the acting and dancing... ayu is a performace diva
Next Level - Tvs, colors, futuristic, eletronic
Tour - Screens, lights, video-game references, a lot of light effects
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now that u say it, i'm very amazed by this O.O honestly...i never saw (m)u as a vintage-styled album but I know the booklet and the rather pixelated cover portrayed
rawness and genuinity. These are cool observations.
GUILTY's tour...was probably more "mood" related rather than with the visual concept. but yea, i agree...it wasn't at all GUILTY's tour. GUILTY's tour felt like CDL0708.
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Originally Posted by noidea
yeah, album cover thread xD
Im sure theres meaning behind all of them more(Secret, MY STORY, Next Level) and less( maybe (miss)understood) but they all do have meaning.
I think ill start with NEXT LEVEL because we just had that one in another thread.
So...what do we see on the covers?
-5 televisions of different age, from old to new
-ayu with colorful clothes and curly hair
-colors
I think the first point is by far the most important, like you said in another thread tv=mainstream, i think ayu(and the album) might be the continuation of the line old tv->newer television...->lcd television->AYU, saying that she takes entertainment/mainstream entertainment to a higher, better level, or she wants to be better than mainstream overall
Theres another thing about the TVs, if you look at her tv shedule, youll notice that her first tv appereance in 2009 was music station 27.03.2009(with rule), however, her single Rule/Sparkle was released on the 25th of February, thats very late to promote it, in the end of 2008, when ayu fell down the stairs on the 25th of december, she had to cancel her performance of Days at music station, thats almost exactly 3 months, weird amount of time, dont you think? its said that she was banned from music station(and maybe other tv shows) because she didnt apologize properly. So she might say: I dont care about television! I dont need it, i am better than television.
Well, I think i just got my answer xD I didnt notice before how good both ideas, the tv ages and her possible ban, fit together, but they both express the same to me.
the reason for the colors is simply the musical theme of the album and the lyrics i think
Well, basically what i wrote in the other thread xD
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Love ya interpretation. I never saw those 5 TVs from different era before. I think thats a cool portrayal of evolution of media. and how apt that she chose to use it as the USB cover.
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as for my own interpretations, I feel like MY STORY has a more girlish and personal concept (accompanied by the pink - which I felt was the colour of MY STORY)
i mentioned about (m)u above .. that it felt raw and genuine from the visual aspect. And the music showcases a whole lot of genres. I think the colour was Red for this album.
Secret was more toned down in the music aspect. There wasn't much variety. And yea, i agree that the visual aspect was very glamorous. Gold.
GUILTY was more dark brown for me (hehe sorry, but i like to have a certain colour for certain songs and albums). GUILTY seemed like an upgraded version of Duty. Leopard prints. Just that now, Ayu has stepped out into the open wheres in Duty, she had just only started to peek out from the cage.
NEXT LEVEL to me, is really a rainbow in music form. It's very bright (barely any dark song...except maybe Sparkle at the most...and even Sparkle has that slight magic). And for this, I'll go with all of your explanations hahha.