[thatstacey]

I love the song "Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~" ("Sunset" was just sort of "meh" but I'm difficult to please when it comes to ballads). The arrangement was really sweet and summery--it's one of the few songs where I listen to the instrumental almost as much as the actual song. It also has one of the best shout-along choruses for concerts; I don't know why she doesn't perform it more.

...but I just can't with the covers. Although I hate her fish-lips, I think I'd take them over the kind of dopey look she has here. It's just creepy seeing someone who is usually so powerful and confident look that dead in the eyes. Aside from that, I think my main problem with the covers is that, while it was supposedly shot ~on location, everything looks like it was cobbled together in Photoshop--all of the elements look like they're from separate photographs; there's no interaction between her, the flowers, or the water; the flowers are blurred in such an unnatural way that it almost looks like the artist was making up for it being a different resolution than anything else on the cover. It makes me think of a PS draft made to sell the client on the composition, not the final product of a AAA pop star.

...but, yeah, "Sunrise" is a great summer song.