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The covers feel really fresh to me. I really like them in that sense.
Of course it's another beauty shot with no meaning at all but, it almost feels like backstage photos (the really grainy low quality like it's shot on an iPhone 6, the awkward and thoughtless composition, the way she seems half-way gesturing on the dvd/bluray ver.). I really like all that. It reminds me of early photoshoots of her. And I'd personally take something like this over glossy / high processed / over dramatic / pop diva clichés shoots anytime. The thing is, I'm also quite confident everything I've listed as regards Remember you's covers wasn't really planned to feel that way and those aspects are due to a lack of engagement in a lot of aspects. But in the end it works as it is for me. If it wasn't for the expensive jewellery, the grand dress and the presidential suite, it could pass as an indie cover art. And no soft colors, no naive close ups with awkward expressions against a plain wall for our own sake.
Just quite sad with the heavy edit on her face (especially chin-neck) which badly contrasts with the noisy, amateurish quality of the photo remaining unedited. And she doesn't need it, like objectively, AT ALL. At least the edit is less obvious than Nonfiction's horrid one. And it's only really blatant on the TA cover.
And the font... really, there is so much I can say, placement, the never ending use of half opacity, the font in itself, its size... Like everything's wrong haha.
As regards the final setlist I'm quite happy I think. Even if she made... choices. Why a remix? Why not as a bonus track? Why there? Hoping for 2 interludes (ray of truth and taskinson) and no more. But I'm not sure about VIBEES. I fear we'll have a Sunrise / Sunset moment with (NOT)/ Remember you and would have gladly done without it. Hope I'm wrong. Can't wait to hear the new songs and hope she will keep on impress me like she did this year music wise. I don't want classic safe sounds, we already have a couple of them from 2020 to 2021.
The photobook cover looks hot. Same issue with the poor edit though. But the 8cm single photo crop and graphic design has to be a joke... It's less strange as a A4 size.
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