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Originally Posted by Yarumi
wow, 7 pages of heated discussion... I'm glad someone firgured out the key/diary/my story symbolism... but have you figured out the pose... It's vunerable (in a sexy way) Vunerability about having someone look into your diary/life... plus Ayu has been noted at cute and innocent for so long... ALOT of artists hate that image as they get older... Ayu could be doing ALOT more crazy things to try and get people to see she's not a little girl anymore...
I think the cover is inciteful and artistic... Ayu isn't looking her best in my opinion... that could have been done better, but maybe everything ayu sees means something to her... and you don't always want your fans to know everything you silently put into you creations... somethings are for only you to know...
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Nice point, I definitely agree with you. I think there's a lot of symbolism in the cover that we didn't really notice when we first saw it. She does look a little vunerable, but she also looks really dolled up. I mean, initially I was upset because of all the make up and stuff. It could always be on purpose, though. She sort of looks like she's working hard to look sexy and impress on the cover, which may reflect her own attempts in her career. It's not the real Ayu - she looks kind of tired of it I think on the cover. I don't know, to me it just looks like the cover is her way of commenting on the pressures she constantly has on her to be/look a certain way. Besides, that's just the cover. On the inside of the CD booklet (once we've opened her diary ^-^) there could always be a picture of her with no make-up on, or something else that kind of shows the symbolism too. I mean, it's Her Story, and we can't judge a book by it's cover!
Ha Ha, or maybe I'm just rambling on and sounding stupid, you never know! I think there's some room for intrepretation on this cover. Besides, I never really understood people who talk about how something has no meaning and it's just a picture or someone trying to look a certain way. It's all subjective and means different things for different people. Sorry for going on, but I think this stuff is kinda cool.
