MY STORY Album Cover

[tsuki]

Originally Posted by Takke

LOL svensk med invandrarbakgrund (kines) =P

*avis* vill också vara från annat land...

OT I know, sorry.

[alterego]

It's allright, I guess. Not what I expected. I'm not too fond of it, but it's allright.

[Ibitsu Kokoro]

Originally Posted by ~K+

Hey guys, remember the stupid (stupid?) mohawk picture from RAINBOW released which people thought was the cover at first, but wasn't.

Anyone want to cross their fingers for a better surprise cover?

Mohawk was better than this buddy. I agree with all of you who said it isn't artistic, because it's not. Ayu covers should be artistic like they've always been.

[boogieordie]

Originally Posted by //hikari

"This CD won't be good .. so I'm going to look trashy and easy on my cover to sell more of it"

XD just kidding

Actually, I think you hit the nail on the head.

[Qt Mashi]

Originally Posted by ~K+

I'm afraid the people at the CD store is going to give me funny looks when I go pay for this...

lol ~ i relli like the cover now im getting used it
and come to think of it if i carry that album around school to show my friends, they'll think im a lesbian

[extepan]

Originally Posted by Qt Mashi

lol ~ i relli like the cover now im getting used it
and come to think of it if i carry that album around school to show my friends, they'll think im a lesbian

and people will think i bought a porn vcd

[Yarumi]

whats wrong with being a lesbian? Some people take offense to that



Anyways, these are artistic... You just gotta look into it... sure she looks a little more risqee' than usual but it's not just some trash she threw out there... c'mon... if she was going to do that she would have saved time and money and used something she's already shot

[gakkun]

What's wrong with the colour of the lipstick?????? All of you know that Ayu is the leader in fashion and maybe pink is the 'in' colour for this season (just look at her recent photo shoots). PLUS, it's more appealing to girls, who are ayu's main target listeners. I can think of at least 10 things ayu could've done to look ****ty, for example having guys on her bed (who would've thought of that ) or pose nude like in RAINBOW.

About the key, I don't think it was a key to her diary...if you look at the regular pressing cover, the key actually points to her chest, presumably pointing to her heart. So I took it meant that this is a personal album and it's a key to ayu's heart. It sounds a bit cheesy but that's what I think it means. =p

[lolo66]

oh c'mon... even though I say the covers are plain to ugly... they're noway noway near anything I will say ****ty... you ppl *sigh

[enoise]

I am not used to seeing Ayumi in pink...like her makeup before...

[boogieordie]

Originally Posted by lolo66

oh c'mon... even though I say the covers are plain to ugly... they're noway noway near anything I will say ****ty... you ppl *sigh

Sorry that people have different opinions than you.


Lipstick - Her lips are glowing, it's scary.

[extepan]

ayu in these far too bright lipstick is just really scary indeed. if she used a lighter colour it would have looked much better

[lolo66]

Originally Posted by Takke

Amen to that, I agree. It's almost always like this. Half year before the release everyone is excited and loves ayu.
Suddenly when the day comes ppl are turning there back, ppl expect to much. I mean come on? Can you do a better cover? I dont think so, you "maybe" are looking better than Ayu? Nah!

If you dislike it, dont make a big thing of it or you wont buy it because of the cover. That is the most worthless reason not to buy it. You buy her cd's because of her songs and her music not because of her outside? If you guys dislike it so much why dont you try to make a good cover that at least everyone here in AHS will like it...pls try it! If you like to complain do it on the newspaper and send some insiders or something.

LOL and ppl are claiming that ayu sell sex with her covers? LOL that wouldnt suprise me, because she can have sex whenever she wants because of her look. But have some of you have sex? *cough cough*

I buy her cd's because the main reason is the music and her looking is a +

uh personally i have never say it selled sex, heck no no way, these do not sell sex... and I did not say I won't buy the album because of bad covers, Hell I bought Hikki's Exodus. And boy! That looked even worse.

What I and some other did is voice our opinions on the cover art and the cover art alone. I, as an design junkie, am very sensitive and crtical to details such a cover art. And in my own (and I can only speak for myself) that I grade these very low, on execution, creativity/design, aesthetics, and such.

I will say that the upper right corner one (the one you can see her entire body) is only OK one. The rest I will die by my opinion. SUCKed.

This is in NO way an attack on ayu or any of her songs in the album, cause guess what???? She's not the one who did design work for the cover !! Oh no! yeah it meants even we're being ment to the covers, it doesn't mean we're being mean to Ayu.

So what if it was?! We can be critical of our fav artists and still love them right?!

ANd do you really think anyone on this forum has the power, skill, money, contact, etc to alter the covers and at this stage? Get real.

Ponder that, my friend.

[Echiko]

Makes me kinda sad with a few of her covers...when some people I know saw... said she looked ****ty. T__T; And i go "She is NOT ****ty..well...her album covers kinda looks that way..but still..er...she isn't.." I was going to show them her new album cover but obviously, these covers do NOT probe my point that she is not ****ty. xP;

The cover..sadly to say...Isn't as nice as I hoped it to be. ^_^ It's a beautiful piccie of ayu! Besides the lipstick...But I was hoping for my "style". If not "style" then simplicity like"Memorial Address". But I guess can't be helped. And the piccie doesn't really suit the name "My Story"...*shrugs*

[DarkAyumi]

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...

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.

[XFER]

I am disappointed with the cover. After the cover of CAROLS, I was expecting something really good... maybe next time