Sunrise / Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ information and covers [IV]

[truehappiness]

Well we who don't like it can ignore the positive feedback. Like i said everyone can agree to disagree and be entitled to their own opinions.

Yeah, I'm pretty much done with reading your posts, haha.

The theme of this single is summer, and regardless of whether she looks good or not, they definitely fit that. So avex, ayu, and whoever designs the covers have accomplished their goal. Good for them!

Works for me, haha.

But really, in your opinion, what's so good about it?

What's good about it? For me, there's nothing that's really so bad about it. And that is what I feel is 'good' about it. While Kazuyoshi, possibly one of the worst photographers in the history of forever [doing it to spite us!] did the photography, I can't deny that Ayu still looks nice in it and the setting is rather pretty. That's about it.

[YuriChan]

How many people complained about glitter/fated being photoshopped? Huh? A lot! I'm satisfied with the covers! I don't think there were a lot of people satisfied with t2m either. So people... Just chill out!

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by HONEY_INSPIRE_ME19

How many people complained about glitter/fated being photoshopped? Huh? A lot! I'm satisfied with the covers! I don't think there were a lot of people satisfied with t2m either. So people... Just chill out!

g/f of course did look photoshopped, but it looked professional. This doesn't. It looks like a freshman's first project in design class.

[bluegie]

^totally agree with you. tbh I dun see glitter/fated covers connected to the songs (well they sort of, but not much), and it's overphotoshopped. Like you say it looks professional to a certain degree. I forgot who said it, but I assume anyone can just bring a cellphone and take a picture of ayu at the beach. I'm pretty sure the picture we take will be on par w/ sunrise/set covers.

Originally Posted by TeddyGrahams

Wow, these covers are great. Haha, didn't the Rule/Sparkle and Next Level covers made much more distress in the community?

I think Ayu looks hot, so different but still wow so hot.

I'm not sure about R/S, but I think while some people may not like the colors/hair/the tvs on NEXT LEVEL covers, at least we agree that it matches the theme and the covers did bring out the concept of the album.

And these (sunrise/set) covers. They are just plain candies.

[Evolution7/4]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Yeah, I'm pretty much done with reading your posts, haha.

Don't get defensive when i'm trying to be reasonable. We can just stop. i thought I was being mature by saying we could agree to disagree.

[truehappiness]

And these (sunrise/set) covers. They are just plain candies.

I'd say they have at least a ~light/lite~ flavor to them.

Plain would be Ayu's first 5-6 CD covers.

It's very sad how obvious a person's true character comes out when some CD covers aren't to their liking.. rather funny imo.

[Ayumi-Yummi]

God she looks like a lost dear... Bambi!

[joshohhhhh]

I'm not really bothered either way. She looks good, no one can tell how photoshopped it is or isn't (picture resolution is too small). No matter what, the single is still going to be purchased by many. If the cover isn't your favorite, no biggie. It's definitely nowhere near as awful as people are making it sound. She looks good and fit, and I doubt the tan to be fake (she was actually in Bali at the beach, remember?).

[douggn]

I love the covers, looking hot and summery thought i dont get all "I dont like it" it happens every cover she releases, everyone want and cant wait for her covers then when it comes, the nit-picking starts , I love them anyway morely the cd+dvd

[jbrat2219]

My only problem with the covers is that she looks so... bored. There's no expression on her face and in the cd-only it looks like she's slouching....!

[YuriChan]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I'd say they have at least a ~light/lite~ flavor to them.

Plain would be Ayu's first 5-6 CD covers.

It's very sad how obvious a person's true character comes out when some CD covers aren't to their liking.. rather funny imo.

Exactly! Didn't people complain about the covers for t2m?

[jiarongisme]

I think Ayu looks pretty on the covers! But meh, the lousy photoshopping totally destroyed the whole thing.

[octolina]

omg. so the covers are finally here. hmm i don't think she's pretty in it. she doesn't look like herself. hopefully bigger pics will prove me wrong. she looks so much better in off shoot pics... always. and then the super photoshopped weird expression face always makes the cover.

[truehappiness]

My only problem with the covers is that she looks so... bored. There's no expression on her face and in the cd-only it looks like she's slouching....!

That has been the problem since Kazuyoshi started taking all of her photos for magazines. She basically looks like either a) a deer in the headlights or b) bored. There's no emotion.. no sex... no anything. It's kind of weird how a bad photographer can ruin a spread.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

It's very sad how obvious a person's true character comes out when some CD covers aren't to their liking.. rather funny imo.

It's stretching it to say that you can see how a person really is by their reaction to a cover.

[tasking]

Really, in my opinion, Ayu's covers have always sucked. Usually it's a really cool picture ruined by crappy text, and that's what we have here. I think the only covers that really stood out to me were vogue/Far away/SEASONS (the concept behind that whole thing was genius - they, and accompanying PVs were absolutely fabulous), RAINBOW and NEXT LEVEL. NEXT LEVEL marked a step in a new direction for Ayu, so it was only natural that the covers conveyed that. Sunrise/Sunset, I'm sorry to say, is just a single, and it's not really new so the covers aren't new either; again, just a really cool picture ruined by crappy text.

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

It's very sad how obvious a person's true character comes out when some CD covers aren't to their liking.. rather funny imo.

You're very defensive on ayu sometimes. And to a certain extend when you DON'T agree with the negative comments, you start attacking people instead of their comments. If I say the covers are bad, does that mean I'm an evil to ayu? How my true character comes out from your eyes?

This is getting ridiculous. People never agree with each other all the time because we have different personalities and point of views. But that doesn't mean we don't respect each other. Like in the beginning of the thread I did argue with identity, or someone who loves the cover may argue with another person who hates the cover. But in the end we try not to offense each other because in the end it's just personal liking towards, in this case, the covers.

And btw, like I said before, next time you can just quote my name there as well.

[truehappiness]

It's stretching it to say that you can see how a person really is by their reaction to a cover.

I disagree, yo.

Oh, and to add:
I find that Kazuyoshi is extremely good at making people look like.. people that they aren't. It's sort of disturbing.

You're very defensive on ayu sometimes. And to a certain extend when you DON'T agree with the negative comments, you start attacking people instead of their comments. If I say the covers are bad, does that mean I'm an evil to ayu? How my true character comes out from your eyes?

I just disagree that they're that bad. I don't really like these covers all that much either, but people are making a mountain out of a molehill and it's kind of sad. This is why AHS is a laughing stock to the J-Pop community.. -sigh-

[Picaflor 7/4]

she looks fierce.

[kumi duff]

I don't know what's it's the worst of the covers, the expresion in her face or that the covers is the same concept of glitter/fated covers
>.<