imagina12y: actually the cover of LOVEppears/appears r original, and then some french magazine likes it and use the same idea for their pix

and about the songs.....i dunno, hope there really r some remakes
but i'll just buy this cd for the cover only, it's just tooo good!

eekamouse: i dun understand y they use this picture for the isobal single (i like the other isobal singles that carried the same "post" theme), this picture was actually one of the covers of The Face!!

Copy of namie? Don't think so....if i were to call it a copy, would be from hitomi PV "WISH" which is way older than Namie's PV :P even so I still don't think it was a copy.....

SCREENSHOT FROM THE WISH PV FROM hitomi:

http://www.j-fan.com/jpop/images/hitomi/clips2-1.jpg

haha, so I guess singers "loving themselves" isn't a new concept. hahahaha :P

i'm not sure why they decided to pick this cover either, it has some nice post-ish looking stuff on the inside in autum colours, its quite nice. i also love the b-sides on this single.

Now that I think about it I cannot wait for the album.Ayu is very courageous to have an album cover like this and I respect her even more now because of that.Ayu is a very mature and wonderful person in my eyes and if she wants a cover like this than she should have one.I think that Ayu is also expressing her feelings with this cover.I think that she is saying that she does her albums and songs out of love for her fans and for the world.Ayumi needs someone in her life to help her stay strong when things seem at there worst, that person is Nagase.I suppose that Ayu does not hide Nagase from the media because she wants everyone to know that even if their relationship becomes very serious that she will always go on with her passion, music.Ayu is just incredible and she needs so much support because if she did not have as many fans as she does and still worked as hard as she does than she would be crushed and she would just give up on what she loves.This all is just my opinion and if anyone has any input about it than please let it be known.

You're wrong chieresu!:curse

Just kidding lol:laugh :roflmao I agree with what you said (but you'll have to change the word Nagase for: Impact!!!! :D):thumbsup

lol Impact..... of course- are you Nagase? after all, you're marrying ayu :) This album is more for people like me, who don't have a single ayu album and can't spare the money to buy them all.... oh well, I probably won't buy it, because it's easier to just download it and spend my money on the much cheaper rock cds :)

Sankyuu Impact.Oops, I mean Nagase!lol

And I disagree. There have been many pictures of people covering their chest with foreign objects, such as hands or their hair. That's even an older concept than kissing yourself.

Janet Jackson did both. Someone else's hands were covering her chest on the cover of Rolling Stone. And in the video for "Together Again" she was seen holding herself provocatively. Oh and for the video for "All is Full of Love", it was a male and female robot that were on top of eachother.

And while we're on the topic of copying people's ideas, remember the infamous "Dune" ad? That ad came out before "UNITE!" was released, and the picture from the cover totally ripped that picture off. There are rarely ever original concepts for album covers.

I agree with Samurai.It is seen very much these days.

Impact, I thought you had finally given up on Ayu and handed her over to Tomoyo. I'm ashamed of you. Of course, if your wedding is still planned, I'll pencil it into my calender. :roflmao

I can think of a few examples of original covers from the 90s and the past few years- here are some:
Nirvana- Nevermind- sure, there have been naked babies on covers of albums before, but not in the same context- it was an original idea
Our Lady Peace- Happiness... Is not a fish you can catch- the cover features an old man holding on to a fish- goes along with the album title, but original nonetheless
System of a Down- Steal this Album- there is no cover, and I don't think that's been done yet :)
I can't really think of any more without going into earlier decades, but i guess I managed to show it is still possible to have an original idea for a cover, it's just a lot harder to do these days....

samuraiDRIVE: oh of course the basic concept (hair/other object covering chest) has been used a long time ago, but this particular LOVEppears/appears were used again by a french magazine (jeans, long blonde hair, alphabeth necklece, hands on jeans)

and about "all is full of love", u should watch it again, they both have breasts, but also one (or both) of them has the male genitalia (i think), and they werent on top of each other!
but the sex doenst really matter, i wasnt talking about the sex of the cyborg, i was talking about that both cyborg r bjork

eekamouse: i think it would be better if they used this picture as the cover of isobel!!!
http://unit.bjork.com/77island/77isl...sobel23big.jpg

Thnx for the scans... Impactbreaker

actually i was referring to a topic from the old ahs, where someone compared pictures of jolie and ayu. i dug up the old one for reference:

http://www.hajima.netfirms.com/ayu_jolie.jpg

they even have the same hair/skin color :laugh

It was trainspotter01 who posted the scans destiny_ayu! :laugh Anyway I accept the thanks! Right, trainspotter?:P (joking):laugh :roflmao :laugh

imagina12y: this one i'm not too sure, but i'm pretty sure about the french mag one hehe

ImpactBreaker: maybe destiny_ayu was talking about the other isobal scan? no idea :P
btw luv ur saint seiya avatar

Oh ew ew ew! Ayu's pic is sooo much more tasteful!

I agree.

Wow, i never saw that pic of Angolina Jolie. Ayu doesn't have the best history about not copying people, lol.