Is The (Miss) Understood Cover THAT ugly?
 

I've never understood the hate. It's not THAT ugly. If it is, why?

Obviously, it's the opinion of each user, but I think they're not great because we know there are off-shots that looked much nicer.

lol

I'm probably 1 of the rare fews that like both covers especially the heart symbol on the covers

guess some people doesn't like her to smile but rather to scorn haha :laugh

Come on, not only her smile, but her entire facial expression is so forced it's almost painful to look at :dead2 (cd-only)

The entire cover and booklet were bad. It was basically her worst ever. Sometimes when I go through her albums in my head, I forget about it because I've blacked out the (m)u cover. D:

well..her smile is kinda...weird XD
is it just me or it looks like it's bigger than normal ? like they photoshooped the mouth dunno XDD


but the other one I really like it :yes

for me, both covers are cute, but her smile on the cd version looks wierd or fake. it looks like someone forced her to smile.

No I agree - it doesn't LOOK like her at all. She looks ... monkey-like. It's really weird O_o

That happens to me too.. I go in my head "MY STORY, Secret, GUILTY...................................wait a min, something is missing"

The booklet is pretty bad, but then again, it's taken by Mika-John, probably with one of ayus Panasonic cameras.

I just wish I could have been in the room when they decided that the smile photo should be used.

I like it :shrug

I love the (m)u covers ;3

HUMM... I DON'T THINK IT'S UGLY BUT NOT PRETTY EITHER. IT'S OK.

You have no idea how much that cover (CD only) turned me off when my friend first introduced me to Ayu. x____x good thing I found her other songs/covers some time later.

Her smile and monkey-face creep me out on that cover.

hmmm...it juz looks bad as compared to other covers...though MY STORY is pretty bad too

MY STORY is golden compared to (m)u. :|

Memorial address > I am... > RAINBOW > Secret > LOVEppears > GUILTY > A Song for XX > (miss)understood > MY STORY > Duty

XD

That's my opinion. But I wouldn't consider any of them "bad". I think it's more that Ayumi has some GREAT covers and that everyone knows she can do better.

I think it's that the heart looks cheap and I can't find another picture of her where her smile is that big and creepy. O_o

I think the release of (m)u was a prime example of "Don't judge a book by its cover."~

The tracks and PVs were excellent, but the cover, booklet, and overall presentation SMELLED. D:

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2853/ohgodir9.png

See what I mean? :[ Even I can't weave a story around the cover! It just looks BLEH. [drawn in MS Paint in 40 seconds with a mouse]~

^ :roflmao *laughs forever*

*stifles laugh and continues to be serious

Ahem...

hahah, I liked the cover with her hands over her mouth.

the album wasn't cohesive at all, so I guess it kinda fit. It woulda been perfect if there was a thought bubble over her head that read "Oops! This album is a mess, but every song is a masterpiece!"

i'm also just a sucker for her with dark hair.

I thought MY STORY was one of the worst. The photoshoot, the hair, the makeup, the outfit, everything jus looked terrible imo.

Im not thrilled about the m(u) cover but I never really thought it was bad either, like above-average. The smile looks forced and weird yea, but if you look at the cover from a distance its really not too bad :roflmao

I don't really care for the CD only shot of her fake smile, and the cheap, badly photoshopped heart. I didn't think the booklet was bad though. I actually thought there were some cute shots of Ayu in it, especially the no make-up Ayu shots. :smitten

I actually liked the CD+DVD cover but the CD only cover...-bleh-

And if you close one eye and then the other...it looks PERFECT! :roflmao

blame that on the photographer :dead2

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But honestly though, (miss)understood's cover ain't that bad :P. But its not beautiful. But what I can't understand is why is the photo so grainy o_o. Its like they used a camera phone to take a picture of it :no.

Yes it is THAT ugly, at least in my opinion. I mean the smiling one, not the other one. It just looks like someone drugged her or something XD
truehappiness, that picture...rofl

I dont like MU's cover..
she looks like auntie and i dont like her smile

I like the two different covers so much!
I had the CD+DVD version and Its very cute cover I've ever seen.

Some people dislike the CD Only because of its weird look.
For me, Its okay and its not bad after all.

I think she was very proud for her healthy teeth.

:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao
This is exactly what I see whenever I look at this cover! It really is that bad! And I don't like the CD+DVD version either!

have you seen it? Its not so much that its ugly its just unnatural and plastically fake. Her smile that is. I like that she covers it in the CD+DVD.

Not only that its horribly unoriginal. And if its going to be a big shot of her face, you gotta but something more interesting in it, than a heart and smile.

If we even know for sure those are her teeth. She had to have gotten em filed and straightened and adjusted and whitened. Teeth don't transform into perfectness. Observe her PVs from 98 and now, you'll see what I mean.

yeah. I certainly think it looks rather fake too. And the camera quality is not good as well.

i dont think its that bad... but maybe its not the best shot

for me, i think the red heart stuff and the red color word is the most fugly thing in (m)u

Well, it's obvious Ayu had her teeth done inbetween fairyland and HEAVEN.

I think she got some sort of veneers. :o

See! You get what im talking about! :laugh

I think the booklet is really nice, some of the pictures are so precious. They would have been much more suited covers.

The CD cover really is THAT ugly.

i think that it's ugly because

1) 90% of ayu's face is covered on the CD+DVD cover
2) ayu's mouth occupy around 30% of the CD only cover.
3) the cover's quality is extremely bad (perhaps this is deliberate)
4) Nothing special of the cover....

+ we have a 80/60 pages photobook of her in Hawaii. Her booklet is of her in NY. Her cover is also of her in NY.

So how american can the entire album get?

^I don't think there's really anything American about it, besides the fact that she was in NY.

The CD only cover is really horibble, ayu just had a wide smile and they took the photo and it went out wierd.

I don't get the hate for the CD+DVD cover though, it's nothing amazing but it's ok and fits more to the album.

It's not the pictures for me, so much as the quality of the covers. They just looked cheap and lazy, not to mention lacking her usual creativity. Even "A Song for XX", which has a similarly uninspired photo, gets more points for being good quality and monochromatic silver.

I think ASFXX was acceptable. It was her debut album and I think it was forgivable.

But (m)u was further into her career.. after masterpieces like Memorial address and I am.. it really just seemed like they said "We're in New York, so now we're making the album covers and crap here." Just like how GUILTY's ended up in LA along with the PB. :[

I'd really like for Ayu to stay in the studio, or at least an enclosed place like MY STORY's photoshoots..

Well... it's not her best cover, but I still like it^^

Agree. I personally don't like the cover of (m)u cause Ayu looks really strange in it. Plus, it's not really creative like Memorial Address or I am.. etc.

I'm also one of the rare people who love the (m)u CD only cover.

I love the (m)u covers too! She's so cute in them. :yes

they took no time doing them

if you watch the cm, at the end you see them take the photos like one straight after the other and the whole thing takes about 2.5 seconds :/

I think the cover is honestly hideous. It's unfortunate too because it's without a doubt one of her best albums. I really wish they had put more effort into it. I like all her other covers (except for MA, which I think doesn't even look that much like her).

the picture looks corny! D: and it's just a random photo, nothing to do with the album/title IMO. and the heart, yes. when i saw that for the first time, i thought "you gotta be kiddin me..." ...... ;>.> so cheap

and the booklet is also bad, well, i was very dissapointed.
it's taken by Mika-John? does she talk about that? i ddn't know...

mmh, and i too think that mystory cover wasn't great... i like all covers until memorial adress, after that aslo her single covers became plain/boring...

I don't like the CD-only cover. Her smile is ugly on that one.
the CD+DVD cover is cute though. IMO.

i love to see ayu, but there's only a certain degree of ayuness i want to see...CD only was just horrible...idk, maybe the smile look too weird, fake @_@, but CD+DVD was more playful, more cute

I only fancy the cover with the DVD...THe other cover just looks fake...

I think that her smile was fake.And it creeped me out.