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I'm running out of ways to justify this feeling--I just have a gut feeling saying that Sunrise and Sunset shouldn't be included. Weird, 'cause having them on would make the most sense.
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It's because of the same compositional and VERY similar lyrical nature of the two songs and when most artists do this, they only choose
ONE track out of the two (or three, like with AAA). I think most people either want one or the other (obviously Sunrise over Sunset) but I feel that because Ayu totally scrapped a completely different song that wasn't Sunset when she was creating the single, that alone should hint at how she'll deal with it when it comes to the album. She could make a mash-up of the two songs... who knows? But just that she preferred to make a song from the same composition as the main A-side... it just sticks out to me too much as "THAT'S how good Sunset is, enough to scrap this other song!"... though I do wonder if anyone would've liked that original ballad over Sunset.
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or if kazu DID shoot outdoors the cd covers would probably wind up having a photoshopped big ben and other various photoshopped buildings in the background and ayu tilting her head and pushing out her lips
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He did shoot her outdoors for Deji Deji Diary's bikini shots. IMO, I didn't love them as much as her CD DATA shoot in 2008 with ND CHOW. Something about the way he takes his photos or his camera's settings... they make his subjects look like wax figures... He also did the last two calendars on-location, and... for the most part the first calendar was a BUST and the second had a few good photos, but was still kind of disliked for having dead eyes, haha. Hm, now I want Ayu to be in a studio with lots of wind for some reason...
To be fair, ND CHOW did glitter/fated, which was mangled horribly in post-production with the oversaturation of the colors in that photo... and her wet hair just looked weird... I don't know what happened with that shoot.
(I mentioned in my letter to Ayu that she should have no more Shimoko and use Leslie/ND more... wtf... haha)