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Originally Posted by MiiSan
I, for one, don't think the sadness "shown" should be so obvious.
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This so much! It sounds to me like some people would have liked Ayu to be crying on the covers or something but that would have just been so damn tacky. It's been done before a million times that way, hell she practically did that herself before. This is a more unique approach and as people said before: It's an album. You don't have to understand it from the title or cover, you have to understand it from the title, cover, music, videos, booklet and lyrics combined. If THAT doesn't work it's bad execution.
I think this cover portrays exactly what she wants to portray, that's the definition of good execution. The sadness is only hinted really slightly in the cover(I don't think she actually wants people to go "omg she's so sad!" about the cover, that would practically give away what the album seems to include, I think she only commented on it on twitter because of the shitstorm she got about it, she didn't expect people to "get" the album, they weren't supposed to, but she probably didn't expect that horrible backlash either) but will probably be much more literal in the album, probably getting more and more so the farther you get into the album.
That is not to say people cannot dislike the cover. I understand not liking it for a number of reasons. But calling Ayu out for being "trashy" etc or calling the execution bad because "the meaning isn't obvious from the cover" are pretty uncalled for. The former because it's a clear insult and shows ignorance and the latter because the point of an album cover, any album cover, is NOT people understanding it without the aid of the content, but people understanding it with the aid of the content. And we won't get the content until the album leaks so we cannot call it bad execution unless we know the album it relates to. Now, if the album does not support the idea of the cover, it WILL be bad execution, but we don't and can't know that yet.