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Old 26th April 2016, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ExodusUK View Post
I find that whole thing confusing...she says in the Time interview that she planned a very grand and fabulous shoot typical of herself, anyone would then expect the album artwork for I Am... to be very A BEST or portrait simple style, yet the photos are Ayu portrayed as some sort of deity Eve figure looking unworldly gorgeous and glamorous even wrapped in ivy.
She planned a "fake" Japanese /Japan as a foreigner would think of it theme and that seemed to be carried over to the remix albums. The concept was suddenly changed after 9/11 to the actual I am... concept because she thought it'd be too tacky to be opulent after the terrorists attacks happened.