I should apologize for my lack of activity around here recently, but I won’t because I’m not particularly sorry. The fact is I’ve been focusing on other sites this summer and there are only so many hours in the day. I still like having this blog, but it’s not my first priority right now. So, updates will continue to be more occasional than often, because that’s how I roll. (I have made some additions around this domain, though — a 20 years old, a one-page tribute to ONE OK ROCK. ♥)
Anyway. I do have a point I’d like to get to, and that’s a rant about a musician who’s near and dear to my heart. Or more specifically, her cover art.
I speak, of course, about Ayumi Hamasaki. One look at the cover for her most recent single, Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~, should tell you everything you need to know. It’s very pathetically Photoshopped and she looks ridiculous. For Ayu, or at least her cover art, this is a new low.
But it’s one I definitely expected. I haven’t liked any of Ayu’s covers for a long time now, and each one is just another disappointment. The last one I actually liked was talkin’ 2 myself, which came out in September 2007. Since then, it’s been a string of one terrible cover after another.
When Ayumi Hamasaki’s tenth full-length album, NEXT LEVEL was announced, I fully expected to hate it. After all, I was already pretty irritated with my Ayu fandom, and had been for several months. When “