(06-19-2010, 02:22 PM)cathb Wrote: I like the cover. At least there is not some half-naked woman parading on it.

Come to think of it.....how about Hyde or K.A.Z showing us their Devil Side on the cover......lol.

Because that would be ga... I mean, too much excitement for the fangirls to bear.

What gets me about this cover is just that it looks so... Japanese. I mean, it's just sort of hard to show introduce people to them when the cover pretty much screams "WE'RE JAPANESE!" all over it. It looks more like something Asian Kung-Fu Generation would put on their covers.

But like you said at least it's not a naked woman, but the only reason that annoys me so much is because of how overused it's become. I forgave it on LOVE ADDICT, because I felt it fit the mood of the title song. I was kind of upset because I GOTTA KICK START NOW was just a modified cover of the same box art (but with a different girl in a different position and the characters stacked even MORE oddly than before) but I forgave it because it fit the biker mood which was apparently what they were aiming for at that particular single. But then EVANESCENT and SWEET DREAMS came out and it's like... wait, really? This doesn't even seem fitting. Now it's just customary to expect a single to have some kind of naked/half naked woman on it. At least ANGEL TRIP's was artistic, but most of them are just blatant.

I'll just address right now that while it doesn't really matter to ME what the CD art looks like, I talk about these things all the time because it shows the thought they put into the production and marketing of an album. In a way, it's like the title sequence to a movie. To someone who is EXPECTING something good, it means nothing, but to someone who has no idea what he or she is in for, it can mean everything. If you saw a title sequence full of cute, charming characters in a field of green and open, blue skies and sunshine, would you expect the movie you're about to watch would be The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Similarly, if you were browsing through a CD store and saw a red box art with sexy legs and snakes on a red background with an artist name like "VAMPS," would you expect it to be a sweet, heart-warming ballad unless you already knew better?

So THAT is why I go on about it! It honestly doesn't really doesn't matter to huge fans like pretty much everyone on this board, to people casually getting into them, presentation means a lot. Although, it appears that it hasn't been affecting their sales at all, but then you see how repulsive the promotional posters for Twilight are and they still sell well. (Well, why not? It's a repulsive movie, therefore the art should reflect, right?)