(06-19-2010, 06:52 PM)cathb Wrote: I guess it depends on how you view it. I see it as more of a stained glass effect. Plus the double-image thingy.....do you see the VAMPS going around the edges or do you see the hand in the middle doing the V? My mind sees the edges first and then goes to the hand.
HOLY FFFFFFFFF
I didn't even SEE the name! I thought it was just a bunch of squiggly lines! XD - So, now that I see that and can't get it out of my head, I actually really like it. It's very nice, and actually it improves on some complaints I had on their previous box arts. Those being-
1) over-abundance of girls
2) unfitting colors and imagery (well, from the two singles we have, it seems pretty fitting anyway)
3) lack of creativity
4) Overly-Simple fonts (typically, the font is just Impact; I've always had a motto that if the average consumer can immediately recognize how you did something, then it's a bad piece of art. Here, there's actually a lot of creative design behind the lettering that matches the concept)
So yeah, this album art is pretty much an answer to my hopes @_@
(06-19-2010, 10:27 PM)mamikochan Wrote: i like the cover image. if you had grown up in the 60s and 70s like i did, this type of cover art would seem perfectly normal. a lot of bands during both of those decades used similar types of artwork that might have seemed exotic to western and especially american (USA) eyes. even more exotic were the concert posters of the 60s.
Interestingly, I saw the original box art to Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave" and it pretty much personifies what you just said. Funny thing is that while I didn't grow up in the era, I did grow up listening to lots of music from the era (as well as modern music) and didn't even notice the similarity.
(06-20-2010, 03:36 AM)Guest Wrote: It seems only the fan girls get worked up about the girls on the artwork. Us 'male' fans enjoy it. XD...
Yay, I'm a girl now? Just in time for my sex change operation! *I kid!*
(06-20-2010, 11:09 AM)vegetapr69 Wrote: But hey, the new album's CD image looks pretty groovy, and even when someone said that it was "too Japanese"...ummm....aren't HYDE, KAZ, Jun-Ken, Jin and Arimatsu....Japanese?O.o
I realize that the band -is- completely Japanese and composed of Japanese members, what I meant is that every time we think we're finally getting somewhere in our quest to expose overseas audiences to their music, they do something that makes our goal just that much harder @_@ - Again, to someone who has no idea what they're getting into, presentation is everything.
It astounded my mother when she saw VAMPS and she was like "They don't even LOOK Japanese!" So it showed her that although they were from very different parts of the world, it was not... you know... THAT different, and that's what initially vexed me about the box art. You tell them they're from Japan, they're like "Oh god wut" then they see the box art and they feel like "Oh man, I'm going to be soooo lost @_@"
I dunno. You see, Americans can be very stupid. When we think of Japanese music, our minds, for some reason, initially think of classical Japanese music. We don't think of modern rock n' roll or anything like that. But what REALLY vexes me is when they say something like "OH JAPANESE? YOU MEAN, LIEK, WITH THE INSTRUMENT?!" ... You know, because Japanese people only have one instrument!