Definately a great (miss)understood review. She's more of a J-Pop-Rock queen to me. It's better than the one I saw on a French website praising Koda Kumi instead :rolleyes

Amazing review. Thanks for sharing. I definitely agree with this person. Very honest and true. And I completely agree, Ayu is THE J-Pop/Rock Queen and she's not going anywhere. :yes

She released NO B-sides in 2005...I don't know why people insist to mention that Will, is this LOVE?, Pride and alterna are B-sides, because they aren't. They are A-sides. Being track number 02 doesn't make it a B-SIDE. All of the '05 singles had the titles of "is this LOVE?", "Will", "alterna" and "Pride" in the front cover, different from vogue for example that had no "c/w ever free".

^thats true. Pride and is this LOVE? are definitely A-sides as the singles were a "double A-side" single. as for Will and alterna, they had the (c/w....) i guess ppl tend to associate these songs as B-sides cos they werent promoted that much (as in the case especially for alterna/Will; is this LOVE was performed like once [i think] and Pride a few times, but incomparable to the number of times B&D was performed]

yeah she so lovely

Awww that review touches me as well. T_T Go Yesasia customer! Haha..too bad we don't know who wrote that review, but who cares? They praise Ayu. ^-^

what a wonderful review.. i feel that although her j-pop queen status was shaky, she still managed to grab the hearts of her fans and stayed strong, progressing every year!! i will be her fan even till she is 50!! :D

yay finally a good and encouraging review !! I like it

Yup, that's a "double a-side".

I think Ayu SHOULD release REAL b-sides. Like Ai Otsuka.

^If by releasing b-sides would mean she would release fantastic songs such as "ever free" then I would be all for it! :D But it's true ayu hardly makes any b-sides....

awesome! :)

and i agree...i really prefer her vocals now over any in the past. she's way less squeaky and nasal and i love it.

Aww, such an awesome review! Thank you for sharing it with us. :)

I don't think she's the Jrock&Jpop queen because she isn't jrock. Only because a few of her music have rockish beats, most of her music is still pop, her PVs are still and she does pop concert, not rock conerts. So yeah, I would like her to be the queen of this two genres but I don't think she is...

I still think she just fits as a J-pop queen. It's uberly nice to know that she's commented as a J-rock queen. =)

cool, it is true... even though the album started off with the worst song she ever created *B&D* the rest of the album is just pure gold! Including BOTH of the instrumental tracks! This is definately a great album!

I agree.

YAY! Ayu truly rules the Jpop world w/ a rockin' fist! lol

What's the difference between a-sides and b-sides? ever free and theme of a-nation '03 were b-sides, correct? They didn't make it onto their albums. O_o

Exactly. I don't really consider m.o.v.e JROCK; I put all of their material I download in the JPOP folder in my directory on my PC!