| mi|kshake |
7th May 2019 10:40 PM |
I enjoyed that video! It would be nice to see Ayu do a self cover of Evolution.
I don't want to totally derail this thread but I found everyone's thoughts on the Trouble Tour thread about Ayu's career and fandom recently very interesting and was wanting to post something myself but it took me a while to gather my thoughts so apologies if I am going off on a tangent here.
I definitely feel like I'm witnessing the decline of Ayu's career through sales (which are understandable), lack of releases and band and even the number of posts on this forum(which I get, I'm not exactly the most regular poster myself but it's just a another reminder that there's not much going on. 50 posts a day is now sounding like a lot to me!). Of course it was nice to see her selling well in the past and I always knew there would come a time where sales would decrease, but I always thought it wouldn't matter if I was still getting new music, PVs and tours to enjoy granted with a lesser budget. I loved how much content we got from Ayumi in the past but we had it so good for 18 years and that was never going to last - it's not realistic.
Obviously there's Ayu's health to think about too which could be contributing to the shorter shows which is fair enough. I think it's just the uncertainty around her future now and the lack of releases. It would be one thing if I had her concert releases to enjoy but there's now numerous shows gone unreleased. That was one of the things I liked about Ayu and JPop is that you could always depend on a DVD/Blu-ray release of a tour.
I get it that this is something that Ayumi needs to do whilst she can and totally support her in that. However, it's only just now it's hitting me that we may never return to a usual schedule. I was really positive about the tours at first but that does lessen when you're not able to buy the final product although I did really enjoy watching the Power of A^3 show!
The lack of a band is also concerning for me -tthey're almost as important to the show as she is and I always loved hearing how her songs sound when performed by a band. Especially Yoshio's guitar solos. But now I wonder why they are absent - is it unavailability, budget, they're on a break?
As a fan I would like the chance to buy her tour releases. And by buy her tour releases I mean through YesAsia. Not limited to the fanclub which incurs an extra expense as you have to go through a middle man and incur more expensive shipping. Hey, I'm not saying I could afford them all if she released them right now, but it would be nice to have some Ayu content to buy. A remix album would be nice but I guess with sales, Avex may not want to go down that route.
I always thought Ayumi would be like Kumi with her schedule. Yes, Kumi's sales aren't what they were during her peak but she still releases albums - sometimes 2 a year!!
Anyway, hopefully this post doesn't sound too negative! It was just good to put it all down although I do struggle to always convey what I mean without getting too repetitive etc lol.
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