Your biggest Ayu disappointments
 

Curtain Call, the preview sounded promising but when I heard the full thing I kinda hated it.

^ Love that song.

My biggest disappointment that I can remember is that she didn't put the Bold & Delicious performance from CDL in the 50 Singles DVD collection. And Hotel Love Songs tour being cancelled, but that's more understandable.

album Secret, it took me a long time to appreciate some tracks, I still have problem with some tracks, 1 LOVE is the one I cant tolerate

I agree with you! Secret was a big disappointment to me and it's taken me years to start to like it. It was because of that album that I kinda stopped being a hardcore fan, but came back with Love Songs... ( but I continued to buy all her stuff, lol)
Another disappointment would have to be no more CREA, I woould love LOVE to bring her back!!

There are just two disappointments for me. And they're called: Days and my name's WOMEN.

Luckily there's a orchestra ver. for Days, so I can tolerate it. But for my name's WOMEN :no omg.

Secret. To this day it's my least favourite album from her. It's the main reason I took a break from her for a while (came back after A COMPLETE came out).

I listen to Secret every now and then to see if I can like it more but it just doesn't work. I find myself almost switching to a different album on my ipod halfway through :/

- no more Crea
- Some tracks on GUILTY (but it really grown on me from back then)
- NEXT LEVEL album (now i "like it" but i remember how dissapointed i feel)
- 48-49-50 singles (ballads, medium, ballads, ballads... but I still like all of them :P Just for that occasion i was waiting for something more special)
- Secret covers.

I am always also dissapointed when something is realesed and it's a 21873892173812738217 ballad or medium.

omg thank you, my names WOMEN is just blah..so badly produced and cheap

Collabs. And hidden track on FIVE.

I remember also HOW dissapointed I was especially for "identity" and "Love & Hate" songs. They BOTH sounded so good on previews and then they was just.. ok. The first secods of L&H makes me "OMG this is gonna be a bomb" and then it makes me "I dont want to live on this planet anymore."

Well, it's obvious... R'n'R Circus album. Sexy little things and Lady Dynamite PV screenshots looked so promising. Don't look back was boring as all Hell. I don't think I've ever made it through Meaning of Love. The interludes are complete trash (minus "The Introduction"). At least Microphone gets a 10/10 for me.

I had braced myself for FIVE so I'm not as disappointed with this release, as my hopes were not so high... but never-the-less, it is still a disappointing release. Just nowhere near as disappointing as R'n'R Circus.

I will say I thought (miss)understood was disappointing when I received it after Christmas, but that's because I listened to every single preview and I wasn't the biggest fan of some of the album tracks. But over time, I have come to love the album as a whole and it is probably in my top 2 albums.
Oh my gosh, the quality in my name's WOMEN is outstanding! I'd kill for Ayu to have that kind of quality and production in her music again.

Oh, Don't look back. I remember reading comments like "This is awesome" etc, and when I played the track... "Wait, we are listening to same thing?"
I never applaud this song. It's ok, but freakn' boring.

OMG yes...I felt when I heard those songs that it was a new low by Ayu, that she's above those sort of songs. Thank god she got it out of her system.

Bold & Delicious and Sunrise performances choices from 50 Singles DVD, Rock n Roll Circus and the level of drama her fandom seens to reach everytime she breaths...

I was actually really excited when I heard there was a bonus track on FIVE, but when I listened to it & realized it was a remix I got pretty irritated.

& even though I love Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ I was expecting more from it when I heard the previews.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I did feel a little disappointed with NEXT LEVEL's release over all...

BRILLANTE. I totally expected it to come out like Sparkle. The pics from the PV made it seem that way too, at least to me, but no.....it had to be another Ballad song. I've grown a partial liking to it after a few more listens, but the chanting still irks me : /.

ANother song was also a disappointment too, but after Dream ON, I kinda saw it coming so the impact wasn't as bad....

THIS SO MUCH. I really don't get the hype for that song. I always skip it because it bores me out.

Urata Naoya and JUNO

You said it! Worked just like that with me and the Secret album, and when Love songs came out I started loving Ayu again..

For me, it's the Guilty album. After secret, I didn't expect it to be a colossal failure. It started well with Glitter/Fated. Then well, talkin' 2 myself single took probably the longest to resonate in heart and I tend to eat up all her singles. But, Together When... was so good and I thought there would be more of that on the album! And if you listened to Guilty with the awesome intro such as Mirror, you thought it would be a kick ass album... somehow it doesn't work that way.

Favorite Tracks from Guilty- Mirror, Fated, Glitter, Judgement Day, & Together When...
(2 A singles, 1 digital single track, 1 intro and one interlude... lol that's kinda sad)

FIVE is probably the most disappointing thing ever for me, lol. Especially ANother song. Mirrorcle World's PV was incredibly disappointing, but I'd rather watch that than anything on FIVE.

Naked Talk was also really disappointing. :(

GUILTY, NEXT LEVEL, and Rock'n'Roll Circus were also disappointing. It's not that I don't like the songs on them, but GUILTY was the first album where, after the first listen, I just didn't really feel like listening to any of the songs again. NEXT LEVEL really bores me as an album and Rock'n'Roll Circus was the first time in a REALLY long time that the production on her songs just started sounding really crappy (count down, Last Links, Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~). Those three albums are still all near the bottom of my list, though I'd actually probably listen to them before Duty or I am... since I've heard those albums 5 million times.

I thought LOVE 'n' HATE was gonna be an AWESOME song but the full thing is so boring. It's probably my least listened to Ayu song overall. >_< (That's good though, because now I can spam it when I want something new from Ayu. :yes)

ayu never performed at my country. ..

Ayu never disappoints me.
the only thing that i i don't "LOOOOVE" was ANother song,but after know the meaning that have for Ayu,i like it.

no more CREA
no PV for Duty (anyone here even remember this song, LOL?)
the end of ayu_ready? show :(
RnRC is still a crappy album for me
FIVE has amazing covers, promo, but only 1 good song, and worse PVs than Love songs
her works with Kazyoushi Shimomoura, photosets & PVs
Mirrorcle World, because I can't stand her bad vocal there and awful arrangement and the PV
no more good summer singles
lack of powerful ballads recently, they are mostly repetitive & boring
some of her lyrics
her marriage. sorry fans. :no

but she will always be an inspiration ;) I love her no matter what ;)

to be fair, wonderland's visa policy is notoriously difficult.

For me, the biggest disappointment was probably the "my name's WOMEN" PV. I was really into the song when MY STORY first came out; I was really excited to hear it was getting a PV. The final product was just... really bizarre in a way that went against the message of the song. It was the kind of fake ~grrl power~ crap I expect from Koda Kumi, not Ayu.

- Kyoai ~Distance Love~

- GREEN pv

- NEXT LEVEL, I still like it more than MY STORY and FIVE but I remember hearing reports that she was going back to her old LOVEppears sound but that wasn't the case.

- Sunrise / Sunset ~Love Is All~

- her obsession with her backup dancers and now Urata Naoya + Juno

Wow... some people really disappointed of lot things.
To talk about "Don't look back"... I totaly love that song and also that PV. But seems, it is not really popular for a lot of you.

So.. what dissapointed me?`Not really much. Sure.. there are some songs, I really don't like.. for example Love'n'Hate. But ok... every artist has song, I don't like.
So... she relly disapointed me, with her ugly Hairstyle, she have since Life-Performance.
Ok. it is growing again.. and looks better now. But.. in the beginning.. I was really horrable.

Days - my biggest disappointment in ayu. it's just an awful song. please don't try to convince me otherwise, thx.
Most of the ASFXX, MY STORY, NEXT LEVEL, & GUILTY albums.
The music videos for Sunrise/Sunset & the shoot
The (don't) Leave me alone music video
Bold & Delicious
The (miss)understood covers
Her performance of NEXT LEVEL @ AT09
Her performance of Dearest @ AT08
Her voice in general in 2008
Her magazine promotions during the S/S period where she looked really spaced out.
When she started to overact in her ballad performances and have the same formula for most of them with her reaching for Shuya or just reaching for nothing.

^ Really off topic but if your avatar and signature set are from Ayu's new PVs, I can't wait to see which one it is! I haven't seen anything other than BRILLANTE, waiting for my copy to watch em! :yes

I also haven't listened to any of the new songs or watched any of the new PVs! I'll wait until I get my own copy of "FIVE", but...
Wahhhh~~
It's so hard...and I really need to force myself NOT to look at avatars and signatures right now! :laugh


@thread: Ayu has never disappointed me and I can say this without a second thought. Some people might now believe me, but I'm telling the truth!

Oh yes... I forget the Lipsincing in a concert.. like CDL with Angel Song.
That really was dissapointed.
But well.. I think, a lot of singers to it. So.. if this are only a few song.. it is ok.

Threads getting more negative here. :( I don't like Moon/blossom single and that Ayu wasn't even in the PV for blossom and used such a clichéd storyline probably makes this release the biggest disappointment to me.

Not about to bash, but if promoting Love Songs by marrying Mannie really was Ayu's masterplan she failed miserably - so I don't think that was the reason she did it. After all she didn't get divorced and then engaged to JUNO or Nao for promoting FIVE. :P

Urata Naoya and the entirety of GUILTY minus Marionette.

I've never heard of that before. But now that I think about it, it was very timely for her to get married right after Love songs.

Not saying that's why she got married (I'm still inclined to believe it was for "love"), but that's an interesting theory.

:roflmao hahaha! True!

Lady Dynamite. Easily her worst song ever.

Some fans really don't know Ayu at all (through the sentiments in her lyrics and interviews she's done) if they believe she would get married to promote an album..you must think so little of her.

I'm always being disappointed about her magazine and album covers.
When people say that a particular looks amazing and I always wonder if we seeing the same ones.

Specific Five and moon blossom cover

First of all - lol.

Second of all, she got married because she fell in love. I'm sure some people who dislike Mannie would like to think she didn't really fall in love with him and it was all for promotion, but that's not reality.

this.

and this.

I was gonna say BRILLANTE, but I think that was more of the fans' fault because everybody kept saying what a masterpiece it was and how flawless it was and how they don't need air if they had that track. I listened to it with really high expectations, and wasn't blown away by it.

I guess for me it'd have to be...Wow I don't really know lol. I'm not disappointed in what Ayu does music-wise since the music will grow on me sooner or later (Love songs is way guilty of this lol). So I honestly don't know D:

EDIT: Oh seeing FoObY posting the Sunrise/Sunset cover gave me a lightbulb haha. Yeah those covers were way disappointing, considering she went to Bali (which is beautiful) and we got those...

why so negative...

no more CREA y-y

You know I never really took a good, long, hard look at this picture and wow, it really is so terribly cheap. Not just the expression on her face, but the entire design is so amateur!! It's unbelievable, lol.

no more CREA
Secret
RnR circus

RAINBOW album along with Real me song were also a dissappointment for me, but now I like it.

I become an Ayu fan in 2008, so I'll only talk about her activities since then :laugh

- The release of GUILTY, NEXT LEVEL (especially identity and LOVE'n'HATE), Rock'n'Roll Circus, Love songs, FIVE (:laugh I'm not even sure why I'm an Ayu fan haha)
- CDL 07-08
- Most of her photoshoots with Kazuyoshi
- The overuse of her dancers in EVERYTHING SINGLE THING :thud
- FIVE Collabs (not because I hate Naoya or JUNO, but I expected an all-original Ayumi Hamasaki album and not "Ayu+friends")
- Sunrise/Sunset covers
- 48/49/50 singles - There was just all of this hype around them, but they sound like regular songs, so I blame the hype...
- Her boyish hair...:thud I'm fine with short hair, but it was just so short when she cut it!
- GREEN PV (it had such a huge budget, but it didn't really go anywhere :thud)

I don't understand what's the point of reminding yourselves what made you feel disappointed, isn't that just sad/depressive?

^who even cares :shrug anyways...

hmmm....I think I've been disappointed with a lot of little things...

but I think FIVE really takes the cake.

I feel like, as a mini album, JUST a mini album, there were so many possible ways that something like FIVE could have gone down...and instead, she chose to use this kind of music...and, it's actually kind of insulting to her ideas I think, because the music is nowhere near as strong as it could be to properly pull off those ideas.

And I think BRILLANTE is just, evidence of that. An amazing track, and all of the tracks could have been equally amazing, or at least somewhere near, and instead, we get all of these badly produced and boring as hell R&B tracks with completely awful vocals.

So, yeah, it's disappointing....but well, as long as she's happy. It's certainly an interesting turn of events.


and yeah, Sunrise/Sunset covers. There was so much anticipation cause she was in such a beautiful place...and then we get THAT? :shakehead

In my opinion... NEXT LEVEL. The CD cover... the songs... is just not her style. The only song that I think that represent her well is Curtain Call...

forgiveness -> very disappointing for special 30th single and 5th year anniversary of ayu's career... :(

- (miss) understood cover and booklet. Man ayu could shoot it in another place or another theme. it's totally blur!!!

- Daybreak & AUDIENCE. Not the song, but the physical single (and it's a recut single). I think if she hadn't ever released those singles, she would have achieved the longest consecutive no.1 singles.

- She broke up with Nagase, well I have no rights to control Ayu's life.

I think that's all :D

That Sunrise/Sunset cover reminded me of when we didn't know the next album was Rock 'n' Roll Circus and I remember that single and You were.../BALLAD (Though BALLAD is amazing) came out and they really didn't get me excited for the next album at all (they were good... don't get me wrong :P).

That's the only thing I think holds Rock 'n' Roll Circus back from being an amazing piece of work; the singles. They don't blend with the album and were made (I think) without any kind of forward thinking as to what the album was going to be, what it was going to sound like and what direction the whole thing was going to go in.

Yeah. Never mind the fact that the album tracks blow big donkey turd besides Microphone... Lol (sorry just my opinion).

Whaaaa?! :P

No love for Don't look back, even? :P

I have never been disappointed in Ayu.

-she quit composing songs as CREA
-my Name's WOMEN
-Sunrise/Sunset covers
-she never replied any of my tweets

I must say that I deleted my post. First of all because I am not a troll posting those kindof things to see others reactions. I patiently read your replies and felt quite ashamed. I remembered the beginnings of my ayu fandom on 2008 and I felt so bad of thinking that about Ayu. For different reasons this year has been disappointing for my Ayu fandom and maybe I said something I shouldnt. Anyway, I dont like her husband at all, but knowing Ayu she only could have married him for love

I think you've just demonstrated your maturity admitting you've maybe dared too much with your claim. Anyway I think that reactions like yours take root in disappointment and disappointement takes root in love (and fandom in this case).
If we're not interested in something we don't feel anything instead disappointment is a real feeling.

The release of Bold&Delicious/pride; Dream on; Sparkle, Lady dynamite and BRILLANTE pvs; no live promotion for L! that's all i can remember now!

How could I forget Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~'s covers. Those were her first REALLY bad covers in a long, long time.

Her high priced products... tho this is more about avex and japanese market...

The fact that it's been too long without an amazing CREA song. Imo those are the best songs she's ever done. It's possible she doesn't want to do that anymore and of course that's fine because it's her decision and all of that, but I'm still dissapointed.

No PV for HANABI. I love that song, so whenever i hear it will picture ayu singing it like HANABI Ep~II since i love how she look there.
Could be a good thing though, sometimes a bad PV could just ruin the song.

Ayu fans and haters.

GOLD.

This!

Especially Don't look back. :P

too many ballads recently :/

just one song
Never Ever...
i never like that song

Lady Dynamite
Dream ON

2009-2011 (still ongoing).

No more CREA (while I understand her decision, it saddens me to know that)
Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ COVERS
Not respond to my tweets(?)
xD

I don't get how we can't talk about what we don't like about Ayu :shrug.
I don't see any bashing or trolling here :/ the discussion seems going pretty well.

Anyway I totally forgot about S/S covers omg. Maybe they're so fugly that my brain just deleted them from my own database :laugh.

This wouldn't be a problem for me if they were good ballads. The last amazing ballad she had was JEWEL.

This, i think every NORMAL or SANE fan has some dislikes, however I must say I'm gettinf fed up of some people here but oh well...

ok as to the question.... hmm i don't quite pay attention to what is a dissapointment, like if i don't like something I simply don't pay anyattention to that when it comes to the artists same with Ayu, but um... Probably the drama going around Ayu, and some people who can not understand simple things like she's a singer-performer for 10000000000000000 people not for ONE person.
As for music.... nothing really comes to my mind...maybe Love songs, cuz I enjoy only a few of them. But really I can't think of anything what would make me go "Ayu, what the heck were you thinking? >_O"...

This may be really nitpicky, but... do it again. The similar-ish title, preview of the lyrics ("dance, dance, dance do it again, sing, sing, sing do it again") and Tetsuya Komuro being the composer immediately made me think it would be something alike to globe's "get it on now": a lovely, subdued, warm, relaxing piece of pop music. And then I hear the actual song: a dark, powerful midtempo track. Needless to say, not quite what I expected. I don't think it's a bad song, but I still don't like it because it wasn't what I WANTED it to be. I think this is a perfect case to show how expectations can turn terribly against you. I don't blame Ayu, Tetsuya Komuro or Yuta Nakano for this disappointment; I can only blame myself for setting up unnecessary, misleading, baseless expectations that ruined the song for me. At least that case taught me to tone down speculation-filled anticipation for releases.

omg I think I just found the bigest dissapointment:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...d/calendar.gif

this is unforgivible for me, i don't see anything bad in retouching the photos from details and shading to get more dimention to the photo but slimming the figure down and changing shape of the face is NOT TOLERATED IN MY BOOK...:irked Ayu, hire better people, you don't need these kind of retouches >_<

^ o_o Where'd you get that?

^ http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...wpost&t=111062

^ Ooh, thanks~

S/S covers. I'd go all out to say they're garbage, cos they are.

really not impressed with MOON/blossom, crossroad and L covers.

also her 2008-2010 "SPREE" with Kazuyoshi... ugh worst years to be an Ayu fan. bar a few good covers/shoots, most were thrash too.

that's all for me :)

FISH LIPS!!!! :P God... I remember the shoots well -_-

omg hahaha +3

*disillusioned* I like to pretend the Photoshopped versions are the original :laugh Ayu is perfection! *stan mode on*

But ah pop culture...what would you be without retouching...

1. No more CREA. I need her, really.
2. No more HAL. Bring them back to me, I beg u.

3. 50 Singles Collection. Actually, I'm disappointed with avex, not ayu, coz' this release was such a hackwork!

P.S. And, of course, (miss)understood covers. No comment.

I was also a bit disappointed with the 48th-49th-50th singles thing. It wasn't as impressive as I thought it was gonna be. Kuu went all-out with 4 TIMES, but for Ayu all we got was L. There was nothing special about it...

I forgot all about this. I liked my life better when I didn't remember.

Omg, seriously, why did you? I'm curious as to what keeps you coming back! :laugh To be honest, after recovering from the headache UNITE! gave me, I don't know why I became an Ayu fan, too. :roflmao

Yeah, I wish they did more with it or at least did better on the dancing part. Lesbian kiss or something.

This. :innocent

I'm the kind of person that would become so addicted to 1-2 songs that I'll tolerate the entire album for it~ I really dislike FIVE, but I'm so obsessed with FIVE, so I brought the album...(this applies to Love songs too haha)

But I don't hate the albums, I'm just disappointed with the amount of songs I like :headache

I'm a pessimist and an optimist at the same time :laugh I think that Ayu is just going downhill, but I keep on waiting for those amazing songs that will revive my love! BRILLANTE has fully revived me, but I'm sure I'll get disappointed again soon with new releases, so I'll keep on waiting for the 2nd BRILLANTE in my life ;)

^ That sound so sad! ;_______;

Oh well, as long as you buy it. More sales for Ayu at the expense of YOUR TEARSSSSSSSSSS!!!

LOL j/k

^ My goal in life is to be killed by Ayu's music and then to be revived by it :bawl

And :lech TW press ftw :roflmao

In the mean time, alan eases your soul! :laugh

People who claims Ayu as a 100% perfection and like 100% stuff may have lack of interets and taste or kinda obssesion... But they MAY, I'm not saying that every fan of that kind is like that. Luckily, there are just a few of them.

Sunrise/Sunset - The songs and videos were actually worse than the covers to me, the covers were just oversaturated and had a weird expression but still followed all the usual guidelines, the videos were just plain bad and the songs were damn disappointing because of how she reused melody and parts of the lyrics and Sunset is incrediby boring while Sunrise has really annoying parts

evolution/UNITE! - They are both good but sound like the same song, especially in the way they are placed on the album. I like them live because the studio versions had horrid mixes.

progress video - only when I first watched it, I started loving it the second time while hating it the first, it was just unexpected from Ayu but still a good and powerful video proving that she doesn't have to be generic even for lead songs.

lipsynching - so glad she stopped doing that

I feel like I'm programmed to tolerate mediocre Asian music. I just can't bash it the way I criticize Western music.

However, I am quite disappointed with FIVE.

Meh. Five has been the first major disappointment for me...i don't like any of the songs except progress and the pvs were nothing special.

CREA disappearing depressed me.

"Thank U" I have to instantly skip that song as soon as it comes on.

That's all i can think of right now...the ones that stand out the most anyway.

To me its on and off and I can't really say when exactly but ya I think she's like going downhill. I was so crazy about her back then but now...

- The fact that once upon a time she decided to try composing because none of the demos she had sounded good, and now shes ok with releasing 10 versions of No way to say.

- The fact that once upon a time she was a fashion innovator not an imitator, one that was confident about her look and style, and now we get pictures and covers photoshopped beyond recognition. Shes a beautiful girl. Where did all of that confidence go?

- The very lackluster 48 49 50 single releases. How could she not come up with a cohesive concept for them?

- The fact that she contentiously works with the same people, whether the results are good or bad.

- The Love songs Pvs featuring Mannie. The whole concept was lame and it almost ruined Virgin Road for me.

- FIVE minus the cover and photobook

- Ayumix 7 minus AO. But that's probably because the standard set with Ayumix 6 cannot be surpassed.