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Originally Posted by Coelacanth
I also don't like how she's under the impression that she has to release a full-length album around the same time every year.
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I agree. Everything's always either on New Year's or somewhere close to Christmas. What I wish for is a release somewhere around September, like "Duty."
The only thing I have to argue about with repetitive lyrics and a usual/cliche message in her songs is that, kind of like what truehappiness (and even other members in the past have) said, she's been around for ten years. She's bound to repeat something. All artists do. In a nutshell: Her "repetitive" lyrics don't bother me.
I think the reason we have glamorous shots, fashion magazine styled photobooks, and even ideas that seem like they weren't thought out (whether cover art or not) is that her career is not as high or where it used to be in the past. She still has tons of supporters, but people move on and either grow tired of her or start listening to new artists. I don't think she and her staff are shrugging things of like they don't care, but I think they're getting more around of the ideas of releasing something everyone might enjoy, not just the Ayu fans. Do you know what I'm trying to say? This is all very hard for me to explain while trying to not sound like a basher or someone who's losing interest in Ayu.
Anyway!
The only thing I don't like about Ayu (along with what Coelacanth said about a regular release date for albums) is her overuse of incorrect vibrato. What she does with her voice to create the vibrato effect is, well, completely incorrect! Yes,
plenty of singers and performers create the effect by moving their mouths, but hers is slow and forced rather than like the final vibration of a bell. I just can't stand it.