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Old 3rd March 2009, 05:12 AM
Uemarasan Uemarasan is offline
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Originally Posted by Aozora View Post
You guys... like this?

I for one am very very disappointed. This is not the next level I wanted Ayu to achieve. This is down more than just a few levels for me. The tracklist is... disgusting. I guess the saying "don't judge a book by it's cover" applies but... how meaningful can "rollin'" and "Load of the SHUGYO" be?

Maybe she'll surprise me. I haven't heard the songs yet so I can't say I hate this album. But so far the only good thing is that Mirrorcle World isn't on it. Yay.
See meaning of Shugyo above. Anyway, Ayu doesn't exactly have the best song titles. And in my experience, the best song titles are usually attached to the worst songs.

This is definitely a few levels above another Duty/Memorial Address/My Story/Secret/Guilty rehash of midtempo rock-influenced songs. Duty and My Story are masterpieces, I'll give Memorial Address and Secret a pass, but Guilty is just lazy and uninspired.

If this goes all out disco, then this album fulfills the dance album promise of LOVEppears and Rainbow which Ayu has yet to deliver on.