^I agree. The reason why her earlier albums didn't have as many interludes might be, because each album from "A Song for XX" to "RAINBOW" had a different style. "Memorial address" is like a transition and after this her albums became like a mix of her earlier styles. Take the "I am..." singles, for example, all (most) of them fit together. While with "NEXT LEVEL" she released "GREEN" and "Days" vs. "Rule" and "Sparkle".
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Originally Posted by bluegie
Sometimes I dun even know if ayu was rushing the album out. Back then she could release LOVEppears in Nov 1999, then Duty on Sep 2000. And she could release I am in Jan 2002, and RAINBOW in Dec of the same year. And back then she got more to do... more magazine shots, more tours (remember AT tour and stadium tour?), more singles, more live appearances, etc. So basically it may imply that she rushed out Duty and RAINBOW as well. Who knows if she wrote the stuff in the very last mins as well (since she didn't write that much on the net back then)?
So I can't really judge the album quality by how much time she has spent on, and we dun really know if she just wrote the lyrics in the last few mins, or she just decided to make a big modification on the lyrics during rush times... There're too many possibilities to guess.
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Thank you. ^^ I wanted to write something along those lines as well.
I think it's just recently that we have informations as to the recording process. Since "Secret", I'd say? We don't really know how busy she was during the other albums. Maybe your favourite is the most "rushed". Who knows? I wonder, do people actually HEAR that the seemingly rushed albums are "rushed"? Because it does seem as if some people are giving themselves excuses to not liking something (though one doesn't have to feel sorry about liking or not liking something). ayu did say herself during the TIME Asia interview that even if she's got 1 month, she starts doing the work during the last 3 days.