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Originally Posted by bluegie
No one really knows how much time she had to prepare for the old albums. Back then she didn't post much on TA and we didn't know the progress of the albums at all. I think she was much more busy before. We can use 2002 as an example:
01.01 - I am released, lots of promotions
March - Daybreak, ayu-mi-x 4
April - Free & Easy (promotions, new cms)
July - H (quite a lot of promotions for 3 songs)
Sep - Voyage
Oct to Nov - lots of new cms, magazines shots, etc.
Dec - RAINBOW, award ceremonies, etc.
And don't forget she had TWO tours in 2002: the usual AT, and the Stadium Tour. She also started doing "Ayu Ready?" in October. So to me I really think she could be rushing out the albums as well.
I dun really think what Sunshine implied is ayu is "lazy" or something like that. What he's trying to say could be "if ayu did some more promotions, the album might have better sales", and I think this is pretty logical. Of course I dun mind ayu not going to do many promotions because she should have her own life instead of doing unacceptably crazy promotions. I do wish she would attend a few more shows tho simply because I wanna see her on live. That's all.
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1. I did assume that some of her other albums had been done with more time. I never said this was true.
2. I never said SunshineSlayer called ayu lazy, I was just using the term to make a point.
Even with RAINBOW's schedule being like that, she did not start a tour straight after its release giving her time to promote, that's the main difference here. And when she has started a tour after, she's had a decent gap between releases around the album giving her time to prepare for tours and promote. And did she really promote RAINBOW with TV lives a lot? I don't remember there being too many, besides the usual christmas/new year lives she does. Even if Ayu finished NEXT LEVEL 2 weeks before it was released, if she didn't have to spend time rehearing for the Arena Tour she would have done a heap of promotion.
I really think she didn't promote because she simply did not have time. I don't think she's boycotted TV lives, her priorities are just elsewhere. The big mistake was organising the Arena Tour for April - but I don't really think Ayu is too concerned with sales and promotion, which is the point SunshineSlayer was sorta making.