[waterballoon]

NEXT LEVEL actually brought my love back for dance music and I dug out my FutureSex/LoveSounds album and I ended up listening to Justin Timberlake more than Ayu...

My point is, there's nothing wrong with Ayu going with a new style, but at the end of the day, the only stand-out dance track on NEXT LEVEL was Sparkle. As much as I love rollin', I think Sparkle was the only 'real' dance track on NEXT LEVEL.

So in the end, what is it about NEXT LEVEL? The only thing I can see from it is arrangement/theme-based... I'm okay with the sales but again this album feels so energetic but again it's so... lazily-produced if you get what I mean.

Maybe if she got longer time to make this (instead of getting rushed by avex), it would be better, which might inspire better sales.