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Old 12th April 2009, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ayulove_18 View Post
Well to me I thought your comment was pretty rude. It is mean to tell people they have no life. They where just giving there opinion. I didn't see anything yet about people getting mad at her for the decision she made. They just didn't like it and wanted/thought it was going to be something different thats all. No big deal.
Fair enough. I guess I have no life either for reading the 22 pages of this thread, lol. But still, I made sure I gave my opinion after wasting time out of my life to read a thread full of overdramatic opinions that njanjayrp already pointed out.

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Originally Posted by polka-dot-jewel View Post
And I think people are misinterpreting the "NEXT LEVEL" part of the tour title - it's called "ARENA TOUR 2009 ~NEXT LEVEL~" because 1) it's her 2009 tour, and 2) the tour is promoting her "NEXT LEVEL" album. Just because it's called NEXT LEVEL doesn't necessarily mean she's going to pull out some new tricks on us. Besides some of the songs being different and this being the entrance to her second decade as a singer, I doubt there's much new to her, the tour, etc etc.
Thank you for bringing this up. People have been misinterpreting the title 'NEXT LEVEL' since day one. I swear if someone makes another lame "LOL THIS IS REALLY NEXT LEVEL!" or "EW THIS ISN'T NEXT LEVEL!" pun one more time...

The title NEXT LEVEL has nothing to do with quality like people seem to think. If Ayu was going to make a statement about quality she would have named the album "HIGH LEVEL" or "LEVEL UP!", lol. It's just a step in a different direction. Musically, yes it was different, and was received with mixed results. It was never Ayu's intention to make some kind of pretentious statement about how awesome the album is, so it's entirely your own fault if you have higher expectations than you usually would just because everything has the name 'NEXT LEVEL' attached to it.