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Originally Posted by bluegie
Yeah I know lol  . I dun even know why I wrote a paragraph about NINKI when I know that you must know about it lol. Yeah I'm just weird today.
I dun, at least myself, hate the single. I guess I'm indifferent to it, and I dun extremely concern how well/poor it performs on the chart AS LONG AS ayu's getting another no. 1. I hope I would at least like it, but it's just hard to when everything is not up to standard.
Lately whenever I drive my old car, I put the old ayu cds and listen to all the tracks. I just finished LOVEppears and right now listening Duty. When I heard Far away, I was thinking how good it will be if ayu's releasing something like that.. And to tell you the truth when I didn't really like this song back in 2000. It's a normal song, but it has concept. The pv is plain, but it has a theme behind it... Anywayz, the thing I wanna say is.. I'm not wishing ayu to make old stuff.. I do wish her to invent something new with concepts (from the song, to the cover, and to the pv). Right now she's just doing something over and over, which is quite sad. We all know that she can make something great, it's just she choose to soften her music (ahh... yeah... her past work at emo and dark). |
I agree with everything you said.
Sparkle though was something new to ayu (at least in the electro style) and it's one of her best up-beat songs imo though that's really the only something new she did putting an a full album that is electro influenced and it had a theme but I think that it's potential went down the toilet since it wasn't hit-ted with album hits and 3 hit single songs aren't enough (Sparkle, Days, Rule). NEXT LEVEL got lost in translation, mainly arrangements, PVs and maybe lyrics wise too even though deep lyrics aren't a neccesaty for me unless if they are pure crap and all rubbish. It's easy for me to relate to all kinds of lyrics.
Even though NEXT LEVEL had some random deeps and concepts behind it but yeah.
Execution.
Without getting in too much details I hope ayu will make some grandiose stuff again. I like what she does, but it wouldn't hurt to get smashing hits from her from time to time =D.
She does that once a year with one song but it's not enough and it's not getting special recongnisions always for some different and other reasons.
(I still think that Sparkle is one of the most under-rated single songs she has at least general public-wise).