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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^If u take off the vocals, Depend on you, Kanariya, Vogue, M, Real Me, ourselves, moments, bold & delicious, 1love, guilty, mirrorcle world and sparkle doesn't sound as something released by the same person, even if all of them have that "ayu" feeling to them in the end... Agreeing with Sunshine Slayer (omg :O this is getting more and more common), this is reinventing yourself... I'm pretty sure that if Ayu didn't release one album a year, she would be a lot less "old" to japanese right know cuz she really knows how to keep fresh (taking Utada as an example of jpop singer that's keeps changing on every album but doesn't over release).

Even if I'm not a Namie fan, she faced LOTS of taboos and still was able to return to the top, when she started the hip hop thing, it wasn't the "it" thing on Japan, and when she released Play, everyone who follows trends were doing hip hop and she was already changing to something else. IMO Namie is not as good as Ayu when it's about reinventing, but she still is far better at this than most female jpop stars. She deserves respect, as much as the other few jpop singers that were able to... (and to be a little more direct... my problem with Seiko Matsuda is that she is stuck on the 15-years-old-cute-virgin-girl for more than 20 years, and Koda is trying to change her sexy image for some time now (she stated at least twice that she was going to have a more serius and less sexual image) and needs to go back to it everytime... But Namie, she doesn't need to sing Can you celebrate anymore if she doesn't want to...

That's one of the things why I consider Ayu to be quite superior in when it comes to making music - diversity of genres. Her image is constantly changing which is a good thing in a way. I pretty much agree with what you said