Just listen to A COMPLETE, the A BEST 2s, or A BEST. You'll get a taste of how diverse she's been, I think.
Especially A COMPLETE. Sometimes it seems like she never sticks to a genre for more than a single or two, though lately of course, it's been summer/winter ballads.
Let me take out this interview snippet for you to read from ayu_iro's ORICON STYLE translation during 2004's MY STORY period:
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Oh, there were subjects you wanted to write about that much. Was it because you thought that to be truthful is the true part of your music?
I’ve always been the kind of person who gets into trouble because I’m too honest. I’m talking about as far as my lifestyle, and the things I say. As far as my songs go, with singles there’s always constraints, so I think for the past few years I’ve felt unfulfilled in that way. Like, I have to release them in the same cycle, a really cheerful song for summer, a ballad for winter... I’ve wanted to change that for a while, but since it’s not just my problem, I haven’t been able to really do it. But I really wanted to just do what I wanted to on this album. Because if I don’t feel anything when I listen to a song, my listeners aren’t going to feel anything either. I thought that if I made this album for myself, all songs that I felt something from, my listeners would have to feel something too. I really believe that.
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