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Old 5th September 2011, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by love in music View Post
Yeah while this is OT ia with you and noticed the same but I notice a lot of people that prefer old ayu claim that they loved every single song up until a certain album (usually it's GUILTY or NL). To each their own but I myself really can't understand how people can love every.single.song on her pre-2009 albums and go on about how the quality of everything was just so much better than it is now. Like come on now. If everything in the past was sooo much better then girlish would be > Sparkle and that's obv not the case.
Well, speaking only for myself, I would take Girlish over Sparkle any day. But I am one of the few people that just doesn't think Sparkle is anything that great to begin with. I don't love EVERY song pre-guilty, there some that I only think are OK. But in general I am more likely to listen to them than the songs that I thought were just ok from guilty/next level/rnrc. I don't include Love Songs because I actually really like that album a lot; then Five took a nose dive.

I like a lot of what Relmy has been saying in this thread.

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Originally Posted by hidekirby View Post
Well, her voice has gradually got worse since 2006-2007 imo. I think it was with the JEWEL lives (not sure though).
Yep, I also pinpoint it exactly at the Jewel lives. I didn't consider her voice bad then, but it was when I noticed a change from before. I also think by far her best vocal period was 03-05, maybe even from the fall of 02(not counting the CDL as she was sick then). Since then I think her vocals are been off, she just has times that are more off than others. So when people say that she has "better vocals now" referring to the Power of Music tour etc., I always wonder "better than what?" They are still off, just not as off as say 2008, for example.

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