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Originally Posted by Misa-chan
All songs in FIVE are connected by the theme of hope. Even the album art and PVs are linked in to the concept of hope, though the messages are all hidden. ayu herself has clarified all that in various mag interviews. So I won't call that "no concept".
If I had to name one ayu album that has absolutely no concept and is really just a mash of songs, m(u) will be my choice. To put it in the bluntest way, that album is literally just a bunch of unlinked singles and another bunch of unlinked songs written by GEO put together. But that doesn't make it any less wonderful; m(u) is one of my fav ayu albums actually.
So yea, it's nice when ayu albums have a concept, but does it really matter if it's "just a bunch of random stuff thrown together"? Does having no concept (or none that we've noticed at any rate) make a lousy ayu album? I don't think so. So, sorry but I have to totally disagree with you on this.
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I didn't say having no concept made it a lousy album, even though I do think it's a lousy album (because of the music). How on Earth are the album art and PVs connected to the theme of hope? progress and beloved, maybe, okay. But BRILLANTE, ANother song, and Why... have
nothing to do with hope. The album art is just Ayu looking fierce, and the booklet is just... Ayu covered in smeared lipstick. That has nothing to do with hope. If the album was about hope and not just as an afterthought (which, if anything, it had to be a REALLY REALLY REALLY late afterthought), hope would have been a lot more obvious. Because those songs and PVs are not about hope; the majority of them are about breakups and not in a hopeful way. Ayu may have said it was about hope, but I do not at all believe that she was genuinely thinking about hope before the album was almost finished.
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Originally Posted by Mami-chan
And yes, it didn't had its own real tour, but how can you make a whole tour from a 5 songs album? Still, she once said that for her FIVE represented the present she was in at the moment and it's also what she was singing about in PoM. ^^ Or at least this is my opinion  |
I understand what you're saying, but it didn't not have its own tour because it was only five songs. It didn't have its own tour because it didn't even exist yet when PoM began. Saying FIVE had a tour is like saying the 48-49-50 singles project had a tour. It was just an add on to a preexisting tour.