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Originally Posted by bondingo
I think it's both actually. I do appreciate that she tried something new with FIVE, but it was unfortunately a failure in my opinion. I'd like her to try new things that are truly untouched by her before, which we see here and there, but usually only for a song or two on each album (Sparkle on NL, Sexy little things and Don't look back on RnRC, and Do It Again on Ls). I just think there hasn't been enough reinvention. Sure she's covered a lot of genres, but it's generally the same ones we see, and when she strays from the usual recently, it's either only for a song or two, or only done in a minor way (i.e. the "electronic dabbling" of NL).
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Maybe the problem's with the fact that ayu's been using the same arrangers, plus her personal taste as well. I mean, she probably gets hundreds of demos from all sorts of composers, and I'm sure there will be at least a few ones that are really different and out there. But maybe they don't get chosen by ayu, and even if they do, maybe the arrangers twist it completely to give it that certain sound which some of us feel is "the same old boring thing". So it's not that new things don't get tried out, it's just that they probably never made it all the way to an album/single and to us, the listeners.
Besides, she's always been trying new things. With NL, she tried her hand at electro-pop. With RnRC, she tried out Arabian-styled music with Dlb. End of last year, she tried out a duet with a male singer. With FIVE, she experimented with more duets with another singer, RnB style, and whatever style BRILLANTE is. It's not like she hasn't been trying out new things, it's about whether we like them or not. If we happen to not like a few of the things she's been trying, we criticize her to heck and back, like what alot of people here are doing..
As someone pointed out, everyone has an opinion about when ayu's 'decline' started. From Secret on, RnRC on, I am... on, whatever. I just want to add that there are people like myself who think that she's never fallen, and is in fact better than she was 7-8 years ago. It's not that we're stupid fans who love everything blindly. I do have dislikes, for example, Lady D, do it again, BRILLANTE, I won't mind if ayu never did those songs. (now I'm gonna get murdered by BRILLANTE fans
) So yeah, everyone likes different things, and maybe it's easier to just try to love ayu for who she is now, and not how she was in the past. It's alright to have your own personal 'ayu peak', but to expect her to hit it with every single release is just setting yourself up for inevitable disappointment..