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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I can say I find Boys & Girls, AUDIENCE, UNITE!, ANGEL'S SONG, among others dull and generic. Most lyrics on PQ don't reflect NaNaNa on the same way most lyrics on her past albums reflect the songs I cited... As I said, not that anyone must like anything she does, but her lyrics still have their fair share of interesting stuff and generic stuff...

About the Lonely Queen stuff (I really dislike this therm, as IMO it reduces the whole album concept on a stupid way), IMO it was done on an amazing way... Party Queen if one of the few pop albums I heard that can be trully considered a concept album. Still, I can understand why someone would dislike it, and I do believe it is a little pretentious

I just feel like her lyrics don't get to me as much as they did in the past. They don't move me, even if its something that is relevant to my life.

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

I wonder about this, too. Sometimes it seems like fans don't like her new stuff simply because it is not her old stuff. But if the roles were reversed and songs like Dearest for example were released now, fans would be critical. And maybe they were. I wasn't apart of the ayu fan community back then, thank God.



This I disagree with. I feel like ayu sings with just as much, or even more emotion as she use to. You don't hear it in songs like (m)u, criminal, HEAVEN, JEWEL, Talkin 2 myself, GUILTY, fated, Together When..., untitled for her, NEXT LEVEL, count down, Love song, MOON, November, Return road, reminds me etc.?

I feel like there are some songs where she really feels what she sings about, and that's when you can hear it, these days. But, there are times when I think she's just hamming it up. Maybe because she's established now and not feeling those old emotions, just doing what she loves and putting on a good show?