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Originally Posted by Ayu-me
You're allowed to have your own opinion, but I have to say that this post makes it like YOU're the one on the condescending high horse.
First off, the point of a "BEST"-album is to show off an artists BEST songs/greatest hits. This particular best-album is meant to show off Ayu's summer hits, of which one of the biggest happens to be Boys & Girls, so I don't see any reason why that song shouldn't have been included.
Second, some of Ayu's newer releases were also included because this best-album isn't specialised on showing off a specific Ayu era, it's meant to show off Ayu's summer hits over her whole career. Sunrise ~LiA~ was a relatively big hit for Ayu, though I'm not sure about Sunset/ANother song (but I'm pretty sure both of those did well on digital charts).
Third, I'm surprised at the way you seem to take such personal affront by this album. Not every Ayu release is going to satisfy you, if you don't like something you can ignore it, one single album won't ruin your world, Ayu won't come knocking on your door if you don't buy her releases.
So calm down. I'm fine with your dislike of this album, but you don't need to act as if this is somehow personal. Releasing albums that are in essence, unnecessary, is part of the money-milking that music labels thrive on, they don't force you into liking or buying any of it. You can keep on living your life as you wish, you can buy or not buy any release from Ayu you want to.
When it comes to my own opinions on this album, I can agree that the album isn't all that necessary, but I don't own many of Ayu's albums yet so filling my collection with some more songs (including a completely new one) plus a DVD with Ayu's a-nation performances is good enough reason for me to buy it.
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Well, I apologize for coming off the way I did. I realize a simple "I do not care for this track list" would have sufficed, but I was a little angry for the way the person I quoted was being a sarcastic, snarky snotface to someone else for calmy expressing their opinion, and I do realize I ended up taking the bulk of that anger out on the album.
That being said, I do like most of the songs on this album, and a little bit of my frustration is coming from the fact Ayu has not released a legit single since L in... 2010 was it? I've been a fan of Ayu since 2003-2004, although I was a just a casual listener and listened to a few singles here and there, every now and then. I didn't really start "following" her music until 2009 when I heard Rule in the freaking movie theater when I went to see Dragon Ball Evolution. One thing I liked about Ayu was up until Love Songs, she had this... consistency, this order to her releases. She'd spend the year working on singles and then at the end of the year/beginning of the following year, she'd release the album. She even kept that same formula with Memorial Address, which was in fact a mini album but most of the songs were singles as well. The formula stopped with Five. I get that she's got a lot of things working against her right now, especially since the formula changed: marriage and divorce, getting older, tabloids and papparazzi probably being worse than usual because of her divorce, etc, and I'm really sympathetic about it. I just don't react well to change, and I'm sorry for the way I came off in my post.