personally, the only reason I think people love I am... is because it's a solid album that's sort of right in that middle of her "changing" sounds...
as in...it doesn't have the 90s sound of a song for xx, it doesn't have the electronic pop/2000 sound of LOVEppears...doesn't have the darker feel of duty (and it's more solid)...but it was also like, the best of all of the ayu things from there. And it was after A BEST, which...was huge lets just say. So it's all a new album with lots of variety compared to her past albums, and every song is pretty much a good song with the exception of two or three...
Oh and then RAINBOW came out, which everyone hated. And it doesn't sound like that either. So it's like "omg this album sucks" after the last one was so good...or seemingly so good. It certainly looks better after a crappy album comes out
I have such a hard time expressing myself lol
whatever. I think...sometimes people hype it...but I also think there's a good reason why.
Overrated? meh. Her recent eras are just as overrated as her old ones imo. And there's reason for that too.
Personally, I prefer mature ayu, but with old ayu's music. Which obviously I'll never get, so whatever. memorial address-my story is a nice "era" cause it kinda transitions the two for me.