Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - View Single Post - 14th album 'LOVE again' out February 8th, 4th of five 15th anniversary releases [III]
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Old 31st December 2012, 06:05 PM
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You & Me is on there. Ugh. I really don't get these things. You & Me was a new song and a part of a compilation album. She never puts (and in practice this rule goes for all new songs that are included on compilation albums) the new compilation album track on the next studio album. It's just funny that she breaks this rule with You & Me which is horrible, yet one of her most amazing songs which is part of Me was not on the album.

I really don't know what the heck is she doing with all these releases but it's not good at all. She releases two maxi singles masked as mini albums and then just combines their names and makes an album out of them. Where the hell has all the creativity gone? An album titled "LOVE again"? Really?

I don't know, but she really didn't need this whole "5 releases" thing in her discography at all. I mean, vogue, Far away and SEASONS was a great project and it made a lot of sense. Kumi's 12 weeks 12 singles were at least marketed as singles (as well as v/Fa/S) so one would expect they would eventually end up on an album or a compilation album. IMHO their masking of LOVE and again as mini albums was a terrible move and completely unnecessary (maybe not for avex, but for fans it definitely was).

Also her covers are just getting worse and worse. I won't comment further on this since this is all subjective.

Meh I just don't know what to think of this all.