Quote:
Originally Posted by maikaru
Trust me, with a song like this, the Japanese public is already laughing at her. One look at the 2channel and other forums, and they're already heating up with blasting her.
Some prominent (And, unfortunately, funny) comments are :
"This is the 21st Century, right?"
"Amuro works with Zedd. Ayumi Hamasaki works with DJ Hello Kitty and Komuro. LOL"
"Wow, Amuro wants to try EDM so maybe Babasaki thought she might be desperate to try as well."
"Ayu's enka singing style with this 90s garbage song? Wow, I've heard everything."
I'm so disappointed. This came out of no where, and it's like she's trying to capture the success of recent, and now outdated, electronic waves.
She should have came back with a ballad. I know you guys don't want ballads right now, but if she wanted to release a single as a comeback, she should have released a nice ballad and sang it perfectly on TV and then everyone would hail the return of Hamasaki Ayumi.
This is just garbage, you guys. I'm flipping my table.
Even Na Na Na and Shake It are better than this, and I absolutely hate those songs.
|
maikaru, these people have never had anything nice to say about Ayu even when she was popular so it's not like it's a surprise that they said these things. You go to the Yahoo!Japan articles or 2ch threads and it's always the same thing. You only really see positive comments at Ayu-centric BBSes or threads and even then, some of the other people find their way in. It even happens with Amuro/any other act that's remotely popular. If anything, the presence of these idiots only reinforces her popularity since they don't even talk about other acts because of how irrelevant they are.
Well, I'm going to flip the table in celebration. Even though I might be criticized as a blind Ayu fan, I've genuinely eventually loved everything that Ayu's put out at some point. I don't really care if it makes me look bad to believe in her even when no one else does because I think I'm always going to support her especially in light of recent interviews and such.
Quote:
“No matter if I am myself, and no matter what kind of silly face I show to the world, there are people who never stopped believing in me.
So what is happiness to me? In the end, I don’t care if my life is a huge success or a huge failure. More importantly, it is to be believed in by someone other than myself. To be believed in and never given up on. That’s what I think is the meaning of life.”
|
IMO, she is not trying to do anything other than replicate what she had with You & Me and so far she seems to be successful. Do the words "You & Me was her last big hit (with 3.2 million YouTube views)" not mean anything to you?
Quote:
Originally Posted by relmy
Would people really be defending this track if it was by anyone else? If anything, I expect some idol debut to sound this dated, not somebody whose worked in the industry for 15 years.
What's worse is that this track isn't out of the blue, it sounds like a b-side version of You and Me. I hoped she'd go more Tell All than... this. I'm not a huge fan of Tell All either but at least she sounded like she wanted to be making music on that track.
|
Honestly? Probably not. But that goes for any artist really. Since this is an Ayumi Hamasaki-centric forum, Ayu isn't exactly just 'any other artist'. (**I am not saying that you have to like everything to be a fan, just saying I'm not going to be surprised if people actually like what Ayu put out regardless of what it is or if you personally think it's trash**)
This nonsense about this song not being music is sort of offensive to Ayu and anyone who worked on it, tbh.