[Zeke.]

Get real. Ayu rock is all her own. Bitch is one badass mother-f**ker when she wants to be. And she owns that shit. She pulls it off unbelievably well, and I feel as if her true self shines when she performs and/or releases this heavy and intense style of music. To say she's "posing" with this style is unheard of. If anything, her "cutesy" act is the most "poser" and 'scripted'. I don't mind that act, and always look forward to those segments in her shows, but when I think of Ayu and her attitude, everything that has made her a star and who she is as a performer, it's definitely her performing those hard-hitting rock songs, not some crowd-chanting rendition of SURREAL, or what-have-you. When she performs rock, be it Memorial address, is this LOVE?, a heavy rendition of A Song For XX, or the epicness that is Microphone a la AT10, that is when I feel taken a back by her star power, and sincerely feel in my heart "Now, this is Ayu. This is why I love her." She demands presence, attention, and recognition during those moments, ever so effortlessly, and without flaw.

Ironically, I listened to Microphone today and I have to admit I am positively starved for her to return to that style. It was the last "epic" rock song she's released. Yeah she's released a few since then, and although they aren't bad, and some are actually pretty good, none have been on that same "polished" 'complete' and 'epic' level as the bangers that came before Microphone.