[ayumisrael]

I will take songs like SAKURA, petal and Bye-bye darling or any song that was sitting since the dawn of history (I don't recall which were the demos) over original songs that weren't made long ago but are less better. (Since these 3 were awesome in my book)

I can understand where Tom Punks and marty are coming from, it's much more fun knowing that ayu was working and making these new songs when she was working on that album rather than using songs from older times, and I'm glad too that for example, she is working on a new album, with new producers, probably making completely new songs for her and probably not using demos, BUT, as I stated, if the demos she is using, and she is not doing that as often as most/all of her songs (just because I like versatility), I think it's ok to do it if she needed and if she uses good demos and makes them to good songs which fit their respective album. I also believe ayu doesn't do it a lot, but if a lot of great songs she had were lying around demos then I don't care, as long as they are good.

Also as was stated, it's really not unheard of to do so, a lot of artists can use demos from albums years ago, that would have a similar theme to a new one and just use these and maybe make them new in ways arragement-wise especially.

I wouldn't say LOVEagain is bad because of demo use though. It's not my most favorite album of ayu, but it has many great songs, and a lot of them are the demos, because I think they sound really great, even if their were just drawn for an archieve. Now, if these songs would sound bad to me, then I wouldn't like them. Bottom line - I don't think that a song/album should be hated because how it was made, it should be hated if everything about the all of the music, theme and art is just bad.