[ayumisrael]

How can one lyrically like A Song for xx but not like songs like reminds me and its whole section and even songs like SAKURA is beyond me.

Personally, AT12 was one of her best tours both in concept and entertainment (vocally as well) especially better than most pre 2009 tours. I get that people get/got disconnected with her, but there's no need to be extreme in the matter of voicing opinions of her like she became a drug holic nonchalant killer. At least with her recent relationship/marriage it doesn't seem like she is going to shove her husband in her work and she's gonna try new stuff (which shows she cares a lot).

I also have a theory that the fact that she is not promoting as much as she used to and don't have long full eras of styles, performances and promotions on TV/mags don't let people feel her or that she has an era going on, or a concept for an era/album/album promo.

Also it was said earlier that A COMPLETE was nothing special. It didn't have a lot of stuff but overall it was a really great package, -especially- for the Japanese (which is her most thought of target audience if not almost the only) and it bared fruits too successfully. From just before starting to sell less than half a million it got her back to 850,000 on that time for this album. Except for a new single song and a new version for a 10th annivesary song she didn't really have to do much since anniversary albums usually don't celebrate new material. (Nor best albums but a lot have 1-2 new songs to promote them).