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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
Even on albums like LOVEppears & Duty - which jump from bubblegum to rock to ballads to r&b and back again - she had a cohesive theme running through it, lyrically & musically; she had a graphic design concept that was interesting & specific to those albums that had a theme; she had a great single released the same day as those albums with graphic design that tied into the album. Just overall, each album had a "brand" to it, both visually & aurally. Albums since 2006 or so have been easy to kinda get mixed up & muddled together. It's easy to forget which token summer song is on which album, it's easy to forget if a song was on "Love songs" or "LOVE again," that kind of thing. And for new fans that's probably gonna make her discography even more intimidating than it already is.
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I have to disagree, most of albums still have a whole theme from begining to ending, that usually goes through the music, the lyrics, the booklets and her fashion choices (but I agree with seasonal singles). And I don't get how can mistake Love songs for Love again, as even if both are heavily inspired by mid-tempo 90's jpop, the former is focused on Ayu's trademark mix of poprock, dance music beats and orchestral music chords, those having the spotlight through the whole álbum. The album deals mostly with Ayu (finally) becoming an adult and noticing that even if she loves her career, there's nothing to her but her popstar live. Love again mixes several 90's musical influences, without having much of a sound indentity while dealing with the process of falling in love, breaking up, healing and falling in love again while being judged by everyone...
I'm glad she is avoiding the seasonal single thing.
Also, nops, I'm not a girl and I'm not trolling for attention, but if an artist stops releasing stuff I like, I stop following them... I have better use of my time than listening to stuff I dislike for the sole pleasure of complaing stuff were better before.