I was cringing when I watched her Lelio PV. She just looks odd as a 35-year old singing and dressed as if she were a person in her early twenties.
A majority of the things that came out when she was at the peak of career did get refined and shaped by other people, even if they were all her ideas. Now that she's lost that filter, all her current work is just sad to see.
She does have difficulty reinventing herself since she was never trained to be a dancer but an artist/singer. I see her posing a lot in her PVs and I'm disappointed to see why she won't learn basic choreography with her dancers since dance groups/kpop are big now.
My friend went to one of her concerts in Osaka recently and she was amused by how staged it was. She had a good laugh about Ayu's fake crying and looking sad for all the ballads. She did struggle a lot with her voice too. Sigh. Her career the last 6-7 years is just
I just feel sad for her
