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Originally Posted by Raiu-Ayu
I recently read something I agree with about ayu: her audience has grown up but ayu hasn't. She still writes like its 2001/2 but her fans have moved on and gotten bored.
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Originally Posted by UHPlus
To put it simply, Namie's music is much more interesting and evolving than other female solo artists out there, hence people are willing to buy her CDs...
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I'm just going to reference Ayu's latest single. So this whole post is going to talk about her winter ballads cause it's the best example.
Ayu does something that turns out amazing, and then she (for some reason) thinks it's the ticket to success and keeps the same formula. The latest single she released was just three typical songs. No way to say was great, it was one of the first "grand winter songs", but then she did it again with momentum, and together when, and you were, Moon, and blah blah blah. The rest is history.
Since she never changes her music, if you dislike that type of winter song, you're generally going to dislike every winter song she subsequently releases. I mean, not just that, but how many times has she performed surreal~evolution~surreal? How many times has she had a tissue dance at her performances? It's great the first time, but then she keeps on doing it.
When you release something, it's to sell well. Producers release singles with questions in mind like "What's Trending? What's popular right now? What's going to sell well? What are consumers interested in listening to right now?" Music changes through time, 70's music does not sound like 80's music. 90's music does not sound like 00's music. It constantly evolves so you have to change with it. Ayu's songs were great in the beginning, but since she's still releasing "ballads" that sound like something she could have slapped onto Memorial Address, people are bored.
To the stans who buy all 9 versions of her releases and never take them out of the plastic, and to people who really love her (everyone on this forum lol) everything she releases is great. However when you release a song as the next single that's going to be played on the radio, you're supposed to think of the general consumers. You're not making a song with stans in mind (besides eminem). To the general people when Ayu releases yet another generic winter ballad, they're rolling their eyes like "doesn't she already have a hundred of these songs?"
With Namie, I don't think anything is typical. I really don't think she has a "typical" ballad or a "typical" dance song. Wild, In the spotlight, Alive, Black out, Want me want me, etc. They're all hot dance tracks that don't sound anything alike. It doesn't sound like she's reusing the same formula for further releases. Everyone is going to have a few songs that sound similar. Namie has Beautiful, Let me let you go, Contrail ~ballad version~, arigatou. Pretty much anything that's piano driven by Namie but they don't sound typical and they're few and far in between compared to Ayu's. Namie had a huge overhaul in her image, and music style back when it wasn't working. She started making relevant songs, and kept up with what's currently popular. Whereas Ayu is releasing generic winter ballad #17.
I mean this is all my speculation. Please no one tear me apart because of this post.