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Originally Posted by voltron
^ Totally agree.
I think she still very much cares about her career, and her art. It has evolved and taken different shapes over the years. She continually puts her all into concerts and trying to one-up herself year after year.
With regards to her music, she is making the music that she wants to. YEARS ago when she was still doing singles, she said she was going to break her cycle of the seasonal singles and doing what was expected. She has always had a rock-leaning side, and that has become more and more prevalent over the years, despite the fact that it is not what the general public wants to hear (from her, or in general). She cares about her career and putting out music that she loves, and that she thinks her fans will love, but what I don't think she cares about is top 40 mainstream radio (or at least not as a primary concern).
Would Ayu love to be all over the place again and selling out dome tours? She probably wouldn't complain. But you're also not going to see her take a step back and go back to being some anonymous mystery, putting out whatever scraps from a US producer her label throws at her. That may work for Namie or others to be completely non-offensive and _generic (and hell, I enjoy plenty of Namie songs as mindless drivel), but you will NEVER see Ayu do that -- she has too much personal investment in her music and her art, even if you/we do not always like the result.
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As far as the rock side of things goes, honestly I feel like she's done less and less of it until the most recent album. A ONE had WARNING, the rest was vanilla. LOVE again had Wake me up (a few rock elements) and the rest was vanilla. CoLOURS had no rock whatsoever. I am... was very rock, 1 LOVE was almost a single, alterna was on a single, and look at t2m. And step you/is this love? That was 10 or more years ago. MY STORY was very rock - 2007. I feel she's pandered to vanilla more so than anything past 4 years.