[dreamalley]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

To me being an artist isn't chipping away at things that make you "artful", such as releasing a single or two every year or not copying your CDL performance for the next year's tour. It's not removing all the interludes from your albums, or dialing back the creative album covers. It's not a total of 3 whole pictures for the entire album booklet when she's done entire photobooks on a whim. Ayu says more product to me today because she's literally doing the only thing that makes a lot of money: touring. There's no new music, no attempt to promote when there is new music... the album art is half-assed, the albums went from 16 to 12 to 13 to 10, 10, 8 [WTF?!] songs, some of the songs became copies of other songs from the year before, it just puts it out there without directly saying it: "Not making an effort here... but come see me on tour! I've got A~20th POWER of MUSIC citronella candles for summer! A-YU-MOSQUITO-PROOF...?"