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Old 9th August 2018, 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi View Post

Starting from Memorial Address to NEXT LEVEL she defined her aesthetic and formulas. Now every album had a summer up beat song, a winter ballad, a concert ending track, a sassy girl power track, etc. IMO this is Ayu at her most comercial.
I agree with this, yes. But that's one of the reasons why I cut it off at '06. The summer winter ballad thing hadn't become repetitive yet or at least not so much so that it became annoying and formulaic. For me that's '07 onwards.

Totally disagree about Love Songs and Love Again though. I mean, I actually don't associate those two albums together at all even. Love Songs came out less than a year after Rock n' Roll Circus, so I felt those had much more in common with each other. Love Again was just a mess and I try to forget it happened, haha.