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Originally Posted by krtman2002
I've always loved watching new Ayumi lives but is it only me how misses her new music? I remember waiting for news about her new concert to watch performances of new music but that era is gone.
I think she deserves to rest for a while. Create more music and come back as the queen she is.
Ayu please, a new full album would be great.
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100% agree. I love Ayu, but having tried to watch the last concert tour on DVD, it just felt, well... stale? uninspired? ...low effort? Point is, it wasn't a performance even on par with where she was two years ago, and a far cry from where she was 5 years ago.
It dawned on me, looking at Generasia the other day, that it's been 3 years since we had an album, nearly 4.5 since we had an original single. I think it's OK to take a break, but I'm a little peeved that Ayu has done these back-to-back tours for the last few years with little to no attention paid to the other areas of being a music artist, like new music, PVs, fan-based events and interviews and public engagement. If she's going to just go on tour, set up a residency in Tokyo and just perform the old hits 3 nights a week until she retires for good.
Going on tours but not making an effort anywhere else is just confusing and misleading. This is her
fifth tour since Made In Japan was released in 2016. I could see her doing occasional performances, but headlining tours are usually announced with new albums and compilations attached, even with artists that have been around for 40 years. It's a bit frustrating that Seiko Matsuda will only tour with a new release, that Yumi Matsutoya will only do it with a new release or a new compilation record, that Koda Kumi will double up on new albums to justify two tours in the same calendar year, but Ayu is like "I'm going on the road again! Performing all the same songs I performed the last FIVE times I went on tour." And even at this point, making minimal changes between actual tour performances. I thought it was bad when the CDL and the tour became indistinguishable a few years back, but seeing some of the reviews and knowing the 2019 tour was announced as a brand new tour and it's damn near the same tour as the last one with a few song changes... It's like, please, Ayu, apply yourself a little. She's so much more talented than to settle for low effort, low creative output.
Sadly, I keep hoping that one day she'll host an Instagram live or something and tell us how she's really become dissatisfied with things over the last few years and that she's going to go back to releasing new singles, filming new videos, releasing new remixes and a new A BEST and A BALLADS, and if people buy them, great, if they don't, it doesn't matter because there will always be someone out there whose life will feel fuller because of it. She's worth nearly a half billion dollars. Even if she kept her budgets to 50k-100k per video, it would take her decades to burn through a noticeable portion of that. Just do it, Ayu. Do it for the sake of art, even if a lot of people don't see it.