I don't like how "fans" are supposed to love everything and worship Ayu (or whatever it is they're a fan of). I don't think "satisfied" is the right word to use here; it makes it sound like Ayu is our music slave who has to please us. She doesn't. But at the same time, she's been making musical choices that just don't suit my taste. I think the quality of her music has gone down recently, it just doesn't have the passion it once did. And that's understandable after some really modern masterpieces and years of hustling. But I think B&D and Pride are total crap. I don't look at it as growth in a new direction, I see it as "Well, I guess I've done it all, so now I can put out really random stuff that doesn't really mean that much." It's like she's just going through the motions.

As for why fans who feel this way keep visiting AHS -- we're still fans. Music is like literature, it's eternal. And people like to discuss things like that. There are forums out there for people to discuss Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, a million other people who are, bluntly, dead. They're not just fans of those writers so they can sit around going "OMG, Shake's new poem is out on 11.65.3009!" You can be a fan of old stuff that's no longer being made. They're called classics.