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I think it seemed rushed because the 'GEOness' came so suddenly. Single release was Nov, and she finished the album by then..
Most of the GEO songs I think were recorded in a studio in NY.. :\ So some of them were rushed. /shrug though
"-Interviewer: ‘MY STORY’ has 17 tracks, so it’s a pretty long album. When did you start work on it?
-Ayumi: I began right after this year’s tour was over, so around May or June. I felt very strongly that I wanted to take my time with it.
-Did that have something to do with the fact that your ‘Memorial Address’ released last year, was a mini album, and you hadn’t released a full length album since ‘Rainbow’ in 2002?
-Last year’s was a mini album, so I feel like for fans who were expecting a full length album, it must have been like, ‘This is it?’. I’m sure they wanted to hear more. So this year I wanted to take my time making this record. Also, during ‘Rainbow’, there was a part of me that didn’t know what I should make my priority anymore, and it felt like I just somehow finally was able to make it into a full album. I didn’t want to feel that way again, and I didn’t want to do that method of creating, or of giving it to my fans. So last year that most that I could possibly do turned out to be a mini album. But I didn’t want to deal with feeling so pressed for time this year, and I didn’t want have a target date set, so I decided to ask if I could start working on it early.
-You wanted to put out something that you were really pleased with. So, does that mean that you made the singles you released this year while envisioning the album?
-That’s right. I made them with the idea that they’d been on the album. But I didn’t have any kind of concept for the album, I just wanted to put together a bunch of songs that I liked. I didn’t really care if they went together. So I really had hundreds of possible songs, and I gave them to various people to do different kinds of arrangements for, and wanted to just pick the only the ones I liked from all of that."
Quoted from article from AHS.
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