Things Avex Could Have Done To Improve (m)u sales

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Originally Posted by RoboNyanya

But you know what I'm saying? I'm not sure how long Koda's been around, but from what I've seen she's been doing quite well (especially this year) and her approach seems to be well, very different from Ayu's *cough*skank*coughohgodnottheface*.

I should not talk about Koda, because I'm not the least interested in her, and I know basically nothing about her except what I've snapped up from the various discussions that spurt out of no-where all the time. Koda has been around for 6 years, she had her break through this year, much thanks to her quite free approach to what counts as clothes or dance, by what I understand.

Since Koda's been so successful and both are Avex girls, I think ,whether or not it was Avex or Ayu pulling the strings, her looks on say, the cover of 'Startin'/Born to Be' may have been some sort of reaction to Koda's popularity? Of course, I can always accept the idea of Ayu just changing with the times, but it did seem like a sudden, almost unnatural deviation.

I understand what you're saying, but I don't like thinking this way. They used the same photographer, and it's the photographer that comes up with much of the theme, together with the artist himself/herself. Leslie Kee has talked about how it is to work with Ayu, and he's expressed himself like that she's a woman who knows what she wants.

Of course this is a speculation, and it could be that way, but from my view, I do not think so.