How satisfied are you with the 48-49-50th singles?

[GRACE]

well lets see here...

Songs: MOON was phenomenal, it captured that old Ayumi Hamasaki feeling very well. blossom was great in concept, but I felt like the verses and chorus were too disconnected. Plus the harmony in the chorus is one of her worst, whoever mixed it needs to be executed.

crossroad was a pretty strong single, surprisingly enough. The Chaku-uta version remains horrendous, but I'm glad someone was able to catch how bad it was and fix the arrangement. SEVEN DAYS WAR doesn't count to me, it's not her song. My problem with the crossroad single is that it was treated as TK's comeback single instead of Ayu's 49th single.

Onto L. WTF was she thinking with Sweet Season? This year's Sunset, it may even be worse than Sunset. It's just... awful. Virgin Road took some growing, but it disappoints me in the end. Her voice now just... can't sustain a song like that. If Virgin Road had been released five years ago, it probably would have been her best song ever. It disappoints me because of all it could have been. Last angel is perfect though, it's trance heaven.

Music Videos: MOON, crossroad and Sweet Season essentially had the same music video. She sits around for five minutes and something "shocking" happens at the end. And they were all boring as hell. She needs to stop making videos like this. blossom was boring as well, but I'm not a fan of those drama videos. Would have rather had her sit around and sing blossom tbh. Virgin Road was the only good PV from this project, and not for the reason I'm sure she intended. Virgin Road was comedic gold, easily the funniest thing she's ever done. The climax of it was disappointing though, with them on the water tower and her singing. It was so lazy.

Covers: I only like the crossroad covers in terms of idea and photoshoot. L and M/b's photoshoots were really lame. She looked incredibly fake and plastic on all of them. The worst part about them is they weren't special. They looked like everything else she's done for the past two years. For this project, I was expecting... something. But I got nothing.

Avex's Mishaps: avex ****ed this up. They really did absolutely nothing right for the promotion of these singles. From short versions of the PVs, to her limited TV lives, and canceling L's bonuses. They messed up BIG time, and shouldn't have given the supposed grandeur of the project.

OVERALL:
Songs I love: MOON, crossroad, Last angel
PVs I like: Virgin Road
Covers I like: blossom/MOON CD-only, crossroad CD+DVD, crossroad CD-only A

tl;dr: expected more, liked portions, hated others. Disappointed.