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[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE

Mmm, well I guess Ayu wouldn't exactly completely change her genre like Madonna does, but Asfxx, LOVEppears, Duty, RAINBOW, and I am... are such starkly different albums and styles, at least to my ears. Since Memorial Address and on, it's like she's found her signature style and has stuck to it, with exceptions here and there.

I would say her signature style started with RAINBOW because I still hear influences from that album every now and then, most recently in Love songs. Can you hear the subtle reference to Real me in sending mail? Or a bit of Heartplace in Last Links?

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

I would say her signature style started with RAINBOW because I still hear influences from that album every now and then, most recently in Love songs. Can you hear the subtle reference to Real me in sending mail? Or a bit of Heartplace in Last Links?

Musically, definitely her summer songs like BLUE BIRD, Sunrise, fairyland, etc are modeled after independent and July 1st from RAINBOW era, and yeah you can definitely see lyrical references in her newer works.

More recently November seems like it borrowed from a lot of older works and so did crossroad, among others I've noticed.

I guess we can never be sure to what extent it's on purpose, though.