Your biggest Ayu disappointments

[ExodusUK]

Some fans really don't know Ayu at all (through the sentiments in her lyrics and interviews she's done) if they believe she would get married to promote an album..you must think so little of her.

[love in music]

Originally Posted by Heavenly Zerase

I know that this will be terrible for some fans and I will be bashed but my one and only ENORMOUS two disapointments have been:
-Getting married to promote an album
-Lypsinching in a concert using pre-recordered vocals

First of all - lol.

Second of all, she got married because she fell in love. I'm sure some people who dislike Mannie would like to think she didn't really fall in love with him and it was all for promotion, but that's not reality.

Originally Posted by Mai82Go

Not about to bash, but if promoting Love Songs by marrying Mannie really was Ayu's masterplan she failed miserably - so I don't think that was the reason she did it. After all she didn't get divorced and then engaged to JUNO or Nao for promoting FIVE.

this.

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Some fans really don't know Ayu at all (through the sentiments in her lyrics and interviews she's done) if they believe she would get married to promote an album..you must think so little of her.

and this.

[JackieRos]

I'm always being disappointed about her magazine and album covers.
When people say that a particular looks amazing and I always wonder if we seeing the same ones.

Specific Five and moon blossom cover

[FoObY]

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by FoObY

You know I never really took a good, long, hard look at this picture and wow, it really is so terribly cheap. Not just the expression on her face, but the entire design is so amateur!! It's unbelievable, lol.

[NintendoHTF1242]

I was gonna say BRILLANTE, but I think that was more of the fans' fault because everybody kept saying what a masterpiece it was and how flawless it was and how they don't need air if they had that track. I listened to it with really high expectations, and wasn't blown away by it.

I guess for me it'd have to be...Wow I don't really know lol. I'm not disappointed in what Ayu does music-wise since the music will grow on me sooner or later (Love songs is way guilty of this lol). So I honestly don't know D:

EDIT: Oh seeing FoObY posting the Sunrise/Sunset cover gave me a lightbulb haha. Yeah those covers were way disappointing, considering she went to Bali (which is beautiful) and we got those...

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

why so negative...

[Chibi-Chan]

no more CREA y-y

[YUKARI]

no more CREA
Secret
RnR circus

RAINBOW album along with Real me song were also a dissappointment for me, but now I like it.

[pommy48]

I become an Ayu fan in 2008, so I'll only talk about her activities since then

- The release of GUILTY, NEXT LEVEL (especially identity and LOVE'n'HATE), Rock'n'Roll Circus, Love songs, FIVE ( I'm not even sure why I'm an Ayu fan haha)
- CDL 07-08
- Most of her photoshoots with Kazuyoshi
- The overuse of her dancers in EVERYTHING SINGLE THING
- FIVE Collabs (not because I hate Naoya or JUNO, but I expected an all-original Ayumi Hamasaki album and not "Ayu+friends")
- Sunrise/Sunset covers
- 48/49/50 singles - There was just all of this hype around them, but they sound like regular songs, so I blame the hype...
- Her boyish hair... I'm fine with short hair, but it was just so short when she cut it!
- GREEN PV (it had such a huge budget, but it didn't really go anywhere )

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

I don't understand what's the point of reminding yourselves what made you feel disappointed, isn't that just sad/depressive?

[emi♡]

^who even cares anyways...

hmmm....I think I've been disappointed with a lot of little things...

but I think FIVE really takes the cake.

I feel like, as a mini album, JUST a mini album, there were so many possible ways that something like FIVE could have gone down...and instead, she chose to use this kind of music...and, it's actually kind of insulting to her ideas I think, because the music is nowhere near as strong as it could be to properly pull off those ideas.

And I think BRILLANTE is just, evidence of that. An amazing track, and all of the tracks could have been equally amazing, or at least somewhere near, and instead, we get all of these badly produced and boring as hell R&B tracks with completely awful vocals.

So, yeah, it's disappointing....but well, as long as she's happy. It's certainly an interesting turn of events.


and yeah, Sunrise/Sunset covers. There was so much anticipation cause she was in such a beautiful place...and then we get THAT?

[Miidoriness]

In my opinion... NEXT LEVEL. The CD cover... the songs... is just not her style. The only song that I think that represent her well is Curtain Call...

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

forgiveness -> very disappointing for special 30th single and 5th year anniversary of ayu's career...

[Jason]

That Sunrise/Sunset cover reminded me of when we didn't know the next album was Rock 'n' Roll Circus and I remember that single and You were.../BALLAD (Though BALLAD is amazing) came out and they really didn't get me excited for the next album at all (they were good... don't get me wrong ).

That's the only thing I think holds Rock 'n' Roll Circus back from being an amazing piece of work; the singles. They don't blend with the album and were made (I think) without any kind of forward thinking as to what the album was going to be, what it was going to sound like and what direction the whole thing was going to go in.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Jason

That Sunrise/Sunset cover reminded me of when we didn't know the next album was Rock 'n' Roll Circus and I remember that single and You were.../BALLAD (Though BALLAD is amazing) came out and they really didn't get me excited for the next album at all (they were good... don't get me wrong ).

That's the only thing I think holds Rock 'n' Roll Circus back from being an amazing piece of work; the singles. They don't blend with the album and were made (I think) without any kind of forward thinking as to what the album was going to be, what it was going to sound like and what direction the whole thing was going to go in.

Yeah. Never mind the fact that the album tracks blow big donkey turd besides Microphone... Lol (sorry just my opinion).

[Jason]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

Yeah. Never mind the fact that the album tracks blow big donkey turd besides Microphone... Lol (sorry just my opinion).

Whaaaa?!

No love for Don't look back, even?

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Jason

Whaaaa?!

No love for Don't look back, even?

Especially Don't look back.

[LONJJONG]

- (miss) understood cover and booklet. Man ayu could shoot it in another place or another theme. it's totally blur!!!

- Daybreak & AUDIENCE. Not the song, but the physical single (and it's a recut single). I think if she hadn't ever released those singles, she would have achieved the longest consecutive no.1 singles.

- She broke up with Nagase, well I have no rights to control Ayu's life.

I think that's all

[yamashita.san]

I have never been disappointed in Ayu.