Your biggest Ayu disappointments

[Tom Punks]

How could I forget Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~'s covers. Those were her first REALLY bad covers in a long, long time.

[brener]

Her high priced products... tho this is more about avex and japanese market...

[Kanzaki]

The fact that it's been too long without an amazing CREA song. Imo those are the best songs she's ever done. It's possible she doesn't want to do that anymore and of course that's fine because it's her decision and all of that, but I'm still dissapointed.

[CherryMoon]

No PV for HANABI. I love that song, so whenever i hear it will picture ayu singing it like HANABI Ep~II since i love how she look there.
Could be a good thing though, sometimes a bad PV could just ruin the song.

[koumori]

Disappointments..well, I've been a fan since 2005, so I've seen a few of her eras at least. I guess I'm most disappointed by the lack of quality in her remixes in the last few years, and Acoustic Orchestra versions. The more recent ones, although still pretty, just cannot compare with older mixes, especially the Acoustic Orchestra. I think an exception to this is the LOWBROWS remix of Microphone, for me anyway.

However, I'm happy she still includes these different versions. I would of thought AVEX would of cut them out entirely by now.

I guess other things would just be nitpicking..the S/S covers, as other people have said, just because she looked so beautiful in Bali and then those were the covers that were released. I'd love to see the outtakes from that photoshoot, lol~ Uhm, other things I guess...I guess just that Ayumi seems to cling onto the same composers and staff for as long as possible. It's good that she seems to get along with them and have a good relationship with them all, but the end result is a lot of her songs sounding similar in her latest works since..2008..? eh

And not Ayumi specifically, but I was really disappointed, and still am, with the Ayu fandom when she got married lol
For years they were all "I want her to be happy! To be married, settle down.." but as soon as it happened some people went ballistic..crazy.

For a twelve year career, having only these 'disappointments' is quite impressive. To those saying this thread is depressing, I think it's not really, and I'm really happy it's not dissolved into drama yet I do appreciate Ayu's highs more than her lows..there's a thread recently concentrating on her positively, so I'm gonna go look at that now

[Earth_maiden]

Ayu fans and haters.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

Ayu fans and haters.

GOLD.

[yamashita.san]

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

Ayu fans and haters.

This!

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Jason

Whaaaa?!

No love for Don't look back, even?

Especially Don't look back.

[U-GO-BOY]

too many ballads recently :/

[AyuGAME]

just one song
Never Ever...
i never like that song

[Takakayu]

Lady Dynamite
Dream ON

[Polyrhythm]

2009-2011 (still ongoing).

[Yumi(e)]

No more CREA (while I understand her decision, it saddens me to know that)
Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ COVERS
Not respond to my tweets(?)
xD

[Kazeyomi]

I don't get how we can't talk about what we don't like about Ayu .
I don't see any bashing or trolling here :/ the discussion seems going pretty well.

Anyway I totally forgot about S/S covers omg. Maybe they're so fugly that my brain just deleted them from my own database .

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Zelda-Maker

too many ballads recently :/

This wouldn't be a problem for me if they were good ballads. The last amazing ballad she had was JEWEL.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Kazeyomi

I don't get how we couldn't talk about what we don't like about Ayu .
I don't see any bashing or trolling here :/ the discussion seems going pretty well.

Anyway I totally forgot about S/S covers omg. Maybe they're so fugly that my brain just deleted them from my own database .

This, i think every NORMAL or SANE fan has some dislikes, however I must say I'm gettinf fed up of some people here but oh well...

ok as to the question.... hmm i don't quite pay attention to what is a dissapointment, like if i don't like something I simply don't pay anyattention to that when it comes to the artists same with Ayu, but um... Probably the drama going around Ayu, and some people who can not understand simple things like she's a singer-performer for 10000000000000000 people not for ONE person.
As for music.... nothing really comes to my mind...maybe Love songs, cuz I enjoy only a few of them. But really I can't think of anything what would make me go "Ayu, what the heck were you thinking? >_O"...

[Kacku]

This may be really nitpicky, but... do it again. The similar-ish title, preview of the lyrics ("dance, dance, dance do it again, sing, sing, sing do it again") and Tetsuya Komuro being the composer immediately made me think it would be something alike to globe's "get it on now": a lovely, subdued, warm, relaxing piece of pop music. And then I hear the actual song: a dark, powerful midtempo track. Needless to say, not quite what I expected. I don't think it's a bad song, but I still don't like it because it wasn't what I WANTED it to be. I think this is a perfect case to show how expectations can turn terribly against you. I don't blame Ayu, Tetsuya Komuro or Yuta Nakano for this disappointment; I can only blame myself for setting up unnecessary, misleading, baseless expectations that ruined the song for me. At least that case taught me to tone down speculation-filled anticipation for releases.

[BlackSilence]

omg I think I just found the bigest dissapointment:


this is unforgivible for me, i don't see anything bad in retouching the photos from details and shading to get more dimention to the photo but slimming the figure down and changing shape of the face is NOT TOLERATED IN MY BOOK... Ayu, hire better people, you don't need these kind of retouches >_<

[Tom Punks]

^ o_o Where'd you get that?