Party Queen album thoughts II

[relmy]

^ mine is even sadder.

My most played song has 5 plays D: The rest have 2 or 3, wait no, I have FOUR tracks with 1 play :S

...and no urge to listen again.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Party queen 227
NaNaNa 181
reminds me 170
Return Road 169
taskebab 168
Shake It♥ 166
call 163
Tell me why 163
The Next Love 158
Letter 157
how beautiful you are 157
Serenade in A minor 155
a cup of tea 155
Eyes, Smoke, Magic 152


lol mine are insane

[Midori-chan]

Originally Posted by relmy

^ mine is even sadder.

My most played song has 5 plays D: The rest have 2 or 3, wait no, I have FOUR tracks with 1 play :S

...and no urge to listen again.

Same goes for me!

"Party Queen" is just such a horrible album (it's also the first Ayu-album I'll not buy!).
Normally I listen to a new Ayu-album for at least a week non-stop, but I was fed up with "Party Queen" after a day!

[sinfonietta]

Got this album last Monday and still very much enjoying it. Still listening to it all the way through at least a couple of times a day.
Even woke-up this morning and listened to how beautiful you are before I even got out of bed. ^^;

Plays:

Spoiler:

[jewelbox]

UMMMMMMMMMMM..
This is from my iTunes (I use other players as well, so this isn't the whole truth)
Plays:
PQ • 1
NaNaNa • 5
Shake it♥ • 9
taskebab • 3
call • 1
Letter • 0
reminds me • 9
Return road • 11
Tell me why • 11
a cup of tea • 2
the next LOVE • 4
E,S,M • 2
Serenade • 1
HBYA • 0

Lol, I definitely have played these songs more than this what the heck

[VegetaLove]

This is my mini review/opinion of the songs and album:


1. Party Queen - I would like this song a lot more if it didn't have the "kanpai" and alcohol pouring sound effects, they sound awkward and interrupt the flow of the music. But I remember it's sound and can tolerate it, and even find it mildly catchy, if unpolished.

2. NaNaNa- When I first heard this song, I was like, "Oh wow, nice beat! Like Ladies Night II !" But then that... "rapping" comes in... and I was utterly grossed out. After hearing this and seeing the word play on the title of "Eyes, Smoke, Magic", I took down all of my Ayu posters, and they probably will not go back up.... the first time since 2005. It's like Ayu traveled to USA and became American and made a song of this culture's somewhat=stereotypical carp that they are known to pump out. I especially hate the part where Timmy says, "Ugh! We done!". It just creeps me out! I just imagine him thrusting his pelvis as he says that. But then one day I imagined it was just Popeye rapping... it sounds a lot like Popeye. Now, I don't love it, but I can at least tolerate it. But I always turn the volume down if I'm driving and worry someone will "hear" that part. Plus the sirens tend to worry me, lol I drive usually when this CD is playing and I always have to check for actual cop cars, just in case. It would sound WAY better if they slightly distorted or altered the sirens sound, so it wouldn't sound identical to a cop car passing you. :|

3. Shake It - My favorite song on this album! I'm not in love with the whole "Shake it!" theme, and watching the pv was... awful. :| But I pretend she says "shakey" or something (anything but Shake It) and it works out. I love the beat, and Popeye is in it, but minimally, yay!

4. taskebab - Meh, it's okay, but I've come to associate it with "Oh, Shake it went over, time to press the back button"

5. Call - Nothing special, kind of cute but this style isn't what i seek in ayu's music, I don't ever try to listen to it, it only comes on if I don't pay attention that Shake It went over and the CD has played on for a while

6. Letter - Same opinion as Call ^ It's weird that Timmy thought he just had to say "woah woah" and "yay" in songs like these. Kind of over-saturation. :| If he was on maybe 2 songs, that would be more acceptable to me... but it's invasive to suddenly have him everywhere like this.

7. Reminds Me - A little better than Call and Letter, but it doesn't stand out at all

8. Return Road - Lots of people seem to like this, but it's not so great to me. It's like someone thought just adding the organ would make it be insta-loved. And Timmy's "ahhhhs" sound good here and there (kind of), but he goes overboard with the "ahhhs" and it becomes very irritating. He's much better singing with a man voice (like in Brillante) than with an uncomfortable fake-woman voice.

9. Tell Me Why - It's nice, and sounds sad... but it's got a sort of R & B beat to it, and I don't like R & B. But, despite that, it sounds kind of pretty, though also forgettable to me. My favorite out of Call, Letter, Reminds Me and Return Road.

10. A Cup of Tea - Pretty good for an interlude

11. the next LOVE - It's a nice piece for being experimental, but I've listened to it maybe twice, and will always skip it unless I can't reach the forward button. Just not interesting or catchy.

12. Eyes, Smoke, Magic - OMG. Timmy's creepy scary creepy clown giggle at the very beginning is my exact opinion of this song, what a mess. The lyrics are kind of interesting, but that doesn't excuse how annoying this song is. Not to mention the obvious play on words "I smoke magic" (nice, Timmy, so very Ayu ). And Timmy's weird voice keeps popping in there, it's irritating and makes the song even less likeable. I TRIED to like this song.. I can't. Maybe if I listened to it a thousand times, I'd be desensitized to the badness and like it okay, but that's not going to happen (willingly, lol). And now at the end of the Party Queen title song, I also hear Timmy's goofy laugh in the background as the song ends, and it reminds me of how much I hate "I Smoke Magic" and that "laugh" that starts the song. I always try to skip the very very end of PQ so I don't have to hear the laughs at the very end of it.

13. Serenade in A Minor - I heard this once... sleepy ballads aren't my thing.

14. how beautiful you are - The music video is nice... but this song isn't my thing either. Sleepy and boring to me.

[Kouyou]

Musically speaking and coherence-wise, this is one of my all-time favorite Ayu albums. I really feel like the album tells a story. However, the album art is what brings down the package in my opinion. I like it, but I don't love it like I do with Love songs, FIVE, etc. That was and is disappointing to me. Otherwise, though, the album is spot on and quite original.

[mi|kshake]

I would love to be posting my thoughts on the album right now but despite it being shipped on March 19, it still hasn't come!

mi|kshake~

[emi♡]

I didn't know Timmy came up with Ayu's song titles...

[jewelbox]

Originally Posted by emi♡

I didn't know Timmy came up with Ayu's song titles...

? What ? Well, that explains A Lot.

[freedreamer]

my plays are

Party queen-49 (incl. rips from CDL)
NaNaNa-23
Shake It-27
taskebab-2
call-21
Letter-23
reminds me-18
Return Road-24
Tell my why-22
a cup of tea-2
the next LOVE-13
ESM-17
Serenade in A minor-2
hbya-93 (since it was a single and all the rips from CDL lol)

[jewelbox]

Umm I'm starting to have serious issues with RR. I don't know what the heck happened, but first I didn't find Timmy's ~iipy piipy horrible voice~ that horrible, I ignored it and enjoyed the song.

But now whenever I listen to that part, I burst into laughter which is highly uncomfortable in public places. One day I just laughed my eyes out in the subway(metro) and people looked at me "wtf is that girl doing?".
Yesterday I played that song on Audiosurf and immediately when Timmy started his castrato choir singing it was impossible to play anymore because I laughed so much!

[Andrenekoi]

I don't really think Timmy came up with song titles (or lyrics)... People are just doing the usual over-blaming...

[happiholic★]

Now that its been out for a while, I'm kinda over it. I wasn't super crazy about it when it was released, it grew on me a tad, but now I'm listening to other stuff.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

I listened to it heaps, now I'm taking a break lol But still listening to ayu... Actually, I've been listening to ayu non-stop for like 2 weeks :/

[VegetaLove]

Originally Posted by alternafan000

omg you seriously think this song is secretly about smoking magic? you reeally really think that timmy's intention was to make some dumb wordplay allusion to drugs instead of the fact that maybe a) ayu came up with the title and b) it has nothing to do with actually "smoking magic"?
well at least it's an original reason for hating the song

It wouldn't surprise me, true it's a guess but he did compose this song and that wordplay is all too clear. I really doubt Ayu came up with that title completely on her own. I agree the song's lyrics aren't about drugs, but the title's wordplay is stupid and does sound like it's referring to drugs.

Ayu's already got a song touting her drinking/party skills (which I have no problem with!) so who knows, but it just seems like it wasn't Ayu alone who did that title's name choosing. Again, just a guess by me, I'm analyzing and coming to my own personal conclusion... I'm not claiming it's a fact that Timmy chose that song's title. Just a hunch that he at least suggested it and she approved. I could be totally incorrect, it's happened many times.

I just gave my opinion, I didn't mean to ruffle anyone's feathers, I'm not even a Timmy-hater, don't worry.

[sinfonietta]

Originally Posted by VegetaLove

I agree the song's lyrics aren't about drugs, but the title's wordplay is stupid and does sound like it's referring to drugs.

To be honest, I think you could be right. At least the title makes more sense in relation to the lyrics when interpreted that way.

[emi♡]

There's just not many reasons why she couldn't have come up with the title by herself

It's not really like "eyes" "smoke" or "magic" are english words that are uncommon or anything by Japanese standards...they're actually probably everywhere.


So when someone comes along saying that Timmy influenced her, without any hard evidence except "I don't think she could have come up with it on her own"...It just sounds like the common stuff other people say.

idk personally, I'd find it hilarious if Timmy named his own composition that...I don't really feel like it suits his personality at all...but then that's just my opinion as well.

You guys could ask him~

[nickynacker]

when i first listened to the album i only really liked party queen, shake it, and call. i thought nanana was ok but i hated timmy on it so much that i couldn't even listen to it and he ruined it for me. i thought letter, reminds me, return road, and tell me why were good but i knew they'd have to grow on me after a few plays cause at first they all kinda sounded the same and blended together. i liked how beautiful you are but wasn't crazy about it. as for a cup of tea, the next love, eyes smoke magic, and serenade in a minor.. i thought they were awful and thought i'd never get into them.

anyways after several listens i became obsessed with shake it (my favorite), and letter/reminds me/return road/tell me why all grew on me more and became other favorites. i love party queen too. but i still couldn't get into the last several songs and didn't even listen to them.

tonight i gave them another chance and i don't hate them anymore. i'll never love them tho. i like the next love a lot more than eyes smoke magic.

oh and as for the interludes, taskebab gives me life, a cup of tea can gtfo, and serenade in a minor is pretty..
taskebab is the only one i'll really listen to tho

overall i love the album.. i didn't think i would but i do. i'm really happy with it and i'm glad she tried new things. i kind of wish there were more "party" songs but then again i love the mid tempo songs.

already can't wait for album number 14 lmao

[Ayubaba]

At first I only liked the party songs at the beginning and "call". Most of the album has grown on me now. The only songs I don't love are the next LOVE and eyes, smoke, magic. eyes, smoke, magic is my very least favorite. It's so cheesy.
As for the interludes, I loveee taskebab. It's so great and gets me pumped up lol. a cup of tea kind of sucks. I don't even listen to it. Serenade in A Minor is pretty, I like it.
I can't stannnndddd Timmy. He's so gross and annoying. But I like NaNaNa so much that I just have to deal with him on that one. I don't really care for his compositions. Especially compared to all the amazing people she's worked with before. I want him to go away.

My plays:
Shake It - 52
NaNaNa - 35
call - 26
Party Queen - 25
reminds me - 21
Letter - 19
Return Road - 19
taskebab - 18
how beautiful you are - 14
Tell me why - 11
the next LOVE - 7
Serenade in A minor - 3
a cup of tea - 3
Eyes, Smoke, Magic - 3