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19th April 2012, 05:13 PM
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I need Ayu to inspire me again
I haven't been on this board in forever
  It's frustrating.. I miss how epic and bad@$$ Ayu used to be. I mean, I still love her to death and I am happy to see she's still doing okay. These releases though..have been awful. I don't know what she's thinking anymore. I want to keep following her and such but some songs on Party Queen make me  So I need to be inspired by her again. I've been waiting ever since Love songs for Ayu to release something that is totally like !@#!#%#$^#%&^&#$%# (well, her pink hair is freakin awesome) Can AHS explain some new releases to me? Like why you like a certain song on Party Queen, or why so and so has a great PV, etc. I would love to hear about anything! 
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19th April 2012, 05:18 PM
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'reminds me' from PQ is definitely one of my "Ayu is back!" song, I can really relate to its lyric
 but idk what do you mean by 'inspiring' in your terms so I can't really point you to a certain thing
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19th April 2012, 05:23 PM
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i think it would also help if people knew what you liked in Ayumi to begin with.
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19th April 2012, 05:31 PM
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It's hard to explain, sorry everyone lol
I love everything Ayu from LOVEppears-(miss)understood. Ever since Secret, I've had my favorite songs from each album but didn't love the albums as a whole. FIVE is the first album I don't have a favorite or any interest. My favorite album is MY STORY. I also ADORE Ayu trance, I wish she put them on her singles like she used to. I want another Ayu Trance too! Does any of that help? :p
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19th April 2012, 05:34 PM
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She doesn't inspire me for quite a while, I'm slowly giving her up although I don't want to, she had few great moments with AT10 but apart from that her taste has became too different from mine. She's not this fashionable and beautiful, stylish woman I admired up to 2006 anymore.
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19th April 2012, 05:41 PM
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Is kinda sad though, right?
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19th April 2012, 05:48 PM
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Party Queen's most insteresting aspect it's the story the album tells, about a lonely girl who party to hide her emotional and personal issues from herself and the world. This story is pretty much straight foward on the album lyrics, so, u just need to give the lyrics some attention while listening to the album. You may love or hate it, but there is no deny she put a lot of thought on it. Use the change of genres the album has as chapters on this story... So, dance part, rockish part and jazzy part works as different chapters on the party queen tale. It most likelly reflexes Ayu feelings towards her love life.
FIVE is an EP about hope (as you can possibly read on it's logotype), so, it features 5 songs about an ending relationship with a hint of hope to all of them (and was released 5 months after the disaster). It's more generic than her usual material to reach a broader audience (and it actually was better accepted outside her fanbase). It reflex the dark feeling the disaster left to the japanese people (and on Ayu's marriage, maybe) and some people can read an open letter to someone when u listen/read all the lyrics on the album order. Love songs is about one's journey to find love, with it's sound taking heavily from orchestral music and being heavily produced by 90s big jpop producers (being both some of Ayu early composers and TK, the mastermind behind the whole jpop sound back on that decade), what gives it a strong 90s jpop feeling (somewhat like nowadays western electropop sounds like a retake on the 90s eletronic music). It's a really soft and, I may say, mature sounding album, starting from someone reviewing their own take on life (Love song, Like a Doll, Crossroad) and eventually letting themselves fall in love (November, Virgin road). LS and PQ are among my favorite Ayu albums xD
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19th April 2012, 05:51 PM
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Maybe you are just growing out of her?
It happens after all... Ayumi is human and as he taste changes she might not be doing something that you enjoy anymore... I was like you... I really didn't care for anything after My Story. I loved the singles that she did (most of them) but the albums as a whole... I just felt like I didn't contect to that as much anymore. But I after years, ( I think it was in 2011) I finally sat down and watched the Next level Concert and I fell in love with all the songs. I love the album, although i still do not like it as much as her Duty, I am, Rainbow, and Memorial address (the top for me). It might just be a connection thing... After watching her perform and just seeing the way she reacts to her own songs gives me joy. It's weird, but I enjoy the fact that she enjoys he music so much and that makes me love her and the music, lol. Sorry if that is completely random...
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19th April 2012, 05:57 PM
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19th April 2012, 06:01 PM
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Well, when I had a feeling that I outgrow Ayu, I listened to her earlier discography: the songs that gave me a great feeling. This is how she is inspiring me again. I also did listen to the song I once disliked (Moments). As a result: now I cannot understand why I ever disliked this song including PV. So; my answer: if FIVE and PQ don't inspire you, then go back to the earlier discography. You can find inspiration always, ever and in different ways.
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#12
20th April 2012, 03:40 AM
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I've, personally, been kinda underwhelmed by Ayu for some time now. RnRC was the nail in the coffin. But, I will always love Ayu and keep up to date with what she's releasing just cause I love it. And she does have a few songs here and there that I love, like Brilliante.
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20th April 2012, 05:12 AM
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But like some of the other posts said, I would go back to listen to "End roll" and "HAPPY ENDING" and watch the nicer PVs/performance to create a "delusion" and pretend that she is still the Ayu I know. Am I just lying to myself? I really don't know.
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20th April 2012, 05:35 AM
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Reading such comments makes me think what the hell am I listening to lol, cause Love songs and Party Queen are one of her best. I realized fav part of Party Queen for me is her vocal. Its finally her real voice and sounds so good.
My fav album still remains Duty tho, but only cause of nostalgia. My fav album will always be the one I discovered her for lol. Love songs is just perfect from start to finish, cause of emotions, melodies and production. If you don't like her recent albums then it might not be your taste and you should give up or try to give it a listen few years from now. I didnt experience that in Ayu fandom, but with other artists I follow I may not like their recent albums so I don't listen to them, but with next release they can make me interested again.
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20th April 2012, 05:47 AM
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I started lsitening to ayu back when she had just released evolution so, yeah, I'm somewhat veteran to her. Around NEXT LEVEL, GUILTY and RnRC I think I started top get tired of ayumi. I started to criticize all the new stuff that got released, and went just to try new, different music instead. I think by the time I stopped putting too much pressure on demanding that ayu had to wow me like she did for the first time I ever listened to her, whichwas SURREAL, the song, which was really a surreal experience to me so magical was the song when I listened to it ages ago, I think I started to re-enjoy her new stuff. The "magical, surreal moments won't ever be back, but I realized that actually happened to all the other artist I started loving for quite a while, so I figured that more than the quality going down it was just most that once my brain gets to familiar with something, the extreme excitement will barely get triggered anymore, because it won't be fresh and vivid anymore. Thus, to my surprise, I've actually been loving her new stuff. FIVE was really average to me, but Love Songs ended up being one of the best stuff I've listewned from ayu and I loved Party Queen as well, maybe because I just decided not to put so much pressure, demand and expectation that ayu is gonna wow me like she did with SURREAL.
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20th April 2012, 05:48 AM
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I agree. Especially about the Badass part. I miss the "fierce" Ayu as I always say (those songs that had that feeling like "EF' YEEEEEAAAH" with ATTITUDE and POWER). reminds me is good. But it's not perfect like a lot of her other releases used to be... And if anyone comes in here and *****es around that people are complaining you can just get the Hell out. What makes it even more strange is how many people are praising this album - I feel like I'm in some strange universe wondering wth all the time. Lol.
Last edited by Zeke.; 20th April 2012 at 05:50 AM.
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20th April 2012, 06:05 AM
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20th April 2012, 06:05 AM
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I adore the story that Party Queen tells. It's not a typical Ayu album where you have "rock songs" and "ballads" and whatever. Each song tells a part of a story. It's every aspect of the "party queen" from high to low. I think some of the lyrics of the song "Party queen" are actually really dark. And I think "how beautiful you are" is the genuine Ayu, the one that's present today, the one that outshines the extreme emotions throughout Party Queen.
Also I don't understand how people can say her music is bad/trashy/whatever, because Ayu has never not wrote what she was currently feeling. Saying that her music is bad is saying that her feelings and emotions are bad, and I could never do that. If you were having a bad day and told someone about it in the most expressive way you could, would you want someone to say, "Wow, that was pretty bad, the other times when you were really awesome was a lot better than this." Ayu's music is what she wants to show us at this moment in time. There really isn't any other artist where you can watch their personality change and mature throughout the years. That's what I love about her.
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20th April 2012, 06:05 AM
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Good thing that some rock songs on Party Queen album are pretty much help me regain my ayu fandom back, even on the songs i didnt like, like the next love have a pretty good lyric it made me respect the whole album, and the POWER of MUSIC concert is awesome!! I was this close to lose interest in ayu lol
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