New single 'Feel the love / Merry-go-round' out 12/25 [II]

[heymrdj]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

It's too bad that you don't see this as a form of evolution.

Why is a horrible song a form of evolution? It will be an evolution when she learn from this mistake.

[Yagami Raito]

Originally Posted by heymrdj

Why is a horrible song a form of evolution? It will be an evolution when she learn from this mistake.

I really like this song... so let s hope she will do a lot of other "mistakes"

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by heymrdj

Why is a horrible song a form of evolution? It will be an evolution when she learn from this mistake.

Evolution comes in many forms.

[ayu-michan]

Originally Posted by heymrdj

Why is a horrible song a form of evolution? It will be an evolution when she learn from this mistake.

I will not judge Ayu like that just because of one song and one single, or even if you are talking about the LOVE again era as a whole. I disagree with the fact that you brought up the title "Queen of J-pop" comparison in here. Ayu is just a normal person like any of us. She has controls over her career and she can decide to produce any kind of music that she wants.

The fact that she is changing her image (like always) and her style is a form of evolution to me. Evolution indeed comes in many forms.

Instead of whining over how "horrible" her music is right now, I will enjoy this moment that will happen only once. Ayu made many mistakes, but I honestly will not be a fan if she is just a flawless product like before.

[Zeke.]

Really I agree, this is a de-evolution. Ayu always did her own thing, usually making the trends and being ahead of the game. This is her hoping on the bandwagon after everyone else has been riding that truck for a few years now.

[truehappiness]

I don't think Ayu ever really set any trends when it came to music... at some point, in fashion/style, maybe... but not when it came to what she produced as a singer. She has always done whatever she wanted and right now it just so happens that it's going to be EDM infused.

I feel that this is probably the perfect set of comeback single tracks for her that could be followed up with another single (or album) with a ballad(s).

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by hidekirby

That is just my opinion once again I don't mean to offend people.
I just don't understand her level of demand sometimes and I don't understand how the professional around her can approve this kind of product and don't want to go further.
Yet if the great majority loves it, that was the point. It is just sad from an artistic point of view.

I feel like this a lot of the time about her recent music. I don't know what any of them are doing. But I don't actually think of it as sad, from an artistic point of view...it's kind of the opposite for me.

For example, I like a lot of -big- artists, that are anything but artistic in the way that I see Ayu, like Rihanna, Namie, Koda, etc. But their songs are ridiculously well made a lot of the time.

I expect that from Ayu, AND I expect her to imbue her music with herself at the level that other -artists- do. Because I feel like for her entire career, she was able to do this, and produce top notch songs.



I also don't think that she ever really set trends. She was always trendy. If you listen to artists releasing around her, you can see that. But I do think that she always had a knack (apart from maybe a song for xx) for making her music seem timeless.

I don't think some of these songs will be timeless in the future. And I can also see how people can attach value to that, and they might say, these songs aren't as good.

But personally, I like trendy music, so, I don't always base value on it.

[Tomoyo]

found this on tumblr, i really kind of hope that they are fake >.< i don't think i have ever really DISLIKED one of her covers before.

as for the songs i really like feel the love

but i'm not so crazy about merry-go-round which is sad because i <3 the title

[YUKARI]

^ I hope they are not like LOVE covers and all those mags and "ayu" photobook shots.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Tomoyo

found this on tumblr, i really kind of hope that they are fake >.< i don't think i have ever really DISLIKED one of her covers before.

as for the songs i really like feel the love

but i'm not so crazy about merry-go-round which is sad because i <3 the title

I really hate that PrinceSam doesn't say that these are fanmade on the things that they make... Oh well. This happens way too often.

Chinese fans make me kind of angry... at least have a disclaimer or something so people don't spread them thinking they're real. Anyway, the people at Foraver Club made them with images from the 'ayu' photobook. I doubt they are going to take from that photoshoot for the single. The "A" at the end of the single was golden so I wonder if they'll have a metallic theme.

Originally Posted by YUKARI

^ I hope they are not like LOVE covers and all those mags and "ayu" photobook shots.

Highly unlikely. However, the Numero Tokyo shots were gorgeous! So that was fine imo.

[kinix]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I really hate that PrinceSam doesn't say that these are fanmade on the things that they make... Oh well. This happens way too often.

Chinese fans make me kind of angry... at least have a disclaimer or something so people don't spread them thinking they're real. Anyway, the people at Foraver Club made them with images from the 'ayu' photobook. I doubt they are going to take from that photoshoot for the single. The "A" at the end of the single was golden so I wonder if they'll have a metallic theme.



Highly unlikely. However, the Numero Tokyo shots were gorgeous! So that was fine imo.

Actually they did mention that it was fan made. It's usually those people who just post them elsewhere and didn't give credits that make these fan made items made believe to be the real deal.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by kinix

Actually they did mention that it was fan made. It's usually those people who just post them elsewhere and didn't give credits that make these fan made items made believe to be the real deal.

They need to make it very blatant and in English. I know they have it in Chinese but that won't stop people who don't know what it says.

[emi♡]

That font needs to delete itself from existence. yuck.

[kinix]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

They need to make it very blatant and in English. I know they have it in Chinese but that won't stop people who don't know what it says.

It's a Taiwanese fan club, not really cater to international fans (some of the mods however does post in English). This kinda teaches people to do research instead of just seeing and posting whatever you see on the internet (esp when you don't understand the language).

[maikaru]

Uhmmm... Don't really understand the people saying Merry-go-round isn't good. It's amazing. The lyrics are so touching, and I almost started to shed a tear. I didn't feel like this about an Ayu song in a long time. The melody, everything is great. And surprisingly, Verbal isn't a detractor from the song.

This song really saved this single. I'm excited for the music video now. It's getting a music video, right?

Now, I have something to forget the disaster that was Feel the Love. This is what I wanted from Ayu for a long time - a meaningful song, upbeat but not stupid. Do you know what I mean? Like, with real, heartfelt lyrics. No "Let's dance all night."

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by maikaru

This is what I wanted from Ayu for a long time - a meaningful song, upbeat but not stupid. Do you know what I mean? Like, with real, heartfelt lyrics. No "Let's dance all night."

I think it's nice she can do both. Shows how versatile she is.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Ayu is trying new things yet again. With ayu you can never tell what's coming next and that's what I love so much about her.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by kinix

It's a Taiwanese fan club, not really cater to international fans (some of the mods however does post in English). This kinda teaches people to do research instead of just seeing and posting whatever you see on the internet (esp when you don't understand the language).

It doesn't help that they pretty much hide the fact that it's a "PRINCE SAM" work waaayyy down in the descriptions. And even though people shouldn't be spreading it, they should take precautions so that people will definitely not think "Oh, this is real!" or something.

Originally Posted by maikaru

Uhmmm... Don't really understand the people saying Merry-go-round isn't good. It's amazing. The lyrics are so touching, and I almost started to shed a tear. I didn't feel like this about an Ayu song in a long time. The melody, everything is great. And surprisingly, Verbal isn't a detractor from the song.

This song really saved this single. I'm excited for the music video now. It's getting a music video, right?

Now, I have something to forget the disaster that was Feel the Love. This is what I wanted from Ayu for a long time - a meaningful song, upbeat but not stupid. Do you know what I mean? Like, with real, heartfelt lyrics. No "Let's dance all night."

It is getting a music video.

Spoiler:

I think this is from the PV shoot. Same roof as Last angel/Love song...

Feel the love is not a disaster. It may not be for everyone, but ugh... I don't think that fans need to constantly put something that they aren't a fan of down especially when others DO like it.

[adantatu2]

I love Merry-go-round. It's an EDM, but is a really different song in her discography. I'm glad she is trying new things and not only medium ballads.

[njanjayrp]

I don't think this is really an evolution~ The thing is Ayu has songs with way better production. Both the songs don't sound really polished to me and I dunno. Even though I like Merry-go-round a lot from the preview and think Feel the love is better than songs like Greatful Days I still think that it's quite weak to be a lead track and to be honest neither one of the two songs is good enough to be on a single. Knowing Ayu this is only going to be a one time thing [hopefully]. I am not to crazy about this direction tbh. I'll survive a couple of songs though and in the long run I will prolly appreciate theM~they aren't bad, but far from absolutely amazing.