Ayu's music: when did it start to go downhill for you?

[hidekirby]

There were two turns for me.

After the masterpiece that was (miss)understood ; Secret, GUILTY and NEXT LEVEL didn't felt that good... A lot of recycled sounds, less creativity IMO. Except for some songs here and there of course.

Then came Love songs which was pretty classic, safe etc but it was damn cohesive to me, every single track shone next to each other (I just try to forget THANK U). The nostalgic feeling through the whole album was amazing... Now I see it like her swan song. The end of something.

Since then it went downhill a lot. Still some rare gems (Sexy little things, BRILLANTE, Sweet scar, NO FUTURE, FLOWERS) to hold onto... Strangely, I feel the quality went down with the quantity (I mean less songs came with less demand from ayu and her team) : /