Someone else..?

[channy]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

I am always listening to Ayu, more now than ever. But it's a lot of the MY STORY stuff. Stuff that really floored me and stuff from A BEST 2 with a little bit of I am...

"MY STORY", "A BEST 2", "I am..."? We can be good friends

Most of the time I listen to remixes of Ayu's music, because ayu trance, ayu-mi-x and DJ Amaya's works are simply the best part of Ayu for me.

The first time I was really feeling like "OK, I am done with this" was when "Rock'n'Roll Circus" came up. I loved "You were...", in my opinion the best track on this album, but almost everything else was extremely awkward.

"Love songs" did better, but "FIVE" and "Party Queen" are a huge step back again. I always treasure the good memories, the beautiful moments I had with "A Song for XX" till "NEXT LEVEL", so nothing is gonna destroy this for me.

However, I am not expecting another high quality album of Ayu. She's mostly dead nowadays. Her time is over. Being a fan of Ayu for me alas means, living in the past because I am not OK with her recent stuff.

She can be the pseudo-american tarty Party Queen, using old cheesy clichees of a depressive popdiva as much as she wants. I am not with her at that point whatsoever xD

[YUKARI]

I've gone through this.

My first 5 ayu years were great. The problem occured when she started albums too often I had no time to follow them. In 2007 my life changed a bit and I started to forget about her music. Also I hated her broken voice. I seriously missed old ayu, her 2000 - 2006 era. And then AYUNITE! was shut down, so I just lost the connection. It all recovered only in 2011, when I registered here and I became interested in ayu and jpop once again. Also I have to admit that her Twitter helped a lot. I'm glad she made an account there.

And my love to ayu fully recovered with Party Queen! The album just made me veeery happy because I felt real love and excitement which honestly hadn't appeared since MY STORY's release And I think that I got used to her voice.

So this is my story. This year is my 10th ayu-anniversary and I plan to attend her concert finally! I can't hide my excitement

[Suteisi]

I was in LOOOOVE with Ayu during Rainbow era, this is when I first got to know her. Even now when I listen to RAINBOW, evolution and Real Me, I get this overwhelming feeling of nostalgia!

Then it died down because I was high schooler with no money, couldn't afford to buy any album and I didn't know of this website back then.

Came back with GUILTY. Love love loooove GUILTY era. Then NEXT LEVEL, I went to AT2009, love love love love looooove once again.

Then RnRC ............................ Nop. I loved the album covers, but didn't like the content. Microphone is the only song I listen off that album to this day.

Love Songs was OK. I love Last Angel and Love Song but the rest of the album is pretty "meh".

Now I'm back! PARTY QUEEEEEEN!!! I love it

[JackieRos]

I love rainbow album and I still listen to it. And I listen to some songs repeatedly.

Sometimes I get disappointed in most of what she releases and
I've been like this always so is not a phase with me.
I still listen to her because I love ayu herself and I get happy when she releases new music.

[Bad Wolf]

Originally Posted by AyuBlackwind

I have always loved Ayu and never had to re-discover any passion for her music. She writes what she feels, and I love that. Her style and voice has changed and I love her style always, but as of Love Songs and beyond, something changed.

As far as being confused about her identity, I dunno about that. She has dedicated her life to music, but lately I get the feeling that she's just feeling a certain kind of loneliness.

This, quoted for truth.