Ayumi Hamasaki 15th Anniversary TOUR ～A BEST LIVE～ II

[GREENsora]

Ayu really needs to take a short break and come out with a bang-on album. LOVE again, as beautiful it is, doesn't have that spark that her peak-era albums did. Maybe bringing back CREA would help

[alternarist]

Originally Posted by alternafan000

every1 will says this about every album... even if she took a break ppl would STILL say this... no matter wat she ****ing does, unless she invents a time machine and goes back to her peak, people are going to say that she's "lost her spark" from her peak.

thats why! we cant change them. we can only change ourselves to ignore these comments.

[GREENsora]

Originally Posted by alternafan000

every1 will says this about every album... even if she took a break ppl would STILL say this... no matter wat she ****ing does, unless she invents a time machine and goes back to her peak, people are going to say that she's "lost her spark" from her peak.

There's always a possibilty for a second peak is there not? Look at Namie, she's been selling over half a million in albums in recent years. There's no doubt that Ayu could probably do the same thing, add on promotions and her already great tours, and u have a chance at a second peak.

[miki_beland]

I'm going to the Yoyogi dates hope i can get nice sits!!!

[adantatu2]

i don't know who is better, but in the last years, kuu and namie's music videos are way better than ayu's pv's

[mizuki-7]

Originally Posted by adantatu2

i don't know who is better, but in the last years, kuu and namie's music videos are way better than ayu's pv's

You can't compare Ayu & these 2 ! Namie & Koda are dancers so their clips are full of dance behind a cheap background ! Ayu is much more researched sometime it's not well executed but there are a real work with symbolisms etc ... I don't say Ayu is better but the style is completely different ! I much more enjoy Song 4 u than any recent clips of Namie or Koda but all these things are subjective =)

[ILoveGeniuses]

I know it'll never happen but i wish she'd do a FULL world tour. Even if she missed Canada and came to NY, I could probably save the money and possibly make it there for a day to see the show.

Btw, is the voting for the songs thing in Japanese? How does it work?

[Keiichi_JPU]

But she really HAS lost her spark. Or she's at least lost her edge. She's done nothing new, innovating or exciting since NEXT LEVEL / RnR Circus. She's been releasing the same album either in mini-form or in full form since Love Songs and her videos have gone downhill since Love Songs as well. I love, absolutely LOVE Ayu but it's so hard to love her so much and keep being disappointed time after time knowing that she has it in her to be so much better and more innovating.

Having said that, SAKURA is one of the best ballads of her career but one song salvage a career does not.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

But she really HAS lost her spark. Or she's at least lost her edge. She's done nothing new, innovating or exciting since NEXT LEVEL / RnR Circus. She's been releasing the same album either in mini-form or in full form since Love Songs and her videos have gone downhill since Love Songs as well. I love, absolutely LOVE Ayu but it's so hard to love her so much and keep being disappointed time after time knowing that she has it in her to be so much better and more innovating.

[alternarist]

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

But she really HAS lost her spark. Or she's at least lost her edge. She's done nothing new, innovating or exciting since NEXT LEVEL / RnR Circus. She's been releasing the same album either in mini-form or in full form since Love Songs and her videos have gone downhill since Love Songs as well. I love, absolutely LOVE Ayu but it's so hard to love her so much and keep being disappointed time after time knowing that she has it in her to be so much better and more innovating.

Having said that, SAKURA is one of the best ballads of her career but one song salvage a career does not.

i have to agree with u. LOVE again was kinda a "blah" album for me. cos most songs are of the same genre. either ballad or medium tempo songs. But let's not forget epics like progress and BRILLANTE!

I know most people dislike Party Queen the album, but i guess the album was meant to be like that. it's a dark album. I hope ppl can look beyond the cheesy album cover and the sucky songs inside the album. at the very least, i like Shake it a lot =x

[ExodusUK]

Originally Posted by alternafan000

exciting is subjectitve. new and innovative are not and tbh she's been trying more new/innovative things recentlty than when she was at the top - look at PQ its a huge example. N E WAY its just hilarious coz ayu's even explained why she doesnt want to take a break and people ttly ignore that

ppl need to stop using their opinions as fact!!!!!!!! this hole lost her spark nonsense is completly subjective except for the fact that her sales are in the crapper but come on we all know SALES don't ever reflect ~how much spark~ an artist has or how ~new and innovative~ they are like wtf, this should be obvious in an industry where namie and akb are the top sellers hhaahhheahaha luv y'all

This. Ayu released some turds during her peak, and she's released some brillant great tracks that are better than some of her biggest hits during her down time. Don't let the Oricon numbers daze and confuse u~

[Chris85]

Keiichi_JPU
I have to disagree, she keeps releasing amazing and fresh new songs every single year.
And her PVs have always been bad to my mind.

[Andrenekoi]

I still get a hard time getting the whole "she is releasing the same album since xxx" when, even she is releasing mostly midtempos, she still is picking different music aesthetics for every album.

Unless people also believe My Story, Secret and Guilty sound the same for being all centered on pop-rock, even if they take different genres of rock as a starting point. ~~'

@mizuki-7

Namie is pretty much re-releasing the same PVs for two decades now... But for some reason people at AHS finds her dancing in front of a car with a bored face very artistc...

[ExodusUK]

Instead of ayu taking a break, go on hiatus maybe the people that feel like that should take a break from ayu~

[miru2590]

Poor Namie she always comes out on every Ayumi conversation. Keep on selling those albums Namie don't listen to haters.

[GREENsora]

Originally Posted by miru2590

Poor Namie she always comes out on every Ayumi conversation. Keep on selling those albums Namie don't listen to haters.

Sorry if I came out to seemingly dislike Namie, I like her music and I just thought she'd serve as a good example for 'second peak' artists

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by miru2590

Poor Namie she always comes out on every Ayumi conversation. Keep on selling those albums Namie don't listen to haters.

i totally don't get that either, when Namie got lost in the peak of Ayu and Hikki, none says a thing, cuz probbaly half of the people weren't even there, but now when Ayu gets lost in the good times of Namie and Koda, everyone goes nuts over those two and starts a hate march... Every singer has their golden time of career and it never lasts forever, no matter good or bad stuff they release...

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by artcika

i totally don't get that either, when Namie got lost in the peak of Ayu and Hikki, none says a thing, cuz probbaly half of the people weren't even there, but now when Ayu gets lost in the good times of Namie and Koda, everyone goes nuts over those two and starts a hate march... Every singer has their golden time of career and it never lasts forever, no matter good or bad stuff they release...

Namie is easy to point towards as reference because she was in the dumps too at one point after her peak. Literally, she was left for dead lying in a landfill.

But ***** picked herself back up, took a shower, learned how to apply some make-up and ditched the Fat Jo/Lil' Wayne sound for something with a sharper image and hook.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by artcika

i totally don't get that either, when Namie got lost in the peak of Ayu and Hikki, none says a thing, cuz probbaly half of the people weren't even there, but now when Ayu gets lost in the good times of Namie and Koda, everyone goes nuts over those two and starts a hate march... Every singer has their golden time of career and it never lasts forever, no matter good or bad stuff they release...

I'm pretty sure I head kinda a lot of Ayu and Hikki bashing from Namie's fanbase when they are at their peaks...

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I'm pretty sure I head kinda a lot of Ayu and Hikki bashing from Namie's fanbase when they are at their peaks...

Namie's international fan base has never been as big as Hikki's or Ayu's. Not to mention that she only started gaining a bigger fanbase outside of Japan in 2006...