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#121
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I loved Love Again and I wasn't upset about the whole mini-album/single thing because it was painfully obvious it was going to happen the minute Avex the "5 consecutive releases for 5 months" thing. Ivy, Sweet Scar, Song 4 U, Petal, Wake Me Up, Snowy Kiss, Missing, Melody and Sakura are some of my favourites in recent years.
Last edited by ExodusUK; 21st March 2016 at 03:14 AM. |
#122
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Some people were completely "blindsided" by it though and got unnecessarily angry over it IMO.
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Just adding that I think the fans had every right to be angry over the Love and Again releases that were promoted and sold to fans as albums but were not. Last edited by Yumsushi; 21st March 2016 at 03:39 AM. |
#124
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I dunno, I didn't particularly care too much about the mini label. They were amazing releases.
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#125
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I feel a new album announcement coming in a week or so. Anyone else feel the same? So much hinting till now...
Don't think I could wait till the end of the tour for an announcement though.
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Last edited by truehappiness; 21st March 2016 at 06:15 AM. |
#126
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seems Ayu done with her "writer-block" (or at the very end of it), so soon she'll go to studio for recording
usually we get announcement at this time
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#127
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Yeah, since January she's been talking about plans for the new album. I wonder just what it'll be like.
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#128
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I hope she will not stamp songs with same lyrics
I don't want more songs about how it's important to be yourself
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#129
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I think we'll get at least two of those. And maybe one about being someone's one and only.
However, I hope for more general issues.
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#130
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I'd rather have that than songs about her asking her lover to let her stay by his side forever because he's her final love.
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#131
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or if she'll have one wing on her back, or if one of her wish will come true lol
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#132
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even if she's great lyricist, maybe that's because she has too many songs
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I always find it interesting reading about how other people's perceptions of albums change over time. I feel like I've come to appreciate GUILTY more in recent years, it is ~so~ underrated in her discography imo. I feel like the quality of the album-only tracks is on par (if not greater) than the single tracks (aside from fated because that song is perf). It's probably not the album that I would recommend to somebody who was interested in checking out Ayu, but I think it is still a solid album with overarching themes and concepts that are lyrically unique and common to Ayu's overall body of work, and the production, whilst not comparable to work released in her peak, is still quality (particularly in comparison to now).
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#134
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Last edited by Zeke.; 21st March 2016 at 03:35 PM. |
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The title track is my favourite song from GUILTY, it's lovely.
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#136
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She was probably refering to the sound of these two songs, the way the synths are used which I agree.
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#137
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I absolutely love GUILTY (the track, not a big fan of the whole album).
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#138
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GUILTY had just been released when I came across ayu and along with Duty made me fall in love with her. The album is just so... complete, I'd say. A shame it wasn't supported properly by a tour, I feel like the album is a whole story and the raw emotions in it would be amazing to be set in a tour.
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#139
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IMO, Love songs was her last complete package (maybe Party Queen as well) and since then she'd sort of been making things because she felt she had to without conceptualizing the release ahead of time or make releases for the sake of making releases. GUILTY had a strange unfortunate creation in that she seemed to be suffering from writer's block and had to force herself to create that album when she really didn't want to write and that might be kinda why that album never got a proper tour, like she felt guilty for the album's birth somehow.
From her debut to MY STORY to (miss)understood to Secret to GUILTY though, she was creating album after album of the SIGNATURE Ayumi Hamasaki sound, but then after that it seemed like she was lost. Loved NEXT LEVEL but that is where things started to feel off and you could tell from just about every release that came after. Thinking about it and linking it with interviews throughout the years, I get the sense that she started to get a bit of fatigue around the time of the 1st and 2nd ASIA TOUR and was pushing herself to her breaking point. However, despite all this, I think she is coming back in full force as the Ayumi Hamasaki we knew after A ONE and sixxxxxx as much as people disagree about those albums. Quote:
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Last edited by truehappiness; 21st March 2016 at 07:38 PM. |
#140
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I wish ayu will take as much time for this album as she need to
and will do it more thoughtfully Soon she will be busy with rehearsal, not much time for recording btw, Guilty is my most favorite album
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