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Old 3rd March 2016, 09:28 PM
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^She is cleaning her image to enlarge her market share, that's why her sound since Colours is far more radio friendly, why her last 2 tours are focused on her older material and that's also why she has been far less personal lately, because the more personal and specific you get, the less people relate to you. Her early material was personal, but she talked about how she felt, not about what made she feel that way, while starting with Rock'n'Roll Circus she was openly discussing her personal issues on her body of work (deafness, divorce, alcoholism, fear of not being capable of loving, wanting a traditional family, etc.)

Everyone can relate to feeling insecure, lonely or that your voice isn't going to be heard, but how much people will go through a body issue that can make it impossible for them to work on what they love (like her deafness) or is such a powerful, rich and public woman that it's nearly impossible to even have a normal family life?

Starting with Colours she went to the current market trends (even if with her own twist) and her lyrics became more vague so more people can see themselves on them. Her albums also ceased having complex concepts to go back to the usual simplicity that is expected from pop music (and nops, the concepts of her earlier albums weren't that deep... they generated impactful images but could be explained with 2 or 3 lines). The current lack of impactul images is probably to be in line with current trends (and if you look through current pop album covers, they are mostly boring as fuck).

So, what does she want now? Have a safer image to appeal to people out of her core fanbase and have bigger sales. The reception both Colours and A One received makes be believe she is playing her cards right (and I hope Maro's porn career doesn't ruin that)
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Old 4th March 2016, 02:38 AM
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A ONE was a great album, and i do love almost all the songs (except The GIFT because it's just so blah to me, but i do still listen to it and i like it i just don't LOVE it like i do normal ayu songs) sixxxxxx was a really great mini album, i don't know but i really did love Colours, although it got old after a while too, which has never actually happened to me in an ayu album. Winter diary was weird and even now i still can't get into that song. which makes one of like 4 songs on ayu's whole discography that i skip.

i would love another album like (miss)understood or GUILTY those albums were epic to me, but i also really loved NEXT LEVEL, Rock'n'Roll Circus, and Love Songs and also Party Queen. basically 2006 to 2012 was like my favorite Ayu era. Whatever she comes out with next i'm sure will be awesome. but i honestly would like more upbeat songs than on A ONE.
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As a fan I'd still like her to care about her music again.
Even her concerts are not about the music. Bad vocals with lots of shouting, lip syncing 3-5 songs every show. She clearly focuses on visual aspects of the show, she wants to entertain. After all these years she fails to learn how to sing properly. It's rather disappointing for me, because music and sound always come first for me. Voice is the main instrument of an artist. It should be taken care of. It doesn't matter how good your band and back-up singers are, how epic your show is, if you fail as singer, your whole show fails. That's how I see it.
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^ There is nothing wrong with lip syncing a few songs, if she wasn't lip syncing to rest her voice it would be even worse.

But i agree with you that her voice if def one of the most important thing to enjoy the show. I think someone saw her for the very first time during CDL 15-16 but unfortunately couldn't enjoy the show because of horrible vocals and was really upset about it. That's like one of my biggest fears so i hope she manages to not shout too much during the upcoming tour.
You could see a difference during CDL 14-15 and AT2015, she wasn't screaming anymore like she used to, not so sure about TA tour, i heard a few songs of the recording and she was struggling with UNITE! And well during CDL 15-16 it was a disaster.
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