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I love NL, Love Songs, FIVE, and there are things about COLOURS that I find to be awe-inspiring. A ONE had great ideas but I don't think they were executed well.

Now I'm just gonna say it. Rock 'n' Roll Circus is in my humble opinion the weakest album she has ever done. I loved it to pieces when she released it...Hell, it has some great stuff on it. But YAWN... I just don't think about it, the quality sounds really off to me, and it's an awkward album because it really does feel like it is in the dead center of a transition. I still love it in the back of my head, but I've been really thinking about how much...it just hasn't really aged well for me... Party Queen at least had some powerful, dark feelings making it go whereas R'n'R Circus just seems to have no set tone or meaning.

@MessiahofSilence Except some people figured out Party Queen's concept, or at least it was going to be a dark album, as soon as the tracklist was released. And Ayu didn't tell the concept on twitter, but confirmed when people seemed to get what was the idea. Even the "lonely queen" thing was already something a fan said 2 or 3 days before the album release before we knew it would appear on the album (Na Na Na) and then, on concert.

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Originally Posted by MessiahofSilence (Post 3185349)

It had no flow, though lol. The first three songs are upbeat and then we go to some basic pop rock, then after some showtunes/jazz (I liked the jazz, it was fun) it ends in a ballad. Her voice is really poor in this album, and I'd probably like it alot more if her current voice was on the tracks.

The problem that I have with the concept is that it felt a bit lacking in execution. The tabloid concept would have been cool, but then it's only used on the cover. We're meant to attach the meaning of the title song to the photos but it feels hollow. Don't even get me started on the twitter mess with "drunk" Timmy over the "totally obvious" meaning... that still feels messy as fuck.
On my end, I think that people who like this album know the concept after it was fed to them and THEN can see the story. Lyrically the album is very solid, but asthetically it fell so short. I don't "see" a theme, but a random photoshoot and ugly leopard print :P

Hmm maybe flow is not the good word but this album definitely follows a concept from the beginning to the end and is well organised just like a setlist for a live divided by segment of the same style but that's normal this album was done on purpose ! The best example is Rock N Roll Circus ... She released a summer single followed by a winter single and then she decided of the concept for this album ! Result RnRc is really inconsistent and sound like a catch-all...
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Now I'm just gonna say it. Rock 'n' Roll Circus is in my humble opinion the weakest album she has ever done. I loved it to pieces when she released it...Hell, it has some great stuff on it. But YAWN... I just don't think about it, the quality sounds really off to me, and it's an awkward album because it really does feel like it is in the dead center of a transition. I still love it in the back of my head, but I've been really thinking about how much...it just hasn't really aged well for me... Party Queen at least had some powerful, dark feelings making it go whereas R'n'R Circus just seems to have no set tone or meaning.

:yes The strength of this album are the album tracks (minus Meaning of love) they are all well produced and interesting yet I can't say the same about the songs from her singles ... Sunrise /sunset for me is probably her weakest to date ! In You were /ballad only the last one brings something and Red line sound too much like a B-side to deserve to be included !

^Besides liking Sunrise I agree with you... There are several tracks on RnRC I really love, but I can't bring myself to listen to the album as a whole... The same with Secret (but on that one I feel like I'm listening to several singles lazyly put together to pass out as an album)

❤ ��Happy Valentine's Day��❤
http://i.imgur.com/x6xhZNB.jpg

LINE: "I just got back from a whirlwind 4 night trip to London and Dover. I totally enjoyed being able to experience so much culture and meet so many people during the trip!
So now it's back to working hard on the CD album!!"
http://i.imgur.com/qYr3tscl.jpg

twitter: "Back in Tokyo. Home sweet home"
http://i.imgur.com/0QzUX4Dl.jpg

so sad that there were no fan meets this time...

Good to hear that she spent 4 days to relax herself.

SHE WENT TO DOVER?!

That's where I grew up, my family still live there.

She must have met Timmy's parents as it's where he's from too.

Omg Ayu

Ayu better drop the bass again! I need more songs like Sparkle, Sayonara, Lelio and Wake me up (Remix)!!!

her real brown eyes are so pretty ~
so she just went on a trip to london..thought she was working on something.

btw, read on FB that ayu is going to HK on 20/2 then go straight to macau with her husband attending madonna's concert and maybe will meet her in person, hope they will have a pic together!

Didn't one of her dogs die? But she posted a pic of both of them? I'm very confused lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/BB2ZlQCN...y=daviddownton

This photo is so similar to Ayu's recent one. I can't quite work out where it is though. That instagram account is the illustrator in residence at Claridge's.

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Originally Posted by rikku1994 (Post 3185667)

Ayu better drop the bass again! I need more songs like Sparkle, Sayonara, Lelio and Wake me up (Remix)!!!

THIS! :yes

Wonder why she couldn't switch her stay in London if she wants to see Madonna as Madonna just performed in Japan some days ago. She didn't work in London, did she?

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Originally Posted by Corvina (Post 3185714)

Wonder why she couldn't switch her stay in London if she wants to see Madonna as Madonna just performed in Japan some days ago. She didn't work in London, did she?

Because it was a work trip to London and because Alvin will introduce Ayu to Madonna at his birthday party and he won't schedule his party according to Ayu? :P

"Long-awaited shot"

http://i.imgur.com/lJYpmh9m.jpg

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Originally Posted by Aderianu (Post 3185801)

"Long-awaited shot"

http://i.imgur.com/lJYpmh9m.jpg

Who is she with?

^ Max Matsuura!
I love seeing them together

God, she looks beautiful. That's a good angle for her :yes