Omg :roflmao:laugh

also farmer and yoga teacher

I don't know why I was thinking 2 years. I meant 1 year.:laugh:dumbfound
I would miss her too but I'm sure she would continue posting on social media and possibly doing magazines still. She could revive Ayuready? for a year. That would be so cool.:luv2

She. Did. That.

^One of my favorites song and PV from her. Definitely 2010 was awesome.
I've realized that I don't feel as appealed to Ayu's recent music as I used to be 3 or 4 years ago. I started to feel less satisfied with her music gradually but I think the crucial time was the feel the love era. Since then, all the music released was fine but I couldn't feel the same as with her previous one, not a solid concept in albums for example. I've also noticed that Ayu's voice has changed so much since I discovered her and it doesn't sound to appealing for me anymore :no I think I can now understand the comments I read when I discovered her in 2008-09 from people saying she changed, she wasn't the same and such. I felt in love with that time Ayu, not the actual one, and i think is the same for people who discovered her music in the early 2000s and then were "disappointed" on her 10th anniversary.
Maybe is because I have gotten older and I'm over the "mega fan stan" period already (is the same with others artists as well).
All being said, she's still my favorite and probably always be. she doesn't fail to deliver good lyrics and emotion, and i admire her as a person so much. She has been a huge influence in me and that can't be changed. I'll be listening to whatever she release in the future and can't wait to see her live in japan in her 20th anniversary (and my 10th as a fan, time does really fly...). Nevertheless I wish her deep voice from 2008 would come back again :weep

This week spoted Ayu twice (well, kinda) on TV randomly, first I turned on my TV and was tunned on FOX Dragon Boll Evolution (*throws up*) was ending so Rule was playing, I just stay there watching the credits and jamming to Ayu, and a couple of days ago it was really late, about 1 a.m, I had just finished an essay so I turned on the TV to watch someting while eating (yeah I know, my time management sucks) and Zutto...'s PV was just playing at a local channel lol ayu is haunting me but I don't complain.

Wow, your local TV channel air some Japanese (evenmore, Ayu stuff) songs while whole world seems infected by K-pop? Respect.

Yes! they rarely put some k-pop usually I see j-pop/j-rock I've seen Ayu before, also GACKT, L'arc, Hikki, AKF and many others bands or artist that I really don't know, some visual bands and stuff like that, it's pretty cool, it's a channel that only airs anime and j-dramas, and music as well :yes

^That's cool af. I wish I had channel that aired that kinda stuff! You are lucky. : D

I really like this song and PV. <3

The messy world theme surely pretty cool. It was like a new height of 1 LOVE video. I like those kinda deep meaningful theme than some pretty pony stuffs or models in latex clad and all the drama.

Both song and PV are both masterpieces. It reminds me of how good and solid Love songs is.

Gosh it's weird to see people say they enjoy Love songs lol

That album was hated by so many people at the time lol

In 2010, I remember people liking it a lot. Rock'n'Roll Circus was also liked at the time of release but eventually that all changed to hate, lol.

However, a lot of people have swapped opinions on NEXT LEVEL the most out of anything she's released after her 10th anniversary. What used to be 'trash' is now 'amazing'.

Yeah i don't really remember people saying Love Songs was bad when it came out either! But i do remember people saying it aged badly over the years.
I don't see why R'n'r Circus is hated now, i still love it haha

YOOOOOOO I was never a fan of blossom and totally even forgot it existed but today while I walked home from work it played on shuffle and I was just like DAYUUMM this song is GOOD. Idk why I never realized before, or what about today made me totally fall in love with the song but it's awesome, lol. It made me listen to the whole album since forever and I gotta say I do enjoy it a lot

For me Love Songs and possibly Five were the last time I was deeply impacted by a new Ayu album.:yes
My opinions haven't changed too much on each album. The biggest change was from Party Queen being the worst thing to happen to having hidden gems.:laugh

I just remember everyone hating the covers, the way the songs felt so similar, the singles weren't really blowing anyone away, Thank U's existence...

Maybe I've got selective memory lol

Thank U is basically the only song I dislike in that album still, lol. Always did always will xD

Yeeeeeeeeeessss!!! Thank god you saw the light. Lol, blossom is amazing. It's so different from the type of summer songs she released for the 4 summers prior, yet feels so genuinely summer-pop (well, more like late spring - or even early autumn) ayu. I never could understand why people disliked it. Every time I listen to it I feel completely swept away and enamored by it's unique aura. Especially if you listen to it in the right context, it can totally do that to you; when it's slightly brisk, but not too cold, and the sun is shining between scattered cumulus clouds. Maybe today was the first time you listened it while standing in the middle of the aura it represents. After all, music is always that much better when you feel a part of it.