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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
At least to me though, it simply seems with this album that she is mostly just following the current trend of electro-pop music because she DOES think it will sell, not because its necessarily what she feels like she has to make because she wants to. No one here can say either way though unless they are Ayu themselves though.  |
If Ayu wanted to follow current trends in Japanese music and sell well, she would put out pop R&B (Thelma Aoyama and Exile) or urban pop (Namie Amuro) or gimmicky pop (Hexagon) or even boyband pop (maybe she could get her backup dancers to be an Ayu boyband? Ayurashi?). You seem to be forgetting that electro-pop is past its expiry date in Japan, having peaked during the euro-pop of the late 90s/early 00s
The only techno-pop artist of note in J-pop is Perfume, but I would hardly call this a trend.
It just seems like Ayu wants to go back to her euro-pop roots. After all, it's the euro-pop trend that helped launch her as a top artist back when LOVEppears came out.