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Originally Posted by truehappiness
It's all over the place and it's named as such. It's a circus of an album.
Anyway, tying Ayu to one genre per album is probably like trying to tell the sun to stop shining. Generally, her albums are a clusterbleep of genres and I think that is one of her strengths. It may produce albums that aren't too cohesive for the most part at first listen, but eventually you realize that they are her most cohesive because they are lacking in cohesion. Sure, she doesn't have a specific musical genre with every album, but everything still has a trademark Ayu sound to it. So what if the entire album isn't rock or electro or whatever... as long as she's working in the way that the Japanese record industry works with singles coming out, there's almost always going to be a single or two that stick out like a sore thumb. (Perhaps this case with Love songs is not the same because everything was made in a quicker time span and VERY close to each other) I just wish people wouldn't see this "lack of focus/vision" as a bad thing because it's not necessarily the case. It's just how it works out and imo it's worked wonderfully for all of her albums that are melting pots of genres. And just wondering, but since when did an album have to maintain a genre?
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yeah I agree and understand what you're saying. I think I forgot that I posted more of a reason in another thread (the rate your worst album) Having mixed genres in an album isn't bad and almost impossible to stick to one genre per album for any artist. What I'm saying about Rock'n'Roll Circus is that it's WAY mixed in genres, it made me confused listening to it. My emotions went all over the place, the placement of where each song was the main thing that threw me off.
In terms of the "lack of focus/vision" I mean as in where they want the album to go, what direction. I think that in all of her albums she did well (or her team) picking a general direction for those albums. Rock'n'Roll Circus to me was just kinda thrown together. She didn't lack vision in each individual song, though the feeling and direction when you look at the album as a whole is all over the place.
That's just my opinion you don't have to agree with it, only a fraction of what is stated on these forms is a fact.