[love in music]

Rock 'n' Roll Circus - I was really surprised at the album PV's (love Sexy little things + Microphone so much) and the anticipation for the album was outrageous! but in the end I wound up loving it. there are a couple of tracks I wasn't impressed with (meaning of Love + Lady Dynamite) but I absolutely love the rest to death to consider it one of my favorite albums from her. I loved the inside booklet + photo book too. she looks so gorgeous in practically every picture.

CDL 09-10 release - I love this CDL, the setlist is great. they fixed up her voice in the DVD too which was good lol but I'm one of the few who think besides a crappy sound system and few off notes she wasn't really that bad.

MOON/blossom - I remember getting the preview for MOON and being so excited for it. the end result surpassed my expectations and proved to me that she really still can have a beautiful, flawless voice without too much vibrato. tbh I think blossom didn't fulfill its duties in being an upbeat summer track to get excited to and stuff, it's more sad to me, a bit like fairyland, but it's good.

crossroad - crossroad was just perfect to me. everything about this song is beautiful. so many good memories with this. not as impressed with SDW but it has grown on me a lot.

L - just when I thought she couldn't keep upping herself she releases this mostly flawless single. the PV's and songs are all amazing. Virgin Road is like.. definitely an ayu classic now. it's so beautiful. but with the amazing Last Angel and Virgin Road I definitely can notice that Sweet Season just isn't on the same level, even though I really do like the song.

Love Songs - as of now, I consider this my favorite ayu album unless she decides to top it this year or something, which I think would be really hard. everything about this album fits together perfectly and I'm just so in love with it. there is not a track I dislike and the use of orchestra in the tracks just makes me come back to replay them over and over. I am way more pleased with this than RnRC.

TV Lives - HUGE improvement. The Microphone lives were great but the crossroad + Virgin Road + MOON + Dream ON lives were so impressive.

a-nation - I loved it! her voice was great in all of the songs, I just wish they would have included all the songs she performed. I really would have liked to see the A Song for XX and blossom performances.

Photo shoots in 2010 - I noticed a large improvement with a lot of her photo shoots. she seems to have used less and less shimoko which I think is good for variety.. but I think even his shoots with her were definitely not as bad as ones from 2009. It's not like all her shoots were perfect, there were still some pics where I was like "wtf" lol but there were definitely more good ones.. ones where she shows her gorgeous natural smile. my favorites would have to be the VIVI topless one and the Love Songs photo book + booklet.

Interaction with fans - I got 5 replies from ayu on twitter, and had a gift delivered to her by my friend in LA. she mentioned my name on twitter and the gift I gave her and how happy she was with it. it was absolutely amazing. I never would have dreamed I'd be able to have this much interaction with her, even though I still haven't met her. the fact that she is so sweet and met with so many of her international fans and reading their lovely stories of her this year just gave me so much more respect for her.

overall 2010 was just amazing. I don't know if 2011 could top it since I don't think she'll release 2 amazing albums again, but I hope she can keep on making impressive music.