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Originally Posted by truehappiness
But Ayu never lives up to people's incredibly high [and unreachable in most cases] expectations so sometimes people come out disappointed 99.9% of the time. It bugs to see people constantly say that Ayu isn't "up to par" with herself from whenever, but I think more often than not, it's that people are stuck in the past instead of looking towards the future.
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But how is it stuck in the past to have high expectations of someone?
It is the quality of your past work that people use when judging what they expect your future releases to be like. If an artist released 3 albums you (plural) disliked, you wouldn't listen to their fourth, because you don't expect to like it. Or if someone released 2 albums you though were just "good" you wouldn't expect "great" from their 3rd. It also works with someone releasing 2 great and you expecting great again. People set standards.
I think I've said this before.
I think the reason most people consider "past Ayu" better is because we don't have to wait for the great songs. We can download an album, listen to it, and then move onto the next to find that "epic" track. Now we have to wait through singles etc... until Ayu releases that magic song. So it feels like disappointment, when in reality, when I myself look back at even my favourite Ayu albums, I think "wow, she released a lot of junk before making that magic". But it doesn't feel like disappointment, because I can just ignore the junk instead of having to wait for the next magic song.
It's why when people discover Ayu EVERYTHING is amazing, because you hop between albums, finding new songs, like with any new artist really. Then once you run out you just have to sit there and wait for that next magic song, not just have it ready and waiting to download.
Umm... major ot.