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Originally Posted by isthisLOL?
The whole concept is 5 different views on something. And that is just what the album is. What these views are on is up for discussion but every song shows a different view on something loved, probably her fans. That's more concept than what the vast majority of pop albums have. And it IS a coherent release, not musically but lyrically and that's always the thing Ayu's albums have ben coherent in. (And the only way to make a 5 track EP musically coherent is by being boring and basically doing one genre for 5 songs or having random intros and outros to songs) They've always told stories, if the songs fit together musically came after that.
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I disagree with pretty much everything you said. It would have been totally possible to do different sounding songs and still be coherent/cohesive. It would have been possible to do different sounding songs of the same genre and not be boring. She just didn't do it here, and mostly because of the huge gap in quality between the songs. (Also, why would a mini album of five songs of the same genre necessarily be boring, anyways? Most artists don't mix genres nearly as much as Ayu does and that doesn't mean all their releases are boring or weak.) I also disagree that each song has a different view on something; three out of five of the songs are pretty much post-break up songs lyrically.
And, as Misa-chan pointed out in her post above ^, the mini album isn't called "FIVE" because it's based on five different views. It's called "FIVE" because Leslie suggested it since there were five songs. That's why, imo, it has no concept or cohesion.