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Originally Posted by emiko
I actually love nearly every single one of those songs you've listed. Some of them are some of the best songs she's ever done...but imo...The Ayu who did songs like those back then...doesn't really do songs like those anymore.
There aren't THAT many of them though, and they're usually full of feeling and ayu, but the music is subpar to me, and has the general feel of trying too hard, and also, trying to hard to be like songs you listed lol
random: I still don't get why RnRC gets so much hate. It has the same format of her previous albums, except the songs aren't as good. But none of her songs are "as good" so...
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Yes, progress was trying WAAAAAYYYY too hard to have similarities to Mirrorcle World. The only thing I truly, truly adore about that song is the bridge. Best bridge ever in an Ayumi Hamasaki song imo. Sucks that I have to listen to this subpar rock song just to hear those few short seconds of the bridge! Lol.
And with R'n'R, it was just waaaay too hyped. I know Ayu hypes all her releases, but R'n'R was the first time where she really practically told us how her daily duties as far as producing the new album was going, and we got so many pictures from the videos and photos from the shoots. Then it was hailed as Ayu by being something along the lines of "back to basics of Ayumi Hamasaki" and I drew similarities toward MY STORY which is my favorite album. So when it was released and it was nothing at ALL like MY STORY or anything I had come to expect of the album, I wanted to die. But I have told this story so many times, I feel like a broken record. Sorry to all, lol.