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Originally Posted by njanjayrp
Most of Duty songs also had very same "atmosphere" and then it slowly started fading away and sadly it was gone after RAINBOW.
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I thought RAINBOW was not intended to be an album with that sort of atmosphere since the concept behind it was a 'dream/fantasy'. IIRC, a working concept for the album was TODAY/TOMORROW (Leslie suggested TOMORROW at first but Ayu felt that TODAY was what she wanted to represent) but then RAINBOW was suggested by Leslie at some point?
I thought the feeling came back with Memorial address and MY STORY before she felt 'happy' and it disappeared completely from (miss)understood onward. However, GUILTY and Rock'n'Roll Circus had a sort of dark feel that's similar to what you described imo. Other than those two, I feel that joy/love/hope have become her main set of values when creating new songs with a few exceptions.
FYI, the photobook for Party Queen is intended to be a collection of off shots from the album cover shoot which were not used in the album's cover/booklet. This is probably for a future magazine.