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Originally Posted by RayJason
omfg calm down.
I'm just saying that this is not how ayu represents herself all the time, and people who happen to discover her during this era (Party Queen) will totally misunderstand who and what ayumi hamasaki really is. Not everyone can smell that the album(covers) have a concept. Many people know her for her cutesy upbeat J-POP songs and touching ballads, so it will be different for people who discover her to hear lyrics like the one featured in 'Party queen' (song) where she's (almost) suggesting (/or even encouraging) people do drink to have fun with her.
If the concept could have been done better, people (not only her fans) could understand it. They would know 'OH, so she's not drunk and posing like a ****, she's just sad and is covering it with partying'. I'm sure that people who discover her during this era will think of her as another Koda- artist.
But whatever.
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For a long time now Ayu's mostly been concerned with being as honest as possible with everyone, including herself. For what she cares for, every album is a part of her life, an era of her own life and not just an era of her career. She's not thinking "I better not release that! New people may get the wrong idea!" and she hardly ever was. She doesn't care for that at all, so why should we? She doesn't care what people think, even if it hurts sometimes; she's just trying to deliver good, honest material to her fans, and be honest with herself, find a release for herself.
Besides, the material she releases from one album to another, her style from one single to another, one magazine to another, one video to another, it almost always changes. The only thing that remains the same is that it is an honest portrayal of her personality at that given time. To become a 'fan' you need to look at the work of more than just the present moment and the future, so frankly, a new 'fan' shouldn't be what we're concerned with. And frankly, old fans should remember who she is as a person; the fact that she's always digging deeper with her work.