If AUDIENCE were the first Ayu song I heard, I would have turned around and run away screaming.
I agree with you, zeke. my name's WOMEN is (imo) as good as pop music production gets. It's actually one of my least favorite songs on MY STORY, too (which admittedly doesn't mean all that much because that's by far my favorite album). And I would never introduce a new fan to anything pre-Memorial address (or maybe RAINBOW, depending on the song, like HANABI). That's just when her vocals got easier to stomach and the production on her songs became a~ma~zing.