After listening to it nonstop for a week, I can finally form an opinion of this album. I think this might be the worst album quality and conception wise since her first rap one.
Positives: Some songs are fresh, the album is pretty addicting.
Negatives: the lack of A-single/album quality songs, cover, only PQ/NaNaNa/Shake It fits the title, bad pvs except RR, too much fillers, repetition from other songs?
A-single quality: Return Road,
Album quality (like Jewel, Microphone etc): NaNaNa, reminds me, How beautiful you are
B-single quality (Aka album fillers): Party Queen, Shake it <3, call, letter , Tell me why
Worse than fillers: all the interludes, Smoke Eyes Magic, the Next Love
The problem might be that this is her most fillerific album to date. Only return road can be used as a-single and maybe NaNaNa because it's incredibly addicting. The other 2 album quality songs are pretty standard ayu quality that I expect from her. The B-sides are all pretty addicting, but they're kinda generic. The call and letter music composition are both copied & pasted from Last Links/Hope or Pain. Although those songs are great, the fact that they're using almost the identical composition/guitar rifts makes it really sad.
I think the major factor that blogged this album down are the worse than fillers category. The interludes do not add anything to this album; it’s not my cup of tea haha. I don’t feel the ayu-magic like when she did sparkle, don’t look back, B&D, GREEN (when ayu ventured into many genre of music before) etc and reinvented it in her own way in SEM & the NL.
The results lead to a mish-mashed of genres like many other Ayu Albums, but this shouldn’t be the case since all these songs were recorded relatively at the same time. This album should have been a mini album with the fillers axed, or at least be renamed as “Filler Queen”.
PS. I do enjoy this album a lot more than GUILTY, but I think GUILTY’s quality and cohesiveness blows this album's quality out of the water.
V*Edit: Ops thanks, I meant cohesiveness not coherent lol! Yeah I think this album is easy to understand.