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Originally Posted by njanjayrp
I wasn't exactly talking about the genres, but knowing the Japanese taste some of Ayu's singles are surely far from what I think the Japanese casual listeners want to hear both musically and lyrically. When it comes to singles Hikki is playing it a lot safer than Ayu and being a fan of both I think that Ayu goes out of her own thing more often than Hikki, though Ayu has released way more tracks. I am not sure what's so experimental about HS - with ULTRA BLUE she re-invented her style and imo HS was practically a copy/paste of tracks like BLUE, Keep Trying, This Is Love etc. Not saying I disliked any of the tracks because I think the majority are purely awesome, but nevertheless not really THAT experimental nor particularly new to her, as she's done it before.
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I agree 100% that Ayu touches riskier subjects on her lyrics, but it's not like she started doing so recently too... Anybody who listened to most of her golden age discography will her she singing about mainly the same things, with a less mature and sometimes angrier point of view... Still, most of her lyrics are pretty much straight foward and her sound can hardly be considered "strange" for most of the time... This is just my opinion, but I always saw Ayu as the one bold with her themes, and Hikki the one bold with her sound (bold in a pop context, both)