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Originally Posted by Bad Wolf
I said it in another thread but I'll repeat it here to see if anyone else feels the same vibe: LOVE again is making me uncomfortable, which is the first for any Ayu record, because it just sounds so raw and vulnerable. I don't even mean raw like her darker tracks and albums, which are all very fierce in an angry way, I mean that this album from front to end just feels like this weak, fragile part of Ayu that she's putting out there and I almost feel really rude for acknowledging it. Hell, I didn't even feel this way when listening to GUILTY ffs.
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There's a definite absence of mysteriousness. Duty, GUILTY, even Party Queen (the 'darker' albums) gloss over quite a bit of detail. LOVE again, I agree, is quite the opposite. It's obscenely explicit in it's detail. You can hear the story; it's not shrouded by the usual platonic mist.
I think it's also quite interesting to note that a lot of us thought that Ayu was acting all 'teenage girl' like when You & Me (and even LOVE) was released. As if, she had totally surrendered herself to finding love. eg. She was going through some form of mid-life crisis.
I think she's going through a mid-life crisis, but not in that girlish, immature way that the fanbase first thought. There are parts of LOVE again that are hauntingly mature. I think that is the terrifying part.
If Ayu was to ever pose semi-naked on a cover, it should have been for LOVE again!!!