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Originally Posted by Yumsushi
Moving on to reality
My problem with Ayumi is that despite the fact that she always had musical hits or misses for me over her career, she was the full package. Her image wasn't lame and embarrassing, she didn't use ridiculous marketing campaigns with her relationships and she was relatable and believable. Now all I feel is that she is desperate to stay relevant. Her Pvs no longer have that obscure mystery to them and are mostly silly and forgettable, many of her songs are just carbon copies of other songs, and I no longer feels that she gives a damn about maintaining the musical or visual standard that she created at her peak.
I feel that the quote truehappiness mentioned is actually hilarious if Ayumi truly believes it is true. I truly feel that Ayumi has become so distant from her fans in the way she currently presents herself. When I look at her pictures in magazines and on album/single covers, all I see is a Diva. When I listen to alot of her new songs, all I can think of is how uninspiring her music has become. I hope that she will actually implement those feelings in her quote at some point in the future.
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This pretty much lol. Like, I'll always listen to her new music as it comes out because it's always been SO easy to digest and I'm a lazy listener so that matters to me lol, but she's just let the quality slip too much.
I know she set a really really high bar for herself in the past, but it really feels like she just doesn't care that much anymore. Not as if she
can't make better music, but she just doesn't care about making it better anymore. It's like she doesn't make new music for any reason other than because it's been a year since the last album. LOVE again was actually insultingly lazy imo and I 100% feel she only released that album because she wanted to do SOMETHING for her 15th anniversary, and rather than actually put real effort into it she just decided "hey I'll release all those old rejected demos" that obviously weren't good enough BEFORE so why would they be now lol.
I've always been critical of Ayu and vocal of my disappointment when I thought she could have done better, but that was because I loved her and WANTED her to do well. But when she started throwing her relationship with Maro into our faces (especially so soon after Mannie!), started releasing singles disguised as mini albums (for her streak, for $$$, probably because avex willed it, I don't care why), and just decided to throw her artistry to the wind in favor of getting a quick, easy album out for her anniversary, it completely took a cannon ball to my fandom. For the first time ever, I completely stopped caring about what she did whatsoever. And for me to say that, considering how much time and emotion I invested in her, considering no artist EVER came REMOTELY close to how much I cared about her, is a ginormous blow. You know what they say, apathy is worse than hate lol.
I've slowly, cautiously been regaining interest since she's now working to keep her career and love life separated and actually
trying with this album unlike the last one, so we'll see how it goes lol...