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Old 7th July 2014, 02:13 AM
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I absolutely love this album. The concept and music wise. The PVs are really trashy but I really love how she portrayed in general the "image of herself in the society" as she said on an interview.

Obviously some things could be better worked, like the elements in the cover to simulate a tabloid cover, but the photos are on the point imo. I always think on them like forms to express the excess in alcohol (CD+DVD), consumption (CD only) and sex (CD+2DVD). As if they're the three things that media could call her: the alcoholic, the consumerist and the slut.

About the songs, I really love how they tell a story, lyric wise is like a interview about how her marriage failed, it was one of the few moments that I felt that she was really telling what she was feeling in that moment, and not bringing someone's else story.

The order is like: "Hey I'm having fun, can't you see? I'm very happy!" and then, it goes darker and darker, as she's not having the love that she wanted and thought to have, ending in the climax of Return Road and the divorce. Then she turns cynical about love in the jazzy section, being delusional and trying to redeem herself in the last song.

Meanwhile, like it's her most personal album imo, I think it's great to hear that most of the music is rock influenced, it has even more than RnRC hahahaha
And it's a genre that fits perfectly Ayu. So, that also quite explains why I love this album so much
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