[Andrenekoi]

The thing is, Ayu build her career around having a diverse sound. It's very hard for someone to actually copy her because you have about 20 staple sounds she always come back to, besides the more experiemental stuff she has on pretty much every album that have so much of her printed on it it couldn't really be done by someone else. In the end of the say, if she isn't realeasing something during summer or winter, you can't really know what will you get... It can go from a innofensive cutesy ballad that doesn't really add to her career like Hello new me, Melody, meaning of LOVE, to some shit that mix so much genres on it it's hard to fully classify like BRILLANTE, sexy little things, Bold & Delicious, Snowy Kiss... And of course, because of that, someone will always dislike something she releases...

Namie keeps around the same style for a while and explore it for 2 or 3 albums before going on a different direction... Koda has her 3 or 4 signature sounds and tries new sounds here and there (not as frenquently as Ayu)... Hikki also likes to release stuff hard to classify and also experiement a lot, but her final results tend to be more polished (what makes sense, as Hikki is a full-time musician who doubles as a more-or-less competent popstar while Ayu is a performer and popstar with power to make musicians translate her feelings into music). It's not surprising that they please their fans more frequently... Namie and Koda for being more previsible (it's scientific, people find music they recognize easier more pleasent) and Hikki for being more competent on the music department (but let's be honest here, she isn't more competent than Ayu, she is more competent than pretty much everyone else).

I don't love everything she does... Hate Rock n Roll Circus and Secret with passion, for example... But I actually like how polarizing she is... IMO it shows she is trying to do relevant stuff and in the end of the day this will be what will made it impossible to totally count her out of the game... Even people bashing her pretty much shows that she still is alive and still is a important figure on the market. People don't even bother discussing whatever most female soloists release, while they still feel the need to show how much they love, hate or love to hate Ayu.

This is relevancy, on a level most people who are now outselling her will never really get.