Originally Posted by orbitalaspect
She releases maybe one album, one remix, two DVDs, and one single per year. That's quite little activity compared to other artists.
I think she just needs to stick to what works. Before she was experimenting too much with different genres, now she's experimenting too much with different types of releases. Most of these have been disappointing across the board: A SUMMER BEST, LOVE, again, no interludes on Colours, Terminal recut single, doing PVs for single tracks when the album gets released... I'm okay with another remix album, but this is her third in 3 years. Why not include another A Classical with a new a-yu-mix collection? I think far more people would be happy if a classical remix disc joined the a-yu-mix family.
And singles. I know she's not topping the charts, but singles build interest. It gives us something to enjoy every couple months as opposed to waiting several months for news of some kind. Ayu has only released 53 of them, which averages out to around 3 per year of her career. If sales and charts don't matter, why not stick to the formula of a few singles then an album?
My other concern are things like this Samapura nonsense. How is it fair for someone to pay full price for an album but only have two years to listen to it?
Some of these ideas aren't good. And they just happen more frequently. I think everyone expected Winter diary to be a single, and I think more people would be happy if Ayu announced Winter diary as a single then A7 Classical as a remix album. Two new releases, two new things to be excited for. Instead it just hit like, "What. Is. This."
It's mostly because it's like a gimmick. "Buy this whole album of stuff you've already heard and get the new thing you want to hear." As I said above, I think these strange releases just need to stop. If Ayu wants to release new music, put out a single, album, or minialbum. Stop packaging things in weird collections or in awkward formats or in weird ways. People want A BEST 3 not A SUMMER BEST. They want a triple A single, not a minialbum with 3 new songs, 1 PV, and 7 remixes. They want a new single rather than a remix album with an original song as a bonus track.
I know Ayu is doing her thing, but I also know she has to know that fans are losing interest over this stuff. I know I'm a bit like, "Whyyyyyyyyyyyy...?" over several of her releases since 2012.
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