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plus Ayu is famous for a reason I guess. Her voice and music arragments was kinda "fresh" in japanese pop universe. Her voice was always diffrent (when I started listening to Ayu I was kinda like "she is japanese hippie") and the songs was japanese sounding, yet VERY diffrent from the other vocalists I started to listen (Koda Kumi was my referent to "US/JPN rnb sounding POP" and Ayu was my "ROCK/POP" queen that doesnt had any influences in other countries like Ku)

I will never believe she could smash fans with "US influence" hit. Also she will bore her fans to death with all the "same sounding ballads" like the all j-pop stars do. She sounds the best with her unique "hippie" sound I found back in 2003. She had sooo many "flashbacks" in her last albums when I felt it. Love song, Last minute, NO FUTURE, Microphone, November, BRILLANTE, etc etc etc etc. So many good songs, but no strong reference in a whole album. The closest was Party Queen for me. Yet this album also sound "not complete" (sum people will know the feeling).