Originally Posted by kaled kalil
It's probably gonna get harder to relate to her songs and all, after she recorded WARNING. After all Ayu seems to be the woman who doesn't want to people to relate to her anymore.
My conception of the decade thing that you guys said a pages ago goes around this: after the first 10 years, most of the artists goes to a time of their career that they try too hard on things. Madonna had her "try hard" years with the 90s (Erotica, her book Sex, Evita, and other things), Kylie Minogue had her "try hard" years during the 90s as well (her pop princess image, trying to go to as a deep artist, which failed hard) , and I think this is the case with Ayu right now.
And I think people missconcept the idea of fighting the sexism in todays society, saying that what Madonna is doing today is great. There is a line between being a mature woman expressing her sexuality and being beyond people expect, and still tastefull, like Girls Gone Wild, than being like a party hard girl trying to appeal to a younger generation and making a fool of herself like Bitch I'm Madonna. And I understand people making the connection with Ayu's PVs like WARNING/Sayonara and Madonna, but I think that Ayu's style was always more 'in your face' and tastefull, even dealing with concepts that people might find weird or 'too much', like 1LOVE.
The thing is that she needs to find a good concept for an album or a video, and work with that, because at this point it seems like Ayu is trying anything without a good perception or direction on what she wants.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter that much if the fans will go and buy her stuff anymore, of if her popularity goes back with her being the it girl again, but it's about the quality that she's not delivering anymore. Nowadays I tend to get her newest releases and make maxi singles of them, with around 3 or 4 songs each album, because the rest is so bland and not interesting, that I just don't even care to have them in my iTunes.
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