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Originally Posted by orbitalaspect
And to hammer this point home: How many of Utada's songs since ULTRA BLUE have been about love or relationships or breakups? ...Now, how many of Ayumi's songs since Secret have been about love, relationships, breakups, missing someone? My point is that Utada is not only a better songwriter today, but she's also a more diverse songwriter.
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Ok, first of all your point isn't valide. The questions should be like : How many Japanese albums (to exclude her English attrocity, lyrically speaking) has Utada released since 2006? 2 plus mini album. So this equals less then 30 songs. And how many albums has ayu released since 2006? 10 plus 2 mini, so over 100 songs at least. Of course ayu is going to have a lot more love songs or repeated themes in her hundred songs than Utada in a few. And what's wrong with love theme? Its not like Utada is some highly experimental new age artist. Like someone else already said, she also sings very often about relationships. Ayu only started putting accent on this theme after 2010 when Utada started her hiatus. And how can you say that she's a better and diverse songwriter today, when she hasn't released a full Japanese effort in over 8 years.