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Old 2nd January 2017, 08:06 PM
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Btw. I really want to know, why some of you guys think the quality of her material is worse than earlier?
I mean, if I think about her peak everybody seems to love that much... thinking about her 12 singles project e.g.- just half of the songs are actually good for me. For example Ima sugu hoshii is quite repetetive, the live arrangement made it so much better. Isn't that maybe much of nostalgia for most parts? Or people just liked the way it was marketed that much?
Kuu certainly did changes in her music over the years. She stopped doing (overly) cute songs and performances, she stopped having sappy love ballads as she herself said it with Bon Voyage (she only did love ballads towards her fans in the last two years). Well, there was Kimi Omoi, if you want to count it as sappy love ballad, but it wasn't intended as a proper release.
So saying she didn't evolve just isn't true. If you like it or not is something totally different
But as a random notice, I was quite surprised, how many recent songs there were at those Top 15 songs list some people posted here.
Just shows, that her current work isn't as badly received as it seems to be sometimes.

And btw No.2.
Maybe someone wondered, that I said I like every song on WOML even though I said in the past I didn't like HOTEL. As a standalone track I still think HOTEL is quite weak (lyrics and her husky voice in the verses mainly), but it is catchy and has a positive atmosphere, that I can listen to it in the album. It doesn't bother me that much there.
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