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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
IMO her lyrics are sharp as ever, I actually can even relate to what she writes better nowadays than I do with her older lyrics, probably because at 29 I relate more with the adult Ayu issues than I do with the teen Ayu conflicts.
Colours and A One didn't had tight concepts like her other albums, but Colours showed she going a new direction for her (and mostly exceling on it IMO) while A One showed safe but extremely well crafted ballads. Made in Japan showed her feelings towards her homeland and another tight concept, and it's not her fault if western fandom expected sushi and ninja because it was based in Japan.
The last two tours had great concepts, depth, great amount of storytelling and comentary about her image (cdm) and the society she lives in (mij).
I don't get why people complain so much about that considering her tours from 2003 to 2009 were pretty much flashy for the sake of being flashy and her albuns from My Story to Rock n Roll Circus had poorly executed concepts and were constructed around summer and winter singles. Also, her fandom it's way more conservative than it likes to think it is, and everytime she really tried to shake things up she was shitted on by her fans...
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I do think her lyrics are still really good, but sonically her songs are just not as well-crafted, at least in my opinion.
Also, it's easy to say that an album has a "tight concept" but what really matters is how the artist delivers it. Ayumi can say what she
intended to say with an album, but if the delivery is poor her intentions don't really matter.
I completely understand your point, I just can't really share the same opinion on her most recent releases.