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I agree about her recent material not being "outstanding" (I still like them all tho) but I can't understand when people say "all her new material sounds the same". As maxikot pointed out, there are actually pretty different styles in her recent albums, and if we talk about whole albums and not certain tracks, Party Queen is phenomenal to me, it has such an unique sound, it goes from pop to power ballads to jazz and then orquestra, and has imo one of her best lyrics ever. Most negative comments aren't even about the music, I usually read "ugh party queen, worst album, have you seen the covers? trashy" or "she just wanted to show that she's sexy, so superficial", and I'm like did you even pay attention to the whole album? the concept? she took such a creative turn with this one but y'all hated it (I know not eveyone here hates it), same goes with Colours, not as great in lyrics as PQ imo, but such fun sounds, really different from all her previous works, great album overall (PVs are a mess, I can't deny that) and what happened? people hated it lol so I don't expect Ayu to try something really different again anytime soon. She'll probably keep the "safe" sound and style from A One and Made in Japan (probably), not that I would complain about it, I like both albums.
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