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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
I agree with this, yes. But that's one of the reasons why I cut it off at '06. The summer winter ballad thing hadn't become repetitive yet or at least not so much so that it became annoying and formulaic. For me that's '07 onwards.
Totally disagree about Love Songs and Love Again though. I mean, I actually don't associate those two albums together at all even. Love Songs came out less than a year after Rock n' Roll Circus, so I felt those had much more in common with each other. Love Again was just a mess and I try to forget it happened, haha.
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I see Love Songs - Party Queen - LOVE again as a trilogy, as the 3 of them deal with Ayu's feeling towards her own views on romantic love and love life, something she had not explored as much before, and in that sense, IMO La is the conclusion she got out of what she started reflecting about during LS.
But I also think La is interesting as a package. Isolated, most of the songs are far from her most interesting.
In a way, La is also the album were Ayu's aesthetic gets less dream-like and more realistic. Girl became a cynic
