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Well, yar, haha, I think everyone is really engaging in some intellectual debate here! It's good to see everyone still being very concerned about the direction by which Ayu's music is going, and it's a good sign that her fans are still concerned about her. But well, I think there are some general conclusions that I think we have all approved of.
1. Everyone has their own tastes and opinions, and it's ok that we don't agree with each other's opinion.
2. Ayu will not be able to please everyone no matter what happens.
3. Ayu's music is not truly "individual-focus" i.e. It's made SPECIALLY FOR YOU so that you will LOVE it.
Based on these truly fundamental arguments, I think basically, from my point of view, I think we should try to empathise with her too. Producing music is really tough work and I know that at times, we might think that she doesn't even produce top-notch quality music and perhaps even heading for the worse. However, I think Ayu has really tried her best already.
It's part of the horrid regiment of her career, getting the gossips in the gossip columns, her popularity eventually dipping ... still, I think we all can say that Ayu has really left her impact and tried very hard to deliver against the competition. We all can feel that she's being roped into part of this "money-making" plan thing, whereby money is really "everything". It would be a truly ideal world whereby people make music because they love it without this thing called greed existing but still sadly it does. So as much as we hate it, Ayu's schedule, ayu's health, ayu's raison d'être has well, a lot of times be neglected by people around her.
"How does Ayu feel really about what she's doing?"
She's open and frank to her fans, she really wants to deliver the best that she can to her audiences, and I think every single artiste wants to put their best into their own production. They each have different styles which they feel would appeal to their fans and hence they would head in that field.
What Ayu is experiencing now is that yar, she has really put in a lot of effort and I think exhausting your creativity for like 7 years of your career, you can see how much harder it is getting to garner in new ideas (I mean Ayu has tried on so many images and so many styles) which she is still trying to explore "unexplored" frontiers.
So yar, seeing this constraint, I hope that basically, everyone, yar, I know you'll feel your disappointments with Ayu's music at certain times or even at this point, but still, I hope we don't neglect that Ayu's already trying her best, even though knowing that well, not everyone will like her "new" styles and so on. Her schedule has been like crazy, plus her ongoing concerts and so on. It's quite "naturally" that her quality of music might have to suffer a compromise "somehow" (if that's how some of you feel).
Again, I just hope that we'll empathise more with her too. I hope we're not taking this too commercially and well, still realise that she's human afterall. She's not perfect, but neither are we.
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