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Originally Posted by andre2907
Yes, they do. It's not like I search for blogs and reviews that say negative things, that's not it. I just find mostly bad reviews. People comment all the time that her music quality have dropped, that they barely listened to My Story and decided not to buy (miss)understood among other things (and no, I'm not talking about western blogs before people come with the "japanese people have a very different taste" excuse). And if opinions on the internet aren't a good proof, then just look at album and single sales and please don't come with the "waah.. but the ilegal downloads and iTunes are the reason" because they're not. Ayu don't have any Top 10 yearly single anymore or Top 5 yearly album, so it's obvious there's not as many people interested in her music (and that wasn't my initial point, my initial point was that people didn't like the music she was doing since My Story, but because people always think this info come out of the blue and they don't want to believe that, I have to be more especific).
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Who cares about what other people say? Who cares what sales figures say?
When I listen to Ayu, I don't think about what some blog or forum has said or how well the single or album is doing on the Oricon chart. What I consider "good music" will always transcend these things.
The opinion of what you consider "the majority" is not equal to fact. So you've read and compared all the opinions of the 1,000,000 people who purchased My Story or the 800,000 people who purchased (miss)understood? (That's not counting overseas sales, people who've borrowed the album and listened to it, people who've legally and illegally downloaded it). The world is a big, big place, and blogs and reviews are only a tiny fraction of reality. Alert me when you've read at least 200,000 negative reviews of people not pretending to have listened to these albums, then I'll take what you say about "people not liking her music nowadays" seriously.
In my opinion, My Story is the most underrated Ayu album I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. I would put it just below I Am..., and I'd definitely say it is the most thematically coherent album Ayu has released. It's an album that actually sounds like an album and not a collection of great songs, which is what most J-pop albums sound like.