Ayus music today sounds more "dated" than her entire discography

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by hayasaki

For me, some of her songs nowadays sounds dated because they LACK something. Be it the arrangement, effects, and the sound as a whole unlike most of her earlier works (perhaps except for ASFXX album). isn't that lackluster suppose to mean? Sorry if i'm being too objective. I'm speaking from a non-native English speaker's pov. lol

"Dated" means it ages badly or sounds old. A dated track usually is something that sounds so attached to the trends of a time that you can't put that song on a different context.

For example, Madonna's track Like a Virgin. It's production is SO typical of the 80's that you instantly recognize it is a 80's song, releasing it today on the same way it was released on the 80's would make no sense. Billie Jean by Michael Jackson has a typical 80's production, but it was produced on a way it works even nowadays without sounding out of place and time.

It has less to do with the song being "bad" or "good" or "lacking" or not something, and more to do with the song work even if it was released a long time ago.

Aswering the thread. Considering I hate almost everything Zeke loves about Ayumi's career, I think it's obvious I'm gonna disagree. I agree with True Happiness, the only albums from her discography that feel dated to me are A Song for XX and LOVEppears... They actually feel dated to me even considering their time of release. Still, she had some dated tracks after that (I am..., My Story, Secret and Guilty has some), but not full albums.