New album 'Party Queen' out 03/21 information thread [IV]

[Kanzaki]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Aww... woke up thinking there might be covers... everyone is still talking about stupid jazz... lol

Well sorry, let's change the subject just for you then You know, if there were covers, you wouldn't even have to look in here, they'd most certainly be in a completely new thread.

[Earth_maiden]

I love how many members are so negative and emo about something that they've never even seen/heard yet. Lighten up, jeez.

[AyusakiFan]

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

I love how many members are so negative and emo about something that they've never even seen/heard yet. Lighten up, jeez.

This is exactly why I've avoided these threads in the past. While I personally don't mind people sharing their opinions (whether it be positive or negative), an overwhelmingly negative response to an album that we haven't even heard a majority of the songs from yet just brings the morale down. Although I don't expect for everyone to only have positive opinions either, I would think that some people would be more willing to give it a chance before automatically assuming that it's going to be bad. As fans (which I assume most of us are being that we are on an Ayumi Hamasaki forum), I understand that we don't have to love everything that she does but I don't think that it's unfair to say that we should have some faith in her to release a quality product, whether it fits our personal tastes or not. For me personally, I'm excited about the album and have a positive outlook on this release but I'm staying neutral for the most part so I don't have any expectations until I hear more songs than we've heard at this point.

[Earth_maiden]

Originally Posted by AyusakiFan

This is exactly why I've avoided these threads in the past. While I personally don't mind people sharing their opinions (whether it be positive or negative), an overwhelmingly negative response to an album that we haven't even heard a majority of the songs from yet just brings the morale down. Although I don't expect for everyone to only have positive opinions either, I would think that some people would be more willing to give it a chance before automatically assuming that it's going to be bad. As fans (which I assume most of us are being that we are on an Ayumi Hamasaki forum), I understand that we don't have to love everything that she does but I don't think that it's unfair to say that we should have some faith in her to release a quality product, whether it fits our personal tastes or not. For me personally, I'm excited about the album and have a positive outlook on this release but I'm staying neutral for the most part so I don't have any expectations until I hear more songs than we've heard at this point.

That's what annoys me... I can understand people complaining about an album or single because they don't like the music/covers/arrangement/composer/ayu's nails/etc, but to say they "won't like it" when we have so little to go on just seems so ...dramatic to me. We have one full song, and a live audio performance/CM snippets of one other... how can someone say they won't like this album based on that? I don't get it.

[love in music]

Originally Posted by AyusakiFan

This is exactly why I've avoided these threads in the past. While I personally don't mind people sharing their opinions (whether it be positive or negative), an overwhelmingly negative response to an album that we haven't even heard a majority of the songs from yet just brings the morale down. Although I don't expect for everyone to only have positive opinions either, I would think that some people would be more willing to give it a chance before automatically assuming that it's going to be bad. As fans (which I assume most of us are being that we are on an Ayumi Hamasaki forum), I understand that we don't have to love everything that she does but I don't think that it's unfair to say that we should have some faith in her to release a quality product, whether it fits our personal tastes or not. For me personally, I'm excited about the album and have a positive outlook on this release but I'm staying neutral for the most part so I don't have any expectations until I hear more songs than we've heard at this point.

i agree with this so much. i've come to really dislike HBYA, but i'm still excited for the album. just because i hate one song doesn't mean the rest will be bad. like, if you compare Party Queen to HBYA the quality is way different (Party Queen being on a whole other level). so who knows what we'll get. i personally find that the songs on ayu's albums always vary in quality (you get a mixed bag of a few bland/bad, some great, and some mind blowing amazing) so you can't judge a whole album by 1 or 2 songs.