Two years since Ayu's last single

[Delirium-Zer0]

I rather prefer Ayu focusing on the album as a whole rather than singles.

For the record, I do think this is Ayu's decision. She hit 50 singles, she's broken every record, and so much of what Ayu's done lately has felt like a "screw this" to avex's system... you know, the whole "it's winter so release a ballad, it's summer so release an upbeat song" thing.

"A SUMMER BEST" exists because Ayu decided not to release a summer single. That's why You & Me kinda sucks - she put NO work into it, and only did it because the higher-ups told her to. You can tell when Ayu's doing something she really wants to do - the attitude behind it is completely different.

"Party Queen" was an album - a single, cohesive work of art - rather than just a collection of songs, and putting out singles before an album forces that album to be "just a collection of songs." The result is often messy - Secret and Guilty were these weird frankenstein fusions of pandering, simplistic pop and real artistic triumphs. "Party Queen," and future no-single albums, won't suffer from that.

I'd MUCH rather ayu put out the kind of music she wants to, the kind of music that says what she wants to say, rather than forcing out thematic singles because the suits told her to. If that means no singles, fine by me.