New producer, new composer.

[Queen Bee]

I've been a fan since LOVEppears and appears were released. I love LOVEppears but personally I find MY STORY to be much better then LOVEppears, Duty, and I am...,don't get me wrong I love those albums and listen to them all the time but that is my opinion. I find her music and her vocals to be improving though she can get off key....I like the fact that Ayu is trying new styles with every album and is not always keep the same composers, thought I feel that H/\L hasn't been the greatest the past year or so. I also think she should make a come back as a composer.I just get the feeling that she doesn't like the was she composes but I could be wrong. I'm glad to see that we as fans are concerned if there is something we do not like but like what others have said, her songs are for her to express her feelings and whether we like them or not is up to ourselves.Sorry if anyone of you do not like what I said and think that I'm an idiot but I thought I say a few words myself.

[ImpactBreaker]

What is so hard to understand that a lot of people are liking MY STORY? I personally was awaiting for something new from ayu and no I was not expecting some EARTHSHAKING/GROUNDBREAKING/BIG BANG stuff. I was just expecting for new songs from ayu, simple as that. I could care less if the songs have 47478451478 verses and 6454754 bridges, too much vibrato in this or that part, if it is generic pop or if it is not so original. I just wanted to enjoy new songs from ayu. And she (in my opinion) honestly came with some "clean" melodies, nothing too hardcore/random, I felt the climax of the album was pretty good, the chorus were decent, nothing that would make me post on the "songs with a good verses but crappy chorus" thread.

OT: I don't see any brilliance in BoA latest releases....yet I enjoy them. I think she's doing a lot worse than ayu in the recycling aspect, I can't see why people would say BoA is doing her job fine while ayu is declining. Her last japanese album LOVE & HONESTY added absolutely nothing to what the VALENTI album had to offer, not to mention her vocals went worse as well.

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

I don't think ayu is slipping toward mediocrity at all. She has alot of material before "MY STORY", so there seems to be alot more songs from before that we're really crazy about. But if you look at the number of songs per album that you absolutely LOVE, it's not that high of a number. It creates an illusion that her material now is weaker when it really isn't. Only a few of the members at this forum have been actually listening to ayu and following her for more than 2-3 years, and alot of us absorbed a WHOLE lot of her career all at one time so it felt like there was all this good new material to wade through. There wasn't that much more, in reality.

EXACTLY!!!! couldn't have said it better

[nmskalmn]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

She has alot of material before "MY STORY", so there seems to be alot more songs from before that we're really crazy about. But if you look at the number of songs per album that you absolutely LOVE, it's not that high of a number. It creates an illusion that her material now is weaker when it really isn't. Only a few of the members at this forum have been actually listening to ayu and following her for more than 2-3 years, and alot of us absorbed a WHOLE lot of her career all at one time so it felt like there was all this good new material to wade through. There wasn't that much more, in reality.

Excellent point