Ayu's best album cover is Duty and that's not up for discussion!

Her album trinity:

1. A BEST
2. Memorial Address
3. Duty / (Miss)Understood

Her ballad trinity:

1. Jewel / CAROLS
2. A Song for XX / SEASONS
3. Memorial Address / M

Honestly, start with A BEST because it's a cornerstone of J-pop history. Then work your way from chronologically from her studio albums. You can skim her first album as it's a bit dated.

M is not a ballad.

This is cute, but so unremarkable. What is she doing.

Rainbow cover looks tacky af

Rainbow is like..average at best (cover wise)

Honestly I cannot stand these happy songs anymore. She was never much of an interesting singer but this is getting ridiculous.

if Japan wants to pay dust to ayu they could at least provide me with a new soloist half as interesting...

Y'all can go repent for stanning that knock off and listen to AOTY 2K15, LOVE TRiCKY.

What does M being a ballad have to do with it? Honnou isn't if you think I've chosen ballads for the queens on purpose, but I can always add Godnina's masterpiece CARNATION.



And it's apparently only a third track off the single, no idea why she decided to make a MV for it.

Ayu her ballad trinity:

1. Dearest
2. SCAR / HEAVEN
3. TO BE / from your letter

She has so many good ballads tbh. Poor Utada.

I was referring to LaW's post.

I don't like Ayu's ballads that much while I enjoy all of Utada's. Namie's are also cute. Mika is the queen.

Namie has some cute ballads, but pretty much all of them, except Wishing on the Same Star, fail to move me.

A Beyoncé tea.

To be honest, most of the albums from my Best of 2015 have gone stale while LT is still solid. It's in the Top 3 after Zipang and EUPHORIA for me.

Talent, winning as always.

I know you guys are going to use it in response to this post as a way of mocking me, but that photo of Utada with the glasses is really annoying and clique-y. It makes the page scroll on forever and it makes this thread really difficult for new people to join because they think there's this secret conversation going on that they can't be a part of.

Would you guys be willing to use it less often, or at least shrinking the image size?

It's Kashiyuka though.

Not Utada