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Fan Base: Ayumi Hamasaki
Member Since: 3/19/2012
Posts: 5,155
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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
Now I KNOW you all aren't letting Ayu's base flop.
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Don't worry, i won't.
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Member Since: 11/3/2011
Posts: 13,986
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Queen Ayumi, the goddess of J-pop
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/22/2012
Posts: 53,769
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I just can't with Avex right now, they still haven't released Ayu's stuff back to iTunes US, and I have to import CD's to get her music now.
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Originally posted by iamstrong
Queen Ayumi, the goddess of J-pop
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Goddess, Empress, Queen, call her what you like - it's all true.
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
Posts: 5,155
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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
I just can't with Avex right now, they still haven't released Ayu's stuff back to iTunes US, and I have to import CD's to get her music now.
Goddess, Empress, Queen, call her what you like - it's all true.
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I live in Belgium, it's even harder to have her music here
If only she could be on Itunes WW
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/22/2012
Posts: 53,769
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Originally posted by Tainted Blood
I live in Belgium, it's even harder to have her music here
If only she could be on Itunes WW
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It cost me $73.74 to import just Five, LOVE, and A Best last week.
Stupid Avex, taking off all their artists because of iTunes Match. It's been over a year now!
Oh well, I'll live with it I guess.
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Member Since: 10/30/2011
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I finally listened to Party Queen. I loved the production
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
Posts: 5,155
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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
It cost me $73.74 to import just Five, LOVE, and A Best last week.
Stupid Avex, taking off all their artists because of iTunes Match. It's been over a year now!
Oh well, I'll live with it I guess.
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I really want to have her whole discography
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
Posts: 5,155
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Anyway, what's your favorite Ayu album guys? Mine is A Song For XX, i love EVERY song on that album (first time it happened for me). My second favorite is I am...
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/22/2012
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Originally posted by Tainted Blood
Anyway, what's your favorite Ayu album guys? Mine is A Song For XX, i love EVERY song on that album (first time it happened for me). My second favorite is I am...
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It's hard to say. I'm usually heavily biased toward the newer material of artists I begin to like, and I only became a fan of Ayu's work in 2010. So, the (studio) album I like most of hers is actually Love Songs which might be overtaken by LOVE again if the 7 new tracks are good enough. Overall I'd say I Am... is her best, though, accounting for my own time bias - it's just not really my personal favorite to listen to, but rather my second, possibly soon-to-be-third. And I'm well aware that this is a somewhat unpopular overall opinion on Ayumi's music. But it's not like I only stan for her new material or anything.
Guilty is probably my current third favorite, but it periodically switches with A Song for xx.
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
It's hard to say. I'm usually heavily biased toward the newer material of artists I begin to like, and I only became a fan of Ayu's work in 2010. So, the (studio) album I like most of hers is actually Love Songs which might be overtaken by LOVE again if the 7 new tracks are good enough. Overall I'd say I Am... is her best, though, accounting for my own time bias - it's just not really my personal favorite to listen to, but rather my second, possibly soon-to-be-third. And I'm well aware that this is a somewhat unpopular overall opinion on Ayumi's music. But it's not like I only stan for her new material or anything.
Guilty is probably my current third favorite, but it periodically switches with A Song for xx.
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Well i personally love ALL Ayu's albums. Even her last albums are not bad overall. A lot of people (including fans) always say how it's supposedly "sh*t" but in a way it's still more artistic than everything the American pop girls are doing
Ayu has yet to REALLY disappoint me. i just wish her voice was stronger.
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
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Originally posted by Tainted Blood
Well i personally love ALL Ayu's albums. Even her last albums are not bad overall. A lot of people (including fans) always say how it's supposedly "sh*t" but in a way it's still more artistic than everything the American pop girls are doing
Ayu has yet to REALLY disappoint me. i just wish her voice was stronger.
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I think most people talking about her new music being terrible are referring to Party Queen, which I myself don't really like - it was her second studio album that failed to really impress me, after much of Rock 'n' Roll Circus. But even so, Love Songs, Five, LOVE, and again are amazing and I harshly judge those who disagree.
I really tend to love the more "epic" (at least I think that's the word I'm looking for) sort of feel of "Progress" and "Missing" and such tracks compared to other pop songs, which is why I like a lot of her newer material and also some of A Song for XX more than some of her other material. Plus "Last Angel" is like the greatest thing ever.
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Member Since: 6/15/2009
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People do way too much on "Party Queen." Girls need to stop letting sales decide what is and what is not a good album for them.
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Member Since: 6/29/2002
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If you take A Best, My Story, (miss)understood, Secret, and Guilty, then you have about 90% of her best songs.
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/22/2012
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Originally posted by Britneyfan09
People do way too much on "Party Queen." Girls need to stop letting sales decide what is and what is not a good album for them.
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I just plain don't like it much. The sales aggravate me, but I don't dislike it for them.
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Originally posted by Kworb
If you take A Best, My Story, (miss)understood, Secret, and Guilty, then you have about 90% of her best songs.
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I definitely think (miss)understood has some of her best. "Fairyland", "Heaven", "Is This Love?" >>>>>
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
Posts: 5,155
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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
I think most people talking about her new music being terrible are referring to Party Queen, which I myself don't really like - it was her second studio album that failed to really impress me, after much of Rock 'n' Roll Circus. But even so, Love Songs, Five, LOVE, and again are amazing and I harshly judge those who disagree.
I really tend to love the more "epic" (at least I think that's the word I'm looking for) sort of feel of "Progress" and "Missing" and such tracks compared to other pop songs, which is why I like a lot of her newer material and also some of A Song for XX more than some of her other material. Plus "Last Angel" is like the greatest thing ever.
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I love Rock N Roll Circus. Microphone is one of my favorites by her.
And yeah "Missing" is EPIC. I've been obsessed with that song for days after it came out
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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Originally posted by Britneyfan09
People do way too much on "Party Queen." Girls need to stop letting sales decide what is and what is not a good album for them.
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I agree. I know for a fact that some people doesn't like Ayu's new music as much as before because of her declining sales. I think it's stupid because sales doesn't have anything to do with the music itself. And Ayumi is already the best selling solo artist of all time in Japan so it's not like she still need to sell a lot those days
Her fans on AHS are doing the absolute most, i was a regular on that forum for some time but the constant negativity and obsession with sales turned me off
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/22/2012
Posts: 53,769
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Originally posted by Tainted Blood
I agree. I know for a fact that some people doesn't like Ayu's new music as much as before because of her declining sales. I think it's stupid because sales doesn't have anything to do with the music itself. And Ayumi is already the best selling solo artist of all time in Japan so it's not like she still need to sell a lot those days
Her fans on AHS are doing the absolute most, i was a regular on that forum for some time but the constant negativity and obsession with sales turned me off
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Ayu fans should just be content with Ayu being the biggest solo artist in Japanese history and still selling. I mean really, LOVE and again are brilliant mini-albums, who cares if they don't sell 500k anymore? She's still not going to be surpassed any time soon or probably ever, so we should all just enjoy the awesome music.
And how anyone can really hate her latest material is beyond me, it's some of the best I've heard in years from any J-Pop artist. Sure PQ wasn't exactly great (okay, so I actually really dislike it) but the rest since Love Songs has been top notch pop music. For example, honestly nothing really recent (2011-2012) comes close to "Progress" in my opinion.
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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Originally posted by Retro Dance Freak
Ayu fans should just be content with Ayu being the biggest solo artist in Japanese history and still selling. I mean really, LOVE and again are brilliant mini-albums, who cares if they don't sell 500k anymore? She's still not going to be surpassed any time soon or probably ever, so we should all just enjoy the awesome music.
And how anyone can really hate her latest material is beyond me, it's some of the best I've heard in years from any J-Pop artist. Sure PQ wasn't exactly great (okay, so I actually really dislike it) but the rest since Love Songs has been top notch pop music. For example, honestly nothing really recent (2011-2012) comes close to "Progress" in my opinion.
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Exactly
And yeah the majority of her recent material is REALLY great. And i can tell you that if she sold 500K+ with it the fans wouldn't complain that much
Honestly i hate when my fellow fans are so obsessed with sales (not only with Ayu but also with some others artists i love). Music should be about music before anything else
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 3/22/2012
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My physical copies of A Best and Five arrived in the mail today, LOVE and Love Songs should arrive mid-February. I'm going to import A Best 2 (both of them) or A Complete: All Singles next, then my favorite albums in order of favorite to least.
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Member Since: 5/17/2009
Posts: 18,731
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I love 'A Song For xx'. "Depend on You", "poker face", "Wishing" are some of my faves.
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