I have the phase "less Ayumi" for now
because I dislike the new stuff
and there's nothing criminal in it :P

Before march, I was lke "eh, lame. famous, but lame. depend on you is ok, albeit a little screechy." And then I started to really appreciate both her music and her as a person. I haven't really listened to anything else since then. And now I'm spending obscene amounts of money on CDs and bloody awesome DVDs :D. My mom's like you watch, after you get tired of all this and move on, I know where to sell all this stuff. I'm like hell no, mom, I'm loving Ayu till the day I die, and you know that's the kind of person I am. Ayu's just got such a huge repertoire that is mostly all likeable. I think that's how many of us have been able to sustain listening to her for such long periods of time; her awesome variety doesn't let her music get old. And on top of the songs, we have PVs and live performances keeping them fresh.

Only sort of thing ive had like this was when i overplayed inspire and got bored of it

Then i went back to it about 4months later and <3

Hmm, Ayumi is and always will (maybe) be my number one. But I do often get the feeling that she can't sing and has a crap load of help from synthesizers and voice enhancers...like...a lot. That's all because of her performances. Her concerts are really great...you can hear the strength in her voice. But when you see her TV concerts, sometimes they put me in strong places of doubt. Her DVD concerts can be edited, while TV shows are typically unedited (like, by her people). Because of this, I wonder if her voice is really like that and if she really cannot sing at all, because many times she is terribly off tune. So bad, she sounds worse than bad American Idol auditions.

But then I am forced to turn back around, when I hear performances like Memorial address at Arena Tour 2003-2004.

Of course, many times I am disgusted with her M performances simply because I don't like how she "smoothes out" the "maria" in the chorus parts. Gross.

^lol yea sometimes the TV performances are meh. On american idol, the serious people are all terribly on-key so I'm like what's going on here?? But when you hear some of her performances on Ayuready?...it's just like wow. Like that one time she sang bits of "Kimi dake ni" by shounentai with that mitsuhiro guy. People have posted before saying WHOA LOOK AT THIS SHE SOUNDS AWESOME. And haru yo, koi was a kickass performance too. And she's cute in the surreal making-of where she's just kind of singing to herself acapella. Seriously, the little kimi dake ni sing was reaaal nice...not only was it totally on-key, she whipped out some wicked vibrato. Goes to show that her vocals really have been improving a lot. Let's see...episode 22 with mitsuhiro oikawa; it's toward the end.

Oh and I love this performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxTHoKOu-Ww
Totally should've been on A Ballads instead of the old TO BE vocals.

This one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVuErKBUmp8
It's revenge for her performance with tsunku on hey!x3 in 1999...her voice was so tiny compared to his back then...NOW WHAT TSUNKU NOW WHAT

And here's haru yo koi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyGbC3mWZ4

Bah I can't find kimi dake ni on youtube.

Yea she's got some bad days...but when it's good, you damn well better believe it ;).

I like her concert voice. Some songs won't be the same as the studio version simply because her voice changed over the years, but really, give the the concert humming 7/4 version anyday. I think it's nice to have difference between the live and studio voice, or else concerts would be kinda boring to watch methinks :P (Hikki, I'm looking at you. Ai at least have that Osaka accent thing).

Its MC reborn! LOL :D

We all go though those phases now and then

I'm sure you'll hate Mika soon :bgiggle

Anyway its like that with any artist -- too much, not good

You don't want to end up like BanFan LOL :laugh (truehappiness will probably get that ;))

LOL~

I do get it ;p

I think that Mika will probably get a bit boring to people faster than Ayu.. Ayu does have a larger discography to grind through..

nah, I never have.

NEVER! Mika is ultimate goodness. :luv2
But I thought BanFan left because he was bored with the chatroom threads going "OMG, MY 1000TH POST!" and not cos of Ayu?

Noo.. at one point he listened to like a jillion ayu CDs in one day and got sick of her fast cause he's dumb like that LOL [he listened to a few albums in a row or something..]

He still is a cult follower of M.A though D: (more like the ultimate sleepiness, Mika is.. :p :p)

Ayumi? Bad? HAHAHA....

No, I appreciate her music too much for that.

I think Ayu makes my life 10x happier <3 XD

If there were no Ayu, I might like emo bands :[ :[

I'll wait for the day when you're like OMG I hate Mika! :bgiggle

Eh, he'll probably, not announcing it to us, ditch Mika for Yuna Ito or something D:

No. He left for good :p

(winkwink)

Like, for reals.

I have never thought of disliking Ayumi Hamasaki. Yes sometimes I find her music lame but most of time her songs are like, jewellery or something. Being talented doesn't mean she has to be good at warble tones or anything like that. She's honest to music and she loves singing for us that's enough. And I do enjoy her songs.

BTW I hate those who hate an artist because of another one. That's mean.

No i have not.

Hey she can do "warble tones"...check out that kimi dake ni on ayuready22, you'll see. It's freakin kickass too. Go Ayu! I've come to love the sound of her voice...