^lolz me too did thought of getting a tattoo..on the letter "A" that is, on m ankle & i've yet to get it done lolz..

it's was so gd that u guyz remembered how u 1st got to know Ayu; i forgot how i got to know her..
i only rmb pastin her photos on my desk during my school days & then my desk would be the most colourful of all others & sometimez my teachers would stop to see what are those pictures..i rmb there was think spelling test & my teacher thought i was tryin to cheat & she juz stood there & stare at those photos till i told her what are those..lolz..
gradually i bought magazines featuring ayumi & i lookup the internet to know more about her...& since i don't know japanese, i would look for lyrics translation to know what her lyrics is all about..i got to love her more & more as i know her songz..her first album which i bought was RAINBOW & since then every album she came out i would buy it..i didn't buy singles though coz i thought it was exp for that few songz & also they would be recorded in her album too.. XD

Aww.. so sweet. I love AHS too XD My story is - my friend brought me Ayu songs 4years ago and I started to listen to her :P

Oh what a heart-warming story :)
LOL

Awww that's a really nice story. But I know exactly how you feel about the whole j-pop thing...I was embarrassed at first because I'm American and not even remotely Asian...but it's not like I had anything against Asians, I just felt like it would be unusual for someone like me to listen to something non-American. But I couldn't help it, I just naturally fell inlove with Ayu over time and I have to say I enjoy Japanese music over Western BIG time. However, I didn't like the stuff I had heard from Ayu at first...such as Dearest (which was the first song I listened to by her from Inuyasha)...and I tried her other stuff but thought it was awful. Later on I discovered Ayu through her trance sometime last year...like at the end of the summer and eventually decided to give her original material one more try. I got used to it and now I'm absolutely inlove with her!!! But no worries, you're DEFINITELY not alone!!! ^.^

same thing for me!
I discover more of ayumi near the same date as you (last year in october)
and all thanks to watching videos of ayumi on youtube, I was amazed when I saw her old videos when she was a model and a song for xx
I always recognized her as a dollface who sang dearest for inuyasha but I didnt know much about her
I started stalking ayumi forums for updates and discussions xD

nice, cooommmmmmme to.......the.......dark......side...lol, just kidding, salutations from one ayu freak to persepective, one, btw that is nothing to be ashamed of, she's number one for a reason, i just wish america could see that, instead of being so self-centered

hahahahahhahhahhahhahah........oh....sorry........ ..................................hahhahahhahhahah haha..................oh sorry again..........................ahahhahahhahahhahha hah.


i'll stop now, wow, um....well at least you'll remember it as a funny thing.....as for me, my first songs were a song for xx, fly high, surreal, and End Roll. so i guess my selection was a little better, hahahhahahha, oops sorry

BLUE BIRD was the song that got me into ayu :)! Which means i became her fan last year.

I loved it so much i bought (miss)understood with it. So that's how i got into ayu LOL!

I forget which thread I saw the link to this one in but I saw it as well and found this thread, which is how I think MM08 found it. Not sure what the point in posting in a long dead thread is though :\

But good story anyways austin, haha :laugh