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^Comparing her to Madonna once more... If we make an impression of Madonna based on forums that aren't about her and comments of her news, she will most likely be the most hated person alive... If we take her album sales and her singles, she isn't really topping the other female stars since Music, maybe, and that was 13 years ago. But she just had the most viewed TV event of all time with the SuperBowl (her performance was more watched than the game itself) and the 2nd best grossing tour ever by a solo artist, only behind another tour of hers.
I don't think opening kouhaku for so many years in a row (she is opening it since... 2008?), being the best selling solo artist ever in Japan (what may be in Asia considering Japan is the biggest music market in Asia) and having one of the biggest tours in Japan for a solo artist every year (only behind Namie?) since 2009 (?) are signals of a failing career... Not even close. Even the scandals shows a huge public interest few popstars felt 15 years into their careers and 11 years since their peak. She went from "big" to "classic", and this is just classic after so many years in the public eye, and a huge feat once you consider the usual shelf live of a japanese female popstars as revelant is 3 albums and a compilation, what usually spans 3 years. |
To be fair she only opens kouhaku because she has to be at CDL.
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^It's not like she could open Kouhaku just because she felt like... If a lesser star demanded the opening spot because they have a concert, they most likely wouldn't get it.
Also, she held CDLs for almost her whole career while doing Kouhaku performances without opening it... So it's not impossible for her. |
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Maybe she started to rehearse a bit or get prepared earlier than she used to, to make the show better or be less in pressure?
It's not really our business to choose her schedule. When she performs at kouhaku or when she prepares to perform in yoyogi at the CDL. |
As far as I know, she started opening kohaku because she requested it in order to have more time to be prepared for CDL. In addition, opening Kohaku is not the best thing since the opening act is always the one with the lowest audience share. Before 2008, when Ayu started opening the show, the first artists used to be those of little standing (2007: Hello! Project; 2006: mihimaru GT; 2005: Ami Suzuki...)
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This is all very true. The only thing: I don't consider those comments malicious or very hateful (which is surprising, considering where they're coming from), but very partial, like unwilling to do the next step and think about the question with all its shades. It's kind of sad actually, how disinterested and indifferent those people sounded to me. |
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It's not like she is getting the opening spot every year just because she feels like it, and NHK wouldn't agree with this didn't bring them any advantage. |
Well those people and their comments on 2ch represents nothing about ayu's popularity in Japan or what Japanese people think of her. Most Japanese people think 2ch is a garbage of the internet and the comments on that website are totally ridiculous. I know about this very well because I'm Japanese and lived in Japan until a few years ago when I moved to North America.
Many of us respect her for what she has done in her music career, especially the generation that grew up with her music (I'm not saying this just because I'm a huge fan of her, it's true). I suppose those who are commenting on 2ch and saying some rude stuff are the people who knows nothing about Ayu, basically teenager. Also, I can swear those who said they don't know any songs after Dearest era are lying, because it's absolutely impossible to not hear Ayu songs at least until You were...era. I'd really feel bad if any of you get a different impression of Japanese people than what you thought, because of 2ch. |
^ i already posted my Japanese friend's opinion on 2chan who's also a huge Ayu fan. She hates them.
also they just threw a lot of trash at GACKT after a tabloid article came out with more ridiculous rumours, so really, it's just a place for people who like trolling. |
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I think ayu is in decline, I think this year more that more than ever. I think her celebrity is what has declined tho and not her as a brand. Nowadays there is like little to no commotion over the things she does. I think what has happened is everyone has realized that she's not going anywhere until she dies so its no longer plausible to gossip or criticize her - its like we just support her when she has new music/product(s) and that's it...if that made absolutely any sense at all :p
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but on a bit different matter, I think here decline also has to do with the fall of JPOP over KPOP too. Even her in Australia, theirs a shop in Melbourne I go too, or used to go too, they used to have a big selection of Japanese artists with ayu posters on display etc, but now the Japanese selections been pushed right to the back of the store with it looking like it hasn't been updated for quite some time and forgotten about. Guilty was the latest of ayu, not to mention the only album of ayus there, its like 1/4 of what it used to be |
People who comment on articles are usually the ones with pretty strong opinions. You can see that at everything. No one comments to say, "I think she's still good". We're just seeing the comments from people with actual dislike
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Also, the whole Music Station cancellation, what I heard was only that she was unable to catch her plane from the US (which was where she was at the moment). I've never known about the whole AKB thing before I read the thread. I find it hard to believe that she'd refuse to perform because AKB is closing or something to that effect. It just doesn't sound like ayu. Or maybe I have too much faith in her. |
^This is the girl that took the lowest viewed/prestige spot of the most watched tv special of the country because she wanted to... So, I doubt it either.
Her performance would be noticed, it would be highlightned on the reports and it would get good ratings... Just like the "lower" prestige part of Kouhaku since she is performing there... And she most likely knows it. |
I think the difference in Ayu taking the opening might be that its viewed as much more of a grand thing, since she's legendary and all?
and yes, I'm not stanning and know her rep in Japan... this is just fact ;) i doubt she'd be a diva and pull a tantrum, though. The only one that's really been documented was the one at that photoshoot in 2001. Even then, she was mad because her staff were being made to wait and not solely because of herself. |
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