You Know You're An Ayu Fan When......
 

Ok, I pre-apologize because I think we've already done something like this before, but I couldn't find it when I searched...

I'll get the ball rolling,

• You crack glowsticks when you watch Ayu concerts on your DVD player
• You bust out into the Trauma dance at dancing events
• The letters A, H, M, and the & symbol have an entirely new meaning for you
• You name your child after her, even though it is clearly not Japanese
• When you see the American flag, you don't think of the things it stands for, you think of Evolution

Now it's your turn :D

word to that steven!

You make a little 'A' sign out of a sticker sheet, so when you tan you have a little 'A' on your belly!!! :)

-You don't know who new american artists are
-your "number 1 hits" playlist, which contains 200 songs, consists of 186 ayumi hamasaki songs
-Your friends don't want you to put on CD's anymore
-You use your iPod for PV's
-You have Connected, Trauma, M, Fly high, Evolution, and UNite! as ringtones for your 6 best friends that call you all the time
-Ayu is the only person who you haven't gotten sick of after putting on repeat for hours

haha! awesome! love it! thanks for the idea ;-)

Wow I guess I realize I'm not an ayu fan then LOL :laugh

-When you sing aloud to her songs while driving!

You Know You're An Ayu Fan When......
 

*you try 2 sing her songs in english
*you change your nails everytime she dose just so you can match hers
*you can pronounce "crea" correctly

i will add more later........

*Get your nail done they was she does
*Get her "a" tattooed on you

That's not hard.

-you are Jolin Tsai

Thats a good one!

-you put the http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Jbry2k8/a.gif sign everywhere you can think of (notebooks, art drawing, drawing on your hand, books, post-it-note stickys, etc.
-you don't know whats going on in the american music culture
-talk about her all the time even though the people that you are talking to are like "ayu-who?"
-can't wait until you meet another ayu-naught-fan (such as yourself) that turns out to be your best friend and lives near you even though that will never be true, but you still have that little hope...

ku-rei-a?

you mean just save those files?

-You know the choreography to her concerts.
-You have your room covered with her posters/calenders/CDs/etc.
-You are broke again after buying another DVD and CD+DVD or the same CD with different covers
-You have every live performance (45 GB ayu collection :()
-You download and save her commercials
-You want to buy everything from her commercials
-You can imitate her commercials (Happi Happi Hi-Chew :D)
-You steal backgrounds from her CD to put yourself on it (:whistles)

*Everytime you see someone Asian you asked if they heard of Ayu
*You name your pets Ayu
*You hate namie amuro
*Everyone know you as Ayu-chan
*All Your clothes is MTRLG

Yep... Thats me! Only if they were born in Asia or something like that.

- i like to write "A"yumi Hamasaki around my books, also around walls table and chairs at school with permanent pen :mischief

- lol Akurei, i also ask my asian friends if they know Ayu hehehe

- in my folder 95% of the files are ayumi related files

- don't try to listen to any other artists besides Ayu

- when my friends says anything bad about Ayu i get ^%$*%!!! :gnash

- most of my time on the somputer is related to Ayu~

- i keep telling every1 exciting news eventhough they dont care about Ayumi like her new single

- i get told im obsessed from my friends and family :cool

- when i see an Ayu song title name on a worksheet during class i like to highlight the word or stare at it and daydream... :o

- i dont understand Japanese so when my friend says something in Japanese i tell them i heard Ayumi saying that word b4

Ofcourse i got some more~ but can't be bothered listing them

ME 2! I also do it on gym bleachers! :yes lol

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- when i see an Ayu song title name on a worksheet during class i like to highlight the word or stare at it and daydream... :o

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NO WAY! lol I underline it then I think about the song and play it in my head... lol good times... good times...

* you adopt 7 dogs just to call them Crea, Purin, Vanilla, Marron, Choco,Melon and Ringo

dies

well here's dark one:

- You have an all pinned voodoo doll of Allan Tam.

(but.... I like Namie too...)

I don't see how that's got anything to do with being a fan of Ayu.

LOL, same here. :laugh

loool

for me it has, because american music is most popular and i used to listen to american music but since ayumi i actually dont listen to american music anymore

haha SO TRUE about putting the sign everywhere! *i write it on myself during class... and my cell phone has "UNite!" as the greeting message... lol

because all i listen to anymore is Ayumi...

yeah same for me ,especially for french music..I have no idea of what's going on here lol

Now allow me to explain. IMO, the fact that one does in fact like Ayu does not mean he or she does not love any other music by definition. I myself still consider myself as a fan of Ayu (although I find her recent output disappointing), but that doesn't mean I have no knowledge of American music. I listen to anything, Japanese, American, Dutch, French, English music - I'm fine with anything as long as it's good. Being into Ayu does not automatically make it impossible to listen to anything other than her or anything other than Jpop, at least, not for me.

yes i get wat u mean what but the question on this thread says "You Know You're An Ayu Fan When...." meaning that not everyone will have to agree and the same answers

I agree that not everyone should agree, naturally.

yes ofcourse it's just that you said "the fact that one does in fact like Ayu does not mean he or she does not love any other music by definition. I myself still consider myself as a fan of Ayu, but that doesn't mean I have no knowledge of American music."
but lotusoka was just refering it to himself that he doesn't know new American artists and some ppl may agree or may not agree....but it just seems that you took it the wrong way and were thinking he is refering it to all ayu fans, which he wasnt....thats all

Well, there is a certain kind of generalisation-type stuff about this thread I guess, which is why I pointed it out. Of course though, anyone can have different interpretations of what makes him- or herself an Ayu fan; me, lotsuka, anyone. :) So, let's say we agree and get back on-topic, shall we?

I'll throw in a characteristic.

- You own all studio albums on CD.

Huzzah, I qualify!

chill, lol it was just sarcasm.

Haha, calm down guys. Being a fan is different from being uhh *tries to put it lightly* obsessed?

I think being in a music forum talking about Ayu is a big factor in being a fan ^.-

Edit: Unless you are those types that like to make fun of fans in those forums but secrelty enjoy Ayu :eyebrow

Word!

My best friend lives close by, and we're both huge Ayu fans. ^_^

-When you check this board every day to see if you do the things mentioned
-When you learn Japanese by listening to Ayumi's songs

haha.. i hope i can qualify although i think i am very into ayu but i think some of u guys are really big big fans of hers! cool... my turn.

-learn the japanese language just to know ayu and her songs more
-try to d/l her performances as far as possible
-run around exclaiming 'i like ayu!'
-try to collect all of her original albums at the very least
-try to laugh at funny parts of ayuready although you don't really know what they are saying
-try to hypnotise your friends into liking ayu
-draw "a" signs whenever you are free
-try to be like her
-collect repeated pullout posters of ayu in similar magazines from friends until u hav more than 30 of the same ayu poster
-be interested in jpop and jculture bcos of ayu's influence that you dunno wads newcomers in the mandopop scene
-jump in the middle of the road when the opposing building has a huge tv playing ayu's commercial :p

"try to d/l her performances as far as possible
-run around exclaiming 'i like ayu!'
try to laugh at funny parts of ayuready although you don't really know what they are saying
-draw "a" signs whenever you are free
-try to be like her" (I mean style)

I feel like it's about me here lol

llol that is so true

-when you do everything in your power to get your hands on Ayu's albums
-when you can't go one day without listening to her
-when your school books are covered with the "A" symbol lol
-when you enjoy at least most of her PV's
-when you can't stop talking about her

ok maybe mine is more based on "you know when your obessed with Ayu when.." hehe

-When you give in to Jason's constant Ayumi talk and see what the fuss is all about and, well...the rest is history

ok so i'm obsessed <_<

a lil too obsessed...Just like me! lol

oh you love her really :P

if I can get emzie into Ayumi.. I sure as hell can do it to you ^_^

I've gotten Cerys into mini moni now o.o

*is proud of her obsession * ;)

- When you have to actually make a thread to talk about how much of an Ayu fan people can be
- When the freebasers look at you like you're crazy because you spend all your money on her

- when one of ure friends bring up the name 'Ayu' or 'Ayumi' u'll start talking about her and can go on for hours

lol i know a friend who did this i also do it as well ehhehe

-When you try to sing along to her songs .. even if you don't know all the lyrics perfectly.

Well then by these standards, I am no longer *gasp* an Ayu fan! :eek

You chat in this forum ;)

oh steven.... lol

This be my home for over 2 years :P

I have this AWESOME pseudo-japanese. I sing in all vowels. lol.

-When someone is talking, about anything in general, and something reminds you of an Ayu song, and you have to stop and sing it. (This actually happens to me ^_^)

When you record a song and post to others listen to it. lol

- After you read a thread about an Ayumi song, you go and load that song in Winamp.

I'm guilty of the above.... along with some of the other points above. hehe
I'm glad I'm not the only one who tries to sing/dance to ayu's concerts alone :lech

you know u r a ayu fan when you have a pick of ayu picking her nose like this 1

When you walk into a bank to deposit a cheque, then dress up in a warewolf costume, beat up random people for 2 hours, then run away, go to a church and put on a pregnant women costume, cry a bit, touch water with speacial lights to make it glow, then walk outside, wait for it to rain, go to a resturant and meet up with your clone who tries to make out with you, then start walking down a street with only rags on for 5 hours and try to be as boring as possible (read: daybreak) then fall into a puddle of tar and swim in it for a while, then go to a rave and sing while your clone dresses in orange and looks kind of sad. Then ride to a studio in a white cadillac.

pregnant women costume!?

what pv is that from?

I do that every week, seriously.

I believe that was Daybreak. I agree it was quite a boring PV for a great song.

Is this the breauty creame commercial with Duty as the BGM?

i jus finish watching the daybreak pv and she dosen't look like she has on a pregnant women costume....

this is an awesome thread.. haha,. i love it..

- when you start to compare other music artists to Ayu's beauty (see who's hotter and Ayu always wins ::whistles::)
- when you randomly, in class, write titles of her songs in your notebook or on the desk, or on yourself
- when you stare at her pictures for long periods of time (and i'll leave the reast to your imagination)
- when you constantly say, "Ayu's my wife"
- when you wake up in the mornin with her songs stuck in your head
- when you watch her concerts and you as well stand up and sing along, imagining you're doing a duet with her in concert
- when, before going to sleep at night, you imagine meeting Ayu and becoming really good friends with her.. even possibly end up dating her
- then after that when you actaully fall asleep, you have a dream of meeting her (goood dreams :D)
- everytime you see Japanese writing, you think of Ayu
- when you label different colors represting certain songs (brownish sepia = Endless sorrow, rainbow colors with white = Real me)

there are probably more, but can't think of them.. just got Ayu's new single today so gonna listen to it ^_^

no it was the Moments PV when she was lying in blood or something, it's not tar it's actually oil or something :shrug

that is so totally true~ i dunno when im bored i just write all Ayu's song title names or album names on my book and my friends think "wat the?"

- when u see someone who is Japanese you imagine going up to him/her and asking him/her something about Ayumi or telling that person how much u love Ayu~ :cool

All of those are true for me :)
and I received my single yesterday <3

- When you name a story, peom, person in a game, name of something, etc. after one of ayus songs or her.

oh gawd I do that all the time :)

it's a great game haha~

when you say"Are you ....."you think youre just saying "AYU..."
You are always looking at all her discs with a dull look...

-when you see creepy voodoo dolls from hell and say they're cute

Ok i'l explain them now :P

Man, Ayu is a GODESS ^_^

OMG that is so FUNNY! lmao

oh yes :yes i just LOVE doing that~ lol i did that many times for my assignments

lol i no!

- when you always reply in this thread and find people who are just as obsessed as you are :D

( on a side note I saw CD 04/05 concert yesterday, and in the newt hour I was buying a key-shaped pendant on ebay ^^; )

when u quote the part of the lyrics from my name's WOMEN to turn down a guy.......
"my name's WOMEN......and i don't exist to be convenient for you"

lol and the guy must be like "okay...right...so ure names WOMEN?" :cool

lol......