We should be happy..
 

I've noticed often, there are alot of people who seem upset with this or that Ayu has done..
So I was watching J-popsuki winamp tv.. and after far too many Mini Moni and Morning Musume videos for my sanity (Mini moni scares me...)

I've come to the conclusion.. we should all be happy Ayu doesn't do songs like either of those two bands.. or videos like them.. :P

true. when i watch other MVs, i've really come to appreciate Ayu's.

haha, thats kinda mean for the mini moni and morning musume fans.

but yah, ayu's pv's are the best. :yes

lol not meant to be mean.. they're both cute bands.. but sometimes people are saying.. well Mini moni's songs are kinda cute.. but the vids make me wonder who was doing what sort of drug.. (lol).. my boyfriend and I just sit there like O.O;;; '...what did we just watch?' .. and my boyfriend thinks it's completely insane that morning musume is so large.. hehe, I find their vids a little plain though.. mainly just alot of dancing.. .. of any artist i've ever listened to (Japanese or no) .. Ayumi and Gackt have the best videos ever

Yay for Ayumi and Gackt! :D

I absolutely agree with you. We all should be happy. Ayu makes my life better/happier even if I don't like something she's doing. I'm so happy I know her and I can enjoy her music and stuff and I respect her.

I'm a huge fan of MM and MiniMoni :rolleyes

Ayu has the nicest PVs I have seen. They're perfect. And I don't say this often.

Ayu's lucky. She's with one of the biggest music companies which is ready to shell out money for her pvs which cannot be said for all artists.

^ true

No offense to any MiniMoni or Morning Musume fans out there, but I really don't understand why they're so popular/hyped up.....

But then again, can you really compare those two bands with Ayu? o_O They seem like they belong in different genres...

ayu,gackt,shiina ringo,ai otsuka,utada hikaru....they madethe best pv ever!!!

Mmm...SMILY must be the most hilarious PV ever! :D And alterna is waaaay cool.

well, ayu is one of the only artists to actually go out of japan to shoot at least one PV a year... you have INSPIRE and fairyland... and the PV really brings out the meaning of the song too.

But I like Morning Musume. I find their PVs to be enjoyable. but mini moni makes me wonder too. lol.

yeah that's one of the reasons Ayu is my fav, and WTF? i thought minimoni was short for Morning Misume..it thought they were the same...

yeah i agree!! ayu is mature singer and we should appreciate her.. so we better stop complaning about Bold & Delicious..

^Like I said before, B&D is a maturely upbeat song. :D

Ayu's creativity and quirkiness ensures that we will not get bored with her PVs.

We should appreciate more that she has enough control over her music and her career!!

People keep complaining about Ayu's style with Bold & Delicious (which I love!) but if it weren't for that style, we would've have got alterna either :P

Most artist are limited to lyric writing sometimes...

Mostly I am content that Ayu's work is usually of good standard, but sometimes it's not. At times I expect something good, but then she comes out with things like STEP you or B&D - so at times there isn't a reason to be happy with everything. I was watching an interview with Terry Pratchett the other night and he said that having fans was like having a lot of critics - which is true of anyone who has fans. I think that while you can appreciate someone's work overall, and be satisfied with it, that you don't have to like everything - and it's okay to express that. Otherwise you'd get a place that I used to post at, where everyone's a 'yes' person and you can't even give constructive criticism on the artist's work - it gets pretty dull reading the same opinions all the time.

i wanna quote everyone and say that i totally agree! especially Ayu and Gackt! ^^ w00t! but Ayu is the Queen of everything! ^^

Ayu's got the PVs that use up $1 million USD...
I don't think many other artist, if any, use that much money for one pv..

Ayumi has good PVs, but of course she has a good company to pay for the PVs. So does Gackt. Otsuka Ai's PVs are decent, although Sakuranbo and SMILY makes me wonder what kind of drug was she or the director on when the concept came up...

But I always thought Ayu had good PVs, even when she was a newbie artist without the sales. (I love the YOU PV).

hai! MM their videos are very plain not lot of thing going on... ayu was having great music videos since 1999. ^^ she started her music job good aside from the MM girls... >_< they were too many maybe their company went low budget because the company has to pay all of them.. e.. many many mini moni oso momosu! a! haha!!

"many many mino moni oso momosu!" haha! LOL! :P

I really appreciate how Ayumi puts in her best effort for each PV. Not many artistes do that.

agree with floor 1

Yeah, they are completely different. But H!P groups are good in their own way too. I used to really hate/look down on Morning Musume and the subgroups, that is until I actually gave them a fair chance. Now I find them to be completely entertaining and fun to watch.

Close, but not completely right. The only stipulation for Mini Moni is that the girls are under 5 feet tall(I think). And while their music does sound more "kid friendly", they actually had many songs that took a hold on the mainstream public in Japan.

Oh my, so true! I don't understand either. I think the only reason Morning Musume's "well known" is because that name of the band has been around or so long. I've never really watched their PVs, I've only see their lives and they are SO boring. They dance around like a bunch of clowns.. [no offence] and I can never understand why people think that they're good.

Yeah, I think we should be happy that ayu is still producing music that are GOOD and you can see that she put a lot of effort towards her music. She takes her music seriously, that's all I can say.

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I still think her music is still goin downhill (on average). Ever since Voyage.

When will it stop?!

Just like morning musume has gone downhill since Koko ni iruzee!.... :headache

It's not that I do NOT like ayu's music now a days, moments was one of the songs that made me discover her, but I do think that if it had not been because of the songs she made before RAINBOW, I would NEVER have become a big fan of hers.

To put it differently, few songs (if any) she releases now amazes truly me like M, Fly High, Boys & Girls and voyage did. I really enjoy her stuff nowa days, and I am looking forward to her releases and sometimes, (like in with HEAVEN), I enjoy it in the same way as the old songs.

hmmm i dont know why....i never bored with ayu's pv ....
everyday i watch her...more than listened to her cd's hahhahaha