Old article from 1995
 

I got this magazine article from 1995. It's about the NOTHING FROM NOTHING album. Maybe somebody wants it. ^^

i bet they had no idea how huge Ayu would be. :P

^ Surely not! :D Anyway, thanks for sharing, I appreciate old stuff like this.

the record company is kicking themselves for letting go of one of the biggest J-Pop artist

she looks so cute :3

This is quite an amazing find! I hope someone will translate it! If nothing else those young pictures are so cute!

Thank you very much!

awww she looks so happy and excited!

thank you for sharing! ;)

So cute!

Thanks for sharing!

This is so rare. Awesome. She looks like a gangsta here and behaves a lot like who she is which is a good thing. :) I bet Nippon Columbia's bosses got depressed at once when they saw Ayu hitting the top spot with almost every release lol. XD

lol early bad ass ayu~~

But if she had stayed with them, she probably would never have been popular.

Awesome!! Is anyone going to translated it?

All her old work... was she a model because she needed to be, and became an idol as a fallout... or did she just simply want to be famous? I wonder how different the dreams of the "NOTHING FROM NOTHING" & idol Ayumi Hamasaki are to what she felt after she became "Ayu" with A Song for xx...

Her early career is so mysterious.

Woah, that's such a rare article! :thud

Early Ayu always shock me though.
I cannot still believe she released a rap/hip-hop/whatever it is single :laugh. And then look at Ayu now, she's one of the biggest female singer in Japan.

Very much so. I wish I knew more details of her past, you know as here in America we know everything. I have read stuff and seen interviews but it's not as detailed.

This is too good ! I hope someone will translate it :yes

if only the video was recorded SOMEWHERE :(

Thank you though! Very rare find haha

Omg I just realized that in the video screen cap, she was using a different kanji for her name O_o...
I never, ever knew that she used a different kanji hahaha (she used 﨑 instead of 崎)

I'm pretty sure this isn't new...but it is to me xD

Wow, thank you so much for scanning this! Great find! Would love to read a translation. :)

You can see that Ayu has always loved fashion. Look at the nails and all the accessories. :D

Yeah, it's quite difficult to spot, isn't it? She used this variant of kanji between 1994-1997. Be it on TV, in dramas, movies, magazine etc.
Idol on Stage performances had this as well. Hamasaki (浜崎 (same as now)) Kurumi (くるみ) in 1993.

^ I never understood why she used Kurumi as her name :yrolleyes