TA Blog: "New Song" (18.1.23)
 

An auto-translation of Ayu's latest blog post.

TA Blog, 18.1.23
New song.
Thank you, for listening to the last pre-release from the new album - 『Just the way you are』- and for sending me so much love already! This is my first and foremost feeling.

However, what I am about to write is also how I genuinely feel.

I don't expect you to agree with everything I do, and of course, I am not only self-affirming my decisions.

Despite that, I still have to tell you all this.

You can say whatever you want to me. I will take all your opinions seriously, as the feelings of TA.

"I like only ayu", "I want to see more ayu", "I don't understand what ayu wanted to do with this" - These words are all understandable.

But it is obvious when TA approves of a person, in their eyes, and when they do not. Laughing, saying "You are a comedian?", "Such a dramatic person", "They look like a cheap person" - I can't understand this feedback. It is one thing to question "I don't know who this person is, who are they?", and another to laugh at them because you don't know them. It's absolutely wrong to talk down to them as a group.

Every person struggles to live in these shitty and changing times, everyone's life is like that, overcoming their problems living in their own way... don't you think? I do.

Let's not do this anymore.
Don't make me hate Ayumi Hamasaki any more.

I'm not going to talk about this further. I'll be back with something more cheerful.

ayu

The girl is back to scold her fanbase. I love it. hahaha
Jokes aside, I understand her. When she invited the girl on the PV and based on the lyrics of the music, she intended to achieve something totally different than what's happening right now. Bully and hate is the total opposite of her message in this song...

Tell 'em girl.
Though I actually think she's way too lenient about the behaviour of some of TA towards herself.

But what is that about hating Hamasaki Ayumi even more? I hope it's just a weird translation, since it's automated, but that sounds rough.

It’s pretty accurate to the Japanese.

I believe she’s mentioned before that she doesn’t like having to always be “hamasaki ayumi” all the time, so I’m guessing it’s related to that.

I find Japanese TA to have been extremely lenient towards Ayu (for music, tours, videos) but critical on personal things, then the foreign fans it tends to be the opposite. It’s interesting how that is… certain types of fans definitely deserve a scolding though lol.

Having comments like "Another foreigner for her to marry." or that whole meltdown people had like "Are you going to have a divorce again?" should definitely get called out. It's also fine to not like a release and move on, but people on here have liked calling out people that like a release they don't for years now.

There were always at least two Ayus, like the private person and the star, but I didn't know it became such a burden for her.

She makes an distinction between Ayu (her personal self) and Ayumi Hamasaki (her public self), so I think that part is her calling out the bad part of being famous (and specially being a star with Ayumi Hamasaki's dimension).

So what I am getting from this is that some TA members are making fun of the woman in her new video? Is she literally saying TA members are laughing at the woman for her looks?

If so, that is not okay at all for TA members to do and very immature. But also, if this is what she is saying, why does she have to publicly announce the way that they were ridiculing the woman and the specifics? I am sure the woman wouldn't want to read the specifics of the insults.

TA should pay attention to WARNING lyrics

This!! It’s so painful the irony of haters missing the POINT of the song

Actually, I think she addressed the message to TA member because it's her core fanbase, but the comments about the actress of her video is spreading through all social media services, it's not restricted to the fanclub per se. She's calling out her die-hard fans as a way to make the message reach people without exposing the girl in social media (I mean, TA messages usually leak for us, but it's not as public as an Instagram post).

So sad that she had to spare time to write something like that, those people are idiots