Funny thoughts/mistakes from your Ayu fan newbie days...
 

I was just looking at the "best ballads from each album" thread and noticed how some people didn't order the albums chronologically (and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that), and it reminded me of how I had NO idea what order Ayu's albums came out when I was a newbie. I ALWAYS screwed Duty and LOVEppears up and for some reason thought that LOVEppears was her first album. :thud I was a stupid newbie. :laugh I had no idea when any of the albums had come out. I remember looking at the I am... album in the anime store and thinking, "WOW!! This album just came out!! How on top of things I am!!" -- this was around the time of the MY STORY release, mind you. XD Worse, that I had been a fan of hers since RAINBOW released, so that just goes to show you how long it took me to figure out all her albums. :headache

I also distinctly remember looking at pictures of other Jpop artists and thinking she was them. :laugh

umm i saw a video of About You and i was searching everywhere for which album it was on @_@...searched for like a week, till i realized there's a thing called wikipedia

i didn't know ayu had an album called LOVEppears..i thought it was a fan-made album :roflmao

The first pic of ayu I saw, she had blonde hair
and obviously her eyebrows were the same color duh XD

at first when I didn't notice that her eyebrows were the same color I knew it was fake
but when I saw her eyebrows (I didn't know that you could bleach and change the color of eyebrows at that time...it's not really common here XD) I started questionning myself
really for a couple of minutes , in front of my computer, I though ''wo wait, aren't asians supposed to have black hair as natural color? IS SHE NATURALLY BLONDE? IS THAT POSSIBLE?!!!''
the worst thing I think is that during that couple of minutes I was starting to believe her natural color was blonde ... DUH :faint :laugh

when I think about it I can't stop laughing, what I though was so stupid :roflmao

My favourite one will always be "OMG BUTTERFLY!~ *squee*"

'Nuff said. :laugh

Internet is vital for J-pop fans... I didn't knew anything really until I found wiki.theppn.org eneabba.net, and some forums

I thought Ayu was a natural blond...

That she was fluent in English. I mean, look at her song titles.

I think there were some songs I downloaded named "ayumi hamasaki" that weren't really her and I'd listen to them thinking it was her ahahha I would also think ayu had a PV for every single song she had made (excluding remixes obviously).

I thought she was just some low-key performer with low budget products. That's because when my friend first introduced me to her she showed me a pirated version of (miss)understood CD only.

Boooyyy, was I wrong.

I thought Ayu was a bit of a skank.... because I saw the Duty cover and I was thinking "What is she wearing"!!! Now I know better... :)

I thought she was a lesbian. But I still could be right.

Uh oh,, I'm still 50:50 about that, :P

I first saw Ayu in M pv,, she was singing in front of a church,,
so I thought she was a religious singer or something,,

I thought Hanabi was in I am... and Hanabi II was in the next album xD

Initially, I've always wondered who CREA is..the name 'CREA' stands out whenever I see the name of the composer..I thought that this composer is amazing since he/she composes M, evolution etc which is extreme nice.. Didn't know who CREA is until I read it in Wikipedia that CREA is actually Ayu.. I thought she only wrote lyrics, never did I knew she composed so many great songs using CREA

i thought the song "rainbow" was in the album, "rainbow"
and i always thought LOVEppears was spelled LOVEappears

I thought she was bald one time, because she always changes her hair style so I thought she shaved off her hair and wear wigs to make life easier. (is embaressed LOL)