sorry if there's any spelling mistakes or whatever, i can't be arsed to check it.

October 30th 2006 is when i first heard of her.
i was on Wikipedia on the page '2007 in music' when i was searching around and Ayu's Secret came up with it's release date.
i was like, who? so i clicked on her name.
then i read her intro paragraph thing on it, and was already amazed at her achievements!
at the time is was like, 27 #1's?!
so i naturally i had to check out her disccography.
i was like, taken back at how diverse her titles and covers where.
i mean, titles like 'poker face', 'kanariya' 'STEP you' and the way she had song titles in all lower case and all upper case and stuff.
so i was glued to her discography for about two hours reading through every album and single released at that time.
i didn't listen to her music straight away as it was japanese music and it would feel wierd.
but a month later (22 November '06.) i caved and listened to my first Ayu song, which was unfortunatly Beautiful Fighters, which was cute, but totally average.
then when the video was finished, BLUE BIRD showed up, so i clicked it and fell in love.
then i saw Utada's Keep Tryin' which i loved even more, so i searched her too..
then i found out about their 'rivalry' and decied to watch as many vids by them as i could to see who was my fave.
so i just searched Ayumi Hamasaki in youtube (this was before Avex deletes everything.) and first watched STEP you which i loved!
then evolution which was even better! and then NEVER EVER!
whilst i didn't think much of the Utada songs that came up..
so i found out about her 2000 award for SEASON'S lyrics and found a subbed PV which made me an official fan! x)
ironically, that day was November 29th, the release date of Secret.
so i found out and was like, 'wow. this is a sign!' so i downloaded it on AHN. and haven't posted there since. ;P
i loved Secret and it layed the foundations and stuff.
about a month later though i stopped listening to Ayu and the ocasional Utada.
then i heard A BEST 2. ;P
which brought me back to j-pop once again.
so i decided that, if i was going to get back into j-pop, i needed to like more artists;
so i went back on AHN and downloaded hundreds of songs by artists i couldn't even pronounce!
so by umm... March '07 i was a fan of around 20 j-pop artists. (can't be bothered to name..)
so i just happily listened to Ayu, Utada and the others for the next 2 months,
when i realised that i liked asian music more than western!
i decided that i should post on AHN to find out if anyone non-asian liked j-pop or if i was alone..
but then i found AHS!
i prefered it much more than AHN's annoying white layout and it weirdly, seemed a lot more friendlier palce. (:
so now i know my place here at AHS and am not ashamed / embarresed that i listen to j-pop!

so thanks AHS! <3