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Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU
So great for you!  I wish I could say that but I only discovered jpop 3 years ago.. so I'm a 3-year Hikki fan and only a 1-year Ayu fan haha.
If you've actually been through a release it's way more special than when you just browse back to as a new fan. I definitely feel the "classic" feeling from old Ayu albums, but for you guys it's so much better ^__^ For me only Ultra Blue gives that nostalgic feeling haha. Well also the very first Ayu song I listened to give it, like Trauma, evolution and TO BE. |
haha yeah, I didn't go through her A Song for xx era, and not till LOVEppears/appears released. But I managed to look back to LOVE~Destiny~ time at least. So basically A Song for is the era I can't make common feeling with ayu and the fellow fans. In fact, I never heard any album songs from her debut album. And yeah, whenever I re-listen the old songs or re-watch the old videos, they really bring back many memories.
And technically, half more year I will be a 10 yr hikki fan LOL. Yeah I went into JPop world via hikki in the first place. If hikki wasn't there, I wouldn't discover ayu (well, I was searching for Addicted To You mp3, then discovered appears since they released on the same date). Yeah being their fan suffered quite a few, like the times when Distance vs. A BEST, when ayu fans vs. hikki fans during 2002 - 2004. It's nice to look back, to see how I transferred myself from 19 to now 28. Gosh I'm old... LOL
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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
I've been an ayu fan for 8 1/2 years, I discovered her around the time the trilogy came out... so "Duty" really gives me that feeling of nostalgia... but LOVEppears does too sorta, cuz I didn't have mp3s of the whole album before I got it for christmas, you know? It was the first original album of ayu's that I owned... so seeing this stuff is nostalgic for me too even though I wasn't there for the album's release, lol... oh man.
These threads are so much fun. ^_^
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Yeah I remember vogue-Far away-SEASONS. Even tho overall I like vogue, I don't really Far away, sometimes I still listen to three songs together because they're very unique in her discography. I remember that I didn't know vogue was released till a day later (I didn't really try so hard to search for her news back then cuz I wasn't fully into her yet, even tho I did buy LOVEppears during x'mas 1999). I just knew Far away would be released but I didn't know about vogue... (bad me..). I still remember how disappointed I was (and other ayu fan as well) when the first week sales of Duty was only 1.69 million copies. People was saying like she could compete with Mai Kuraki (well ayu wasn't on par with hikki till A BEST vs. Distance), so I thought Duty could sell like 2 million copies at least on the first week... Because Mai K's Delicious Way sold around 2.1 - 2.3 million copies on the first week (I forgot the exact number).
But really, the trilogy singles really boosted up ayu's popularity.
Oh now talking about that period... it reminds me about her TU-KA cms. So good.....