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Back in the days, in the 2000s everyone who had interest in Japan at the time was a fan of Ayu. It started with my cousin saying Ayu is the best singer in the world by showing me a PV of Evolution. I liked it, but music didn't become important in my life until much later on. Then Dearest from Inuyasha appeared, it was my favorite ending. I thought her voice was still horrible thou. Haha.
A friend of time introduced me to more ayu again with Duty, Loveppears, and I am... albums. That didn't interested me at all, I told her she's crazy to be obsessing so much.
Warped to 06, Summer. Bluebird = instant love. Her music helped me cope with real life issues. I just looked on Wiki and Primanova site for lyrics. Finding her music wasn't hard since it's the age of file sharing. Went on AHS around the end of 06 with secret on board. Just lurked around, mostly in the news thread for a while because I was only interested in new releases. The forum was more active, even with down times I guess. But my thanks goes to Masa, a shout out. "thank you very much for your translations." I swear, without him and AHS, I wouldn't be a fan today.
Secret was like my fandom finally started. It erupted! At the time, Ayu was getting better and better, with a rich history. It was so much fun looking through her past with MU, My story, Memorial Address, Rainbow etc. And it was fun looking towards the future with A Best 2 heading on the way.
My fandom slowed down considerably Ayu with the release of T2M... I literally had to force myself to listen to decision and it to like them... making me stop listening to music all together, but that changed with GUILTY. Since then, she hasn't disappoint me and my fandom is fairly stable. But I finally became a member of this site, due to the Anticipation of GREEN/days. *-*!
Funny how now, there seems to be less and less ayu fans around. Like my cousin and friend stopped listening to ayu, well at least to the new releases. There's like no real ayu fans in my japanese classes either. The Japanese international students know about her, and buys her stuff, but aren't really fans either. They only say, "oh I liked her old songs and a few new songs so and so." Even my teachers don't like her. I find it weird because before, I was under the impression of she was liked by the majority of people who are into JPOP.
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