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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx
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because that's the only way to do if it's to make all the international fans happy.. and not complain anymore..
why don't we ask someone who has the access to login to Team Ayu to write the message to her? someone in AHS has Team Ayu account right?
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Oh trust me, I will when I have my Team Ayu membership in a couple of months. Of course I won't write anything hurtful, but I will definitely suggest that she take better care of her vocals and ear etc. I have a feeling it'll get deleted though. Maybe not, but that's just the impression I get. I read on a Japanese Ayu fanboard that someone once posted on Team Ayu that a staff member had been rude to them at a concert and the post was deleted off of TA.
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Originally Posted by MirrocleHeaven*
she just gave us some GREAT perfomances (rule at kouhaku, for example) but as always, people always see the dark part x_x
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There is a big difference though between those tv performances and concert performances, often times in tv lives the band is not actually live. The singers are almost always live, but the bands more often than not are just there for show and the CD track plays for the music. Otherwise switching from one artist to the next so quickly, you would have huge sound problems yet the music always sounds perfect. I remember a Blue Bird performance on Music Station where Yoshio's guitar strap broke, making him unable to hold the guitar properly, yet the music didn't falter at all, haha. So yes, her Rule performances haven't been too bad but she can also probably hear herself a lot better and she does not have to put as much power behind the vocals in order to make them heard because the music isn't live.
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Originally Posted by waterballoon
I'm exaggerating but... I'm just shocked that none of them has told Ayu about her singing problems? Lol maybe they do, but man it looks like nothing much has changed.
And the LOL-est thing is, none of her staff whom she supposedly "trusts", is gonna tell her that touring "longer" is not helping her voice? Maybe she's secretly gonna take vocal lessons at 12am every night, but I doubt that...
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That's what it feels like to me. If there were anyone at Avex saying that, she wouldn't be going out on tour next year. So apparently there isn't anyone. It seems Avex is only concerned with short term profit and making money now, not on her well being as a singer and the future profits she can make if she preserves her voice. It seems to me judging from various things that she is surrounded by a bunch of "yes-men" and no one would say something that might be critical of her because they would not want to put their job in jeopardy or something. Even everyone on her team too - if Ayu's not working, they are not working, so what incentive do they have for her to stop?
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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx
yes, complaining isn't illegal.. and ppl are free to express their feelings towards Ayu, but what ppl have done to make her be better singer? what fans can do? aren't we the biggest influence to Ayu?
see, in Japan, Ppl still coming to see Ayu's concerts even ppl know that her voice sucks.. so why we the international fans are making a big fuss about it? since Japanese ppl still love her? Japanese fans themselves don't even care about her vocal being so bad..i think that what Japanese fans see on her is her best efforts in making ppl happy..
So, rather than complaining, isn't it better to discuss how are we going to make Ayu's improve to be a better singer? is there any other way instead of just complaining over and over again?
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Originally Posted by AyUmIXx
see, in Japan, Ppl still coming to see Ayu's concerts even ppl know that her voice sucks.. so why we the international fans are making a big fuss about it? since Japanese ppl still love her? Japanese fans themselves don't even care about her vocal being so bad..i think that what Japanese fans see on her is her best efforts in making ppl happy..
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Just like here, there are lots of Japanese fans who don't like what has happened to her voice. It's not like Japan is just happy with everything she does no matter what. You can go to any number of Japanese sources and see people talking about how she wasn't as good as before. As for TA, all the people in it are hard core fans and are likely to stick around even if things are really bad, but that doesn't mean even they are 100% satisfied either they are just more likely to overlook it than the average person. The Japanese personality also comes into play to, they are not very good at voicing criticisms even if that may be what they actually think.
And people have been suggesting what she could do to be better, many times.
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Originally Posted by tourniquet
but it breaks my heart to see her as down as in the makings of her recent PVs. she's always been emo, but omg, even her fake smiles can't hide anymore how much she's lost it. she's not in touch with her music anymore, at all.
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I actually noticed that as well in the PV making ofs for Next Level. It did not seem to me like she was really enjoying what she was doing compared to her other PV making ofs.