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Originally Posted by emiko
If you pay attention to what other Avex artists are doing, and the stuff Ayu does...
It's pretty noticeable the aspects of her career that might be influenced more by them than by her.
I don't think people really understand what it means for an artist to have no control, and similarly for an artist to have full control...especially for people who only know Ayu.
I personally believe, that Ayu has a great deal more control over her own image and music than many other artists, and I think that when Avex has suggestions, she takes them.
I think she's created a nice balance, and I really doubt that, at this point in her career, Avex has to "tell" her to do anything.
Ayu is a very special artist, and honestly, I don't see the rules applying to her as much as they do for other people. In any case, I think Ayu knows by now what needs to be done, and that she doesn't have to be led or told what to do.
In any case, if you know anything about Ayu, you know that she isn't going to be jerked around or made to do anything she doesn't want to without a fight lol Stubborn, she is 
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I agree with this, Ayu is far too powerful within Avex to have no control over anything to do with her image but in some areas she would take Avex's advice if it's given to her. After all, she's no marketing executive and despite her experiences in the industry, she has a worse idea of what would be popular and accepted within Japan than, say, someone who's studied popular culture and marketing at university for 5 years and has that as their career.
I agree that S/S was a photographic
disaster but people getting fired over them? Let's take a step back. Ayu posed for those photographs. Do you think that if she thought they were that ugly she would have continued the shooting? I think she would have posted in her TA diary if the shoot didn't go well and dumped the staff way before S/S was allowed to happen.
Ayu liked the S/S shots, no matter how horrible we think they are. You can suggest that she had no choice because it was too late to change the covers but movies, albums, books....they get release dates pushed back all the time for all kinds of reasons. Ayu would have changed them if she had wanted to.
Ehh, back onto the topic of this thread, I want sales updates, darn it! xD I want L to sell over 100k in the first month~~~~~~