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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
But really... having this amount of disappointment because of a 6 tracks setlist from a summer festival? Saying she should be trying to please us cuz we consume her work? There's no artist in the world that can live totally alienated from their public, but at the time an artist starts focusing their whole career into pleasing this public by releasing exactly what they think the artist should, the thing that made this artist being interesting in the first place is killed.
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I think its very easy to say that from the perspective of someone who isn't going to/has no plans to go to A-Nation. After hearing about this setlist and performance, I'm glad I made the decision not to go to A-Nation this year. But I would imagine that Ayu fans who bought tickets would be very disappointed. Only 6 songs, two of which are duets, one of which is a cover song, and another is a medley performed the previous year. But on top of that, none were actually performed solo? For someone that is a solo artist, that sounds completely ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Coelacanth
I've always thought that in the latter half of her career, she's started to surround herself with "yesmen" or people that are simply unwilling to provide any criticism to her so they can keep their jobs, they're intimidated by her.. or whatever the case may be. She also seems like she is too good of friends with her staff. This is not good. She needs to separate her work and her friends.
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Been saying this for years now. It's also why I think she is having trouble accepting criticism now. Of course that's just speculation though.
I haven't read all of her TA posts or twitter posts about this, but what I have read (and from what I know of the Japanese language) she is often coming off as petulant. The quote posted earlier in this thread from twitter, when a fan asked her if she was banning people who were criticizing her, actually read more like this: "I haven't banned people, but believe whatever you want to believe." I'm not saying she can't show her true feelings but, she isn't exactly coming off as professional right now. However, if she is prepared to deal with the consequences of that, then it's fine. It's her choice.