[waterballoon]

thank you everyone for the mature inputs!

I think while it's true that as fans or bystanders there definitely isn't a lot we would know of, but I feel the whole vibe from this 2 years compared to how she was (or rather how she portrayed herself) in her earlier days very very jarring.

It's more of a matter of how she has changed (in a negative way) than a matter of participating in gossip because we've nothing better to do.

She always had a strong character and personality so I'm still unwilling to believe that she would allow herself (what more with more than 10 years in this company) to be controlled by avex... if this was her first year of her career maybe, but at her status now, I don't think she would lower herself to such an extent.

I mainly agree with Zagwanbail, that it really seems like a carefully planned out scenario to revive her career, or to shed some needed limelight on her. While her whirlwind relationships never made me any more, or less, interested in her (it was always the music and lyrics and just this "ayumi hamasaki" person), I feel bad, almost sorry, that she has relegated to such an extent