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Originally Posted by Mr. Goto
how does being away from the public eye make everyone forget how old you are?? her TK era will never be forgotten and she will forever be associated with that. that also didn't stop her agency from pushing the ~20th anniversary~ celebrations two years ago.
i'm not sure how she wasn't in the public eye either because during her break the rules - style era she was still constantly on high profile TV shows and had numerous CM/advertising deals. then of course by queen of hip-pop things had already started to turn around.
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Her sales sucked, she was touring halls because she couldn't really fill arenas and she went from being on TV everyday (literaly) from getting some tie-ins here and there, she was basically a 2nd tier popstar and "has been" was constantly used to describe her back then. And I don't really get why you are talking about the 20th anni thing, that was AFTER she was back on top. Also, unlike Ayu, she had a streak of actual controverses that almost destroyed her career like the pregnancy, shotgun wedding and divorce followed by custody battle, and her mother's being killed by her uncle.
About Ayu, the longer you are around without any pause, the older people feel you are. Considering Ayu already has 15 studio albums, that her peak ended more than 10 years ago and that she was shoved down the public's throad until 2010 or so, yeah, she for sure feels way older than Namie for the teenagers that remember her being around when they were kids but that have no memories of Namie's peak because they weren't born at the time. And those are the people that really buys music, between 14 and 20 years old.