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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
So by mid-1999 you've got this pop star who's at one time a poet, a CEO, and a girl-next-door. She gave voice to all the anxieties, fears, ambitions, and hopes every high school girl had at the time. The result was that by the time the Trilogy was released in Spring 2000, everyone wanted to look like her - big sunglasses, long wavy blond hair, jewels around the eyes, peacoats, high collars, bangs... so much of her style was copied after early 2000.
So it's easy to say it was Ayu's style that MADE her popular, but it wasn't that alone... her more unassumingly tomboyish, mature-and-yet-girly sense of style was very individual to "her," you know? That could have backfired terribly. But people responded to who she was & what she was saying far more than they ever responded to any particularly tailored "look" she had. So the style followed.
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I love this. I think a big part of Ayu's success was Ayu was such a hard worker. She was basically a nobody - so-so singing skills, can't dance, not tall, not big chested but through her hard work and lyrics people were like: Wow~! She is not even from
Tokyo but the "relaxed" city of Fukuoka (kinda like being a Southerner in the US vs New Yorker).