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Originally Posted by Katsuyuki012
Like she has to worry about it!
I might be wrong but especially with japanese artists people seem to keep pressing the "retirement" button.
(I would not even think about retiring at 39 lol!)
But tbh it feels weird, so often people say how she should basically just retire but then I also adore much older artists where we people just let them do their thing. People still complain too but they don't go like "xy goes downhill/peak is over she should stop/earn money" but let them just have fun. Ayu, like many artists after their peak doesn't do it (she also doesn't have to lol) for money but for fun, passion etc..
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Two of my absolute favorite Japanese releases in recent years were Seiko Matsuda's single Bara no Youni... and Matsutoya Yumi's Cosmos Library album both released in 2016. Cosmos Library made Yumi the oldest female artist to top Oricon 200 with an original studio album when it debuted at #1 with 60,000 sold. And Bara no Youni became Matsuda's highest charting single in over 20 years and left many people wide-eyed and questioning if she was going to have a huge comeback.
I had never really liked what either of them did until those releases. So I'm real glad Seiko didn't retire in the 90s. And I'm even happier that Matsutoya did not retire in the 70s. Both of them can still captivate decades later, just depends on having the right people around at the right time to put it all together.