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Originally Posted by sitara
you are of course entitled to your opinion, so we agree to disagree. but i find your comment curiously harsh? i can read and understand japanese and i wouldn't cosign that "in Japan her lyrics never were considered poetic". just because her writings don't follow any rules that YOU consider important for whatever reason; doesn't mean it is not poetry or art anymore.
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Poetry follows ruels. No matter which language we're talking about. I did not make those. Especially Japanese poetry is very codified and there is not a single song in Ayu's discography that would come close to being a waka, haiku, tanka, shi or whatever. This has nothing to do with what I personally find esthetically pleasing. Her lyrics simply aren't poetry nor art.
I honestly don't understand why her international fanbase always argues her lyrics would be poetry or art and why everyone seems so offended when you say they are not. Using a metaphor here and there doesn't turn a text into poetry.
You don't do Ayu any favours by pretending her lyrics would be poetry, on the contrary, it actually takes everything away from her lyrics that makes them great in the first place.
I never said her lyrics would be trivial or not beautiful or not interesting. Her lyrics are interesting and beautiful in their own right, BECAUSE she never tried to be a poet but simply wrote as honest as possible and in her own words about her experiences.
She has a talent for writing lyrics which really get to you and to talk about different things from a lot of perspectives. I enjoy reading her lyrics a lot and there are only a handful of artists I would say this about. Most artist's lyrics are very trivial to be honest, not so her's. At least not for me.
But me loving her lyrics, enjoying reading them and finding her perpectives refreshing and interesting doesn't make them poetry - and I don't see why a text would have to be poetry in order to be a great one.