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That's not what Zeke said at all. There is a difference between simply releasing a song about your child and making it a commercial selling point. Like Zeke I got a bad feeling when the promotion for Ohia no Ki was all about "Hamasaki Ayumi, who hadn't released new music for two years and who became a mother, is releasing new song about her baby". She and her PR team actively decided to give the story like that even to news stations. I was surprised she did that. I expected her to make a song sooner or later, but I thought it would simply be on an album without her pointing it out that it's a song about her baby. I mean, no matter how personal her songs are, in the beginning of her career she never made it a selling point to actively tell for whom she wrote a specific song. It took years until she confirmed A Song for xx was for her mum (even though it was obvious). But the one and only commercial selling point and PR gag of Ohia no Ki and also music video is her baby. It's not simply a new song she released and after listening to it fans would be like "oh hearing the lyrics, I guess it's for her baby". Ayu decided to make that song even part of the whole "M drama canon" and made people speculate if the unknown father might be Max. The point of the "hype" about the baby her and her PR team created was to get people to talk about it and to promote her image in a more positive light. lol
As far as I read what was going on, a woman only pointed out that a friend of her's saw Ayu's baby at a shooting location. No one stalked her baby, or am I missing something? I'm just baffled that this became such a thing. If you actively make people talk about your baby by making its existence a selling point, it's no wonder people are curious and might use social media exactly the way it's intended: making posts that aren't really well thought through to keep a topic trending. I don't think the woman meant any harm and she probably learned her lesson.
I just think it's funny, because when Ayu started to promote Ohia no Ki the way she did, I was just waiting for her to be like "please stop talking about my baby" at one point.
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