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I've been thinking about this for a little while myself. Sometimes (as insane as it may be) I wonder if she's even human. Her words touch me in seemingly, all the right places in my heart and I just can't answer why.
When I watch her videos like any of her ballads...I just break down and cry like a baby. As if I can CLEARLY understand what it is she's trying to say...yet I don't speak any Japanese past what's commonly seen in an anime.
It's almost like that good old fashioned soul music your parents say will never come back to the industry ever again...but it's so much more intense and filled with something more. I can't even say that any other artist in my 16 years of living has been able to deliver that kind of feeling to me like that. (And I listen to anything that comes my way from 1930's blues to 1980's rock)
I think I knew that something was different about Ayu when I saw the PV for Forgiveness...I just thought I would die of tears because the song was so beautiful to me. I also felt like there was something I had to do at the end of that song; I needed to go and see her for myself like some people have already stated before.
Perhaps we are connected to each other in some kind of way...did it ever dawn on us that perhaps Ayu was an angel or something sent to sing to our hearts? Maybe there IS more to Ayu than most of us think...even my mother, who is as connected to Japanese popular culture as my elderly next door neighbor had to sit down and really think about Ayu when she saw her videos. The same song, Forgiveness; had her stunned and without words for nearly five minutes from crying so hard with me. Even she wants to meet this, "Ayumi Hamasaki" in person one day.
Sometimes I wonder if there was a connection to us all in a past life or something. I know it's bizzare but I think it's true. There's just something up with Ayu and I just can't figure it out.
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