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Originally Posted by Uemarasan
Thanks for the replies, guys!
Well, I won't argue the meaning of manufactured, because I personally think that any artist with significant creative input in the music-making process cannot be manufactured. Mika Nakashima, for instance, as far as I know has never written the lyrics or composed the music to her songs (correct me if I'm wrong, Mika fans!), and yet her music depends so much on how she sings it. Take away Mika Nakashima's voice, and her songs are nothing even if Mariah Carey or Teresa Teng herself were singing them. The same goes with Ayu. Take away the lyrics to her songs, even those in A Song For XX, and even if Fiona Apple were writing the lyrics herself they wouldn't mean anything.
In my opinion, I don't think Ayu's music has ever been manufactured. Maybe her image was manufactured before she took control (I think this is during the Duty era), but never her music, because in my opinion her music, through her lyrics, has reached that personal, artistic depth.
And I would never compare Ayu and Hikki. I'm just saying that it's unfortunate I've lost interest in Hikki these days. I really, really loved her back then. Oh well, at least I have Mika and Kumi (gasp).
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Mika has in fact wrote the lyrics to many of her songs, such as Venus in the Dark, LEGEND, SEVEN, FAKE, Kumo no Ito, I, Rocking Horse, Carrot and Whip, LOVE ADDICT, Find the Way and many more. So yes, she has
