I first heard of Ayu four summers ago (in July, exactly). I had met a friend who was a big fan of hers (he still is

)...I remember I was flipping through his CD collection at JLA and I was like "Who the...? Who's this?" All the other girls with us were like "Oh gosh, that's Ayumi Hamasaki...look at her, she's so fake (talking about 'plastic surgery x_x')!" So...my first impression of Ayu wasn't so good, I kind of went with the others' opinions even though my friend liked Ayu a lot.
Throughout JLA though, I became more and more curious about Ayu since it seemed my friend was a huge huge fan of hers. So, after JLA, I started downloading a few random songs I could find...and yeah, since then, I've been hooked.