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Old 19th January 2006, 12:25 PM
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I find her latest pieces interesting.
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I like her new attempts.
I think this experimentation from her will decide her stay in the limelights. Hikki's experimentation isn't doing so well now though.
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Old 19th January 2006, 12:26 PM
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Excellent points. With regards to retiring personally I think it's a choice she should make and not us. However I think that in the past two albums she has showed how much she loves singing and how she doesn't want to go away. It's like she's spent to much time, effort and emotion in her work that retiring is probably something she does not want to do.

Keep in mind that she's very rich and she's got a stable fanbase and she's quite happy as she is and if she wanted to make money off us she'd use the gimmicks and marketing plans a lot of female artists do and she used to do in the past to attract more people - like Ai Otsuka having a first press extra for each and every single, Koda Kumi releasing 12 singles in 12 week or having an album re-releases with an extra after many fans would have already bought the other version, having like 4 versions of her singles. Or else just release material which fans do like - a recyling of I Am... and Duty since it's usually what most fans what.

She might not sell as much as she used in the past but now she has a stable fanbase and she enjoys releasing music because it's her identity so I don't see why she should retire.
Yep. I doubt she'd want to retire anytime soon. She'd feel insanely bored if she did, even with all that money she's made. Heck, if she did decide to retire for a while, I bet she'd just end up writing songs in her spare time and then making a big comeback! She's one of those artistes I believe who truly make an effort to pen down their thoughts into the form of good music. Yeah, it is her identity.

And let's not forget that she's mentioned before that Madonna is her idol and god knows how long that woman's been in the music industry. Lol. It'd be no surprise to me that Ayu would follow in the same footsteps.
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Old 19th January 2006, 01:11 PM
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i love ayu .. her musics are really good n interesting but her last single
Bold & Delicious is just a no no for me ... and the fact that her hair is not blondish anymore makes it worse
i will prolly hate ayu if she keepps singing Bold & Delicious or releasing songs like that ...
i wish she will leave GEO of SWEETBOX and dye her hair blondish colour again and use other composers ...
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Old 19th January 2006, 01:22 PM
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Mmm...I share nearly the same sentiments. But though I do prefer her blondish hair (so cute), it's not really much of a priority to me.

Bold and Delicious. Yeah, one song I could never get myself to like. But look on the bright side. Her other songs were pretty good, like heaven, criminal, is this love, fairyland, rainy day and pride. And besides, I believe Ayu was just experimenting with some new styles. So she might not repeat those kinda songs if she herself didn't like it afterwards.
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Old 19th January 2006, 01:28 PM
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I think this experimentation from her will decide her stay in the limelights. Hikki's experimentation isn't doing so well now though.
...which is more a result of the fact that people find it hard to accept that Hikki doesn't mind singing in English - even for the length of a full album. Plus, 'doing well' is a very relative term.
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Old 20th January 2006, 08:18 AM
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I think the best is still yet to come from Ayu. Money considerations are probably the least of her worries now, so she can concentrate on making music that she really wants to do, instead of doing what fans like. And I think it's only by this that she will produce even more great songs.
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Old 20th January 2006, 08:30 AM
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^Mmhm, yep yep. Songs are only good when it comes from the heart, rather than to appease the people who listen to them. The same goes for writing for that matter.
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Old 20th January 2006, 03:58 PM
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Some fans are just different people with different opinions. Who'da thunk it?

Bored now.
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Old 20th January 2006, 05:51 PM
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Ayu has so much variety in her music I don't see how you "get bored" with her~ however~ we all have opinions and what you like is what you like~ =P

and if she retired~ no doubt I'd be sad about it b/c I freaking love her music!!~ but it'd be ALOT easier to save up for all the other jpop/rock singers I like~ O_O b/c all these import things are expensiveness~ ^_^;; espeacilly when you dont' have a job and you're living off your boyfriend~ hahaha~ x3;;;;;
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Old 20th January 2006, 06:52 PM
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wat goes up, must come down.
She can't be on the top forever, she's been there long enuf~
As long as ppl remember her~
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Old 21st January 2006, 07:10 AM
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Honestly. I still like her, but definitely not as much as before. There's lots of other musical artists out there to like. She can't hold (and I won't give her) all/most of my attention forever.

Kind of like Harry Potter. Lots of people like it coz I think it's the only novel they know. (Like Ayumi being one of the few J-pop artist people would know).

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Old 21st January 2006, 07:43 AM
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Just because there are other people to like doesn't mean you should cast her away, which I think most people are doing.

I think its amazing that Ayu does have so much loyalty, that people everyday are listening to her songs that are over 5 years old. Ayu's music has a timeless quality, its one of the things that makes it special. If you get bored with this song switch to another, you'll never get tired of listening to her.

It bothers me that people think her new music isn't as good, because Ayu can only get better.

And oh god please, no one hold sales numbers against her. Why do people do this? I don't understand what sales numbers have to do with your own personal feelings toward Ayu and her music...
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Old 21st January 2006, 07:52 AM
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Just because there are other people to like doesn't mean you should cast her away, which I think most people are doing.
If that was for me...

I'm not saying casting her away. I still like her and still a fan. I should've elaborated. But I didn't mean it like that.
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Old 21st January 2006, 04:48 PM
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People can, and will, do whatever they want to. Ayu's a pop idol, come on.. it's not like someone just gave up working on the cure for AIDS.

Why do people spend so much time concerning themselves with other people's opinions that don't affect them one bit? I am really amazed.
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Old 21st January 2006, 04:51 PM
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Well,let's think of this. Some time ago, no one liked Madonna 'n everybody was talkin' bout her and her need of retirin'. But now with 'Confessions on a dancefloor' she's kickin' all the young a fresh artist's ass in the musical industry. I think that maybe Ayu will realease an album that will put her again in the top. Besides this new album has sum R & B influence, 'n when she released her very first single (like paper doll, nothing from nothing 'n stuff) she couldn't sell even 2 cds, so if she didn't succeed with that music then, why should she succeed now? I guess she should go back into her origins 'n bring sum electronic pop think
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Old 21st January 2006, 04:58 PM
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What I think is "wrong" with fans is that some of them seem to think they KNOW what it means to be a fan and can judge other people's thoughts and opinions. Let people receive Ayu in their own way.

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Besides this new album has sum R & B influence, 'n when she released her very first single (like paper doll, nothing from nothing 'n stuff) she couldn't sell even 2 cds, so if she didn't succeed with that music then, why should she succeed now?
Well for one thing, that CD didn't have the same kind of marketing power behind it since she was a nobody at the time, and also her vocals were radically different. In my opinion, they sounded awful. She succeeds now because she is an established icon with heavy exposure plus her musical talents have improved.
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Old 21st January 2006, 05:05 PM
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What I think is "wrong" with fans is that some of them seem to think they KNOW what it means to be a fan and can judge other people's thoughts and opinions. Let people receive Ayu in their own way.
Amen.
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Old 21st January 2006, 05:57 PM
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It's nothing...everything is OK with fans, someone (like me) just can't accept new Ayu and her staff...that's all...

IMO, her golden time has passed...
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