2021: Reflecting on Ayu's career

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by BlackSilence

I don't think it's "Ayu's bad PR" with all the normal life things that she included into her work. It's a society issue. It's about the way the media portrayed the things she experienced that most people experience. Japan is a place of suppressed feelings and lack of personal emotional freedom, where being a human is unthinkable for a normal person let alone a celebrity and unless you're a saint, you're screwed. I just think it's BS. Artists always mix their lives into their work, and there's really nothing wrong about it, it's the mentality of the society those artists live in that is an issue...Sometimes I think they all are just jealous of her having the guts to not give a fluff about societal "rules" and express herself in a way she wants to especially when it comes to work and personal life getting intertwined , cuz they can't do that. If more celebs did that and it became a regular thing, none would bat an eye ...

I always find it funny how people want Ayu's work to feel personal and for her to not put personal stuff in that at the same time. And how easily people forget she is pretty much milking her own story since her first single.