Do you think Ayu is too westernized?

[Aisha_Angel]

I don't think so.

I think Ayu was one of the few artists to start the trend of roman-titled songs. And she remains one of the few who continues to do it. For me, memorizing Japanese song titles is hard. I can only remember easy ones like "ai no uta" and "wasurenaide". If it exceeds that length, it really doesn't matter how good the song is because I won't remember it from tomorrow.

One of the reason's why I love Ayu's western-thinking is because I'm a westerner by fact, and her music is western-friendly.

Ayu's hair color...I think she looks good with the honey-blond color she rocks, but I would like to see her with a different color every now and then. And no, that does not include that FUGLY red wig she wore for the (miss)understood tour, nor the platinum blond that makes the lighting effect from "Born to Be" cringe in horror. I'd like to see her in black, or even the color she wore during the Bold & Delicious/(miss)understood promotion.

She may not have looked like Ayu, but I thought it was a great change. It was fresh and she looked very cute when it was in pigtails. ^_^v

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by Aisha_Angel

I think Ayu was one of the few artists to start the trend of roman-titled songs. And she remains one of the few who continues to do it.

I'm not trying to be rude, but what the heck are you talking about? JPop artists have always used English, way before Ayumi. And even now, go to iTunes Japan and you'll se that 80% of the songs on the top 100 are English-titled.

[Aisha_Angel]

Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE

I'm not trying to be rude, but what the heck are you talking about? JPop artists have always used English, way before Ayumi. And even now, go to iTunes Japan and you'll se that 80% of the songs on the top 100 are English-titled.

True-true, but perhaps I didn't explain myself very clearly.

To me, Ayu is one of the few to consistently use romanized titles. With only one song, a cover as one written in pure Japanese. Most artists that I am aware of flirt with english with titles like ENGLISH no SOMETHING-JAPANESE, chose a roman title every now and then and again, or use Japanese text.

But that's just my opinion...I'm not an expert on J-pop History or anything like that. I just know based on the 80s-90s J-pop I listened too, a lot of it was kinda mixed...But Ayu consistently used roman lettered titles. Maybe there are other artists who did the same, but I think in the end they followed a few trends here and there and screwed with the flow.