Funny thoughts/mistakes from your Ayu fan newbie days...

[ren0210989]

i always used to mistake LOVEpears with LOVEappears when i first got into Ayu.

i still pronounce it with a very silent "a" it's just easyer that way

[pommy48]

oo got a new one, well i was interested in ayu, so i searched "ayumi" in youtube, but what i didn't know is that there's no PV of ayu's on youtube

so i found a video called cutie honey sung by ayumi lee...so i thought she was ayu XD

[koumori]

Originally Posted by pommy408

so i found a video called cutie honey sung by ayumi lee...so i thought she was ayu XD

Ohemgee me too! XD I put it on my iPod thinking is was Ayumi Hamasakii~~ ==; I only noticed like, two days later that the voice was just a little..younger. LOL.

[emi♡]

one big thing...I downloaded this song labeled "Ayumi Hamasaki - Daybreak"

except it was sooo a fan version of daybreak lol but it took me FOREVER (like 1-2 years) to figure it out

I wish I still had the file...because I actually prefer it to all the other daybreaks lol

I also used to mix up I am... and Duty ALL the time.

When I went to download songs, some of them wouldn't be hers. I didn't know all her song titles back then... so yeah. I also thought SEASONS was after rainy day.

I also didn't know she wasn't hugely (word XD) popular. >.>

[Polyrhythm]

The first performance I ever heard of Ayu's was a not so very good performance of UNITE! on some TV show....yeah....youtube....I commented and said that she sounded like a high rodent. x_x. whoops.

[z4520ft]

it tooks me about a year to know the fact that she is 10 yrs older than me

[edea4president]

i thought "a", "h" and "&" were actually songs and spent about a month trying to find them. then i found out they were maxi singles......lol

[noidea]

Originally Posted by edea4president

i thought "a", "h" and "&" were actually songs and spent about a month trying to find them. then i found out they were maxi singles......lol

same with me xD

[AyuRox]

...u mean she's not really a natural blonde??? (well, strawberry blonde)

OMG!!!! I was reading some of the other posts and they were saying that she's not a natural blond! like on the cover of LOVEppears. Then what is her natural hair color???

[Yum!Fruit_Salad!]

I didn't know what language Dearest was in for like a month.

[KPL]

Oh..
Chinese stores didn't sale her singles and other stuff (like the DVD and some RMX Albums), but I used to try really hard arguing with the sale assistant to ask her to subscribe some impossible ayu CDs for me!

I even printed the cover images and names on paper in case the sale assistant could not find.........

(At that time, I did not know to buy them in the Internet. So young I was///)

[douggn]

I also thought she was a natural blond at first, but at the same time I didnt believe it. I was so confused to begin with because ayu can pull off blond so well

[Lanz16]

Mine would be the following:

* I thought that "A Song for XX" is a genetic thingy CD or a explict album.
* When I saw Ayu on MTV Asia awards, I said to myself "who is this girl?!?".
* I thought that her singles was albums! I said "She was really hard-working artist"!
* I thought that Ayu was really blondie girl or red head.

[tbarnes10]

The first time I ever heard Ayu, or any Jpop, was dearest after an episode of inuyasha. I never watch anime and this was the first and only episode i had EVER watched, and I didn't know that they used Japanese music for the end credits. Stupidly I thought the song was English and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to understand what she was saying. I didn't realize my mistake until like 3 years later when I actually knew what Jpop was and finally figured out who Ayu was, I was so surprised when I stumbled across the song again.

[AyaCere]

LOL I firstly did not understand the double-side singles like 'Bold & Delicious/ Pride' I thought it is one song and many songs were named like that in my playlist but that was before my forum activites since I'm a fan since 2004.

[rakeru]

for forever i thought her name was Ayami. i also had no idea how to find out when new materials were released, so when MY STORY came out i was completely shocked!

[sailorseraphim]

I tried forever and ever to find the singles for "Ladies Night" & "Because of you" and wat position on Oricon they got....

[Ayu-me]

When I heard my first Ayu-song, which was Dearest, I didn't know it was her singing or even what language it was! Also, my english was so bad I actually thought it was pronounced 'de-a-rest' (like 'the arrest').
Then, when I downloaded a song it said 'MY STORY Classical' on album, and I thought it was just another version of 'MY STORY' and put it under that album too, among the other songs from 'MY STORY' I had...
And also, everytime I heard the album version of Daybreak I actually thought it was a remix (though it kind of is one), and not supposed to be on the 'I am...' album! XD I thought my download of A COMPLETE ~All Singles~ wasn't the real album when I heard Daybreak on it!

[Delirium-Zer0]

Among the first ayu mp3s I downloaded were mp3s labeled only as "And then" and "from your letter".... was AGES before I found out I had the Acoustic Orchestra version and dub you crazy mix, respectively ~

Also, back in the day (like 2000) it was hard to find full albums for download, so you had to put them together based on individual mp3s. I had never seen the accurate track names for the LOVEppears album, I'd only seen the back cover, so I had alot of single versions instead of album versions on my LOVEppears CD-R (WHATEVER "version J", immature "JT Original CM version", monochrome "Original version," etc). When I finally bought the album (well, got it for christmas at the end of that year), I was AMAZED at how different it was. XD