Ayumi ~ The Anything Goes Thread 8 ~

[ayu-michan]

Originally Posted by Sunrise

Is Ayu's site going to be advertising A SUMMER BEST for eternity?

What is the need of that English site anymore lol

[maxikot]

Just 2 days ago while watching mirrorcle world from 2008 tour i noticed that in the end the ship goes slightly and slowly up supposedly flying away. It was way too subtle, barely visible and even though i adore this ship, it should have moved more, like forward, on a catwalk.

[Andrenekoi]

^I never found it to be subtle...

[monochrome99]

LMAO you guys umm I just ordered Ayu's "again" mini album through amazon japan, and I received AKB48's Tsugi no Ashiato (theatre edition) instead. I am seriously cursed this month.

[maxikot]

http://telly.com/1N404Y2
Wtf. One of those stupid ice bucket challenges and she accepted then nominated some guy from Exile and another from AAA? She looks hilarious screaming though.

[rainbow_smile]

^ yeah she nominated Urata Naoya, Hiro from EXILE and also some other guy (Yu Darvish, I don't know who he is)

She's so adorable ;__;

[maxikot]

I'm completely amused by the ice bucket challege and its influence on forum. Suddenly whole forum awakens cause Ayu did SOMETHING! And the fact that there was started a thread named "[Official Message] Ayu takes Ice Bucket Challenge!" killed me totally xD It's OFFICIAL MESSAGE xD xD xD
And I'm not complaining that she doesn't do much musically as she used to, rather opposite. I'm glad the girl is living her life and having fun

[Maemi]

^ You're welcome I'm glad you found it entertaining, cuz that was the purpose

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by maxikot

http://telly.com/1N404Y2
Wtf. One of those stupid ice bucket challenges and she accepted then nominated some guy from Exile and another from AAA? She looks hilarious screaming though.

Not to be rude, but the ice bucket challenge is to raise awareness towards ASL and a ton of people have donated towards the cause. So yeah let's not call it stupid.

Originally Posted by Kinder Surprise

LMAO you guys umm I just ordered Ayu's "again" mini album through amazon japan, and I received AKB48's Tsugi no Ashiato (theatre edition) instead. I am seriously cursed this month.

wtf how does that happen lol

[tbarnes10]

Just saw the Ice bucket challenge, I liked her reaction I thought it was funny. The ice bucket thing is really spreading, I saw Shakira did the ice bucket challenge earlier, she nominated the Pope, now I think that would be interesting to see.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Yu Darvish is a Japanese baseball player now playing for the Texas Rangers.

Wasn't aware these two were that close? Haha

[maxikot]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

Not to be rude, but the ice bucket challenge is to raise awareness towards ASL

Oh I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know and sorry - I'm taking back the "stupid" part.

[monochrome99]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

Not to be rude, but the ice bucket challenge is to raise awareness towards ASL and a ton of people have donated towards the cause. So yeah let's not call it stupid.



wtf how does that happen lol

I have no clue, who would mess up like that but the sticker on the AKB48 CD with the barcode said again (MINI ALBUM) on it...so must have been a labeling mix up?

[orangeakira]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

Not to be rude, but the ice bucket challenge is to raise awareness towards ASL and a ton of people have donated towards the cause. So yeah let's not call it stupid.

I'm calling it stupid. You should donate money because you care, not because someone "nomiated you". Also you dump ice water on your head if you don't donate, so everyone who made a video of themselves getting soaked opted out of donating to charity.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

It's to raise awareness and raise money. By donating, you raise money. By doing the ice bucket, you raise awareness. For the cause it's a win-win situation, considering so many people had no idea what that disease was.

Though I'm tired of seeing the videos, I think it was a brilliant idea.

[orangeakira]

^Personally I haven't met a single person who didn't know what Lou Gehrig's Disease was. And this is not helping. I have a few friends who did the ice bucket challenge, in their videos they say they were nominated for the challenge and accept it, and nominate a friend of theirs for it. Then they get iced poured over themselves and that's it. They never even said what it's for. There are tons of people who did the challenge and did it just for the attention and still don't know what organization it's for.

I didn't know it was for ALS. People just keep filming themselves saying shit about accepting the challenge and nominating new people. No awareness is being spread. Besides why are celebrities like Lady Gaga and Ayumi hamasaki pouring ice over their heads? It means they didn't donate money, and they're the ones who have enough money to donate $100 and not worry about being able to pay their rent the following month.

[Andrenekoi]

^Even if the challenge makes you choose between donating or pouring water with ice on your head, you actually can do both things. The celebrities taking part on the challenge are probably donating too (some confirmed they did), but donating by itself has a little impact among their fandom as a way to promote the cause opposed to actually recording themselves getting iced.

[Delicious n Bold]

edit:

just proud of ayu for doing the challenge.

[tsumekaze_]

I don't know where else to post this but I finally got around to watch the A interview from colours and while I can't really translate it now (probably will when i have more time if anyone is interested) I wanted to point out that when ayu was asked about the meaning of the word 'lelio' she replied that it doesn't have any. From what I understood she was looking for words which rhymed with the music, "lalala" wouldn't do it while lelio gave a "light and joyful" idea.

[rainbow_smile]

@tsumekaze_ it would be amazing if you could translate the interview when you have time! ^^