Has the anti-Ayumi Hamasaki sentiment on AHS impacted your fandom?

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Yes. Things get pointed out I would've never noticed on my own that make me loose respect for Ayu, such as mixing quality. Then I can't help but comparing the old Ayu with the current. Not that she was perfect before... But she's not the same artist. The sort of constant negative milieu spotlights the fact.

[Machiko]

Does 'your fandom' mean my opinion on her or my opinion on the fandom? On Ayu, absolutely not. Except now whenever she does something new (song, cover, photoshoot, yada yada), the first things in my mind is that 'oh, god, they're gonna complain about every detail again, I bet', lol. I've always just rolled my eyes at people who feel the need to whine about everything: don't like one song or a music video? Flop! Career over! Where's old Ayu where's old Ayu! Ayu gives a song that reminds you of her old songs? 'Wow, repetitive much? Be original and fresh for a change!', she's just never doing enough and the constant crying really gets on nerves. You don't need to like everything she does and makes, someone else's gonna love that song/video/photoshoot you don't really care about. What happened to "I don't like this but that's fine"? Just move on.

[attractive nausea]

Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE

Yes. Things get pointed out I would've never noticed on my own that make me loose respect for Ayu, such as mixing quality. Then I can't help but comparing the old Ayu with the current. Not that she was perfect before... But she's not the same artist. The sort of constant negative milieu spotlights the fact.

I think you expressed my feelings here, i really appreciate some songs and then people come and point out all the mixing/whatever stuff and then it's like i'm reconsidering and asking myself questions "wait, it does sound messy, her older songs did sound more polished" and sometimes when i listen to older stuff i'm kinda telling myself things like "why can't she do such quality production anymore", it's like i'm becoming like these people and it drives me mad ! Because prior reading their comments i'd just blindly love her songs and move on with my life but now it's like their "negativity" is impacting the way i see her recent work and i can't help it.

I'm in love with about 99% of the things she releases though, but it's true that sometimes when a preview comes out for instance and i get super hyped about it, the moment i see people telling things like "i hate it" "this is a (insert a song name here) rip off but even worse" "why can't she innovate" "it sounds dated" i don't feel that excited anymore, it's not that i don't like the song anymore, but it's hard to be excited about something if there is a lot of negativity.

[Uknow!]

I'm in love with about 99% of the things she releases though, but it's true that sometimes when a preview comes out for instance and i get super hyped about it, the moment i see people telling things like "i hate it" "this is a (insert a song name here) rip off but even worse" "why can't she innovate" "it sounds dated" i don't feel that excited anymore, it's not that i don't like the song anymore, but it's hard to be excited about something if there is a lot of negativity.

I feel this way always. When I read all the bad comments is like "Oh... Ok...". Ayu releasing songs like Walk or WARNING shows this negativity can reach her and how it affect her... The sadness during WALK perfomance... but people seems not going to change.