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.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

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.

EXACTLY. She started intertwining her own experiences since the very beginning - HER LYRICS. I don't know why people think it's unthinkable for her to get other stuff there too! IT only feels natural to progress to that eventually, more or less.

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Honestly I get it. I also think a lot of her stuff sounds like leftovers from whatever she did before. And yes, there is a thing where artists work with the same people constantly and don't branch out. Which i do find strange, cuz even if those people you are comfortable with, as an artist it would get somewhat borring after a while? I don't know, maybe she sees it differently and it's the other way around - she found people who live on the same wavelength and you surelly wouldn't even think about replacing or letting them go. At the end of the day there might be more to this than just Ayu "getting comfortable" with her team.