Your biggest ayu satisfactions

[love in music]

- Her personality
- Her lyrics
- Her love for her fans
- Her TA entries (especially the one about the A WORLD IS ONE book)
- Her music - I adore most of (miss)understood, I am..., A BALLADS, Love Songs, Rock 'n' Roll Circus, Secret & FIVE. So many songs from these albums have helped me through hard times and lots of them make good times better as well
- Her performances - Endless Sorrow @ CDL 05, Memorial address @ RnRC tour, count down @ RnRC tour, acoustic section @ CDL 05, acoustic section @ cdl 10-11, many TV performances but some off the top of my head are NEVER EVER TV live from 2007, Memorial address TV live from 2007, all the JEWEL lives, most of the You were... lives, A song for XX lives, Love Song lives.
- Her stunning beauty lol. So many memories of when new pictures come out and I'm just gasping at how gorgeous she is.

[FoObY]

The biggest would have to be Memorial address. Although there are a mix of styles, all the tracks work so well together, and the flow is flawless. The PVs are some of my favorites from her filmography. This album literally swayed me to buy a region-free DVD player just so I can watch them.

Overall, there's something to love from everything she's done. Some of her releases took time to warm up to, but eventually I always end up liking them (ex: FIVE).

[pepper]

Albums:

• MY STORY - it was my first "full realese on live" cause I started to listen to Ayu right after full Memorial address. First waiting, and back then was harder to get Ayu's music, so I was downloading sum files in .ogg format. So many excitement!
• (miss)understood - Every single made SO many emotions to me, previews of B&D was awful and then I LOVED it totally. Then album leaks... I remember this day like it was yesterday. Christmas tree, "rainy day" and waiting for Christmas.
• Love songs - after GUILTY that was "so-so", NEXT LEVEL was very below average, and Rock'n'Roll was kinda "something's missing" and 48-49-50 singles was "meh" to me, Love songs REALLY surprised me. "Love song" made me cry, "Like a doll" made me jumps on chair and then "November" caugh me nostalgic...

PV's

• Ladies Night - mind****! I remember I was showing it to all friends to show them how awesome Ayu is.
• Alterna
• Game - i was freaking surprised that is so dark.
• About you - PV itself it's not special but I was surprised that it was made (It's my favorite song on MS)
• 1 LOVE
• JEWEL - one of her prettiest PV ever made
• SPARKLE!!!!!!!! I wasn't expecting Ayu that sexy.

The rest:

• "kiss o'kill" on Secret. I was crying like a baby from fierceness.
• "fairyland/Alterna" single. Alterna was the bomb for me.
• "STEP you/Is this LOVE?" single
• "GAME/INSPIRE" single - my first single I was waiting to leak, and then... OMGOMGOMG.
• "Sparkle" and its PV. It blown my mind.
• "BRILLANTE"
• Dark hair in (m)u and Secret
• Every time when she is back to short hair I'm melting.
• Photoshots from LOVE&HOPE till now.
  

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by pepper

• Ladies Night - mind****! I remember I was showing it to all friends to show them how awesome Ayu is.

HAHA I do this too!! I'm just like "Hey...wanna see a weird music video?" then I put on Ladies Night

[Benikari47]

BALLAD

One of the best songs ever created, period.

[AyumiAi]

really just Ayu herself has been such an amazing blessing in my life!
Whether i dont like a song or not in her discography (which happens very rarely) i can still appreciate it and ATM my greatest satisfaction is BRILLANTE!

[Mimichild]

OHH MY....I'm sastifised with so much she's done (mostly in the past but her new stuff grows on me) I don't know where to begin!

Well I love virtually everything she's done that's opposite of what I dislike of her (PV, fashion, style, persona, lyrics)

But I'm most sastified with is that SHE'S AYU! She's not trying to be or look like anybody else. The motto that speaks to me when I see her says "I'm me and I'm going to be me either take it, love it or get the hell out!"

Oh yeah, and I love when she performs sad songs (when she's just singing not acting), I can always feel the power of her lyrics then!

[Yumsushi]

How no matter how much bad music she may have, she can still release awesome music to make me love her again ie Love songs minus November and Moon

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Yumsushi

How no matter how much bad music she may have, she can still release awesome music to make me love her again ie Love songs minus November and Moon

OMG November is the best song on the album!

[waterballoon]

hardest topic! I love her sfm... I think just discovering her and listening to her awesome songs is my biggest satisfaction!!

[wildconnetta]

Her PVs are always unique!
Her albums are great (except ASF××)
Her voice
CREA
Her staying power
LIVE PERFORMANCES

Just everything...

[Jason]

Okay. A list of my satisfactions when it comes to Ayu:

--Ayu herself. I love her personality. I love how hardworking she is, I love the lyrics she comes out with and how her music very rarely lets me down.

--Her live shows. She always puts an epic shows each and every year and it never gets boring to watch for me

--Her PV's. Even though most of them aren't anything special there's always a few out of them that are just unforgettable works of art.

--And lastly; Ayu's music has effected me in a way no other artist ever has. I can actually relate to her lyrics and feel the emotion of the songs she puts out. Her music has gotten me through some seriously tough times. She has opened my eyes (and ears) to all sorts of other music I wasn't into at all before I discovered her and for those reasons she will always be my favourite artist.

[relmy]

Recently, I'd say Love Songs, specifically crossroad.

Crossroad has this really warm feel to it, a certain richness. It's emotive without being dramatic or in-your-face. I love it when Ayu makes songs like that. A lot of her discography is like that, but I've not felt it so much on newer albums.

While there a few songs I'm so/so about on Love Songs, after disliking the past few albums, it was amazing to have songs like November, Love Song, Last Angel, Virgin Road, sending mail and like a doll.

Overall, pretty much everything that everyone else says, her energy, dedication, most of her lyrics and so on.

[ayu99persen]

the creativity of her,seems never minus.

[alternarist]

i am especially proud to be an ayu fan when she churned out Love songs just 8 months after RnRC. and Love song is really an album with quality.

Her constant releases of new projects be it concerts, mini albums, singles, performances is what kept me going on.

[ayu_ready?]

I was surprised nicely with Love songs release because I hate RnRC and thought Love songs gonna be worse because too much plin ballads like blossom-crossroad. but I liked the booklet pics, although her face angles were horrific there,some really unpretty. and the material too. a nice surprise.

[kalikagai]

ayu herself, no doubt

her songs (whenever I like some or not), her power lyrics, her lives, her everything is ayu

definitely, I'm absolutely happy that I discovered Hamasaki Ayumi-san - her creations always resound in my heart

[pepper]

^ MOON very grew for me. In the begining I was in "Its okay" state. So I don't understand the hate either ;D I kinda dislike PV for it (and for crossroad) because they are very pretty BUT BORING. They have meaningless symbols that don't fit the rest.

[R_Hikki]

^ "MOON" took a while to grow on me as well but it was the orchestra version that helped make me love both versions.

Ayu's music is timeless and for that I'm satisfied.

[rusuke]

- Her MUSIC of course.

- A Song for xx, LOVEppears, Duty, I am..., and RAINBOW.

- Her philosophical aspect. She's just admirable.

- Her "Fashion sense" during her earlier times.

- Her never-ending experimentation in all aspects of her career.

- Her FIGHT-FIGHT and never-give-up attitude. That's Ayu!