Ayumi's social life and friends?

[ohsixthirty]

I was bored and thinking of this the other day actually. What do you think Ayumi's social life is like? Especially, do you think she has a lot of friends? Do you think all of her dancers and employees ARE her friends or that she just hangs out with them in substitution for real friends? Do you think she has friends that have no relation to her career?

I personally kind of imagine her as mainly being friends with her staff members, but I wonder if thats really friendship or if she only has these people because they are employed by her. Its pretty silly on my part, but sometimes it makes me feel kind of sad thinking that maybe Ayumi would be lonely or that she doesn't have real friends.

Haha, I know, its silly. Please don't make fun of my thread.

[truehappiness]

She has friends who have stuck with her since before she was famous, but I think that as a result of her fame, she also has many friends who she does know in relation to her career.

I suppose a lot of people ditched her at some point because of her fame and they didn't want to get involved with as she stated in her TalkAsia interview.

She always mentions how she doesn't keep in touch with her fans or that they have to join her fanclub to know what's up with her... so I'm pretty sure she DOES have a social life, she just doesn't talk about it a lot due to being SO busy, or she only brings it up in these interviews (see Misa-chan's interview about NEXT LEVEL..?)

I mean could you imagine being best friends with Ayu and being a normal person? -blinks-

From ayu_iro@AYUNITE!'s MY STORY translation:

It’s a result that comes from truly facing yourself.
Right. When my tour ended this year, I said that I wanted to live like a human. I mean, I am a human, but I felt like I’d become somewhere between a robot and an alien. Like, I didn’t know what month it was, or what season it was, or what the trends were. I was just going to work and then going home everyday. Before I realized it, I hadn’t kept in touch with any of my friends for half a year, and I knew I couldn’t keep going like that, that it wasn’t a good thing.

Even as someone who creates things.
Right. If you just keep giving out, you never get anything back. Every day I just kept putting out and putting out, but nothing ever changed for me, so I had no way to absorb anything. And I realized at that rate, I was going to have to be creating something from nothing.

So that’s what you wanted to be human again. It is true that if something’s not written by a human, humans won’t relate to it. But, I think this album is very human. That you’re the same as everyone. You’ve got blood in your veins, you cry tears, if you’re worried about something you get depressed. But I think that you want to communicate things because you are human.
I think that there are so many things that we can all understand, just because we’re humans, born into the same age. There are so many things that we can say, ‘This is like this, isn’t it?’ regardless of position or age or sex. But I myself was starting to lose that, so I think that I also put my feelings of wanting to believe that into this album.

And that’s why you needed to expose yourself like this.
That’s right. Because it I don’t open my heart, no one will open their heart to me. I’ve been saying this forever, but I think people are like mirrors. Like, if I really hate someone, there’s no way that that person will be grinning and thinking how much they love me. I think that’s true for everything. If I’m thinking, ‘I’m all alone. I’m so lonely, everyone is treating me differently.’, then that must be because I did something that made it look to the people around me that I wanted to be treated differently. That occurred to me all of a sudden one day. That it was also like a mirror, and somehow I made them act that way. But really it’s not true. I’m just a person, and you’re just a person, and I’m sure they’re just a person too. So if we just talk we could see eye to eye on so many different things, and the same things make us happy and sad. That’s what I wanted to say on this album.

I can see that. I think that’s why I can relate to it so much. Even if our experiences are different, we’ve all felt the same emotions, so we can see ourselves in that. I really felt that this was an album made not by the super star Hamasaki Ayumi, but by the person Hamasaki Ayumi.
I’m so glad.

The right side is about the PRIVATE Ayu. *HUGE THANKS TO Misa-chan again*

"I often fail to reply to mails and pick up the phone, and this trait of mine is infamous among many friends. Every now and then, someone will tell me "Please be more considerate. It's so difficult to contact you that I've now joined your fanclub!"... that's a NEXT LEVEL too, huh? Haha."

From Delirium-Zer0:

Atika: Did you ever imagine yourself in that role? And how did your friends & family react to your fame?

Ayu: When I began to sing professionally, I decided to accept all those consequences. Of course along the way some people left me and some people have stayed with me. Some people have changed their attitudes towards me, and others have remained the same. Of course that's not something I'm pleased with, but I suppose you could say that I knew that would happen and it's a situation that I was well prepared to handle. So in many respects I was okay with those changes happening.
The people who have stayed with me, alongside me until today, are those who knew me before I became famous, before I was the person I've become today. They're the people who've continued to love me and have stayed alongside me. The relationship I have with these people is very real, and all of them are very important to me.

Sorry if it just seems like I'm throwing interviews at you, but it's like... all related, I promise, haha.

[Andrenekoi]

Smart people don't openly talk about personal life when they are famous^^

[ohsixthirty]

wow, thanks truehappiness. i had a feeling you'd be on top of this.

i can't imagine having been friends with ayumi before her career and still being friends with her! actually though, it would seem hard to me because ayumi is insanely rich and successful, so imagine ayumi wants to go shopping for a new outfit and here you are as her old friend and you could never afford the lifestyle ayumi has. its hard to hang out with people outside of your financial circumstances.

from what you've posted i kind of imagine she's the type who has old friends and they probably only get together every few months. i don't know how she would have time to do a lot more.

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Smart people don't openly talk about personal life when they are famous^^

totally agreed, but that doesn't stop crazy fans from speculating!

[gallowsCalibrator]

Ah, yeah, the first thing that came to my mind was the TalkAsia interview

I'm glad that Ayu has 'real' friends; she definitely deserves them!!!!

[AyUta]

Aw, some people left her . I would stay with you forever ayu

[asmAyumi1992]

Actually, I have a dream. My dream is to be one of AYu's friends. Or at least she's my employer

[AyumiBest]

"I often fail to reply to mails and pick up the phone, and this trait of mine is infamous among many friends. Every now and then, someone will tell me "Please be more considerate. It's so difficult to contact you that I've now joined your fanclub!"... that's a NEXT LEVEL too, huh? Haha."

Oh gosh. haha!

[y_nathz]

Haha this is interesting

[AyUmIXx]

i think most of Ayu's friends are all from the avex family..like those staffs dancers..
specially who're close to her, max matsuura, mika john, banccho..