Whats with Ayu and clowns??

[BigAyuFan]

im pretty sure most of u guys have noticed that alot of Ayu things,deal with clowns . for a some examples her CDLs,PV of alterna,and in her PV of 1LOVE.this has been posted but this also has something to do with clownshas been posted from Soysausestar who got the info from CeS Originally Posted by CeS
Your forum people are going to run around spreading ridiculous rumors that she (Ayu) was stripping and ripping her clothes off. I'm not such a huge fan of Ayumi musically, but I don't support spreading horrible untrue rumors about a person. =p

Anyways, the story-line (as I was told from the STAFF ) is that a very wealthy high-class society have these hidden dark secret lifestyles, where they go to underground auctions to partake in the bidding of human specimens. Not just any human, but more like outcasts, freaks, people with special abilities. The setting is made to look like an underground circus freak show. The high-class society people live this lifestyle in secrecy, thus the masks and long dark robes to cover their true identities. They were NOT cheaply thrown together mardi gras masks, although I am sure mardi gras played a part in inspiring the artists who created these masks.

Mask close ups




Each mask had a certain image being portrayed. For example, the two guard-like men standing on both sides of the stage wore masks that resembled the japanese tengu demon. Some of the masks looked like tengu, some only covered the mouths and resembled the bottom-half of the demonic-like samurai masks used to terrify their enemies. Others were very elegant and mysterious which covered the entire face, some michievous and beautiful covering only the eyes. Each mask had a lot of effort put into making them, and you could tell so by the quality and craftsmenship. My interpretation of it, is that the masks represents how this society was, ugly, beautiful, mysterious, disgusting, terrifying. There were some masks that looked like tiger faces. So many. So please don't go around saying I told you, or even gave you reason/inspiration to run around telling people they were crappy mardi-gras masks. I respect the artists who put time and effort into making those masks.

About the storyline, as I said, people were being put on sale, and we, the buyers, would make bids on these people. It resembled a sort of freak show where the buyer goes home with the winning to do whatever they please. Some examples of some of the oddities on sale, an akihabara otaku - he carried bags full of mechas and anime, toys, manga etc. He had the entire otaku get up - flanel shirt, pants pulled up to his chest held by a belt, a lime green bandana rolled up and wrapped around his head, big glasses. And he ran around like an idiot, it was SOOO embarrassing. But I'm pretty sure (as everyone else) he wasn't acting. He was the real thing haha.
There was an aero-acrobat, she spun around in a gold hoop suspended in the air, doing tricks and things to amaze the buyers.
Ayumi Hamasaki was also on sale, thus the pole dancing. I didn't say she was stripping, I said pole dancing. She danced using the pole. She did this to say to the buyers, "Buy me, look what I can do." That's what these people, the auction goods, were doing. They did their tricks to tell the bidders "Buy me."

There were two undercover police officers who tried to bust the operation and they got discovered and caught, and they were humiliated and also put on sale.

This part I am unsure of, but someone mentioned ayumi had to do something with the two undercover police officers trying to turn in these people. But I can't say anything 100% on that.

There was a woman in red, who resembled a prostitute - washed up and used woman, wearing sexy lingerie. She had very washed up make-up, running mascara, screwed up lipstick, etc. We were told to act as if we had no interest, some people smacked her with their money. She wanted so desperately to be bought by someone, she begs the crowd to buy her. Then finally, a buyer goes up on the stage to buy her off, and she is taken home on a chain and leash.

There was a fat man, who ate in front of the camera, like a glutton. Just gulping down food, throwing it everywhere (it was actually kind of disgusting.)

We're told to show interest at these sales, or disreguard them, humiliate them, boo them, throw our money at them. We are the buyers, and we have no regards for money. We are wealthy, and the humans for sale are nothing more than items to us, for us to buy and do whatever we want with.

The person in charge of the selling of these people was an over-weight clown, who was made to resemble a circus ring leader. Top hat, cane, etc.



so my question is whats with the clowns??anyone have an idea??
oh and while im asking questions like that,where did Ayu get her teddy bear that she loves so much and takes with her everywhere??i think i might have asked it before but i dont think i got a clear answer??so if no or even have a guess or a question, post

[truehappiness]

She has a briefcase full of teddybears, not just one :|

I don't know what's with her and clowns. Go ask her yourself. All we can do really is speculate... but there really isn't much to speculate about..

Just wondering, but did you not see soysaucestar's post containing all of the information you just posted? soysaucestar WAS the one who posted the information and is the friend of CeS who was in the PV themselves.. :|

[alt.total-loser]

I don't think anyone except her and maybe friends or something know what's with her and clowns.

[Choyan]

may she has a fear for clowns XD so clowns are used a lot for freaky scary ayu pvs lol?? XD

[pbs1605]

I guess she likes them.

I bet she did it because she knew someone would write about it and write some big long post on some online forum that is too time consuming to fully read. D:

[Vinylfantasy]

I'll bet she has a clown fetish.

[SunshineSlayer]

She definitely has some sort of obsession w/ clowns and I've been trying to figure it out for the last couple of years, lol. Instances where clowns/circus themes are used off the top of my head:

Wonderland - the only track Ayu has arranged herself sounds like a carnival w/ freaky clowns
alterna PV
Ourselves PV (Not clowns, but could be argued that they are clown like)
Clowns dancing on stage durring Concert Tour 2000 pt. 1 and Stadium Tour 2002
Giant blowup clowns onstage durring Arena Tour 03-04
Giant clown backdrop durring A Museum Tour
and now the 1Love PV

And Ayu's clowns are never portrayed as the happy go lucky clowns, they always seem like the dark menacing type of clown to me. I always have just found this interesting about Ayu.

[truehappiness]

Well, the blowup clown interrupted Yocchan's guitar solo during UNITE[?] in AT03-04.. I think :3

I guess they are kinda mischiveous-seeming. I wonder if Ayu would've been a clown if she had not been an 'artist'~

[Choyan]

maybe she had a lot of fun at festivals and saw heaps of sad clowns? XD

[extepan]

Originally Posted by Vinylfantasy

I'll bet she has a clown fetish.

that's an unusual fetish!

[immel]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

She has a briefcase full of teddybears, not just one :|

At least she did back in 2003(?) when that interview was posted. I'm pretty sure she might have changed a tad since then .

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

She definitely has some sort of obsession w/ clowns and I've been trying to figure it out for the last couple of years, lol. Instances where clowns/circus themes are used off the top of my head:

Wonderland - the only track Ayu has arranged herself sounds like a carnival w/ freaky clowns
alterna PV
Ourselves PV (Not clowns, but could be argued that they are clown like)
Clowns dancing on stage durring Concert Tour 2000 pt. 1 and Stadium Tour 2002
Giant blowup clowns onstage durring Arena Tour 03-04
Giant clown backdrop durring A Museum Tour
and now the 1Love PV

First I must say I agree very much on Ourselves including clowns, the surrealistic figures must have some kind of association to her clown fetischism. It was one of the first ones I thought of, too, after 1LOVE and alterna.

And Ayu's clowns are never portrayed as the happy go lucky clowns, they always seem like the dark menacing type of clown to me. I always have just found this interesting about Ayu.

I found the featuring of clowns in alterna very interesting, and how she use them to symbolize avex, but apart from that I've never really been thinking about it until it was brought up in the 1LOVE thread. The more I think about it the more I notice. I love it, it adds spice.

The clowns being macabre is just great. All clowns are.

[Thulanks]

I think that because Ayu used to be a sad person (maybe she still has sum traces of it) she could have used clowns as a metaphore of people that's mad or sad and yet draws a smile in their face and pretend they're happy to make other people/kids have fun or smile as well, maybe she was tryin' to say that in these times we're livin' we all pretend everything's perfect and that we're happy or having a good time when we're not

[Keishi]

I don't really think it's her fetish. O_O

I mean, from speculations that have been done and interview questions that have been aired, we know that Ayu has a bad memories about her childhood. Clowns are most of the time associated with childhood, and through her 'Dark/Sad/Scary-looking' clowns, Ayu is trying to show us that her childhood life wasn't pleasanting. At all.

[AyUmIXx]

Clowns are Cute..
but in most of Ayu's PVs...her "clowns" are definited as bad clowns...
most of them...

[jeffycue]

she also has a thing with american extras... hehehe.

[Bazaa]

I also bet she doesn't like them much. I've hated clowns since I was a little child, and I saw them all just like they appear on Ayu's PVs XD

[truehappiness]

Didn't one of the guys in ourselves start to apply lipstick, and it kinda looked like a clown cause he had the eyeshadow too? D:

[he was doing the lipstick around his mouth like.. really thickly and then kissing Ayu's photo. O_O]

[immel]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Didn't one of the guys in ourselves start to apply lipstick, and it kinda looked like a clown cause he had the eyeshadow too? D:

[he was doing the lipstick around his mouth like.. really thickly and then kissing Ayu's photo. O_O]

Something to sumbolize how freaky it is to have obsessive fans? .

[AyUmIXx]

ayu's clowns are all scary..i hate the alterna clowns the most!!
seems so badddddddddd!!!