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I like Hikaru better,but Yeah,She is cool,Although I am not a fan of her voice,she brings some really good music...I like Trauma,Glitter,Evolution,M,and that's pretty much it...I also, like Taiyou didn't start listening to her after M,cause I really like that song,but I have to say I like her old stuff better than her new stuff,I mean you can say she still gots it,but personally I feel she lost it,by this I mean her ballads are not the same,I truly thought Fated didn't appeal to me or probably to anyone,Yes the Mv was sad,but the music was not really at it's best,lyrics were average,I'm not saying I can do better,but Hey! I'm not an artist..


The problem with Ayumi's music for me is that there is not much Variety,I mean it's all the same Pop,Punk/Rock,Techno,Euro Pop,ballad,which then leads into her album,I wish she would experiment more.

I do feel sorry for what happened to her right ear,but I do wish True Ayumi fans would not talk about it like it's the end of the world(than again I probably would if it happened to Hikaru),but it's just that they got to understand there have always been artist who have been blind or deth and still perform,If anything I thinks it's made her a stronger person,like before,and I have to disagree with you Taiyou when I saw her CNN Asia interview,I was a pretty disappointed the whole thing looked as if it was set up,and as if her team was telling her what to same,cause at time her answers had already seemed staged.Other than that she is a really great and strong Entertainer.

Fated didn't really appeal to me at first. But I after several more listens, I started to really enjoy it. It's a beautiful rock ballad. Sure, it has a slight generic sound but gorgeous nonetheless. It was better than glitter, but glitter was pretty cool. It has a weird bridge, but very catchy and perfect for the summer.

When did she lost the magic with her ballads? Her latest ballads like Together When... is one of her most gorgeous ballads. I loved GUILTY, even though there was a bit more variety in Secret. But GUILTY kicks butt and is better in the structure department, Secret was slightly sloppy. But I could understand why, it was originally suppose to be an mini-album. But avex pushed her into making it into an album instead.
You can tell Ayu is a humble person, even outside of that interview. And her fast paced, euro influenced music was more dominant during Loveppears [1999] album and I am...[2002].

Yeah Glitter>>>>>>Fated.I love the "I am..." album.Connected seemed so clever to me.But I think my favorite album is (miss) understood.Step 2,Alterna,Rainy day and Bold&Delicious are my favorites off of that."Duty" ablum is a close second."Surreal" and "The end of the world" are my favs...I orignally feel in love with the Orcestral versions of them both from the a-yu-M-ix 3 album.I'm really am starting to apreciate her more after seeing concerts.Like the 2005 one where she forgot the words on Truama(again XD) and song ad libbed the whole verse in rythym.It shows a strong sense of character in her work.

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I like Hikaru better,but Yeah,She is cool,Although I am not a fan of her voice,she brings some really good music...I like Trauma,Glitter,Evolution,M,and that's pretty much it...I also, like Taiyou didn't start listening to her after M,cause I really like that song,but I have to say I like her old stuff better than her new stuff,I mean you can say she still gots it,but personally I feel she lost it,by this I mean her ballads are not the same,I truly thought Fated didn't appeal to me or probably to anyone,Yes the Mv was sad,but the music was not really at it's best,lyrics were average,I'm not saying I can do better,but Hey! I'm not an artist..


The problem with Ayumi's music for me is that there is not much Variety,I mean it's all the same Pop,Punk/Rock,Techno,Euro Pop,ballad,which then leads into her album,I wish she would experiment more.

I do feel sorry for what happened to her right ear,but I do wish True Ayumi fans would not talk about it like it's the end of the world(than again I probably would if it happened to Hikaru),but it's just that they got to understand there have always been artist who have been blind or deth and still perform,If anything I thinks it's made her a stronger person,like before,and I have to disagree with you Taiyou when I saw her CNN Asia interview,I was a pretty disappointed the whole thing looked as if it was set up,and as if her team was telling her what to same,cause at time her answers had already seemed staged.Other than that she is a really great and strong Entertainer.

Fated didn't really appeal to me at first. But I after several more listens, I started to really enjoy it. It's a beautiful rock ballad. Sure, it has a slight generic sound but gorgeous nonetheless. It was better than glitter, but glitter was pretty cool. It has a weird bridge, but very catchy and perfect for the summer.

When did she lost the magic with her ballads? Her latest ballads like Together When... is one of her most gorgeous ballads. I loved GUILTY, even though there was a bit more variety in Secret. But GUILTY kicks butt and is better in the structure department, Secret was slightly sloppy. But I could understand why, it was originally suppose to be an mini-album. But avex pushed her into making it into an album instead.
You can tell Ayu is a humble person, even outside of that interview. And her fast paced, euro influenced music was more dominant during Loveppears [1999] album and I am...[2002].

Yeah Glitter>>>>>>Fated.I love the "I am..." album.Connected seemed so clever to me.But I think my favorite album is (miss) understood.Step 2,Alterna,Rainy day and Bold&Delicious are my favorites off of that."Duty" ablum is a close second."Surreal" and "The end of the world" are my favs...I orignally feel in love with the Orcestral versions of them both from the a-yu-M-ix 3 album.I'm really am starting to apreciate her more after seeing concerts.Like the 2005 one where she forgot the words on Truama(again XD) and song ad libbed the whole verse in rythym.It shows a strong sense of character in her work.

'La la la la la la lalala~' That was so cute. xD As for my favorite album...i'm not really sure. I'm slowly getting addicted to Loveppears again. I love 'Fly High', that song kicks butt. xD It makes you feel like you're...soaring. xD But even though it's one of her most successful album, it's pretty...underrated? I don't know, I just don't see a lot of people mentioning songs like 'Boys & Girls' or 'kanariya' when talking about Ayu [Excluding 'Who...']. It's mostly songs during and after her 'I am...' era that are mentioned more.

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I like Hikaru better,but Yeah,She is cool,Although I am not a fan of her voice,she brings some really good music...I like Trauma,Glitter,Evolution,M,and that's pretty much it...I also, like Taiyou didn't start listening to her after M,cause I really like that song,but I have to say I like her old stuff better than her new stuff,I mean you can say she still gots it,but personally I feel she lost it,by this I mean her ballads are not the same,I truly thought Fated didn't appeal to me or probably to anyone,Yes the Mv was sad,but the music was not really at it's best,lyrics were average,I'm not saying I can do better,but Hey! I'm not an artist..


The problem with Ayumi's music for me is that there is not much Variety,I mean it's all the same Pop,Punk/Rock,Techno,Euro Pop,ballad,which then leads into her album,I wish she would experiment more.

I do feel sorry for what happened to her right ear,but I do wish True Ayumi fans would not talk about it like it's the end of the world(than again I probably would if it happened to Hikaru),but it's just that they got to understand there have always been artist who have been blind or deth and still perform,If anything I thinks it's made her a stronger person,like before,and I have to disagree with you Taiyou when I saw her CNN Asia interview,I was a pretty disappointed the whole thing looked as if it was set up,and as if her team was telling her what to same,cause at time her answers had already seemed staged.Other than that she is a really great and strong Entertainer.

Fated didn't really appeal to me at first. But I after several more listens, I started to really enjoy it. It's a beautiful rock ballad. Sure, it has a slight generic sound but gorgeous nonetheless. It was better than glitter, but glitter was pretty cool. It has a weird bridge, but very catchy and perfect for the summer.

When did she lost the magic with her ballads? Her latest ballads like Together When... is one of her most gorgeous ballads. I loved GUILTY, even though there was a bit more variety in Secret. But GUILTY kicks butt and is better in the structure department, Secret was slightly sloppy. But I could understand why, it was originally suppose to be an mini-album. But avex pushed her into making it into an album instead.
You can tell Ayu is a humble person, even outside of that interview. And her fast paced, euro influenced music was more dominant during Loveppears [1999] album and I am...[2002].

Yeah Glitter>>>>>>Fated.I love the "I am..." album.Connected seemed so clever to me.But I think my favorite album is (miss) understood.Step 2,Alterna,Rainy day and Bold&Delicious are my favorites off of that."Duty" ablum is a close second."Surreal" and "The end of the world" are my favs...I orignally feel in love with the Orcestral versions of them both from the a-yu-M-ix 3 album.I'm really am starting to apreciate her more after seeing concerts.Like the 2005 one where she forgot the words on Truama(again XD) and song ad libbed the whole verse in rythym.It shows a strong sense of character in her work.

'La la la la la la lalala~' That was so cute. xD As for my favorite album...i'm not really sure. I'm slowly getting addicted to Loveppears again. I love 'Fly High', that song kicks butt. xD It makes you feel like you're...soaring. xD But even though it's one of her most successful album, it's pretty...underrated? I don't know, I just don't see a lot of people mentioning songs like 'Boys & Girls' or 'kanariya' when talking about Ayu [Excluding 'Who...']. It's mostly songs during and after her 'I am...' era that are mentioned more.

That's do to Evolution being one of the .(dot)hacj/sign CM themes.And My Story was seemingly quickly forgotten...Memorial Address and My story were GOOD.So overlooked...they sold great none the less :/ but hardly talked about afterward.I think because My story had the least amount of singles for it.She started cutting back a lot with the singles since '05.

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@ Taiyou...I don't know,her ballads don't appeal to me like they use to,it's all the same with her,Ayumi needs to experiment,but anyways,I don't mean this to every Ayu fan(Cause I do kow some Nice Ayu fans),and I understand there are some fans from Hikaru's side just the same,but I don't like when they Ayu fans think Ayumi is all high and mighty,and making her out to be the Queen of the universe,I mean there might be some who do that for Hikaru,and I apologize,but for Hikaru there are things to back it up,on Ayumi's side,it's all magazines,and media... Sorry I just needed to get that out of my system! ahahaah

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Yes,except 1 thing...The thing related to her as being the so called ''Empress of J-pop'' is a fake name,I've lived in Japan,nobody there refers to her as that, the only ones that call her that are her fans and the media...and for me Hikki is my idol,I actually thought she was really pretty,and I love her style of clothes. Oh! and unlike the majority,I knew her before the Kingdom Hearts era. Also,like you said in the beginning Ayumi wrote lyrics of loneliness and confusion,well I think I mean a lot of people could relate before,I mean there were other artists such as Ozaki Yutaka,and he was just beautiful(Of course since his lyrics were great and just somewhat like Ayumi's,but more feel to them)My point is she lost whatever she had at that time,hence declined sales(Also,don't result to saying it's cause of illegal downloading,well that's part of it,but she has pretty much only gotten by selling out Single sales,Oh!,one more thing,I have nothing against Ayumi,I think she is awesome,but her fans I think otherwise,no offense like I said not all of them just some of them(Same with some Hikki fans too)...


....For an example of King/Queen of Blank being a fake name is what time magazine did to Ayumi,they called her the Queen of pop,no not of J-pop,but of pop,and the vast majority people know that that's Madonna,so you see my point,they might as well give that name to Britney Spears,since she has sold more than Ayumi,I mean all of these are great performers(Sorry I'm just not one to call those who perform musicians,probably entertainers)Anyways yeah, I'm just pointing out that I don't like how some Ayu fans(The ones that hate Hikki)only seem to think they win the discussion once they say ''Oh! Yeah,well Ayumi is the ''Empress of Blank''.


Other than that I hope you see my point and it's really helpful to see another person's point of view.

Edit: I never claim Hikki is Empress of Blank,since I don't believe the media's lies,and I actually wouldn't want her to be claimed as such,She is doing SUPER FINE without using a title as such.

sakurablooms13 wrote:
Yes,except 1 thing...The thing related to her as being the so called ''Empress of J-pop'' is a fake name,I've lived in Japan,nobody there refers to her as that, the only ones that call her that are her fans and the media...and for me Hikki is my idol,I actually thought she was really pretty,and I love her style of clothes. Oh! and unlike the majority,I knew her before the Kingdom Hearts era. Also,like you said in the beginning Ayumi wrote lyrics of loneliness and confusion,well I think I mean a lot of people could relate before,I mean there were other artists such as Ozaki Yutaka,and he was just beautiful(Of course since his lyrics were great and just somewhat like Ayumi's,but more feel to them)My point is she lost whatever she had at that time,hence declined sales(Also,don't result to saying it's cause of illegal downloading,well that's part of it,but she has pretty much only gotten by selling out Single sales,Oh!,one more thing,I have nothing against Ayumi,I think she is awesome,but her fans I think otherwise,no offense like I said not all of them just some of them(Same with some Hikki fans too)...


....For an example of King/Queen of Blank being a fake name is what time magazine did to Ayumi,they called her the Queen of pop,no not of J-pop,but of pop,and the vast majority people know that that's Madonna,so you see my point,they might as well give that name to Britney Spears,since she has sold more than Ayumi,I mean all of these are great performers(Sorry I'm just not one to call those who perform musicians,probably entertainers)Anyways yeah, I'm just pointing out that I don't like how some Ayu fans(The ones that hate Hikki)only seem to think they win the discussion once they say ''Oh! Yeah,well Ayumi is the ''Empress of Blank''.


Other than that I hope you see my point and it's really helpful to see another person's point of view.

Edit: I never claim Hikki is Empress of Blank,since I don't believe the media's lies,and I actually wouldn't want her to be claimed as such,She is doing SUPER FINE without using a title as such.