I liked the interview a lot. Her English is really good! There's a few errors here and there but that's to be expected with a non-native speaker.

I got the awkward feeling from it as well but I think that's more from the questions that were asked. Like when the interviewer asked Ayu what dreams she had to give up and she responded with that it would be too difficult to explain. I'm sure Ayu could answer it just fine in English but that seems like a really personal question. :/

Her english has really improved. I think this interview was better than the snippets I had seen of her on the red carpets etc in HK. Ayu needs time to formulate and give an answer and there wasn't any time for that during those red carpet style interviews.

I think it is maybe good that she has come to terms with being Ayu all the time. Switching between Ayu and Ayumi Hamasaki must have been difficult sometimes and is at odds with her wanting to always be true to herself.

It was also cute when she asked her husband about her fashion sense!

I thought she was saying that she would like her fans to be strong like Asian women and be true to yourself? So it could be a message to any fan

*cue Sweet Season PV* There's your answer XD

https://scontent-gru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...90&oe=56D52B90

"You are particularly elegant in the home, also wearing pajamas"

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...7a5e130dd1c024

"I have thousands of pictures of you in bed" :love

well, we too %)
LOVE again, "ayu" book, etc

* laughs * is different

one thing is a book , something else is private photos, no? :yes

omg thousand pics of ayu in bed.. hmmmmm hahaha..

Ty is so entertaining :D i love him even more when he says something :yes

when he was asked about that family dinner he should have said "i want it to be only two of us since i'm gonna eat sushi on her body"

Finally got time to watch it.
First of all, what a lovely reporter. He seems to be very friendly and relaxed.
His questions were really good, not even hard or really though on Ayu. It is too bad Ayu did not know to give really interesting answers on his questions. Therefore, it missed interaction. Also, I am not a fan of this 'Well, I don't care - Whatever' attitude of hers, so I don't think Ayu really presented herself very well. Oh well, she doesn't care.

The only highlight of this interview was the small 'interuption' (not sure you can really call it like that) from her husband. His small involvement in this interview was really cute. He seems so nice!

I haven't watched an ayu interview in a while, has she been behaving like a stuck up bitch in her interviews lately or is this one just off? She seems really weird, keeps rolling her eyes, not seeming down to earth at all in this and like she's trying so hard to look sexy by pouting her lips and pushing out her chest. :/

Uh, what interview were YOU watching?

Startalk interview, the one in English.

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That was sarcastic I think lol Humm yes she made a bit of charm (sorry don't now if it's ok to say it that way ?) you know interviews are really rare lately so I think it's just because she was interviewed in english ... she is not really confident like it's not her native language so she is a bit playful ^^
Her answers are definitely down to earth to me !!

Now after watching it, I agree with xLuna&1Love.
She's using so much universal answers overall and I somehow did get the impression in between she doesn't even want to talk about herself. To be honest she had more charme in the CNN(?) interview back in the day even though her English was worse.
The best thing was the interaction with her husband at the end.

And you never sung in Chinese before, ayu?
Hm, and what's with the chinese version of Who...?

I could hardly recognize Ayu in this interview o.o

She was so busy flipping her hair and working her eyes'n'mouth play that she could either barely give specific answers or simply didn't want to. It seemed somewhat ironic to me when she talked about being yourself paired with her I-don't-care-at-all attitude.

It somehow always saddens me to see the image she once had fade away, even though she's always retained fragments of it. In this interview though, I'm having a hard time feeling Ayu at all.

I agree with you, she was pushing out her chest and pouting her lips all the way, she was def behaving like a stuck-up bitch but i didn't want to be the one pointing it out, those who didn't notice it : watch again. I don't mind girls who act that way but Ayu doing it felt so un-Ayu.
If you compare with the latest interview of her we have, the one in SONGS where she cried, she's a completely different person, that must be because of the different language.

Like for real, I felt the same way too. But I think it's because her talking in english, she's not confident enough, and it's hard for her to express what she wants to say, so she tends to do these exaggerated gestures.
SONGS' interview and A song is born's one at Music Station comes to my mind, and she was the same down-to-earth person we all know.

To be honest the questions were not thrilling in the first place ... most of them were either trivial or personnels and she wasn't here for that apparently lol

I think you put too much focus on her attitude instead of what she answered ... She already answered to most of these questions in the past and the answers were almost literally similar !

Sadly I agree with both of this comments. I found her attitude to be very put-on and it seemed to me that she was more bothered with looking hot than anything else.
But she seems very superficial to me lately anyway.

she looks different , she might want to be so ... but it does not change the fact that I still like it, because I believe that loving someone sometimes means accepting things for your own good .

She went through many difficult things , I think this is reflected in what it is now , besides that day may also have been some significant event with her.

There are countless reasons why it may be behaving that way , but I believe that she at least is happy at the moment.