Wow! I wouldn't have thought that a really recent song like Summer diary would reach 1M views already! I'm pleasantly surprised!

Out of curiosity i downloaded concert of TM Network Final Mission and I am so impressed with sound, songs, like totally O_O. It it really Tetsuya Komuro doing music with so much sound and...soul? Where is it in Ayu's compositions? I am not saying her songs are shallow but it's so much different from what i can hear even in his solos. I am pretty sure it's just because she wants her songs to have particular sound but i wouldn't mind more of Komura from TM network ^_^ And really i am not complaining on Ayu's songs cause i really love them ;-)

M has 9.061.484 views now. Who is listening to this song???

now 9.075.308 : )))))
At this rate, it would probably reach the 10 million mark in a few weeks.

pvs that finally reached 1m:
my name's WOMEN - 1.022.742 views
Fly High - 1.065.884 views
Don't Look Back - 1.022.193 views

Maybe it's the arrangement which makes TK songs sound "flat"?

The first ayu-mi-x AOV is SO GOOD y'all. I just listened to the whole album again after a really long time and woah.

I think "Wishing" may be one of the greatest AO versions she's ever released as far as making me feel more than the original song did. The lyrics hint at a certain "What if I lose my friend when she falls in love?" anxiety that the instrumentation doesn't bring out enough IMHO, but the AO version does.

The Prologue and POWDER SNOW acoustic orchestra versions are my favorites from the first release.

Well, here's another remix album from ayu I've never listened but now feel the urge to hahahaha

I love her first remix album... <3

"M" never really rang a bell for me. Am I a bad fan? lol.
I like it, but it's definetely NOT one of my favourite songs from her.

No, I feel you. For example I love the hal's progress version because it gives an ethereal vibe to it and I love ambiental stuff. But it took me loooong time before I got into the original mix. Same with many of her older works at the beggining of my fandom. And I still don.t like Unite. I never liked it and I probably never will. Her voice is absolutely unbereable into the chorus. The perfect example of an un-melodic track.

^ Unite! Is such a subpar song, I can never get into it because of how ...lackluster it is, especially in a period where her singles were very strong.

The song I'll never be into is evolution. I don't like it and it's extremely grating to me! Unless it's sang in a concert I don't listen to it at all.

^Yeah, I have to agree with you on UNITE! I don't hate it, but it's definitely not her best from that period. I feel the same about NEVER EVER too tbh.

somehow this morning I had a very unexpected dream about Ayu!

In my dream, I met her at a mall,at that time I was at this booth that sells Hello kityy stuffs haha anndd suddenly Ayu walked into the mall and stopped by the booth! No one recognized her! I quickly realized that it was Ayumi Hamasaki even though she was wearing simple outfit with shades haha. Somehow however I tried to call her my voice didnt came out >.< and I so she bought the HK pillow and walked away heading to the entrance door to her car. I followed her and I saw her entered an old BMW car, inside her best friend Natsuki was waiting for her. Ayu drove the car and parked in parking lot. From there I could see shes having chit chat with Natsuki and on their dahsboard got a pretty big screen playing vid, and for my surprise Ayu and Natsuki were smoking in the car! From my view I saw Ayu was smoking clearly,she didnt care about the people outside who could see her! xDD so surreal that I woke up thinking that was real xDDD

No Ayu on the upcoming MSSL, and no Ayu on the Kouhaku, so from an Ayu fan's perspective...now we can comfortably relax and concentrate on the CDL.

I do miss seeing Ayu on these two big, annual music J-pop shows though. :(

It's my free time now, and I'm creating "Ayu Library" app :D

http://i.imgur.com/XLRfqXU.png

^ what's that? LOVING IT!

I wonder whos Ayu's manager and PA now? always see her staffs in the vid but not sure which one are they

After NEXT LEVEL I always felt that her music went way downhill but recently I've been
listening to her albums. I'm going back and forth listening to Secret and (m)u and I'm
appreciating her music more and more. I'm going to listen to her recent albums with an
open mind, she's one of the artists that I really cared about so I can't brush her music off
just like I have done in the past.