ayu's twitter/weibo thread ~part 16~
 

twitter
http://twitter.com/ayu_19980408

weibo
http://weibo.com/2291250415

Continuing the discussion. Where we left off is some very controversial remarks regarding Ayu's absence from the Music Station 25th anniversary special...

Geez I just read all the articles on Misa-chan's blog. I'm quite stunned. I'm feeling so angry that Ayu have to put up with all this stress. This whole "rebellious ayu vs. Avex" kind of takes me back to the times of the release of A BEST...

On the other hand maybe, just maybe it would be for the good if they forced her to take a rest? Maybe not for the brand name "Ayumi Hamasaki" but at least she would have time to hang out with her friends, family and Mannie. Maybe she would find a new way to reload as an artist. Or maybe she will be angry and even more rebellious as in 2001 and create amazing music in her fight to find her own way.

I dunno, everything can happen. What I find most likely is probably that Avex maybe will get harder on her (like controlling when she should release etc) and she keeps on going just like before.

I think she's tired. She really needs to rest, but not like just for a month or so, I think, she needs to take a break for a half an year :yrolleyes

I feel like she's stepping the Seiko Matsuda level, where she only needs to have tours and new album per year without huge promotion, tv variety shows and etc.

somehow i think all these are uncalled for...

she is sick and unable to return due to mistakening the flight timing... i believe these are really valid reasons as to why she had no choice to attend MSta performance.

i mean why do they have to go to all the troubles to make lots of wild guesses and assumptions liked it is she who might not want to return to japan... =.="

I agree with you, all of this reminds me of A BEST era..

And I don't know why one of them are talking about AKB48 as a reason that she couldn't get back to Japan at time.. are they talking seriously? >___<

And about all a-nation drama, I think it's unnecesary to mix both themes..

But well, afterall, at this point, I don't think ayu would let avex controll her career so much as before, right? She has matured, she knows what she wants.. She's not that innocent girl anymore. She's such a warrior, and she will do what she wants, as always.

At least, I hope that.

^i agree with both of you. i read that people are saying "if there was a chance she couldn't return, why did she schedule a photoshoot?"

that's ridiculous to say, imo. sickness is so unpredicted. you can wake up one day with a horrible sore throat, and nobody has any control over that. i'm disappointed that there are people out there who think this way, and who are actually upset that she cancelled to take care of herself and her health. her health should come before ANYTHING else. plus, she's performed a handful of times before when she was sick anyway, so obviously this was serious enough to make her cancel.

Ayu has always had her own mind and made her own decisions regardless of what others will think. she does what she believes is right, and i'm absolutely happy that she's this way. :yes

^ agree with you.
why can't those people JUST understand about her situation.
isn't it enough that she has stressed all out to think any ways to get her home?
gosh if ppl wanna see her performing so badly..go attend her POM tour..
can't those ppl think of how much she thinks of her own country when the disaster happened?
why can't they think of her good deeds that she has done so far.
only missed one performance coz of sickness and they judged her that bad?
i wonder what they would judge her if she ever do much BIGGER mistakes like doing drugs, killing someone, in debt, etc.
so silly, seriously.

I know I might be insensitive about this but this is hella funny! :laugh

Okay, THIS?

Is this even a LAME excuse???

Maybe Avex will postpone all of Ayu's activities to the end of the year like with the Koda Kumi scandal..no Power of Music, countdown live or possible single. Ayu exiled to Mt. Fuji

She ist doing rehearsals for PoM so I think everything is okay.

in the entertainment you have to work hard but this japanese system is so peculiar, you really must be a robot. if you're sick or smth it just doesn't matter, if the company orders you what to do.

probably it's another time for her to decide where to move forward and what to do next. it must be good on the other hand, because I think everything happens for a reason. she's really strong I love the confidence with which she responded to these "fans", I wouldn't have so much courage. I think I would ultimately curse everyone, huh.

I think probably it's that time to decide, I wonder what will be next, really. Avex can't really punish her and can punish at the same time. she's the kind of veteran, so probably she has a "special" relationship with them but we don't know, people change, time flows.

I think they have already punished her for some years for giving her such crappy managers and sometimes photographers and little promotion. oh yes they have.

I don't understand the fans. their anticipation is understandable, considering how little we see her TV lives...I'd be angry too, to some extent. buuuuut....now way I'd accuse her of something, knowing how dedicated, responsible, open-hearted and responsible she is!!! it's simply, impolite, ridiculous, stupid! I'm angry with these angry people, LOL.

she was sick but Japanese music industry doesn't care about such things at all. especially this all greedy avex trax.

but there's smth on my mind....AREN'T THERE THINGS IN CONTRACT WHICH ARE USUALLY NEGOTIATED BY BOTH SIDES??? cases like death, pregnancy, marriage and health...AREN'T THERE???

That article is just a BIG piece of garbage, rubbish, trash, junk...

No way.

She went across US looking for a flight to go home, leaving her baggage in NY and was fainting on the way... What do you think? >____<

Sorry for the double post!

My tour crew gave me so much power n lots of love at a today's rehearsal.Just like u guys(*^_^*) I appreciate it.......thanks everyone... Thanks god.....gonna take a good rest☆

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^ so tour isn't cancelled!

Well, that's a good thing, because there was actually a month's window between a-nation and POWER of MUSIC for something like what Ayu did...

This thing is way overblown...

Do you really think Avex is going to punish ayu? The CEO is Max Matsuura! When he decided to leave Avex, ayu sided with him, I would hope that he would side with her in any situation.

The reason he is CEO is because of ayu. The news is just ridiculous speculation and drama. I am unaware of any official responses from avex themselves.

Someone post this on Facebook. Please join !

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LMAO!

Well, I think the word "punishment" is a bit too harsh. It might be just the management is calling her for a sit-down meeting/talking etc.

ExodusUK, just out of curiosity.. what ever happened to Koda Kumi? nvr knew bout her having scandal.

ah~ avex won't dare to cancel her tour as the punishment. fans will get angry at avex, not ayu~~
just hoping, ayu would be healthy when she starts the tour again.

No one will punish her. It's not like she got drunk and ran naked like the SMAP guy did or dissed off the press the way Sawajiri Erika does. People are trying to make a scandal out of nothing.


She insulted women over the age of 35 on the radio with her joke. Her site and activities were suspended and the album promo got canceled. It was back when Kingdom was released.

^ oh~~ i totally forgot about that already.
i think that case is worse than ayu's (sorry Koda, i like u too, doesn't mean anything).

you wish sistah

lol



GOOD that the tour is (obviously) not cancelled :)

How many articles have been issued in a day time? I don't know where they want to get with this polemic, but it smells like an Avex manoeuvre

I had a friend that studied in media when we were both in college and she told me that her teachers in her classes kept repeating to the students "talk about it in bad, talk about it in good, it doesn't matter as long as you talk about!"

So honestly, Ayu JUST had a release, they found this little tiny drop of drama to talk about and they blew it out of proportion who "they" are.

^ yeah, I share your point of view. let's stay positive, anyways everything will be alright.

concerning advertising, this is usually a good statement..but i don't know if ayu's integrity and genuiness would accept it

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She hasn't even tweeted anything about the articles has she??

And I was thinking, only two things can come from this.
She will either stop doing lives so this will never happen again, or she will do tons of lives to prove that she is competed to her career.

^she doesnt seem like the type that would do the latter just to prove to the public anything. if the worst has to happen, she'll probably not do lives..or maybe she wont do the big events anymore

Please be happy and keep smiling. Please don't be sad.......I love seeing your smile...Ok?(*^^*) http://img.t.sinajs.cn/t35/style/ima...ixincd_org.gif

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^what a cute nail art!(^.^)

Saying women better have children fast otherwise their wombs will rot over the age of 25 (or whatever), joke or not, is very different from canceling a Music Station performance, lol.

I want her changel bag! :thud

The nail is cute!! :D

WHOA - she already has over a MILLION followers on Weibo, by the way.

Wow that's really great!

but sadly she can't reach 600k at twitter like hikki :dead2

ugh...without ayu twitter sucks.

i miss her. :'(

^I know! She hasn't tweeted for a while...

Ayu is rarely angry on Twitter. She did say once that she wants Twitter to be a happy place. Based on that, I doubt she'll bring up this controversy, and if she does, it'll be minimal.

The media is crazy all over the world - no matter what the artist says, the media will always say something different. Ayu's had other "scandals" much worse than this, some she never brought up because it wasn't the truth. And she's apologized when she needed to. She doesn't need to apologize for this, though. Hopefully this will blow over quickly!

She has the 2nd biggest following on twitter when it's about japanese musicians... only behind Hikki (as she aways is)... That's pretty good IMO.

Considering how it's 'cooler' to like Utada, it's not surprising. Most often when J-Pop is concerned, people cite their favorite/best in J-Pop as Utada... (which I don't believe personally) though it is surprising that Ayu isn't that far behind when you think about it.

I think Utada got a little "old" right now... When I talk to most recent jpop listeners, they usually like neither that much (but they also don't really know them).

Still, both girls are the most relevant jpop musicians since Namie, and some of the few that have enough control over their own careers to feed their own twitters... In the end, even if Ayu is not selling loads, a lot of people over here who doesn't overestimate her actual level of fame underestimate it...

Also, Utada has a safer image and deals with safer themes on her lyrics and videos, what makes her easier to reach a larger audience... She experiements a lot more than Ayu when it's about melody, production and arrangment, but Ayu touches subjects that not everyone is really pleased to hear or see... what limit a little her public in comparation to Hikki

5 days without ayu's twit >___<

Yeah, maybe right now she's in "cooldown mode"...

Why can't you believe Utada can be someones favourite Jpop singer? What an odd thing to say.

She has been replying to some fans, mostly about the new collection of Aquascutum, and also about a new date of A3DII in Singapore.

I guess that she will be online on weibo, but not in Twitter, until this storm passes.

You meant about that typhoon?

omg lol you are awesome. XD
I think Deibel is talking about the media and the Music Station thing...

Well... for some bizarre reason, some people like to think Hikki is sort of a underground singer (what's ridiculous, considering her career, her songs, her label and her sales) and find it "cooler" to say she is their favorite jpop artist even if they only know First Love, Simple and Clean, Sanctuary and Flavor of Life...

Saw that more than once, even in college there was a girl on my class that LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Hikki so much and only knew the Kingdom Hearts themes...

Still, in Japan (and considering Kingdom Hearts impact, worldwide) Hikki has a larger fanbase than Ayu...

Probably because she's kept a rather "normal" image, suggesting she doesn't give in and/or try to be trendy/sell out. But really, she's had her name attached to huge marketing tactics, like video games and electronics, which is far from not being mainstream haha. I also think it has to do with her mostly artistic videos. Granted her biggest hits weren't artistic at all... And no I'm not suggesting everyone thinks this way about her, just my feelings about it haha.

But yeah, I don't even know how she was brought up here xD

^Me neither... But is always refreshing to know that I can talk about Hikki on a Ayu board without anyone trying to eat my head :P And even if Hikki is my favorite musician, First Love, Flavor of Life, Traveling, For you and some other big hits from her really are on the generic side of the spectrum...

I think it's a good thing for her to take a step back from Twitter with all the drama that has been going on. She seems to have posted on weibo which means she's ok and still around. I'm not worried, Ayu has always been very strong about everything!

I love the picture of her nails with the smiley! Now I totally want to do this on my nails! All 1 color except ring finger and paint a smiley on it 8D

She should just use twitter to communicate in English, Japanese stuff should be TeamAyu as it makes it harder for tabloids to write stuff.

^ yeah you're right!

6th day without ayu's tweet!

La La La... La La La... La La La... aisaretai LOVE ayu IS good ECSTASY!
#LOL#

I prefer Weibo for her international communication than twitter :yes Because twitter is too public for her. But with Weibo, it seems like she's even closer to her international fans even her followers has reached 1 million :D

I am not sure if you could use fanbase as the right word. I think Ayu has more hardcore fans while Hikki manages to appeal to more casual listeners and I think that the physical sales of some of her later singles show that very well. While Ayu was still selling 300k Hikki was barely selling 100k, but was still doing great digitally.

^Hikki doesn't have an idol image or a image based career, what means her material doesn't have as much collection value as Ayu's... Not saying one is better than the other or any ******** like that, but there a good amount of fans who buys Ayu physical stuff cuz they feel they need to have a physical copy of everything she does, while on Hikki's fanbase, the most important thing is the music in the end of the day (even to her, as she put little to no effort on her visual stuff since her divorce).

So, considering the differences on the way both ladies focus their careers, I don't think we can compare theirs hardcore fanbases based on physical singles, as, from my experience, to a considerable part of Hikki hardcore fanbase, a paied download of her latest release and a physical copy of her latest single value the same...

If we take sales in consideration, it's also nice to notice that even if Hikki's oversells Ayu digitally, what means people can easily get her newer songs they liked if they are casual listeners, she also beats Ayu on album charts, what means a lot of people are interested enough in listening to her whole production even if they have access to only the songs they liked.

I for sure know more Hikki hardcore fans than Ayu's, what's funny considering I'm part of a Ayu forum but never bothered being part of a Hikki forum (mostly cuz her fanbase is disgusting).

This has a lot to do with the fact that Hikki is mostly seen as a musician, while Ayu is mostly seen as an idol (even by part of her fanbase, as we can see daily over here) what explain the differences of behavior on their fanbases...

Yeah, I meant all the MSta thing xDD

She posted on weibo again, replying to someone who wrote:

She said:

What's that? An appearance in another magazine? I really don't know xD

This appears to be the latest Deji Deji from the latest Vivi; WE NEED SCANS SOON!!!

yes this is new issue of ViVi!! OMG I want it!

I'm interested in this book. waiting for detailed information~

lifestyle book??? OMG can't wait for scans to be done

I wonder if it's an actual book or just a spread of a few pages in the magazine...

No it's not a book. It's just a spread in the magazine.~

Neverless it will be interesting. ^_^

yeah, it seems like a usual Deji Deji

I think it will be book. she said something in TA about it

Maybe it will be a photobook too...photos and advice.

i have seen the diary~but dont know japanese very much........: (
but she 's really pretty in the photo : )

I want~~~

I thought Ayu made a post saying the lifestyle book thingy is going to be an actual book.

ayu went back to twitter yesterday!

She didn't say nothing special, just things like that she spent a lot of time planning the eyelashes thing, and that she was wearing the black coat of the new campaing of Aquascutum in NY.

At least, she has showed signs of life on Twitter again!

^ hope she'll start talking to fans soon.

New picture, back to Lockerz (Plixi/Tweetphoto; Echofon default) again...

Just to clarify, Ayu will be releasing a life style book, and it is currently untitled.

That page in ViVi is announcing that it's "coming soon" and basically lists things that will be in the book. Pictures of Ayu's shoe closet, items she's currently interested in, pictures of her with no make-up on, things related to Pino and Papico, her "Jet Setter styles", etc.

BTW, how American is that page? xD

Going 2 on-air 「a-nation 2011」8pm tonight at WOW WOW☆ Don't miss it♪

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wow wow, her look is so cool!!!

Yes she looks amazing here!

omg she's just like terminator XD

Ayu looks good! And for some reason I thought of Lady Gaga.

please don't lynch me because I said Lady Gaga

omg what to see the a-nation!!

We might get lynched together, because I did too.

Gaga had glasses similar to those so maybe that's why. It's no harm pointing out the similarities as long as you know Ayu is the real Queen is ;) LOL j/k

*fixed* :lech

Well, with an outfit like that it is not surprising we associate her with Lady Gaga.

use it during the tour of the NL as well. Big Deal (AFF.. )

Seems spiky-related outfits/concept are everywhere these days (to me...)

In response to:

She said:

She herself makes the best promotion she can have xD

Btw, the stand is really cute! :3

the stand is super cute! so girlish!

the stand is like a magnet to girls :love

Love the stand! :heart

The stand is so CUTE +w+ I totally want a paaaaiiirr! And the lashes too omg <3

totally love the a-nation outfit..
so cool!
but it's nothing the same like Gaga haha XDD

Pain makes u stronger☆tears make u braver☆heartbreak makes u wiser☆so thank the past for a better future(^_－)－☆

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No pain, no gain...

That's a really nice saying from Ayu...

I think I'll write it down and look at it when I'm having a bad day n___n''

One of the fans from NYC wrote her about 6-8 prior with a message that ended in thanking the past for a better future, she quoted him and added the other parts herself. She continues to read all our messages just like she said she would.

LANDS OF Eden.

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