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@namiie: Actually lol I saw a 5 minute backstage thingy of her talking about her tour and she said that she didn't care about the people's opinion and how they wanted to sue her because she offended them. (She said this to some agent guy...) I think this was on her Like a Virgin tour about the bed performance. So.. I don't really need to know the entire story to think that she's used cheap tricks for publicity. And even if it wasn't for publicity, I'd never ever see Ayu pull off such stunts (which is why I'm a fan of Ayu's lol).

But yar, I'll stop posting now as I don't think I can add anything else to my case without going COMPLETELY off-topic. I just get annoyed when people yell around Ayu's copying Madonna or getting "inspiration" (note: being "inspired" by someone who wears a red dress, to wear a similar red dress yourself is copying and not being "inspired". Being "inspired" would be if Madonna's red dress idea was changed into something very different, like the bad guys on the Mirrorcle World PV wearing red costumes or something. So imo it's either she copied it, or she didn't copy.) But let's be realistic, it's not like Ayu's (or rather, her DESIGNERS, unless you believe that around her tours, singles, promotion and video's she actually has time to design huge dresses) going to intentionally try to avoid every similarity between her and other artists. They have better things to do than that.

It would be fun to next time make a list of all the things that Ayu has done and have no similarities with Madonna. Something tells me the non-similar things are a lot less similar to Madonna than the similar things are similar to Madonna.

@ ^: And you don't sound aggressive! I hope I don't sound so either. :] I can't watch a Madonna concert (no idea where I'd get it from anyways), so I'll Google it up.

Okay, I see Naturally WAS copied (I'm not that ignorant to think it's not copied.) Does anyone know what song she did for that Naturally-clone? I'm interested in watching it on YouTube.

However, the question (and I don't want to sound like a total Ayu obsessed freak here, but seriously) remains if Ayu copied Madonna or not. If Ayu really does like Madonna, it seems likely to me that Ayu simply wanted to do some Madonna stuff because she thinks it's awesome. This is pretty much the whole reason behind dressing up as your favorite characters.

But dam, my respect for the Naturally performance just went down a notch.