Originally Posted by maikaru
Sorry. Maybe you didn't understand the "Power of Music" message then. Normal people can't help "infrastructure" or whatever because we don't have knowledge on how to help it, or improve it. But what we can do is provide comfort to people, and do our own little part. Ayu cannot go to Sendai and help with the reconstruction or hand out supplies or something because honestly it would be more of a burden on the support people than anything, especially since there would be hundreds of reporters there every day following her every move. If she wanted to do a PR stunt, THAT would have been the PR stunt, but her presence would have been detrimental to the recovery process.
Instead, she did what she could. She started charity projects, donated money, and started a tour that brought the power of music to people. You obviously don't understand the power of entertainment to lift people's spirits, but most Japanese people who went to see the Power of Music tour felt an uplifting sense, and they were grateful to Ayu for that. If you'd like, you can go read Mixi entries or tweets about the Power of Music tour.
Why don't you put yourself in her shoes? If you are patriotic to your country and your country just had a natural disaster, could you go to another country and live your life normally without any cares when there's something that you know you can do. You have NO IDEA what Ayu is planning or doing behind the scenes to support Japan, and I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt that she is doing everything she can simply because she is my favourite singer, and I believe that's her personality.
If your husband refuses to come to Japan because he's gonna pursue his career in Hollywood, and you want to stay in Japan and do what you can to help and continue your career in Japan, how is the marriage gonna work? It's not. And it's no one's fault, it's a matter of time and circumstance. There's NO ONE TO BLAME in this situation.
Yeah, the marriage felt rushed, and I didn't like it anyways, but it felt like she truly loved him and there was no power play going on, and I'm not going to criticize her for her reasons. If it was me, and I was telling the truth and everyone told me "Oh, but you're lying. It's like this," I would be SOOO angry and devastated. You don't even know what happened 100%, like me, but why is it automatically acceptable to criticize everything someone says. No, it's not acceptable, because you wouldn't want someone to do that to you. It's not acceptable because everyone deserves the respect to be taken at face value. If you can't do that, then how can you call yourself a fan? You're not, imho.
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