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Originally Posted by happiholic★
The one thing I love about my favorite diva/*****y singers is that you can usually take them at face-value. X-Tina is *****y all the damn time, so at least you know she's not acting.
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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
We don't know what kind of person she is, actually xD
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^ These. The truth is, we really don't know Ayu, even though we'd think we'd like to. She went so far as to refer to herself as "Hamasaki Ayumi" the product and "Ayu" the person when she started. Though they were clearly defined back then, those have blurred over the years and that makes her even harder to figure out. The NTV specials brought a lot of things to light, but they were still TV specials and therefore the majority of that I think was Hamasaki Ayumi the product. Ayu only revealed what she did in those specials because that's what the network was pressuring her for. I doubt even with TA that she opens up as much as she says she can with them, because it's still accessible by the public and the media. Look how many times the news has said, "On Hamasaki's official fanclub..." This scandal was only brought to light because of that tabloid story, and any info we get from her regarding that is only because of pressure from the media. In the end, she only reveals what she wants to or has to. Those pictures we've been getting of Ayu and Maro are far from candid. The real Ayu is the one who's not in front of a camera; the one who's in her hotel room or on the road writing songs and ultimately going to the studio to record them.
That being said, those pictures of her and Nagase that were released? I believe that was the real Ayu - only because she didn't know the cameras were there.