I want to copy here some quotes from the interview posted
here by Aderianu.
I believe it will help showing how ayu herself does feel, which is surprisingly near to what the author of the essay above and we have been saying all this time.
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I feel like the concert was something of a “re-emergence” for me, and naturally the songs that followed reflect upon this feeling.
To be perfectly honest…
It wasn’t that I purposely sought out to make an album that sounded like the old me, it just happened.
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If you were to talk about a song that illustrates that feeling of rekindling my old self, that would be “ Last minute.” I realized after writing it that this was the same “me” that wrote “MY STORY”.
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At the listening party for the new album and tour there were fans in tears.
It was like this was the Ayu they had missed; that they had been pining for.
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I thought that “me” was gone, but actually she’s still here, for better or worse!
I felt like I had outgrown songs like “secret”, that I had moved onwards and upwards… but that isn’t the case at all.
Making this album showed me that I am still the “me” who can sing “secret” – even “A song for xx”.
I thought that perhaps both I – and everyone for whom songs like “A song ~” touched a chord – had changed, but I realized that the fundamental idea that people are born and die alone is still there inside me.
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Welcome back, ayu!
ayu: Yes! Yes! I thought that myself! “Welcome back, ayu!” Haha.
I think people who are close to me figured out a while ago that I had been running away.
I’m sure my fans could see it too!
[laughs] If that’s so, what would you say to them?
ayu: I would say “I’m back!” as if nothing had happened. Oh, and perhaps “Sorry”. (Smiles)
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I love her.