^ I believe you cuz I didn't read many of her interviews (it was hard to find translation back in the old days, and I was lazy). At least Toshiba waited for about 5-6 years to (forcefully) release single collection vol. 1. avex forced ayu to released A BEST when she was just there for 3 years.
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Originally Posted by Baco__
It's really funny how... (I'll call it destiny, fate, but you can call whatever you want) life is, isn't it? Yesterday after my Japanese classes I was talking to my teacher (Japanese from Kyoto living in Brazil for seven years now, female, 29 yo) about Fantτme and she was praising Utada and told me she was not exactly wowed about the many copies it was selling since she is really the queen of Japanese music (her words). And then, out of the blue, she says she isn't like other female superstars like hamasaki, and asked me if I knew her. I told her I really liked her work. Then she told me what is really shines about hikki's career and what ayumi doesn't have as much as utada is female fans. While back in the day utada would have tons of fans both men and women, ayumi used to have a male fan base mostly. I asked her why was that and she said she felt ayumi was too exposed, while utada was more reserved, or in this topics words: she was low profile. Ayumi wasn't (and isn't).
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Hmmn, interesting. Somehow I think this is quite true. Japanese women might think ayu's glamorous life a bit.. er... tacky (if that's the correct word to use). But I think she had lots of female fans in the early days. If not, VISEE's lipstick would not be sold out that quickly whenever she had a new VISEE cm
. I think it was her glamorous life in her later career that is quite disconnected to real life. And the point she exposed her glamorous life too much that annoyed some people. Not that they hate her being rich, cuz famous artists are generally rich anywayz. They might find her being too exaggerate (which sometimes I do think that).