[Gustavopc]

Someone wants a cookie it seems lol

Don't judge namie by ayu's standards. Even tho they have their similarities, they never had the same objective in their careers to begin with. namie never wanted to share her struggles and pain with the public, and she did stick to that, and succeded. ayu wanted to, did that, and also succeded. To each their own. You have all rights not to like namie, but don't try to put her in ayu's shoes.

Plus you thinking of ayu as a non-pop-person but an ~artist~ just shows up how naive you are. Yeah, her music IS more passional and personal and blah, but at the end of the day she also did stuff to please her public and grasp popularity, and that's what everyone in the pop scene does, that's not a sin, as long as you're honest with the image you want to show and the one you are actually showing.