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^I find that comment to be really unfair to her...
In the past 10 years Ayu touched a lot more of urgent issues than her peers. She sang being a woman in Japan, shared the spotlight with LGBTQ people in a culture that pretend they doesn't exist outside of the romantic/sexual fantasies of straight people, sang about feeling alienated, about the risks of escapism through partying ans alcohol. She sang about her fears about her future, about her current health state, about the issues her see on human relationship on her culture. She gave the middle finger about the expectatations her culture have about her while also singing about how hard it is for her doing that.
And she also performed about her personal struggles, the women condition, thr LGBTQ people issues, the feeling of isolation that exists so agressively on her country.
People want Ayu to be bold, but not too bold. To take risks, but not too much risks, to be a non conformist, but only if she is ultimetely conforming.
And them there are those rants about "Ayu, what people will think! D:" everytime she doesn't just pretend be edgy by simulating she is going against the norms, but actually does so. If there's something the world needs in face of rising extreme conservative thiking is someone of Ayu's scale being as unapolagetic, shamless and non-conformist as Ayu is.
That being said, this whole book thing is a clearly publicity stunt, and it's so silly and make people unconfortable with so little that I can't help but live over this. Lol.
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