[marionette]

Ayu isn't a guilty pleasure for me.

When I was in upper level (school) a few years older boy sent me some of her music. Japanese music and language was new to me then, but well, after listening to Evolution, Surreal and M (and Siam Shade's Setsunasa Yori mo Tooku e!) a few times I realized how good it was.

Now I've listened to her music for over 2 years and I really don't care what others think about it. I actually have some friends who adore Ayumi as much as I do. :)

My sister actually played Ayu's music at her school and we were both very suprised when all the girls on her class said: "Wow, I like this song. Who is she?" (and the song that was played was M, of course)

At the moment Japan and japanese things (music, anime, styles) are quite popular in my country. I still want to remind everybody, that I don't study japanese and listen to Ayumi Hamasaki because it's "in".