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Old 11th December 2006, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ayu_fan929 View Post
JACOMPA (the committee that decides the songs for the Taishou) said that they had no intention of nominating Ayu in the 1st place.
yep, i remember that too...and there was sort of a scandal of whether she was nominated or not.

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Originally Posted by kinix View Post
they changed their comments....
they did? what did they change it to? i don't recall anything about that.

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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0 View Post
I heard from somewhere that those awards were rigged & based on payoffs, and Ayu refused it when she discovered that. (would make sense; her promotion has gone down since then probably because of lack of payoffs to promoters on her behalf from avex.) I'm not 100% sure of it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
wow, you make a good point, it almost makes me wonder if that really did happen. it would be sad if she suffered for being honest.
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