Music/Films/TV etc Ayu likes

[ExodusUK]

Let's make a list..um I remember she said she watches Lost and her favourite show is Sex & The City.

[isthisLOL?]

When asked about Britney she said the one she really looks up to is Madonna. That was in the TIME interview I think.

[mizuki-7]

She likes very very much Globe & Keiko and TRF

[ExodusUK]

She hates the movie Burlesque.

[isthisLOL?]

She likes the movie "Dolls", she named the song after it.

[Catzi]

In an old TA, she said she was watching Heroes and I think she really liked it.

[truehappiness]

Ayu really loves Dragon Ball and has all the DVDs apparently?

http://www.mangabullet.com/article.php?id=206

TV shows... she has all of the box sets of 24, iirc.

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

She also likes The Bodyguard.

[Delirium-Zer0]

She mentioned being really into Prison Break once.

As for music, she's mentioned Smashing Pumpkins and Pink in interviews, and really liking "One of Us" by Joan Osborne when she heard it in the Vanilla Sky trailer (I think she mentioned that in the Time interview - it didn't say which song it was, I had to look for the trailer in question to find out it was One of Us). Sweetbox, obviously, is probably one of them.

In the Dome Tour History book there's a photo of a stack of classic rock CDs in plastic sleeves. Dunno if they're hers or not, but they appear to be used for background sound or inspiration during the tour in one way or another. But here's the ones I can see:
-The Rolling Stones, "Sticky Fingers"
-The Sex Pistols, "Never Mind the Bollocks"
-Larry Lee, "Marooned"
-Red Hot Chili Peppers, "BloodSugarSexMagik"

EDIT: Oh, and she likes Doraemon, as we know she wishes she could have the Dokodemo Door.

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

^ I remember the Smashing Pumpkins mention in an A Best era interview too.
She's pretty much a rocker chick in a pop artist guise lol.

I was going to mention Sanrio and Hello Kitty but everyone knows she
Loves those haha

[Delirium-Zer0]

Originally Posted by ComatoseBunnySnatcher

She's pretty much a rocker chick in a pop artist guise lol.

I agree. I've been saying it for years... lol

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

^ when exactly did you notice, though? I know you've followed her from early on so I'm a bit curious...
Being into the same musicians, ias far as I can tell I am... Seems to take more into it, especially the album as a whole but I got into her in 05 so I can't really say xD

[isthisLOL?]

I always felt like Memorial Address(the song) and Heartplace where her embracing her rock fandom fully for the first times since those were purely rock tracks, not poprock.

[ExodusUK]

Here's the Smashing Pumpkins mention

(S) And that you don't need any excuses any more?
　　(A) Ah, really. Though I'm not so ambitious as to break down the situations. How do you think? Does Ayu look like a person who listens to Backstreet Boys rather than Smashing Pumpkins.
　　(S) As your public image?
　　(A) Yes. It's likely, isn't it?
　　(S) I feel so.
　　(A) Though I had listened to Smashing Pumpkins so often until I was tired of it. (Laugh) But I think most people can't imagine so without doubt. They would say, "Huh? Ayu would never listen to such music."
　　(S) You are eager to link yourself with it now, aren't you?
　　(A) Yes. But somehow, I'm not so ambitious of it. It's all right even if I don't realize it. I only like to enjoy the process toward it.
　　(S) I see. You like to enjoy yourself now. Otherwise, I think you wouldn't have suggested to do this work with us. (Laugh)
　　(A) Really.
　　(S) I think you would have been reluctunt. (Laugh)
　　(A) Huhuhuhu.
　　(S) How do you like Smashing Pumpkins?
　　(A) Let me see. What do you call that --- like an obi (band of paper) of a CD?
　　(S) Huh? An obi.
　　(A) Ah, it's and obi. (Laugh) You know? On the obi of "Mellon Collie", which I've listened to before this interview, written as "Infinite Sadness." Somehow I liked the phrase very much at first, not the songs. I liked the phrase "Infinite Sadness" very much, just when I saw it before buying it. I wondered what it was, listened to it, and thought --- "Ah ! The obi is right." Hahahaha. Actually I have no knowledge of other artists, whether foreign or Japanese. So all I can do is to find in such a way at first.
　　(S) I think it's just the belief of Billy Corgan, the leader of Smashing Pumpkins. That sadness is one of the great emotions, the great asset in life, and one must not deny it, though he doesn't affirm it, either. I think he is the person who maintains in music with courage that nothing will be solved without facing it, and so is his music. You felt sympathy in that respect, didn't you?
　　(A) I think so.
　　(S) And you wish to do like him, don't you?
　　(A) I think so. It's somehow very ... tender, beautiful, kind and healing on the one hand. But on the other hand, distant and horryfying. I feel so very much somehow. Tremendously cold, I feel.
　　(S) Smashing Pumpkins kept on doing so, created quite high quality music. But the quality didn't satisfy that man who aimed at even higher level of music, and the band broke up. I think Hamasaki-san is at the starting point in the sense now.
　　(A) Yes.
　　(S) I think your music expresses such "Infinite Sadness" as energy, but that it hasn't bloomed yet as music. Talking with you now, I feel you know that more than anyone else. And I think you wish to make for the place very much now.
　　(A) ... Huhuhuhu. Yes.

I freaked out when I read this years ago as Ayu is my fave singer and SP are my fave band. I've always thought Endless Sorrow was just Ayu using a thesaurus on "Infinite Sadness"

[Delirium-Zer0]

^ Thanks so much for the quote, I appreciate it!! I feel better now. lol

Originally Posted by ComatoseBunnySnatcher

^ when exactly did you notice, though? I know you've followed her from early on so I'm a bit curious...
Being into the same musicians, ias far as I can tell I am... Seems to take more into it, especially the album as a whole but I got into her in 05 so I can't really say xD

I've been a fan since the trilogy came out in Spring 2000. "End of the World" was a SHOCKING song, but she felt so natural doing it after songs like "A Song for XX" and "POWDER SNOW" and "P.S II" and "monochrome." She seemed so much more honest and more comfortable with darker, more rockish sounding songs. Those songs made me FEEL something more than the basic pop songs like "Trust" and "Boys & Girls" did, as much as I enjoyed them. The more rock sounds she did later really felt like a very natural progression for her.

[Ayu-roBeat 13]

I think I remember reading somewhere in a REALLY old interview that she likes Nic Cage flicks?? Or maybe it was a tabloid joke....but for some reason I remember that. Oh and that she was inspired by the band Deep Purple.

[saigodansu]

The shows she said were her favorites she was watching everynight in the fall of 2010 and into 2011 atleast were CSI and NCIS. Again with the DVD Boxed sets I'm sure, not sure though if she watches the US version or Japan's voiced over version.

[zaqwanbadli]

I think I remembered she mentioned about watching NCIS in a magazine...

[saigodansu]

She mentioned both CSI and NCIS was what she was watching in her hotel during the stays in LA on twitter

[AyUmIXx]

wow she has watched a lot of US series too.. awesome..