Ayu featured in Singapore's 'The New Paper' on 23/1/09

[JinHamasaki]

Calm down, in Asia, your age is by year -> 2009 will be her 31st year.

Granted, I think this article is misinformed. Ayu didn't get the Japan Record Awards because she no longer accepts them (after the INSPIRE incident, and setting the record at 3 awards in a row). And honestly, wearing a pushup bra will make you look a lot bigger! Come on, there is a reason why she is wearing the garment around her shoulders -> to hide the fact that her breasts are being pushed together and to enlarge her petite size.

[KarenPang]

thanks Jun Xiang

[Polyrhythm]

What a bunch of bull @_@. Thats all I will say.

[AyuGAME]

bravo for ayu...thanks for the article

[pommy48]

hmm interesting...
haha thanks

[jimex289]

^Haha sorry if I offended you man. I apologize if I did. It's pretty pathetic still...tabloid or not, no excuses lmao.

[ihulk2]

Originally Posted by jimex289

^Haha sorry if I offended you man. I apologize if I did. It's pretty pathetic still...tabloid or not, no excuses lmao.

No apologies needed. You made valid points that the writer should have explored/considered in his article but either got lazy or couldn't be bothered.
Still I'm embarrassed at the sub standard journalism displayed here, tabloid or not.

[k21sh3n]

Once, she turned up as a guest on a popular TV show, Music Station, clad in just leopard-print lingerie. She also happily flaunted her figure in the fourth album Secret, in 2005, which contained a 28-page booklet with pictures of her posing topless. --> I don't get it.. so kuu has and album called Secret?? or it's just the stupid journalist messed the album's name?

[jimex289]

Yes, she released an album in 2005 called "Secret". He was trying to point out that her topless shoots in the album booklet moved a lot of copies. Good thing he wasn't like: "Zomg Ayu copied Kuu's Secret".

[Lady_Eowyn]

Well, i'm afraid some of you are gonna get mad, but as one of the secretaries in the article said, Ayumi has a pretty face, but a very petite body. She is indeed not curvy, and the truth is Ayumi likes to help herself a lot in some photoshoots, specially in magazine shoots. the wacoal lingerie ad is one of those examples (and i'm talking about the cleavage). For a moment i thought she actually had a surgery on, but i have seen her also in photos like team ayu magazine and she doesn't look artificial at all. I mean, when people are in the entertainment business, there is pressure to look perfect, and i get that, but frankly i find also weird sometimes that Ayumi looks like someone else and not herself

[jimex289]

^I know where you're coming from haha. I think it's because she's never done this sort of thing before ever, so it might come off as a little awkward and uncomfortable...and some people might think she's definitely not the type to. For me I think it's all right she's getting in touch with her feminine side more in these shoots. It reminds people that Ayu is indeed woman who can be real sexy too.

[Meat Pao]

I got so pissed when they went into the Ayu and Kuu part. Wtf

[jimex289]

Originally Posted by Meat Pao

I got so pissed when they went into the Ayu and Kuu part. Wtf

I think the article lost most of its credibility when he started going off into that direction. If you really take the time to pick apart what he's saying, it's a very illogical comparison and came from no where haha.

[terra]

It's pointless to make Ayu-Kuu Rivalism...it's useless

It's not like Ayu's goal is to catch up with Kuu in terms of Bold and Sexy image, that's 1000% percent ridiculous.

I don't like this article at all,, seems that Ayu is certainly 'selling' her cleavage for fame

Thx tho,,

[love in music]

this article SUCKS. kumi and ayu should NEVER be compared. jesus christ, when will people learn?

[mcluva420]

haha. ayu dun need 2 catch up 2 kuu..she been above her -.- kuu is the one who shud catch up or smthin -___-
thanks for the article~

[maikaru]

Somebody forgot to say about how Ayu doesnt accept awards any longer,
Which means Koda Kumi winning an award and her not is pretty useless.. haha.

And about the age thing..
Japan doesn't do that Chinese/Korean tradition of age..
It was destroyed maybe 50 years ago?
So I think its just they got it wrong..

Oh well. This seems a bit tabloid like.. =\

And Koda vs Ayumi thing.. ahaha.
I just have to laugh at it..
most people in Asia continue to make that kind of comparison..
It will not stop. =\

But they do very different things~

[kiseki89]

I guess our writers are out of topic...

[ayu_fantasy]

"The sexy ads show the singer frolicking about in bed with just a bra and a pair of panties."

This statement sounded so wrong and would indeed put her in a bad light....


Anyone has scans of the full article?

[terra]

Originally Posted by ayu_fantasy

"The sexy ads show the singer frolicking about in bed with just a bra and a pair of panties."

This statement sounded so wrong and would indeed put her in a bad light...

Indeed, but then a bra commercial should be like that or some sort like that isn't it,,

If they show Ayu in a full dress or her usual magazine shoot wouldn't it be weird to promote bra on a picture like that?

Silly media