Hamasaki Ayumi and Avex face investigation by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by panda87

man...

"We're free to go anywhere we want. We're free to do anything we want." - Heartplace

gawsh, this is ridiculous. to have a permit just to go from store to store. but the thing about holding the event to promote her book and album does need a [permit] to reserve the area and have safety guards for a safe promotion... so in away, i think she shouldn't be such a diva. she's so powerful, she can't just go where and when she wants anymore... she makes the world go crazy, it's like she's a queen who needs all the extra preparation for her arrival or else.

The opposite, she is just a human being and she wants to be normal like everyone else, she doesn't want all that divaish protection and special things and treatments like "look I'm coming everyone get far away from me I want to walk here I want to walk there so no one will be here go away, spread shooo oh and if anyone will do anything stupid the guards will punish you!" full of guards and stuff when she goes out. But still it wasn't her job to ask for a permission and it's wierd she is being blamed for that.

[panda87]

Originally Posted by InoriNoUta

^ getting a permit isn't Ayu's responsibility. It's her staff's. Going to music stores in the area is hardly "diva."

did i state that it was her sole responsibility? no. i expected her fans, supposedly at least half as intelligent as an animal like you probably believe yourself to be, to understand that such stars have managers who handle those things. and ayu should know, as well as her staff, how great of an impact her visits are to places she doesn't frequent as much as other places in Japan, so she should have the idea that perhaps, at least have something written down for the record that whatever damages and/or difficulties that concur during the event, who would be responsible, whether it states the city or Ayu's staff. even normal people do this. i'm sure we all trust Ayu is professional in her public activities, but despite the media exaggeration, she isn't totally a saint here. she does need to offer some kind of compensation, but i don't believe, however, that she needs to give an apology.

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

The opposite, she is just a human being and she wants to be normal like everyone else, she doesn't want all that divaish protection and special things and treatments like "look I'm coming everyone get far away from me I want to walk here I want to walk there so no one will be here go away, spread shooo oh and if anyone will do anything stupid the guards will punish you!" full of guards and stuff when she goes out. But still it wasn't her job to ask for a permission and it's wierd she is being blamed for that.

it's not the fact that calling in special protection and treatment for her coming is diva-ish, but consider that, as i mentioned, even normal people need some kind of written statement to protect themselves in cases like this if they should hold any kind of event, big or small. she knows how impactful her presence is, so she should've had at least a thought that "hmm, maybe i should keep this store jumpin short to avoid any potential problems for my fans and the area". i love Ayu to death, but i can see that she isn't a complete saint. i'm not saying it's ok that she's being blamed. i'm implying that if she knows who she is and her staff knows who she is, her staff should know that, to be professional, they should at least sought for some kind of written protection as, for someone like Ayu, these things are obviously inevitable.