StarTalk interview

[rainbow_smile]

Originally Posted by Fubuki

If someone between us is wrong it's probably me, but doesn't she take them as an example and encourages all of her fans to be true to themselves?

Anyway is it me or she said she still writes music, though just as a pass-time? It gave me some sort of sweet feeling, even if I could be wrong about it too.

Yeah, that's the way I'm taking it as well, but that's because I'm overly optimistic lol But I think at the end of the statement she says something along the lines of "That's why I'm proud to be one of you" (I'm not sure, and I can't check it because the video is not loading for me anymore), which could kinda be interpreted that she was only speaking to her Asian female fans. But again, I'm not taking it too seriously

I think she meant that she writes lyrics? Though she might be writing music, too. I think sometime around Rule/Sparkle release she said that she wrote some music but in the end it was never released because avex didn't think it was good enough?

[Fubuki]

Originally Posted by rainbow_smile

Yeah, that's the way I'm taking it as well, but that's because I'm overly optimistic lol But I think at the end of the statement she says something along the lines of "That's why I'm proud to be one of you" (I'm not sure, and I can't check it because the video is not loading for me anymore), which could kinda be interpreted that she was only speaking to her Asian female fans. But again, I'm not taking it too seriously

I think she meant that she writes lyrics? Though she might be writing music, too. I think sometime around Rule/Sparkle release she said that she wrote some music but in the end it was never released because avex didn't think it was good enough?

Just watched it again (so weird: usually I am the one with network problems). Yes, in the end she said something like "I'm so proud of being one of your likes", but maybe she switched to her fans for a while and then returned to Asian women? No, ok, more likely I'm just seeing it as I like the most, ahah. I was kind of confused by her "you guys", because I never heard or read it referred to a group of females only, but English is spoken very poorly in my country, so you sure know better

About writing music now I'm 99% sure: she said "I write music OR lyrics", so she should refer to composing. Unluckily, I never read the thing you're talking about, but when she made the shoot for BAZAAR's 25th Anniversary I think she said something like composing is her favourite part of making a song but she doesn't do it anymore because it makes her feel bad for some reason I don't remember (sorry: I read the interview only once and I was in a really bad mood). Maybe it's related to what you said... she didn't take it too good when she was fired by COLUMBIA Nippon (if I remember the name correctly), and it would be a pretty similar situation, though many years have passed and Ayu went through changes.

I didn't mean writing music at a professional level, anyway. I'd love a comeback from my favourite composer, but as an hard-dying pessimist I prefer not to think about such a thing at all. I feel pretty intrusive saying it since it's her private life, but I had that sweet feeling because I find it lovely that she still amuses herself with songwriting.

Spoiler:

Sorry for being so long .///.'

[rainbow_smile]

Originally Posted by Fubuki

Just watched it again (so weird: usually I am the one with network problems). Yes, in the end she said something like "I'm so proud of being one of your likes", but maybe she switched to her fans for a while and then returned to Asian women? No, ok, more likely I'm just seeing it as I like the most, ahah. I was kind of confused by her "you guys", because I never heard or read it referred to a group of females only, but English is spoken very poorly in my country, so you sure know better

About writing music now I'm 99% sure: she said "I write music OR lyrics", so she should refer to composing. Unluckily, I never read the thing you're talking about, but when she made the shoot for BAZAAR's 25th Anniversary I think she said something like composing is her favourite part of making a song but she doesn't do it anymore because it makes her feel bad for some reason I don't remember (sorry: I read the interview only once and I was in a really bad mood). Maybe it's related to what you said... she didn't take it too good when she was fired by COLUMBIA Nippon (if I remember the name correctly), and it would be a pretty similar situation, though many years have passed and Ayu went through changes.

I didn't mean writing music at a professional level, anyway. I'd love a comeback from my favourite composer, but as an hard-dying pessimist I prefer not to think about such a thing at all. I feel pretty intrusive saying it since it's her private life, but I had that sweet feeling because I find it lovely that she still amuses herself with songwriting.

Spoiler:

Sorry for being so long .///.'

Well yeah, I was hoping she meant to encourage all fans to be like Asian women. About "guys": I'm not a native English speaker neither, so I definitely don't know better than you XD But I think technically it normally refers to boys, but I've seen a lot of people use it for any gender. Especially considering she's not a native English speaker herself. I think guys is the best translation for "minasan"?

I'm not sure about the music part, I'm unfortunately unable to rewatch the video, and I don't remember it word-by-word. I would love for CREA to make a comeback as well... I think she just doesn't feel confident about her composing skills.

[Fubuki]

Originally Posted by rainbow_smile

Well yeah, I was hoping she meant to encourage all fans to be like Asian women. About "guys": I'm not a native English speaker neither, so I definitely don't know better than you XD But I think technically it normally refers to boys, but I've seen a lot of people use it for any gender. Especially considering she's not a native English speaker herself. I think guys is the best translation for "minasan"?

I'm not sure about the music part, I'm unfortunately unable to rewatch the video, and I don't remember it word-by-word. I would love for CREA to make a comeback as well... I think she just doesn't feel confident about her composing skills.

But I see you live in UK, at least... last time I've been there must've been like... 2011 summer? It's one of the places I love the most, I hope I'll have a chance to move there someday <3 Anyway I think "guys" could be the best translation for "minasan" too, but so far I've only seen it referred to groups containing at least a male. Maybe she wanted to avoid "girls" seeing it referred to only younger women and couldn't find a better term, though.

As I said, she went something like "Write music or lyrics", so maybe she still has some fun writing something to play with the keyboard or the piano, but even if as I said CREA is my favourite composer, I understand her if she's not sure about her skills. Also, composing at a professional level must be so hard. I mean, even if I'm not really into music as an art to make (in other words I just listen to it), I sometimes try to think about a new melody but I always end up realizing it's actually a song I already know. Writing poems is just so much easier to me (then, of course, we must see how much Ayu and I differ on this point of view)

EDIT: mizuki seemingly confirmed me while I was writing