"A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~" 09.10 in stores

[truehappiness]

She probably did. Not many other rooms have tile walls.

COMPLETE CLIP BOX was also named in such a fashion, and she still made PVs. A lot of people thought Memorial address was her final album. Too much overreaction with titles imo.

A SINGLES BOX sounds like it'd be better or A SINGLES 1998-2008..

[GRACE]

The way I see it, Ayu's career isn't going to last a whole lot longer, and I think she knows it. Another few years, and she'll start to fade out and eventually she'll be gone from the music scene. Losing your hearing majorly affects your ability to sing. One ear's already done, and by the looks of things, she's not really making any attempt to make sure the other one doesn't go either. She lost her boyfriend of years, she lost a dear friend, she's getting older, ten years is a long time to be in the music industry, and she's no Hikki, she's no Namie, she's slowly becoming disabled. That makes a lot of difference than singers who've been around a long time and are still moving.

The way I see it, she's easing us into the end, I'm taking A COMPLETE as a sign towards that direction.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by GRACE

The way I see it, Ayu's career isn't going to last a whole lot longer, and I think she knows it. Another few years, and she'll start to fade out and eventually she'll be gone from the music scene. Losing your hearing majorly affects your ability to sing. One ear's already done, and by the looks of things, she's not really making any attempt to make sure the other one doesn't go either. She lost her boyfriend of years, she lost a dear friend, she's getting older, ten years is a long time to be in the music industry, and she's no Hikki, she's no Namie, she's slowly becoming disabled. That makes a lot of difference than singers who've been around a long time and are still moving.

The way I see it, she's easing us into the end, I'm taking A COMPLETE as a sign towards that direction.

I'm sorry but I have to lol.
You exaggerated it the whole way XD.

She's not the only one who's losing popularity and ironically last year she was the most proffiting (or 2nd) japanese artist.
There are jmusic divas that sell 3000 for a release and still keep releasing a lot (like seiko matsuda).
She won't lose her hearing on the other ear mainly because she doesn't have a disorder there (unlike the deaf ear that had it).
She is just turning 30 not 60, give the woman a slack, (not comparing but Madonna is 50 and still moving). Namie is also some years older than ayu.
Everyone loses a lot of things, so what? she just takes it as inspiration for songs (untitled ~for her~ etc.) hikki divorced last year.

For the releasing of this album, well she's on avex, it's really not surprising they release it and on her 10th anniversary.

That's exactly how things are =P you made it sound like she's 90 and going to die.

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by GRACE

Losing your hearing majorly affects your ability to sing. One ear's already done, and by the looks of things, she's not really making any attempt to make sure the other one doesn't go either.

1ST, she has had the hearing problem for years from now. What we think it's recent is just that fact that her hope for improvement was completely abolished because the doctor said there was nothing more to be done. She's been struggling with that ear problem for quite a lot of years to say the truth.

2ND, what the heck are you saying about "she's not making any attempt so that the other one doesn't go either"? So far her right ear is a normal ear, and it has no problem (as far as by what she has implied), so I don't see where you get the assumption tha she's intentionally damaging it, when she's not. Actually her left ear didn't become disabled because she was careless about it. There was just nothing to do, as even the physicians weren't able to do much for it.

Originally Posted by GRACE

She lost her boyfriend of years, she lost a dear friend, she's getting older, ten years is a long time to be in the music industry, and she's no Hikki, she's no Namie, she's slowly becoming disabled. That makes a lot of difference than singers who've been around a long time and are still moving.

The way I see it, she's easing us into the end, I'm taking A COMPLETE as a sign towards that direction.

That makes no sense. Namie had to face a divorce, and even worse than having a friend die of something, had her mother murdered. She's still going strong. Also, ayu isn't in any way severely disabled. Her left ear might not wiork anymore, but her right ear works wonders. Any human being can live without too much limitations if they only have an eye or an ear. That doesn't make them severely disabled. They might not have all that having both organs provide, but still, they can do almost all normal tasks any human being can do.

[elepop]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

That makes no sense. Namie had to face a divorce, and even worse than having a friend die of something, had her mother murdered. She's still going strong.

Exactly. I don't think Ayu is leaving the music industry anytime soon. I don't even think avex thought of this at all. hitomi had ovarian cancer and went through a divorce (both worse than a deaf ear and a breakup) and not to mention that her sales suck compared to Ayu. She's still going and avex is still keeping her. So why would Ayu be gone soon?

[tourniquet]

Originally Posted by GRACE

The way I see it, Ayu's career isn't going to last a whole lot longer, and I think she knows it. Another few years, and she'll start to fade out and eventually she'll be gone from the music scene. Losing your hearing majorly affects your ability to sing. One ear's already done, and by the looks of things, she's not really making any attempt to make sure the other one doesn't go either. She lost her boyfriend of years, she lost a dear friend, she's getting older, ten years is a long time to be in the music industry, and she's no Hikki, she's no Namie, she's slowly becoming disabled. That makes a lot of difference than singers who've been around a long time and are still moving.

The way I see it, she's easing us into the end, I'm taking A COMPLETE as a sign towards that direction.

I had to laugh aloud as I read your post. thank you. <3 I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound nasty, but I can't help, but interpretate it that way. <3

[truehappiness]

The way I see it, she's easing us into the end, I'm taking A COMPLETE as a sign towards that direction.

Atika: If you didn't have music as a career, where would you see yourself? What would you be doing now?

Ayu: I don't want to think about that but.. um, because basically, my love is music. Music is my life. If without music, or I can't sing anymore, it's like, I die! I'm nothing! Because music is everything, you know? That's why.

Atika: In that case, 10 years, 20 years from now, where do you see yourself?

Ayu: Ah, yeah about the future...

Atika: Yeah.

Ayu: I want to keep write and sing. But I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me. Always, you know? That's why. I don't know yet about my private future. Because private is private, right? I want to keep my private future secret. (laugh)

I don't know what you're talking about.

[GRACE]

^Everything was still pretty happy at that point, and based on my experience with disabled people, she was probably in denial about her hearing up until a short while before she announced it to the public.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by GRACE

^Everything was still pretty happy at that point, and based on my experience with disabled people, she was probably in denial about her hearing up until a short while before she announced it to the public.

This was like, a year before her "announcement." I'm pretty sure she went to the doctor's some time after ASIA TOUR 2007, but before planning for CDL07-08 and GUILTY started..

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

This was like, a year before her "announcement." I'm pretty sure she went to the doctor's some time after ASIA TOUR 2007, but before planning for CDL07-08 and GUILTY started..

...That's what I meant by "in denial" ^^;; My experience with people who are disabled have shown me time and time again that they will deny the fact that anything is wrong with them until there's nothing that can be done for them...


As far as I was aware, there was a point when physicians could do something for her ear, but she didn't have anything done, correct?

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by GRACE

...That's what I meant by "in denial" ^^;; My experience with people who are disabled have shown me time and time again that they will deny the fact that anything is wrong with them until there's nothing that can be done for them...


As far as I was aware, there was a point when physicians could do something for her ear, but she didn't have anything done, correct?

No...
You must be mixing with the leg incident of the DOME TOUR 2001 where the doctors told her to rest but she performed at the same day with hurtful leg and still did it.

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

No, the doctors always told her they can't cure her ear (and finally discovered on 2007 and got completely deaf on that ear).
You must be mixing with the broken leg incident of the DOME TOUR 2001 where the doctors told her to rest but she performed at the same day with hurtful leg and still did it.

Oh, alright, sorry, I was mislead >.>

I'm just going to say, we didn't know she had the ear problem till this year, who's to say we don't know more about the whole thing? We don't have her medical charts and records. I'm not saying I don't trust what she says, but she took a long time to finally say that she'd lost her hearing in that ear...

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by GRACE

...That's what I meant by "in denial" ^^;; My experience with people who are disabled have shown me time and time again that they will deny the fact that anything is wrong with them until there's nothing that can be done for them...


As far as I was aware, there was a point when physicians could do something for her ear, but she didn't have anything done, correct?

Actually, she has gone to the doctors quite a long time ago. I'm sure she's been treating her codition and taking care of it for a long time. However, unfiortunately not all diseases have the best outcomes for everyone. It probably just happened that ayu's case was refractory to any treatment and there was nothing the physicians could do - it just progressed to what it is now.

[Calico]

Well *I* am excited about this! I'm esp. excited to see the covers! And for that price I might get this for myself for my birthday in October. =)

[truehappiness]

I'm pretty sure that like 60% or more of Ayu fans believe that touring caused her ear damage. Which is totally an unfounded claim, tbh.

I'm just going to say, we didn't know she had the ear problem till this year, who's to say we don't know more about the whole thing? We don't have her medical charts and records. I'm not saying I don't trust what she says, but she took a long time to finally say that she'd lost her hearing in that ear...

We didn't know? She told us in 2004, and everyone in Japan panicked because no one knew. Of course, you don't seem to know about that NTV interview where she basically revealed that A BEST was avex's idea and that her ear didn't work..

The ear problem thing began in 2000 with the concert tour 2000 A part 2 and she had some sort of ear infection and ended up cancelling a few shows... then she did DT01 and it got baaaad.

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by truehappieness

We didn't know? She told us in 2004, and everyone in Japan panicked because no one knew. Of course, you don't seem to know about that NTV interview where she basically revealed that A BEST was avex's idea and that her ear didn't work..

The ear problem thing began in 2000 with the concert tour 2000 A part 2 and she had some sort of ear infection and ended up cancelling a few shows... then she did DT01 and it got baaaad.

I see, alright, I'll stop making claims like that ^^;; It appears as though I don't know everything I'm talking about, I appologize

[GRACE]

^I'm sure that the touring didn't exactly help the underlying cause, however

[Kobayashiwoof]

OMFG THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!! I will be in Japan when this is out

I hope the covers will be hot hot hot!

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by maikaru

The mixi says like..." because "the queen" has surpassed selling like millions of cds, she can at last introduce this compliation. She approached her 10th anniversary in april; the popular singer "Hamasaki Ayumi" has released 43 singles, and each one of these singles have been remastered for this compilation. It's the ultimate best album entitled temporarly "A COMPLETE ~All Singles~", and will be sold on thursday, sept 10. Hamasaki says that with this, she has 10 years of history packed together for everyone. And because she just crossed the borders into asia, and she will continue to love everyone, she wants to continue to deliver her singing voice to everyone. She's been pulling off hit songs again and again, and she looks forward to continuing the asian tour.

Since her debut in 1998 with Poker Face, Ayu has always been the one who runs the JPOP scene, and now, she's looking back to those times. She has re-recorded "Who...", and all her a side singles are being offered along side the Who... new song, and will all be offered. Also, the Team Ayu concert tour will be offered for sale, and all previously unreleased cover jackets will be released.

Before this release, she will attend A-Nation, in Tokyo. Then she begins her Asia Tour at the Asia World Expo. She is saying "On to the Tour!", as she screams it well. She adds, "To everyone who has supported me in these past 10 years, and the staff that helps me, thank you so very much," and feels those thankful feelings."

Thank you for the translation ^__^

Originally Posted by GRACE

I see, alright, I'll stop making claims like that ^^;; It appears as though I don't know everything I'm talking about, I appologize

It's fine don't worry about it, but ayu is more of a person than she seems XD

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

It's fine don't worry about it, but ayu is more of a person than she seems XD

She gives off, to me, a sort of fragile vibe, like, someone who's been through enough trauma and should be protected from anymore to be perfectly honest ^^;;

That poker face image with the bathroom tile is actually very cute XP