News on London PVs - "Microphone" & "Sexy little things"

[aura~]

Originally Posted by maikkun

I think it has a lot to do with what people were saying about Love'n'hate performance.

Ayumi hasn't really done the "sexy" thing before, yeah she has had performances here and there at every concert, but the main course of her concerts is always her ballads and her audience songs, let's face it. I don't know how many people said that they were uncomfortable with Love'n'hate performance here.

It's totally Ayu's prerogative if she wants to sing about something sexual, but I don't think a lot of people are ready for that, especially in some Asian countries, where her fanbase primarily is, yeah? Or people who are against the whole sex sells thing, because it automatically spells out "sell out" to those kinds of people...

of course everyone is different and there's different ways of thinking here... for me there's no problem with the word sexy, and I still don't understand why a lot of people didn't liked the sexy part in LOVE'n'HATE performance! I loved it!!

But again, I don't think this has to do with our way of thinking but on the way we see ayu... I mean... Kuu has done really sexual PV/performance, and she has a lot of fans and her fanbase is in Asia... those fans like her like this, right? So it's not like Ayu did sth asian fans are not used to... Maybe some people here have a too cute/virginal image of ayu...

I don't know if I explained it well xd

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

I don't think being prudish really has anything to do with it. I'm definitely not. But it comes down to people having this more mature image of Ayu. And contrary to popular opinion here, sex and maturity are two different things.

Personally, I don't think you can be sexy without be mature. And it's weird that some people worry that she's going to be talking about intense sexual themes just because the title has the word "sexy" in it. Come on, this is Ayu, there's nothing to worry about LOL. She's one of the classiest artists I know, if not THE most. Even in the pictures of the making, it doesn't appear that anything raunchy is going on. She actually does look sexy. But either way, the title gave the fans here a genuine shock! I don't think anyone can say Ayu is playing it safe this time around.

[Minttulatte]

Originally Posted by walking.proud

But again, I don't think this has to do with our way of thinking but on the way we see ayu... I mean... Kuu has done really sexual PV/performance, and she has a lot of fans and her fanbase is in Asia... those fans like her like this, right? So it's not like Ayu did sth asian fans are not used to... Maybe some people here have a too cute/virginal image of ayu...

I agree with you 100%.

[AngelSenshi]

I think that, despite people saying she repeats a lot of things, I still find her shows extremely entertaining to watch. I usually watch her shows bit by bit, not as quick as a lot of people do, and that's my own fault for lack of time or lack of interest in the sense that I prefer seeing DVD rips first.

As for Ayu's sort of sex appeal, I quite like what 'sexiness' she shows. It's just powerful and it's not horribly done. my name's WOMEN is 'sexual' during the performance but nobody made that much of a fuss about it before. That's because we can count on her to do it...tastefully, but without defeating the point? Some other artists have very 'sexy' performances, and by very sexy, I mean extremely sexy performances which I won't even begin to describe because people know what I mean. Sometime or another they've seen it.

Because there are loads of levels of sexiness, I don't think the title of the song should define everything; the song, the performance, the new direction, or any of that. For all we know, the song, it's performance, could be no more sexual than anything she's ever done in the past.

I don't see Ayu as too innocent to do a sexy performance, I just see her as an artist that does that sort of performance more tastefully, or at least, it's not something she just puts out there like some other artists.

With no offense to any other artists, I'm not judging other artists here. I'm just saying what I see and think.