[Translation] [Interview] Numéro Tokyo (September 2015)

[mizuki-7]

Not that I'm interested by her love life but according to a recent tabloid ... Her husband would be living in a villa that she bought in Singapore last year !

[Aderianu]

People saw her husband at the tour final and at some conc3rts before. I think he live with her at Japan

[Nessa]

Her husband is a neurosurgeon, or in the very least, completing school to be one. It's ridiculously insulting to demean him by calling his wife "the bread maker" ("bread winner" is the correct idiom btw.). We have no idea what his financial or scholastic situation is. It's disrespectful to not only him, but Ayu, to say things like that.

[oaristos]

Thank you very much for posting this! It was very interesting to read, I love how good she is with the words.

[stickyrice]

While I don't think they're divorced, just because he was seen at concerts doesn't mean anything to me. Celebrities can easily fake it just to save face or perhaps they're just on good terms and decided not to publicise it? Anything is possible in that world and Hollywood/celebrity relationships are so disposable I can never take it seriously.

Back to the article. I love how articulate she is. I keep forgetting how well spoken she is <3 Thanks for the translation

[mi|kshake]

Thank you so much for translating - it was a great interview! My favourite part is when she talks about her love for music.

Her "searching for love" isn't romantic love... I think they are well

I agree!

[Refix]

Thanks for the translation.

[truehappiness]

While I do enjoy these interviews, I do hope that this is the last time she gives an interview like this. It feels a little like she's had this discussion a few times before about "LA and Japan" and how she came to decide to come back to Japan but this one does seem like the last one, so that's good.

[Coelacanth]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

While I do enjoy these interviews, I do hope that this is the last time she gives an interview like this. It feels a little like she's had this discussion a few times before about "LA and Japan" and how she came to decide to come back to Japan but this one does seem like the last one, so that's good.

Exactly. It kinda feels like she's "dissing" the entire Colours era. Granted, it's not my favorite Ayu album by any means... Still, I'm glad it exists. I think a lot of the tracks are pretty solid.

[truehappiness]

The Colours era was a little shaky though. I wonder if she looks back on the output with regret at all.

[Coelacanth]

Well... The PV's, yes. Absolutely horrific. The album itself is such a smooth listen, though. Probably hands down her easiest album to just throw on and jam to, without having to think too much about the content. I'm glad she has an album like this.

[ExodusUK]

Considering the vast difference in Japanese and English..love is such a broad term.

[Larisa-chan]

Awesome translation.

Ayumi is always searching for something. And because of that, she will never be at peace. I was a little sad reading this interview, because I agree with others' posts that she has made similar comments in other interviews as well. I'm glad she at least confessed that she had been running away the last couple of years. I also know that she's trying to separate her private and public life, but, she admits to being a slave to work so of course that will spill into her private life. Perhaps she works so much because it fills a huge void in her life and if she were to quit making music, she'd have to come face to face with it. So in a way, it's like she's still running away from a huge part of herself/life.

[se7entheaven]

She said she's looking for love. Seriously why did she get married?

[koumori]

Originally Posted by se7entheaven

She said she's looking for love. Seriously why did she get married?

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

The word love isn't restricted to romantic love. Both in Japanese (愛 vs 恋) and English.

^
I don't think 'love' in the article refers to something romantic.

[Corvina]

Somehow this interview doesn't evoke a good feeling in me.
Well, now I do believe she's doing the TA tour to cater to disappointed fans or to fans left as she's more or less speficially sayig it. But really, she should do it (and her career in general), only cause she wants to do it. And not because she has a feeling she has to do it. Feelings of guilt aren"t a good reason.
I mean, hell, she's saying she's able to sacrifice her private life for music and so she will. That isn't healthy.

[thinkingoutloud89]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Somehow this interview doesn't evoke a good feeling in me.
Well, now I do believe she's doing the TA tour to cater to disappointed fans or to fans left as she's more or less speficially sayig it. But really, she should do it (and her career in general), only cause she wants to do it. And not because she has a feeling she has to do it. Feelings of guilt aren"t a good reason.
I mean, hell, she's saying she's able to sacrifice her private life for music and so she will. That isn't healthy.

thats what I meant. sorry if someone felt insulted.

[aliceshields]

Thank you very much to Tenshi for translating

To Ayu, what's done cannot be undone and lessons learned, so let's move on and don't look back.

Sincerely hope that no more discussing about the LA/JPN-running away in search of love/something, let's talk about "future"

AND, World Tour please~~~~~

[Andrenekoi]

You know AHS is a lost case when there's a meltdown over... nothing, actually. I can't even understand what is pissing people around here off right now.

[freedreamer]

insightful interview and I love it when she is so honest. She know she did something wrong and now she is back to just be herself again