[TeamAyu] TeamAyu blog. 1 August 2011. "In the morning,"

[cosmicfirefly]

Thanks for the translation!

I'm glad she talked about what was happening, and I hope people from now on can voice their comments and opinions in a more polite way, bashing other artists and ayu isn't going to make things better for anyone. If you don't like what she's doing then you should definitely let her know and why so she can improve and please fans, but not in a way that will hurt anyone!

"If this continues, I will feel that I can't let others come close to me anymore. And then, I will need to keep everything to myself again." This was upsetting to read, even if ayu's an artist, she's also a person, and her feelings can get hurt just like anybody else's. All this talk about her being a product, while I think that's partly true, she's also a human and has emotions like everyone else.

[*hearT_Place*]

Wow, seriously? People are insulting Naoto and JUNO?? Geez, there *is* a way to respectfully, intelligently, and politely express a negative opinion (Not included in this? Hurting people). Stans like that really irritate me...

Thanks for sharing, misa-chan!

[douggn]

I had no idea ayu, Naoya and JUNO were getting bashed on twitter and such. Poor ayu but she is better than these people anyway and the sales of FIVE will hopefully show it. The people who usually send hurtful remarks on twitter are usually people who think their someone, with boring lives trying to put down the ones who do good. I dont know much about Naoya or JUNO but Iv felt excited that ayus finally singing with other artists and I cant wait to hear them.

[YUKARI]

Poor girl.. She works so hard, she's doing new things, I imagine how she must be upset with all what's going on. I hope she'll stand it and continue doing great things!

[AyUmIXx]

wow speechless at ayu's longggggg TA entry!
feel like crying..
she's a strong woman and i'm sure she'll overcome with all those matters.
i'll just be here to support her decisions.
as long as she's genuinely happy, i'm fine with that even though i may not like her collaborations or her songs.

like someone said, we still have a lot of other ayu's songs we can listen to.
and as of now, i don't really expect her to still shine in the industry anymore, i just want to enjoy what she could offer to us together with her.

[LONJJONG]

Fans just need to open their eyes!!
People must really know how to respect another hardworking people.
I hope ayu wont be down..
i used to think that fan tweets her something cute and questions

[ayumimylove]

With all this happening maybe this will be the only collaboration songs in an album of her.

Think about it, the TA fans think that her is "too good" to be with other artists... :S:S.. they are really jelous and selfish fans, remember when she created her twitter account, they got angry because they tought that she will have more attention to overseas fans... like "she´s ONLY OURS" LOL

[lumieregrl]

For pete's sake, people are too frickin' possessive of Ayu. -_-

[chu-lips]

it sounds so sad
poor ayu..
But its known that ayu fans r possesive and defensive..
LoL...

[delangre]

it's saddening seeing how some of ayu's fans behave, they're worst than little kids without teaching

[ayumasing]

Poor Ayu having to hear such hurtful messages about what she does, who she works with, and about her friends...why would people do that? She loves what she is doing, and does things for herslef (as well as her fans); if she did things only to please her fans, but not herself, she would probably hate what she does. Why can't they understand that this hurts her? How rude of those "fans", especially when Ayu has been working very hard!

[AyumiAi]

Poor ayu

[Tomoyo]

I just wanna cry reading this. Everyone is criticizing her like she is never gonna read anything and i really think that she is hurt by all of it. I will always support her no matter what, even if I don't like the album or don't agree with what she is doing i will always wish the best for her and I will always love her because she is the only true artist out there. She writes from her heart. She takes experiences from her life and we may never know how much it hurts her to write some of these songs.

i love you Ayu, No matter what you do with your career because it is just that "Yours"

[Lady~Deviance]

All I can say about this whole dilemma is 'WOW'. Immaturity is showing it's ugly head again in the ayu-stan community I see. This over excessive use of malice towards others seems to be ever present in the industry unfortunately.

For her to go out of her way and call out her fans is very brave. I'm proud of her.

[Miduhyo]

oh poor ayu. I can't believe this happens.

But she's so mature about it! i love this girl cause i know that if it were me I'd probably be a little more... immature. I guess to put it. She's so amazing. Love you Ayu! Stay strong! Continue trying with new artist and genres! Do what you think is right!

[yoshino]

It's crazy of those people to send her messages insulting the people working with her! Somehow I don't get what are they not happy about.

I'm sure Ayu will stay strong.. and with that red bracelet back again!

[CZECHayu]

woow that's so full of emotions.
She's so awesome that she can believe in everyone after all of these.
I'm so proud of her. She's so strong.
I hope she'll be able to do it forever.

[tasking]

I know Nao was on stage for the whole show, but in what fashion? Just dancing and Dream ON?

I honestly loved Dream ON. It's one of my favorite songs and I'm proud to have two first press posters. As for JUNO, people are just getting uppity because he's a.) a newcomer (which if you look, he's not really; he's already released some songs) and b.) because he's Junsu's brother. You guys know how hands-on Ayu is with her work. If these people weren't deserving, they wouldn't be on her album.

Also, the red bracelet was originally a friendship bracelet between Ayu and two of her closest friends. One of them died just recently. She wrote about it on TA and how he cried when he listened to one of the singles that were coming out (I forget which one). But now it's like a symbol for her relationship with TA; i.e. the RED LINE.

[Heldin]

Originally Posted by tasking

Also, the red bracelet was originally a friendship bracelet between Ayu and two of her closest friends. One of them died just recently. She wrote about it on TA and how he cried when he listened to one of the singles that were coming out (I forget which one). But now it's like a symbol for her relationship with TA; i.e. the RED LINE.

Today while listening NL album I came across with the idea of the connection of the red bracelet and the song!

[Tony G]

Ayu had a lot of guts to write this.. you don't usually see artists hitting back at critisism as it usually comes with the job. Good on her.