Ayu on Oriental Daily 4/12/2004

[extepan]

I should have read the newspaper more often. ayu was on the newspaper 4 times last week and i didnt know.

anyway, just to remind you, the correct attitude of reading a hong kong newspaper is to read, laugh and forget.

http://www.angelfire.com/ri2/extepan/images/ayu1204.jpg
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translation

title: ayu absent, 'record awards' speaks crap

text: ayu thinks awards stink (note: this is a common saying to mean you dont want something in cantonese, it doesnt mean any offense), and announced that she quitted competing for 'japan music awards '. however, the 'japan music awards' immediately announced that they have never received her application that she gave up her opportunity to compete for the awards, and even said that ayu did not have any songs in the runner up list. this means that ayu will not get an award whether she quits competing or not. however, yesterday the spokesperson for the music award suddenly changed is mind and said that ayu already announced that she qill not compete in the awards before the winners were announced, and also ayu had said that she would not be able to attend the award ceremony on new year's eve because ayu's busy. this time, 'japan music awards' is contradicting themselves, this may be due to pressure from ayu's personnel.

in addition, because ayu will not appear in any awards ceremony this yearm hence ayu was not on the list of winners on the (?) '37th japan cable awards' that was announced yesterday. this year, the winners include ??, ???, exile etc. the newcomers award winners include otsuka ai, ???, ???, and the 'cable music award' is won by ???, w-inds etc.

[Qt Mashi]

hmmmm..okay thx for the info~!

[extepan]

[lolo66]

Specualation... rumors.. tabloids/// Who cares why she's doing it?! Entertainment news is just that - news that are more like entertainments themselves than actual news.

Thanks for posting the scan nonetheless. >3<

[mui-gei-tal]

thanks for the info!

[kournikova]

thx a lot for the news

[Kazuko]

thanks!

[CyberSpaceQueen]

thanks

[LeButler]

"Oriental Daily" seems to have a minor obsession with Ayumi. Your translations are very readable and the notes useful.

Originally Posted by Oriental Daily

and even said that ayu did not have any songs in the runner up list

Hmmm sounds to me like they changed their nominations after she snubbed them.

I guess she's left promotion of the new album a bit late and therefore wants to concentrate on getting the new songs shown on TV instead of performing ones from earlier in the year.

[extepan]

well oriental daily has one page dedicated to japanese and korean artists, and they either talk about ayumi or boa. thats why ayumi is on the newspaper every other day

[lovia]

ic ic ... seems like quite a lot of asian mag or newspaper will do that.. it seems like jpop or kpop has already been widely accepted ^^
and thanx for infor!

[starr5245]

abit sad for Ayu...

[Echiko]

So this means ayumi doesn't like the japan awards place and that's why she quit? Correct me if I'm wrong..xD I thought she backed off because she wannit others to get a shot. haha. hmm.

[extepan]

if she really backed off cos she wanted to give other a chance, she could have dont it right after she got the awards for no way to say. she didnt. she waited nearly a year to decide. so this means this cannot be the reason.