▲ Tied hands and feet? (C) Reuters
On the night of May 1, on the website of the membership fan club, Ayumi Hamasaki (42 years old) reported the birth of his second child, "This spring, I safely gave birth to a new family member and am about to start our new life. Speaking of Hamasaki, she sang many popular songs such as "SEASONS", "Dearest", "M", etc., and in the 1990s and 2000s, she led the trend as a fashion label and was a "leader of young people".
When she was young, there were countless women who looked forward to her. Recently, however, Ayumisaki published an autobiographical novel in which she "exposed" her past with Katsuhito Matsuura, the president of Avex who raised her like a relative. She also has children before marriage, constantly hinting at the identity of the child's father on Instagram, and her image has long since become a "gossip-ridden entertainer". There are also many on the Internet, such as, "She shows her private life on Ins, and then says that she doesn't want people to interfere with her private life, I don't know what she really wants", "Just because I like her songs, I feel so uncomfortable when I see the recent small steps", "I am a person who wants to win attention", such sharp comments.
■ Kaohime, who has always been bound by the "leader of young people"
When I was a teenager, I was particularly fascinated by her music and lyrics. Just the thought of such a dazzling person holding the same loneliness as himself makes me feel redeemed. Because of this, I am very sad that I feel disharmonious about Hamasaki now. Her inner loneliness shapes the worldview and lyrics of her songs, which are also closely related to Ayumi Hamasaki's leadership qualities. But what if these are just posted on SNS to look good? I really don't know how to accept this.
Hamasaki had a talent for making music. Makoto Ohashi, a producer who has created performances for singers such as Matsutoya, even commented, "She is a person who knows very well what she wants to do, and is always thinking about how the outside world views herself and how she should perform these issues." She's very creative. "I think she's a person who knows very well how to show her charm. But because of this, the phrase "Hamasaki, the leader of the youth", restrained her.
Even if she is getting older, she is still free to enjoy fashion, not bound by traditional concepts of marriage and children, these things that should make people "yearn" for, why in the present she will only make people feel "embarrassed".
■ Ayumi Hamasaki's lifestyle today makes people feel less like rings
In recent years, Namie Amuro and Ayumi Hamasaki have been in stark contrast. They are all once popular singers as young leaders, but their lifestyles are completely different. Amuro's lifestyle and speech can clearly make people feel the presence of "annual rings". Until the end, as she did when she was a teenager, Amuro danced happily in miniskirts and high heels, but all this made people feel very handsome, because Amuro completely carried out her identity as a performer. Amuro never reveals too much about her private life, and she makes a very clear distinction between her mother and the identity of the artist. Because of this, her final retreat even sublimates her existence itself into an art, and from her retreat we can feel a sense of beauty. But Ayumisaki has the feeling that her time has stopped when she becomes a youth leader.
Whether it's giving birth to one child after another out of wedlock, or constantly uploading suggestive updates on Ins, as well as overexposed clothing and singing with a large group of accompaniments, these things are completely unaware of their "meaning" and "necessity", which may be why the current Hamasaki step makes people feel incongruous, right? No matter how strange the fashion items were, as long as Hamasaki held them, they would feel attractive, which is also because people felt that Hamasaki was the reason why Hamasaki was Hamasaki.
I will be patient and wait for the day when I feel the "rings" from Ayumi Hamasaki's body.
(Article: Shiko Mizuno /Columnist)