What kind of person is Ayumi Hamasaki?
If everyone calls the handsome, trendy, maverick, and male celebrities with their own attitudes cool guys, then Hamasaki is the cool girl who is dashing in the eyes of many people.
In early 2021, popular singer Hua Chenyu admitted that "yes, we have a child", and then said that he would raise the child with the woman without marriage, reminding many people of similar things that happened in early 2020.
In early 2020, Aftera Akihime Ayumi Hamasaki announced that she had given birth to a child, upgraded to a mother, and said that she had no intention of marrying the child's father.
The two things look very similar, but in fact, they are very different, as soon as the matter of Ayumi Hamasaki's unmarried birth to a child was announced, netizens immediately sent heartfelt wishes, calling "too cool".
Netizens were surprised by Brilliance Chenyu's "sudden" children because Brilliance Chenyu has always given the impression of being a shy, taciturn, unworldly teenager.
Netizens wish the children of Hamasaki Step "quietly stunning", because since her debut, every step of Hamasaki Step is "different" in the eyes of the public, and her cool girl image has a long history and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Cool girls who don't go the usual way
The first album of Hamasaki's musical career was popular at the time, but it did not fit Hamasaki's rap style, and the first role of Hamasaki's actor career was the mainstream image of the weak little white flower at that time, and Hamasaki's temperament in it was also out of place.
The first album was mediocre, the first role was tepid, and the mainstream did not mean that it was suitable for himself, so Ayumi Hamasaki chose "rebellion" and chose to show the most authentic self.
Since it is "rebellious", it is inevitable to be questioned. Long blonde wavy hair, exaggerated electric eyelashes, shiny diamond-encrusted clothing, unique alternative nail art, that is Hamasaki's first hotly discussed image, but also subverted the mainstream, caused a new trend of the weather vane.
Hamasaki Bu, who first appeared in this image, did gain a lot of accusations and incomprehension, but after a period of decline, it was a fashion innovation, and Hamasaki Bu became the object of imitation by many actresses, and she redefined the trend. In the early days of Jolin Tsai's debut, the style of dressing was like Ayumi Hamasaki.
The innovation of appearance is only just beginning, and Ayumi Hamasaki's self-cultivation is never limited to dressing up, but also musical works. As a fledgling, she abandoned the style that the company had set for her, and single-handedly took on the work of songwriting and creating her own musical genre.
Ayumi Hamasaki rarely reveals her past, and everyone can only piece together her bumpy childhood from clues and words. She had a runaway father, no news, a harsh and impersonal mother, and a grandmother who gave her infinite warmth and love.
She integrates her own experiences, her feelings, and her thoughts into her lyrics, and she sings "There is no shelter, I don't know if the future is worth looking forward to", "I came to this world alone, and I live alone".
She sang to herself and let everyone hear each of them.
In 2004, Ayumi Hamasaki announced that she would no longer accept any awards, because at that time, she had won the gold medal at the Neon National Records Awards for three consecutive years, becoming an unparalleled history, and her popularity and status no longer needed to be proved by trophies.
A cool girl of great affection
Mention of Ayumi Hamasaki must not be able to avoid one name, that is, Matsuura Katsuhito.
Sitting in Shibuya's mansion, watching the people coming and going, Hamasaki Bu, who could not find a place to stay, met a musician named Katsuhito Matsuura and changed her fate.
From Hamasaki's original family, it can be seen that Hamasaki has never had a male elder in her life that she can rely on and trust with confidence, and the appearance of Matsuura Katsuhito fills this regret and also takes away Hamasaki's heart.
In Matsuura Katsuhito, Hamasaki Bu experienced the feeling of being valued, and the two people developed different feelings in their continuous relationship, for Hamasaki Katsuhito, Matsuura Katsuhito was a lover and a benefactor.
In a song by Ayumi Ayumi Hamasaki called "Trust," she writes that "the moment you find me, you feel stronger and stronger" and "You were the first to tell me what was most important."
Many people think that the "you" in this song is Matsuura Katsuhito in Ayumi Hamasaki's eyes.
The love between the singer and the music producer is undoubtedly a beautiful love story, but the premise is that the music producer is not a scumbag and does not "steal food" behind the singer's back.
Hamasaki step is getting more and more popular, the couple is also less and more, when Hamasaki step bumped into Matsuura Katsuhito in the hotel and a group of beautiful women drinking and reveling, happy, this love also came to an end.
No longer a lover, but still a benefactor.
In 2004, when Matsuura Katsumi broke up with the chairman of Awawa, Hamasaki's company, Hamasaki said in a public voice, "I decided that the future direction of Hamasaki Bu will continue to synchronize with the existence of Matsuura Katsuhito."
At that time, Hamasaki's annual personal benefits accounted for 40% of Ai hui's entire company's benefits, and Ai Hui could not bear the losses and consequences caused by Hamasaki's departure, so Matsuura Katsuhito returned to Ai Hui, and later became the president of Ai Hui, and the president who broke with him resigned.
Matsuura Katsuhito's career is growing in sesame blossoms, but Ayumi Hamasaki's career has been greatly impacted.
Cool girls who sing with their hearts
Hamasaki Bu used himself to "threaten" Ai Hui to make concessions, so that Ai Hui realized that holding Hamasaki Bu was a double-edged sword, in order to prevent being "repulsed" again, Ai Hui began to support newcomers.
In 2008, Ayumi Hamasaki ushered in the trough of her life, and she confessed to the public that her left ear had been completely deaf, and her hearing in her right ear was much worse than before.
Although Ayumi Hamasaki bravely stated that "I will sing to the limit of my right ear hearing", it could not stop the public from questioning.
"A singer can't even sing a high pitch", "Toyo one ear"... All kinds of malicious, mocking voices filled Ayumi Hamasaki's life, and her music career was hit like never before.
During those dark years, Ayumi Hamasaki's emotional experience also became a "stain" that could not be washed on her body.
So far, the well-known Ayumi Hamasaki has 6 relationships, including two marriages that have not ended in trouble. In these six emotional experiences, the male protagonist has a music producer, a married accompaniment dancer, she flashes marriage, also flashes away, scum, and is also used.
Even if everything he encounters is not satisfactory, and everyone he loves is disappointed, Ayumi Hamasaki still remembers that he loves himself. How about being in the trough, Ayumi Hamasaki still sings "Because of the scales all over your body, you must learn to be strong."
Today, Hamasaki bu fell off the altar and became an object that everyone can step on, and everyone questioned her "why did she come out and shame when she was old", "I don't know if I sang so badly", "Who is Hamasaki Bu, I don't know".
However, Ayumi Hamasaki is still singing, still doing that maverick, not understood self, singing is the meaning of her existence, the important may not be existence, but meaning.
Just like when the 911 massacre occurred, she re-filmed the album cover, using the image of the goddess of peace to convey her mood of praying for peace; just like when the London Explosion occurred, she used the MV to express her desire to "send the souls of the dead to heaven"; just like she spoke for minorities in music.
Kahime, who was once at the same time as Hamasaki Bu, seems to have retired, and she has also changed from "Barbie doll" to "Fafu Big Mom", but what remains unchanged is that Hamasaki Bu is still singing and still being herself.
She is still singing with her heart, is everyone still listening attentively?