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[Mattthecat]

Well, there's Jazz and there's Jazz. I hate free jazz but I like swing for example.
And don't worry it won't happen soon, but given the early expiration date of idols she has to think about what to do in the future...

[silenceglaive]

Maybe some Talkshow or so named "Ayaya no Kimochi" or so

[FumikoH]

"Aya's Big Band Showdown!"

She will become age 22 next year, most idol pop singer careers become slow, and they don't have career after age 25, Matt is correct: Matsuura has very much to contribute to musical world for many many years, but she will do this only if she changes her product to music for adults, same as Tomiko Van did this last year, and Namie Amuro did this several years ago, also Hamasaki and MIka Nakashima and PUFFY and etc. Each must become what they are best for, Namie became Hip Pop R&B and Van became small jazz blues, and Matsuura is best for big show like American jazz women.

"I want to wake up in the City That Never Sleeps, To find I'm Queen of the Town, Top of the Heap..."

[usagi_no_kami]

She will become age 22 next year, most idol pop singer careers become slow, and they don't have career after age 25, Matt is correct: Matsuura has very much to contribute to musical world for many many years....

I believe this to be true as well, especially after Mr. Mori pointed out that Aya has many female fans her own age which suggests that her audience is not outgrowing her but growing with her.

[laurie333361]

I think she would be a great jazz singer ^ ^

As long as she sings things she wants to sing, she'll be great.

*I just hope she doesn't want to be a rapper (she was really good in get up!rapper though) !

[Mattthecat]

Jeez, I hope not myself. Rap belongs on the street :-)
When Rap first appeared I thought "Hell, that's a boring fad. It'll go away soon..." Guess I shouldn't become a music producer after all. Lol

Here are this week's Meringue caps (more as usual in the torrent description

[Ninja-Man]

Man, Aya is looking particularly stunning. I like the hair.

[Linlintan]

She only 21?! For real? My fave song of hers is HAPPY TO GO ^^

[Mattthecat]

[Linlintan]

^Are those shots from her show?

[Mattthecat]

Ummm yeah From today's Meringue no kimochi

And she did look lovely indeed tonight. And the wardrobe was good too. She might appear older coz she's been in the business for seven years now

[Kreuz]

She really looks gorgeous!!! And always I've always thought that she's the only one who fits the "perfect idol" role in all HP!

[Ripusu-Sama]

She really looks gorgeous!!! And always I've always thought that she's the only one who fits the "perfect idol" role in all HP!

So true. Great voice, look and public persona.

[NEWTAIP]

She only 21?! For real? My fave song of hers is HAPPY TO GO ^^

She is so damn cute in that song ~~
I also like her hand gestures a lot~~she has the most fluent hand gestures when it comes to sing in live~~~

[Jun Wolf]

MAtsu is only 21? I thought she was a lil younger than that... like 19 or something.

[Linlintan]

She only 21?! For real? My fave song of hers is HAPPY TO GO ^^

She is so damn cute in that song ~~
I also like her hand gestures a lot~~she has the most fluent hand gestures when it comes to sing in live~~~

oh, yes. I know
I think everyone in H!P uses hand gest. I use them when I dance and sing,too.

[Mattthecat]

She's actually the Queen of dramatic hand movements. Lol
And funny facial expressions of course...

Gonna upload an interesting "fanrecording" of the encore from her last gig of the Double Rainbow tour to the tracker. Seems someone intercepted the frequency from her mic (something similar was posted a while back for MM) as evident by some static here and there. So it's her voice in the foreground and the music and audience subdued in the background (whatever is caught by that mic). And of course it'll be in the archives later today too.

And here are more visuals:

[silenceglaive]

Oh can't wait

I like the the second from right most of that pictures

And yes .. let's say Ayaya is the Queen of expressions in any from.

[Mattthecat]

[zam（仮）]

She's actually the Queen of dramatic hand movements. Lol
And funny facial expressions of course...

theres no doubt about it.

She really looks gorgeous!!! And always I've always thought that she's the only one who fits the "perfect idol" role in all HP!

So true. Great voice, look and public persona.

In the making of her drama "Aijou Ippon", the commentator calls her "Japan's little angle" if i recall correctly, but the "angel" part I remember correctly, coz I agreed with him 100%

With all this talk about Aya maturing in her music, I hope she won't totally leave behind what she has build up as her own little corner of the music world - meaning after all the work shes done since day 1 she has, no doubt, left her mark - the cute-hand-gesture-funny-facial singer I would still like her to do a song like Ne~ once in a while even after she has become a Jazz singer.

To me I feel like Aya is a little older than her true age. Eventho I've only recently followed her career, but I got to see her growth as an entertainer, most of the time by chance, thru the various vids of Aya I come across. I get to see her evolve to where Aya is now so I kinda get the impression that shes older than she actually is. I don't measure her by her looks coz nearly all H!P members look like they are stuck looking like 20year old girls
So when I read I was like HUH?! she's 22?!? It felt like she was 26