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Originally Posted by FoObY

I don't think it's like that at all either. Because what about stars like Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, etc? It's no longer really the matter of skin tone, but whether or not you can generate enough appeal to sustain people's interest.

I kind of agree with the TRL bit too simply because the mainstream music industry is aimed towards teenagers. Since the show is so popular and influential, and teenagers are more easily swayed to follow popular culture, whichever artist appears on it surely must be worth checking out.

Remember though, those are actors and actresses. That's not that big of a deal but when it comes to music it's a different story. Everywhere I go, people just assume all Asians are 'Chinese' and they all speak 'Chinese' and then they don't even pay any attention to Asian stuff (unless it's food). And like Luv ~Venus~ said, it's probably that they don't think they can speak english....and most people in America don't want to listen to someone who can't speak english.

Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~

I don't think it's like that at all. I think America has come a long from that "Me so horny" crap and are accepting not just Asians but a large variety of cultures into the music busy even htough it's little by little. I think the only problem with Americans liking an Asian artist might be because of their english. No American [excluding us] doesn't want to hear an artist that they can't understand and that's the truth.

BoA and Hikki's music is appealing enough to be a success, if their record label would promote them right. Exodus had all the right tunes, beats, whatever to be a success but yall know she got that crappy promotion. Everyone knows that the way to be successful in the music biz is to be promoted on MTV's TRL. XD Seriously, it is.

Well, anyway....

This year will be great year for Asian artists. There is going to be quite a lot of them debuting here. [yay!] And after all that "Tila Tequla" stuff, I don't think MTV fans would turn down asian people much anymore. lol

Well I still think a lot of Americans are pretty racist against Asians here when it comes to music and Asian stuff. They just start judging right away and don't even give it some Asian stuff a chance. Like the movies and all (with the exception of a few)...and the music...every Japanese artist (basically) who has tried to debut in America failed miserably. It could be because of lack of promotion but who knows? I know that's what happened with Utada.

Also, I don't understand why Americans debut in Japan and are well-accepted for the most part...but when it's the other way around it never works out.