Continuing from the last thread:
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Originally Posted by voltron
Well I liked Exodus '04 & Kremin Dusk. Easy Breezy was ok, albeit extremely cheesy. The rest of the album, I thought, was completely irrelevant to the current music industry. You say she wouldn't sell herself out, but her Japanese music up to that point was much more R&B influenced and Americanized (which is part of what helped her to get as famous as she is). I don't think she would have had to sell herself out at all. She took a risk, and tried to do something different, and it failed miserably. Hikki also worked with Timbaland, who has been famous for a long time, so I don't think you can say she wasn't given a good chance with people she worked with.
It's true she does have the English accent, but BoA's isn't too bad in the song. And Hikki did little to no promo for that album (probably she knew how bad it was), so being fluent was wasted. And I'm not trying to bash her--up until Ultra Blue, I loved Hikki and I anticipated her US debut highly. But, in ended up being cheesy electro crap.
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Hmm you're right. I know a lot of people who liked Exodus '04 and things like that, but I guess her attitude to the whole thing was so bad that it couldn't possibly do well. Here's BoA saying she wants to "Bring on America" where I remember Utada stating she didn't really care if the album did well or not.
Exodus wasn't so fail in terms of the music, but more in terms of marketing. Why didn't she pick more conventional songs like Exodus '04 to break into the market? Why did she release cheesy stuff like Easy Breezy and for the UK market; You Make Me Want To Be A Man instead? BoA is putting more focus on marketting and maybe that will make her do better than Utada. At least I hope Utada has learnt from her mistakes from the previous album to better now.
Anyway, I think BoA's english is quite decent, but it will be picked on heavily due to her background. I mean some parts of the song aren't so clear, and she said "mush" instead of "much" which already shows her english wasn't polished enough. But I can always hope people wont notice. XD