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Utada deserves to be popular everywhere. <3
Just curious... If Utada became really famous in the US, would you guys consider her the first true international superstar?
I know there have already been 'international' superstars-- people like Madonna and Britney Spears that are popular pretty much everywhere and people like The Beatles who made it huge in one country and then went to others and got huge...
But I think I'd view Utada is the first real one because she wouldn't be like Madonna or Britney in the sense that she does music in one country, in one language, that just happens to be well-liked in other countries, and she wouldn't be popular like The Beatles in the sense that she made it popular in another Japanese speaking country (like the Beatles did with the UK and then the US.)
She'd be different because she totally crossed a cultural border. Japan and the US are so completely different and she's already become popular in Japan with her Japanese music, thus leading to her popularity throughout Asia. If she became popular in the states, that would most likely lead to a Canadian and European popularity.
I guess what I'm asking is-- because she is pretty much domestic to the United States AND Japan, if she was popular in both, she'd pretty much be a household name through out the whole world, and both western and eastern culture would feel she was 'homegrown.' I don't think any other artist has ever done this. That's why I really want it to be Utada to do this. She really deserves it.
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