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Originally Posted by CoriKaru
Best comment in a long time. Utada has stated such things herself. Such as enjoying the writing process more than the performing and all of that jazz. I must say though.....what does all of this have to do with her American Absence? Utada doesn't have media opportunities at her fingertips as she does in Japan if any. Based off of statements here you'd think she turned down the opportunity to sing on American Idol.
But yeah. Imagine if she did ***** herself to the public like others and how that'd affect her sales. She'd be even more of a behemoth. Before she started putting herself out there more recently in Japan she was still selling and breaking records without doing as much as other artist publicly. Obviously the public has always supported her and her "It's all about the music" mentality. Yeah it'd be nice to see her more but I'm not going to produce any conspiracy theory-esque reasonings for something that seems rather simplistic. Utada is an artist's artist. She's about the talent, not all of the extraneous fat that many other artists seem to enjoy. Utada just happens to be very good at trimming that fat and lucky enough to be allowed the choice to be able to because many artist actually don't enjoy it and don't do it because they want to but because they're made to. Then they cry about it and put out subliminal messages.
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She already ***** herself in the public, specially with dramas as a good example, which the public watch or can watch on a weekly basis.
Obviously in order to stay relevant or as relevant she had to promote HEART STATION on TV and magazines and use tie-ins for the well fitting songs. And those tie-ins are not wishy woshy tie-ins and by no way minimal and barely affecting.
That part of the discussion doesn't have much to do specifically with TITO (partially).
I don't think that hikki "crying" about that she had to make an american album because she had a contract for that and she decided "oh well if I have to, let's make a good "pop" album" is any better to be honest.