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Originally Posted by CoriKaru
More like Island DEAF Jam called her up and asked her to fulfill the rest of her contract and so she asked, "What'll you give me for it?"
They said "The opportunity to live yo' life and not get sued."
Utada said, "How about you sue me. That'll get me more promotion than you've ever gotten me. I just want promotion.
They said, "Why yes my dear."
Unbeknownst to Utada, by promotion, they meant waiting for her to release Japanese Material to release a Best Of containing all of her English "HITS" in an attempt to piggy back to the bank.
They still failed and didn't piggy back to nothing but a piggy bank with some quarters, dimes and nickels.
Utada said, "I can't mess with ya'll anymore."
Island Def Jam said, "We can't mess up your English Career anymore."
So they parted ways, Utada took a hiatus to go eat at McDonald's and Island Def Jam took a moment to donate all the proceedings of the Best Of to a cause in need: themselves.
Seriously though, they called her up and asked her when she was gonna get busy and she said okay.
She wasn't really inspired to do anything in that moment at all.
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Haha I love when you go into story-telling mode, please do this more often.
It's true though, they probs did coerce her into doing it, but I remember her being like "Yeah I just wanted to do a random, good, pop album this time," as well. Knowing stupid Island Def Jam though they were probably like "If you don't do an English album people understand, we'll kick you in the face"
Well she def got her revengeeeeeeeeeeee!