[Utada Hikaru] ʕ•̫͡•ʔ A Vacation for Only Two Hours in the 55th thread ʕ•̫͡•ʔ

[koumori]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

Yet I hesitated to send my post - so i guess it is okay for you to react that way.

Don't worry about it. If people weren't so thirsty, more would be agreeing with you
I miss the 'artist battles' from the early 2000s, but it's a different time now. I think companies will have to change how they manage their artists and release music to be able to build up such hype again.

[Miduhyo]

Originally Posted by Koumori

Don't worry about it. If people weren't so thirsty, more would be agreeing with you
I miss the 'artist battles' from the early 2000s, but it's a different time now. I think companies will have to change how they manage their artists and release music to be able to build up such hype again.

To be honest, I like how there's not so much in-your-face on-the-streets competition. I get so annoyed seeing one face everywhere I go. I totally understand that they gotta do promotions because promotions=sales, sales=profit but had I been actually living in Japan around that time seeing Ayu's face EVERYWHERE would've annoyed me.

Nowadays it's mostly done through the internet--youtube, instagram, twitter, whatever--and if you don't care about it, you can just scroll on by or tell youtube you're not interested in it and it doesn't appear again.

I mean yeah, I'm sure the predictions and anticipations of the 'battle' was fun and I'm sure it was exciting to watch from a 'distance' (hint hint; wink wink; nudge nudge... shut up. I'm funny) but to have actually been there would've driven me insane.

Though I do have to say I find it interesting that even without all that promotion (or at least not as much promotion) Hikki still got huge sales whilst Ayu went on an advertisement media-murdering-marathon and didn't outsell by all that much in technical terms. (to be honest, I don't really remember how much those albums sold at the time. So that last line right there could just be me just throwing swings in the dark, which I usually tend to do when I try to sound smart Please don't hate on me if I'm absolutely wrong. OTL)