How Ayumi can save Western Music

[Delirium-Zer0]

I think if ayu wanted to be successful here, she'd have to come with mostly the techno-rock stuff so that she can be classified as "weird & different foreign people who are still cool" like Rammstein, Tatu, and Bjork all have been. She'd have to appeal to fans of THOSE artists to have any measurable commercial success. While her ballads & pop songs would make her successful among pop fans, because of the japanese lyrics (or, if she did them in english, her very heavy accent) her songs would be instantly rendered inaccessible to the pop-fan community. With the techno-rock stuff, the "weirder" songs, she would still be marketable as a "different", "interesting" curiosity of an artist, be taken relatively seriously by other musicians, and sell about maybe 400,000 copies of each album which really isn't bad. She'd also have to do more rock-style stuff to not be dismissed as a novelty act the way Puffy AmiYumi were with their upbeat, more pop-style rock songs. They became a kids' cartoon, Ayu should definitly aim more for the Bjork-fan crowd to avoid that fate.