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Old 16th October 2011, 02:45 AM
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What happened to Yuna Ito?

I guess I lost touch, but I checked and like nothing has come out from Yuna since that singles collection around last Christmas. What happened to her? I want new music from her SO badly. She's a beautiful singer.
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Old 16th October 2011, 03:45 AM
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Her company probably gave up on her. With her flop chart placements and sales.
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Old 16th October 2011, 04:09 AM
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I really thought she was doing half decent....

I LOVE HER COMPLETELY. :'(
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Old 16th October 2011, 04:16 AM
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yeah it wouldn't surprise me if Sony BMG released her after she released LOVE ~Singles Best 2005-2010~ last year , especially since she hasn't release anything after that

poor thing , it's not as though she's not talented to begin with but I guess her peak period in Japan went down after the 2 NANA movies so :O
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Old 16th October 2011, 04:19 AM
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It's so sad when i see talented people lose out and people who aren't talented get to go on doing like everything....
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Old 16th October 2011, 04:30 AM
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I'm very surprised to hear this. I thought she was popular...
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Old 16th October 2011, 04:31 AM
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^same.
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Old 16th October 2011, 07:05 AM
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I'm very surprised to hear this. I thought she was popular...
this too.

:/ I thought she was one of the pop icons in Japan.
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Old 16th October 2011, 10:14 AM
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I think she was popular with NANA movie but after people didn't look after her music.
If her contract with Sony is finished I wonder why she didn't try to find another music label. Maybe, she just want to stop singing for a while.

Or maybe she found the perfect love & ran away with him XD
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Old 16th October 2011, 10:31 AM
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that's really strange!

she was so promising and talented, I can't believe she's been inactive for one year already.
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Old 16th October 2011, 10:35 AM
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we just know she renewed her VISA for one more year but her staff blog and hers are not being updated anymore so it's hard to find anything... I hope she'll be back with universal, she could do some r&b ish songs
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Old 16th October 2011, 10:36 AM
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:/ I thought she was one of the pop icons in Japan.
You did? Wow.

Yeah, she was never incredibly popular and she only got less popular with time. To be honest, she only had a few good/interesting songs and that was about it. She may be talented, but having a boring ass discography isn't going to get you sales.
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Old 16th October 2011, 10:52 AM
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but didn't she sing with Celine Dion or something? And also had a cover of aerosmith?I though she was one of the big ones xD

Anyway, I hope she's just preparing some new material, re-inventing herself or something!
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Old 16th October 2011, 11:51 AM
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She was very popular during her debut days, then she kind of lost her momentum..
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ENDLESS STORY was her peak (which is so sad because that was her debut lol). But after that she fell downhill. Which is sad because I think that DREAM is a pretty good album.

But I agree with bondingo. She has a LOT of really boring songs. I still haven't even listened to WISH in full because I can't get past the boring first track. And I don't even want to touch HEART.

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but didn't she sing with Celine Dion or something?
They didn't collaborate because Yuna was ~big in Japan~, they collaborated because Celine really liked Yuna's cover of My Heart Will Go On from the Celine Dion tribute album.
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Old 16th October 2011, 02:50 PM
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^i love all her albums, but i love ballad music more than a lot of other people do i guess.
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Old 16th October 2011, 04:07 PM
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^^ LOL I touched both HEART and WISH
They had good songs but mostly songs that not as worth remembering as much.
When I went to DREAM it changes my opinion, for me it was a real downhill :/

I love her voice and her signature ballads are amazing, sadly her upbeat songs were not recognize as much
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Old 16th October 2011, 05:03 PM
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i really miss yuna as well! i've been a fan of hers for so long (since 2006) so for her to just be inactive like this, is really upsetting. i love her music! "WISH" will always be her best album for me (and one of my favorite jpop albums in general).

hopefully sony didn't drop her, but if they did, i hope she'll be back on another label. like what Utena said, i think UNIVERSAL would be a good choice for a new label.
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Old 17th October 2011, 01:17 AM
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nah , somehow or another , I don't think Universal will promote/market Yuna well *cough Aoyama Thelma cough*

Sony BMG did everything they can to push Yuna's name after her NANA peak period died down but to no avail . In general , it's quite tough for a non Japanese to make it in Japan at the end of the day , especially if you're a soloist

As long as you have a little bit of Japanese blood (like Jero) , you will feel somewhat more ... accepted in the general Japanese public
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Old 17th October 2011, 01:28 AM
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^ She's half-Japanese and half-Korean...
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