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Originally Posted by FuNsTyLe

What you all are saying about Hikki being different and doesnt give alot of concerts and promo, well, that is perfectly fine in Japan where she is already a superstar. But she wanted to conqeur USA and make a name in the states. You have to promote yourself!! She can't just sit down and wait for Ms. Famous Superstar to knock on her door over there... That's why she is "lazy"... It's different when you are already a superstar, don't need to do much promoting, but when you want to make it abroad being virtually unknown, then you sure have to work for it! No denying on that!

JET AA NY Interview

How are you going to get yourself out there more this time? I hear that you’re thinking of going on some more mainstream talk shows like Conan O’Brien, or some other…
Umm, I think the promotion—the intent of the promotional plan so far…is to keep it flexible and keep the music driven. And I think it’s the music—from the beginning of making this album, I wanted to make something that will connect with a wider audience for this time, and for me to be saying, “Hello! This is me, I’m introducing myself. Get to know me, listen to my music,” that’s the
attitude, and I wanted to make something more mainstream, so—I think the music itself should do most of the job, basically.”
Is it going to be tough to do extra promotion here, since you’re probably also going to promote it in Japan? Because it comes out a couple of weeks earlier in Japan…
Ah, no, but, um, the priority is the U.S., honestly, because I made it for the U.S. And Japanese promotion, I—in Japan, see, I don’t do much promotion for myself, anyway. I’m infamous for not doing promotion. I rarely do TV, I hardly do any magazines, I just do, like, one big interview and then I have a writer write like 20 different articles for different magazines. I have a systematic way of doing things, because that system began when I was still—when I became famous in Japan and began working I was still in high school, and I was in 10th grade, and…to be going to school and be doing homework on the weekends and then studying for SATs and doing college apps and all this stuff, there was no way I could do a full promotion, like other music artists who are full-time musicians, basically. I couldn’t do it, so we had to come up with me for a way to not do all that, and so I don’t have to—there isn’t much for me to do in Japan, promotion-wise.
But of course back here in the U.S., it’s kind of a different story, since you really have to let people know you’re out there, so if you could…
I guess we’re going for more of that mainstream promotion this time, and that’s the priority.
So if someone came up to you and said, would you like to do Saturday Night Live, or...
Ooh…
A late-night show, is that something you’d be interested in?
Well, I don’t know…I’ll think about it [laughs]. I would say…I think so, I think I’d be very excited.
Because I’d love to see Rolling Stone review the next album, and talk about it in some kind of capacity.
That’s where we’re trying to get to this time, and I’m doing all I can do to get there.

She said all of this back in January. Obviously she knows she has to work for it over here. She had a bunch of promotion lined up starting the day TITO was released, but she got sick. It isn't fair to call her lazy for that.