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Originally Posted by Bigtop
Yeah, maybe she should stay in Asia, where opportunities are better, as I think her English skills might be fine but not sufficient enough to compete with more-popular Western artists from the United States, such as Miley Cyrus...
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Agreed.
I think one of the main reasons Utada was able to (somewhat) break out in the American industry was her perfectly unaccented english. She may be Japanese, but she sounds American, and familiar, which is of course what people here like. BoA may be able to speak english, but to me she just sounds like some asian girl trying to sing outside of her native language. I feel as if that was one of her major downfalls in trying to make a debut here. I see the same thing happening to Ayu if she tries to do an english album. She can take as many classes as she wants, but she's not going to sound native.