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Originally Posted by Furashubakku
I think that if Ayumi went in there and decided to sing in her native language, but give interviews in fluent English it could work.
I know that when my dad was younger X Japan and Loudness were big in America and the UK, in fact my dad loves Loudness~. So I think it's possible to make a debut and make it work...
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X-Japan and Loudness have never been "big" in america. Big in America would mean that the average person has heard of them, which certainly they haven't. X-Japan hasn't even played a single concert in the US before. As far as I know, they've never had any real significant following in the UK either. By significant I mean beyond the typical anime/visual kei crowd.
Also when it comes to Visual Kei bands, they play rock music obviously - most of the time you can't even understand what they are saying to begin with. Pop music is a whole nother ball game - in order for it to work, it would have to be in understandable english. Singing in Japanese might work to get some amount audience in Europe, but even then, I think to go truly mainstream it would probably have to be in English. For America it will be immediately rejected if its not in English. (Unless of course you are just content with Ayu singing at anime conventions.)