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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
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.
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.)
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Okay. Maybe not "big" but I still think that they had a following in America. Which is something at least. Also Rammstein is a band which I think most people will have heard of, they don't sing in English yet they have a pretty big following too.
Even if Ayu never gets big in America, I think she could make it in Europe just fine.
And I think you're right Jackie, Japan is her birth country, so no doubt it'll be the country she spends most of her time in.