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I think if Ayu came here, they'd have to market her as a more Bjork-ish "weird" type artist, cuz that's the only foreign music that does any kind of business in the states. If you're from a non-english-speaking country, you better be stereotypically strange, or else no one knows where to put you. So I think Ayu would do best if the songs were more of her "quirky" and raw rock type of songs like "Sexy little things" and "alterna." She'd never make it as a radio-friendly pop artist here.
Marketing for Utada was a failure cuz "Exodus" shoulda been stuck in with music by, like, The Postal Service and stuff like that. But they put her in World Music and R&B. They really couldn't do the pop marketing with her at the time (although they probably could now, since pop has taken a weird techno turn over the last two years or so).
That said, I'd love to hear Ayu tackle an english album, but one intended for Asia as a whole, not one intended for the west. I'd like to hear it as an experiment, but I don't think it should be promoted here.
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