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For Sparkle case.. I think we have different perspective with the Japanese. We dun against something sexually explicit, but probly not for the Japanese. Also, like jbrat2219 said, people can accept kuu or namie doing explicit songs, but not ayu. She have created an image that is far away from being "sexy". OK she was half naked in LOVEppears, I am, RAINBOW etc., but people might treat those as arts instead of sexy. Last but not the least, we dun study Japanese so we can't really understand the "real" meaning of the lyric. We know what it means via translation, but the characters/words/phrases construction was lost while being translated. The construction of the phrases/lines may provide another level for the meaning or so. Also, the choices of words may also affect the outcome. e.g., there are many words (Japanese or Chinese) can be translated into "sexy", but some may give positive outcome, while some turn people off. Who knows?
And for crossroad... I'm sure she'll get no. 1 if kuu's her only rival that week. Not that kuu is less popular or what, but since they are under the same company, do you think avex will let kuu breaking off ayu's streak? Last time SCS was about to break her streak, and avex ended up saving it by giving lots of goodies outside the concert. It'll be MUCH easier to alter the result when the rival is within the same company. So kuu will not be her rival in the end. We should worry about some unknown factor instead (... such as... if there's a new artist with unknown power).
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