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^Considering the lack of Asian-american superstars, even those who can only speak english as native speakers, I would say discrimination plays a huge part... I mean, I doubt there aren't any asian american children trying to break it big into the market and failing for decades now... and even those who does will end acting in fight themed movies or as freakish exteriotyped villains. We also can't forget it's already harder to see massive black and latin massive stars on the western entertaiment market than to see white people.
Exodus and TITO are among my favorite Hikki releases, and I would never underrate how unique her english lyrics can be, what also makes some people having problems with them, as she takes some pretty unusual aproaches to lots of subjects... If anything, I would say she never got generic enough to grab a position on the market, and every new pop artist needs to play it far safer than Hikki did to fit, and slowly putting more and more personality into their work... In the end of the day, her reigning as the biggest japanese pop musician since 98 doesn't make her much more than a nobody in the USA scene...
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