[Article] Will she sing like before?

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Originally Posted by Halla

thx for the news.

Koda Kumi will never be the queen of j-pop, neither will Ai Otsuka. IMO They've released so many albums already withouth reaching "the top". most likely the next Queen will be some new artist rather than someone who's been around in the industry for years ...

I personally think Ayu is more of the Queen material than Hikki. Ayu is just more prominent figure in the japanese entertainment scene, she does more TV & magazine media, releases more music , tours more and does the Kouhaku Uta gassen every year.

Hikki declines kouhaku & distances herself from the typical j-pop scene. I'm not saying it's a bad thing necessarily, but I feel if you are "the queen of j-pop" you should really embrace the whole j-pop scene ...

Exactly Halla. i share a simillar opinion. ayu has "presence", something Hikki unfortunately doesn't.
I think koda kumi has reached her plateau. She doesn't have much more to add to her career, so I don't really see her popularity rising to a point of being considerdd a queen in the next years.
About ai otsuka, that sort of always made me laugh. I was always aware ai otsuka wasn't queen material, but it was hilarious to see some fanboys defending her so fiercely, mentioning how she'd completely surpassd ayu and be the new queen; a joke obviously I knew sakuranbo was sort of one of those 1 hit wonders that pops up in japanese people's interest but then fades out quickly. I knew ai would be stuck on her sugary-cutesy pop and annoying random mosquito screaming loud rock (yeah, Happy Days sucks), enough to make her famous, but also enough to stuck her on a position that will nerver make her rise to be anything more than that.