Ayumi Hamasaki is the xxxxx of Japan

[Andrenekoi]

^Well, as I said... Tori choose to make a kind of music that apeals to a specific listerner... It's not that she isn't good or anything like that, but there is less people who like the way she works... and she knows it, and she releases stuff this public like

You can promote a product a lot, people are only going to buy it if they like it... there are amazing artsts that are popular with a smaller public, but they don't care cuz it what they want to do =)

Gaga's goal is to release mainstream music, and the same goes for ayu... it doesn't matter how personal they can go with their music, it still is mainstream and pop enough to have massive airplay. The good aspect of being an artist like Tori is that you can really release the most original and personal music u r able to, but you will need to sacrifice a wider audience in order to do so...

The most personal a song is, the less a random person is going to relate him/herself to it... That's why Ayu never write a song about a specific where the person is openly mentioned, for example... so, everyone that had a similar situation with someone can relate to the lyrics

btw, i'm not saying that one way or another is the best... imo the best is to do the better u can being it more or less mainstream