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Originally posted by Almost Home
Utada always took longer breaks than other pop girls and it worked in her favor. This time? Not so much.
Plus Namie changed her sound and managed to come back after all the controversies and the stigma the Japanese conservative culture has against single mothers. Utada had nothing going against her.
The Japanese public never stopped anticipating her releases either (despite the breaks she took) for her her to sell this much is UNDERWHELMING.
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Stans like you kill me lmao. The paranoid type that make up some kind of fantasy backstop to explain why their favs are lessor.
Utada has always made it clear that she enjoys music and releases at her own pace because SHE wants to. You're insinuating some kind of mythical label situation where she's being forced by the label to release more slowly to optimize her sales which is just pure fantasy. I understand your need to resolve your cognitive dissonance and explain why Utada sold more than your uglee fav for like a decade (and continues to), but not today sis.
And the fact that you don't think Utada had anything against her when she was gone for such a long time tells me that you don't know the first thing about the Japanese music market so this conversation is pointless