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Originally posted by atrlster
And Adele is huge here technically but doesn't get the amount of worship/press her lower selling peers get . I don't get what you're still not getting.
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And I'm understanding what you're saying, but Adele has slayed the U.S. with one era thus far, so I don't get how it's even comparable to Mariah slaying Japan with
several eras.
Fact is, Mariah was extremely popular & her ubiquity was undeniable there and that can be proven as it has been already. None of her other peers broke through that country the way Mariah did so effortlessly, and it is already hard for American artists to have huge success there, let alone huge success for more than one or two eras. If you're expecting people to worship her
image like they do Gaga, who is mostly known for that, then no, she doesn't fit your definition of a worshiped artist. Mariah was not a Pink in Japan, and many people have argued that Mariah was a bigger act there at her peak than Gaga is currently. I'm not sure what else you want, but I'll let someone from Japan say what has already been said.