Obviously you can't read between the lines; you were indirectly referring to me and many other people as "biased, blind" fans who praise all her crap, when in fact, we did not. This whole point came about because YOU immaturely posted a senseless comment about the album, and then tried to make yourself the victim by saying that it was "okay to criticize and not kiss an artist's ass." You want to make yourself all high and mighty, then good for you, but don't try to bypass the fact that you were a crude commentator and then bring up another topic. Maybe if you were mature and intellectual from the
beginning, then nothing would have even been brought up.
Also, yes, your analogy is quite irrelevant, but I won't comment on that too much.
I didn't say that production teams were any different than they are today, I was simply pointing out that you were comparing the status of such previous big-name stars to someone who has not been around for a long enough time to really "change the world," per se ("
Utada has NOTHING on them...". Give her a good ten-fifteen more years and it might be a different story, not worldwide, but in Japan definitely. Look at you, taking my
examples and saying that I put them in your mouth...Geez, someone here needs a second lesson in English
. Again, who said anything about you writing your paragraphs for satirical matter? Read the paragraph again and then maybe you'd comprehend it because 'you' and 'satirical' did not even go in the same sentence, it was in reference to
JEWEL.
I did not acknowledge your whole take on "Take 5" because it was nonsense. What artist doesn't decide to go back and use a demo they didn't like before? Sure, they don't all admit it, but I'm sure every artist has done that once or twice before. Maybe she didn't like it at the time and wanted it for something else, a different, more appropriate production? So what if she doesn't spend five days on one track, it is
her decision not to do so, and she writes/produces/composes songs at
her own pace because it is
her choice,
her comfortability,
her career,
her life. She has been doing the same thing for
ten years, give the woman a break. Regardless of what career anyone has, he/she is bound to not put in as much effort as he/she did at the beginning when the hype of something new was still there. It is normal
human behavior; many other artists who have been around for about the same time have put out less effort as well. I am not saying that following the bandwagon is for the better, but to scold her for doing so is not moral either.
I agree that "HEART STATION" is missing in more originality and dramatic development than what we are used to, but to brush off everything she has put into the album as laziness (You did not say she "seemed" lazy, you stated it
explicitly), and just trying to put out an album for the sake of doing so is extremely ignorant. All I know is that I am willing to bet my money that she still works harder than any of the other female jpop artists out there who rely heavily on their record label for a good production team and publicity (Do you really expect a good album from an artist who pushes out a new one every year?). The fact that you neglect
that is what bothers me; you expect her to be this goddess who can keep pushing out amazing, new material, but when she doesn't, she becomes this scheming, money-hungry lazy woman. Contradicting, no? To wrap things up: again, this whole debate did not even start with anything in particular about the album other than the fact that you did not present yourself in an appropriate manner. Enough said.
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What's wrong with you people? Half of you always do that when I post detailed posts. (not just you) I post about the Take 5 info, how it's a shame Hikaru seems to purposely create fillers, (of course you say I posted this for satirical matter rofl. Stop trying to pronounce me as some disguised hater) but you reply back about me calling her a fatso? nice. 
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. Anyway, I'm still waiting to hear more news about the music video!!!!
