BoA and America

Well it’s officially official. BoA’s gonna try to break America. With this…

I really do like this song, but I’m not sure how well this will work.
But I really shouldn’t pretend to know anything about the American music market because I tend to avoid music channels and I don’t listen to the radio, unless it’s BBC Radio 4.

Maybe the average American who has never heard of BoA will buy into this but I feel that;

a) BoA already has a hell of a lot on her plate already. Her Japanese activities have just about ended and she’s almost at her Korean comeback. When the hell is she gonna find time to promote her album next year?

b) Is her English really good enough? I’m not being critical, it’s an honest question. I don’t know how good her English actually is, all I’ve heard is a couple of cover songs and this ^ . She is perfectly understandable but will that be enough for the people who don’t know who she is?

But then again Soulja Boy was COMPLETELY unintelligable and how long did that craze last?

It’s almost too obvious that the American version of the music video (above) is really very Ciara like. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is not the issue, I just wonder how it will be percieved by the general viewing public. Maybe they’ll think that there are some immitation issue, and that would be a really bad thing.

Well, I’ve got to wrap this up now.

I’ve spent most of this post being pretty negative but truthfully all I want to see is BoA succeed. She’s such a talented person and, even though she could collapse from exhaustion, she deserves to be recieved spectacularly well.

Also… If she makes it in America, there’s a huge chance that she could slip into the British market as well (as most of the stuff around these days is American music) and then maybe I could see her in concert in a few years over here…

Selfish isn’t it?

Add a comment September 10, 2008