Originally Posted by Lena-chan
I still hope she is working in a whole new direction for her music, but because she needs money and time for her kids it's taking her too much time to finish conceptualizing it.
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Maybe... who knows what her motives are? At least in the past she used to drop more creatively stimulating projects a la
Between Today and Tomorrow or
Ichigo Ichie on a somewhat regular basis. Now she releases mediocre singles just as often.
Originally Posted by zeroryouko
I'm also still holding out a little bit of hope that she'll get back to normal when she gets done with her Universal contract.
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Anyone know when that is?
Originally Posted by zeroryouko
Wishful conspiracy theory: She has no creative control anymore and is being held hostage by her label to continue churning out mediocre jazz-pop show tunes that they can market to a variety of other soulless enterprises. This is why she doesn't give a fuck anymore and why she looks so dejected so much of the time.
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Is it that wishful though? Especially in Japan record labels are notorious for fucking over even their most talented artists.
Still, it's sad to imagine that even Ringo - both because of her stature and because she spent her early years resisting such institutions - has fallen to their whim. Maybe she just grew tired of resisting.