Artistically, I don't see the Exodus album as a failure at all. It has such an eclectic sound, for one, that it garnered a lot of additional fans of electronic music. For two, the remixes hit the Billboard Club Play charts and there have been some awesome artists that have hit that chart but not hit Billboard's Hot 100. Even TiTO hasn't been a total loss since, as was said before, it still has her trademark songwriting and vocals, in addition to the remixes again gathering Club Play. (I still say they'd be crazy NOT to release "FYI" as a single!)

In comparison to other Asian artists, Hikki is more talented and has more varied talent than most of them. I like the idea of her being called a "musician" rather than an "entertainer" as most vocalists are. She has control of her career and IMHO is doing awesome music.

I'm also not necessarily a fan of all the negativity and slamming WG, BoA or anyone else in this thread. Each of these artists have their own fans, and all of us humans should respect each other, even if we don't always agree on everything.

OUR job as fans is to introduce her music to our friends, family and acquaintances and hopefully through word-of-mouth (as well as some decent promotion for "Dirty Desire") we can give Hikki a larger audience. I know my partner has gotten into Hikki more than she might have if I hadn't burned a CD-R of some of her best tracks and "accidentally" left it in her car.