Do you think IDJ gave up on her?
Do you think Utada decided to give up on the album?
Do you think there were legal issues and she couldn't resume promotion?

I am very confused, and upset. And hurt, tbh.
Everything was set up PERFECTLY.
(a) HOT album.
(b) LOTS of fan support.
(c) First single actually making a slight impact.
(d) TV and radio appearances GALORE!
(e) Album actually charted at number 69 on the US chart...her best entry to date, by far.
(f) Album becomes the first album by an Asian artist to reach the iTunes top 20.
(g) First single gains attention by becoming the free music video of the week.

With all of those things combined, ALL THAT WORK put into it...it seems very hard to believe that IDJ or Utada herself would just decide to give up.

It's almost enough to make me cry when I think about it. I felt it through the whole project. THIS IS THE ONE. After Come Back To Me, all she needed was a little bit more of a push into the US before she took off. Blew up. Her songs being played on the radio a few times a day. Charting within the top 20 Billboard charts. Her name known. US success.

SOMETHING must have happened, that we haven't been told. And by the looks of it, Hikki doesn't want to share it with us, or she would have said something about it on her blog by now.
But WHAT could have happened? Everything was picture perfect. She was on the road to success, then she crashed. WHY? Any ideas? Speculations? Theories? Discuss.

(And no bringing up the sickness thing. That obviously had no role in the death of TITO, if it actually happened.)