Crystal Kay puts in work in the US. New English studio album on the way?

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For the past month there has been lots of speculation as to what our flop home girl Crystal Kay is up to. Constant Instagrams chronicling her time in the US, trips to the studio with well established songwriters and producers is leading everybody to believe that she is working on an English studio album. And rightly so. Everything seems to be pointing in that direction and it is something Crystal had mentioned a desire to do numerous times in recent interviews.

Sony may have been tight with those album advances, but Universal are cutting those cheques for CK to cash abroad. Thus far, Crystal has cut tracks in the States with...
All very high profile songwriters and producers who have hits in the bag. CK is NOT playing. She wants to see her name on that Billboard chart and remember what it feels like to be in the top 20 of the ORICON chart.

Crystal also recently did a shoot with the hotly in-demand fashion photographer duo Gomillion and Leupold who have shot album covers for Brandy, Jennifer Lopez, Jill Scott, Iggy Azalea, that flop bitch Cassie, that flop bitch Ciara, hot mess ho Ke$ha and wife beating n***a Chris Brown to name a few.

A new album from Crystal Kay is inevitable. Whether the follow up to Vivid truly is an English studio album for global release or just domestic - nobody knows. Crystal has often worked with US and European based song writers and producers for her domestic releases, so perhaps it's just business as usual. But the prospect of Crystal releasing an English language album for worldwide release is exciting, even though it won't sell a damn thing. Crystal still stands a better chance of selling anywhere else other than Japan though. Hikaru Utada and BoA went for the US because they were big in Japan and had a following in the US they felt they could tap into. CK is a flop in Japan and has a following in the US, so she has nothing to lose.

If Universal handle this next studio album correctly, it has the potential to take CK's career to the next level. That level CK should have been on about 5 years ago.

It's great to see that Crystal is staying active and that (as was the case with Vivid) she's broadening her net of musical and visual collaborators. Vivid was so on point, that she could have put that shit on iTunes globally and caught some extra fans and a few hundred downloads. I stay mad that the English version of "Yo yo" was not commissioned as a fully fledged single. If there was ever a song to act as taste for CK's English language material, it was that song right there. And don't even get me started on "I can't wait" and "It's a crime". And then there's the Summer funk / disco crack that is "My heart beat". That right there should have had a video and a version recorded in English. My n***a Nile Rodgers would have loved dat shit.

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