Crystal Kay sets up a Japanese Kickstarter to fund her US debut. #OPERATIONGETMONE¥ is in immediate effect.

As we all suspected when Crystal Kay was Instagramming non stop from the States' for weeks on end and tweeting about recording new material - Crystal Kay plans on making a US debut. I say 'might', because it seems her record label won't be supporting that shit. Crystal Kay has resorted to posting on some Japanese kickstarter page for fans to fund her US debut. Home girl could not have her chances of a well budgeted and supported US debut hit rock bottom any harder if Dwayne Johnson had held a bitch by the neck and threw her down on a pavement. Or if she was dead.

Crystal Kay's US debut now been left in the hands of a Japanese kickstarter. Just let that settle in for a second.

This girl is signed to an imprint of Universal. The fact that Universal aren't putting their own money into making shit work for Crystal speaks volumes. They clearly have no faith in her. I am shocked that CK would even go this route with her US debut, because it reeks of desperation. Surely she would have been better off giving head for an advance, using the money she stacked from those "Koi ni ochitara" sales, asking Beni for a cash loan. ANYTHING but this.

Crystal has set a goal of 5,000,000 yen. Here is what she's managed to get in the past 10 days since starting this mess.

Everybody had better join a church and put their forehead on an altar for this girl, because she ain't reaching that target goal unless Jesus makes it rain bread, wine and dollar bills.

Crystal was always going to struggle with a US debut, because history has shown that America don't give a shit about you if you are Japanese or Korean and trying to put out music. Every single Japanese and Korean act who has tried America has had to make a return trip back home with their tail between their legs. Crystal was always going to struggle more than those who had tried before due to her not having an amazingly successful career in Japan to piggy back off of. How big you are in Japan has no bearing on your success in the US at all, as you are essentially starting from scratch. But having record breaking figures to your name at least helps provide a nice artist profile and an instant point of reference. Hikaru Utada was able to roll into studios and be introduced as one of Japan's biggest pop stars with over 10 million units sold of her debut album in Japan alone, making it one of the best selling albums in Asian history. Nobody is expecting this type of record breaking from every artist, but some hits wouldn't go amiss. Crystal Kay has only had one hit album and one hit single.

Crystal starting from scratch in the US may not be a completely bad idea. One thing which could work in her favour is that she does not look Japanese, which removes the J-Pop stigma. She is gorgeous and would look stunning on the cover of magazines. She can also speak and sing fluently in English. She is no vocal slouch and can go toe-to-toe with bitches in the States. Vivid proved Crystal could deliver a worldwide sound and absolutely nail it.

If Crystal doesn't even have minimal funding from the record label she is signed to, then she needs to go back to the drawing board with this whole idea, because a Japanese Kickstarter which NOBODY is bothering to pledge to is not the answer. I really do hope something comes of this and that an English language album will be released in Japan at the very least regardless. Because CK has been recording non stop for the past 6 months with some great talent and I'd hate for those sessions to fall into the abyss simply because her Japanese kickstarter goal wasn't reached. And we all know she ain't reaching that for shit.