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Can anyone explain to me why the U.S. division of Sony BMG acts as if her European success is a fluke? They heavily modify her British albums (to the point of not even releasing the second one, for the most part), completely reshoot most of her videos (and usually not for the better), delay the release of her sophomore album for almost a year so they could replace most of it... hell, even her image seems to change between coasts.

I thought it was funny that a few bad reviews for "I Wanna Have Your Babies," and not only is the U.K. lead-off single from her second U.K. album -- and a top ten hit, at that -- 86'd as a single in the States, but it's axed from the U.S. version of the album entirely. I honestly can't remember the last time a major label overstrategized this hard when trying to conquer different markets. Hey, Sony, isn't the fact that chick's got a great voice enough?

I could understand that if she were "too British," but does anyone think she's too British. (Hey, even Madness, who were even more British than bangers and mash, managed to have a hit here.) They retitled "These Words," "These Words (I Love You, I Love You)" -- like people wouldn't know what the damn song was called if they didn't add in the parenthesis -- then re-released the "Unwritten" album and reverted the title back, all the while overhauling the album a second time with a bunch of pointless remixes. How many completely different versions of "Unwritten" have there been anyway? 6? I also think "Babies" was a much stronger single than the Mariah Carey wannabe "Love Like This," and would have pleased U.S. audiences who took to "These Words" and the "Unwritten" single.