Bull.
I live in the tri-state area an EVERYONE knows what a single is.

And people WILL see this cover if they put the single on Itunes.
Thats how it works.

I really hope this can be succesful for her!. But, with the effort they put into the font on the single I'm not sure they are trying that hard with Utada!. Good luck anyway!.

really because nobody near me does, and it seems relatively unanimous that mos Americans typically don't know what a single actually is. As I said previously, most people say 'song' and i always get funny looks when i say 'single'.

singles jsu don't really exist anymore in America, but they're making a comeback with the whole e-single thing, if you know what i mean.

Seriously I agree. Doesn't matter if I say 'song' or 'single', people know what I'm talkig about. Just because singles aren't released physical anymore doesn't mean the generation after has no clue to what one is. That' how people refer to Rihanna as, a singles artist.

What is e-single?

I think it's a single that is released digitally (online).

Okay, so assuming that the general American public DOES know what you're talking about when you say 'single' and trust me, around here, that's NOT the case: Name one place where the average American is actually going to see the cover if they're not a.) Hunting for it online, or b.) Going to buy the song from an online vendor like iTunes or Amazon?

Like I said multiple times before, if someone heard the song and liked it enough to go to iTunes with the intent to purchase it, an ugly cover isn't going to make them change their mind. And if it does, that person was never really interested in the music in the first place.

I wish people would just stop *****ing until the ALBUM artwork is revealed. That's the real important cover; the one people will actually see in more than one, isolated location, not this backseat single cover.

I certainly hope the album cover is better... The album comes out in March, so we should get a cover mid February, right?

Mmm... I'm not sure exactly when I found out about EXODUS, but I'm pretty sure it was about a month or two before it was released and the cover had already been revealed at that point and all the tracks had previews you could stream at utada.com.

This time around though... I'm not so sure it will be the same because Utada said in her blog that she's not even entirely finished with the album yet. I think with EXODUS the album had been finished for a long while before they released it.

This album's release schedule is shaping up to be more like her Japanese work. Lots of tedious deadlines, it seems. I bet we won't get the cover until the very end of February, a week or two before the album comes out in Japan (assuming it's not pushed back.) I wouldn't even know what to think then.

Hopefully the album cover will be 10x better than the little effort made for the single cover. Also, the rest of the tracks won't have CBTM generic sound going on.

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more this is single is just a stepping stone to something bigger and better...

The single photography is really good.
its clear and crisp and professional.

BUT, whoever photoshopped the text on there failed.
it kind of looks like she did it herself in paint just to have something up D:

That isn't the cover anyways is it ._. Isnt the Vector one the one they are using?

What if the album will turn out to be titled "Come Back To Me" and this will be the cover :laugh

But seriously, I always look at it like this:

There are always things you do not like about certain releases, but even those flaws make a release as it is! I didn't like her sexy lyrics in Exodus, but I though "without those lyrics, Exodus wouldn't be Exodus, so I'm happy she used them anyway!"

Please don't be so negative :) (of course not everyone in this thread is negative, there are also some positive peeps!)

Funny nobody is mentioning her birthday tomorrow XD
The girl is going to get bigger again :D

Congratulations on beforehand, Utada!

It's awesome having a birthday the day before Utada's xD I was really surprised when I found out her birthday was a day after mine.

My sisters birthday is the release date of Movin' on without you :B

^ It's awesome sharing the same birthday with Hikki :3 :laugh

^ Damn you XD

my dad, aunt, 6th grade English teacher, and my ex best friend (who loved hikki) all have the same birthday as her. :)