I agree that it's illogical to think otherwise. My problem with some artist's interludes is that it takes away from the flow of the album as opposed to actually helping the album be fluid. I don't think Utada has this problem at all though.

Hikaru Utada brings a full-length album for the first time in eight years! This is her sixth album and includes "Hanataba wo Kimi ni (theme song of TV drama "Toto Neechan")," "Manatsu no Toriame," "Sakura Nagashi (theme song of "Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo")," and more.

Release date: September 28

From cdjapan

on that I agree, but that is a whole different story and if people mean this, they have to phrase it differently. Same goes for singles. Leaving an a-side of an album does not mean we get an extra song.

How legit is the word that her new album is called

[the U testament]

The U Testament.

If that's what it's really called, that's legit. I like it.

http://www.jpopasia.com/news/utada-h...nt::19653.html

according to this source haha!

In the article they said there will be no promotion for the album. Like, at all? I get no tv appearances, since she seems very private since her hiatus. But nothing?

I'm pretty sure the title is actually a joke lol there is a link at the bottom of the jpopasia article leading to the blog randomjpop who makes biblical joke names out of everything (e.g. namiesus, koda kehova etc.)

This website uses Random Jpop as its source for this news. If you read the original article from Random Jpop, you'll see that he's just saying that this new album will be a "testament" for Hikki, so "The U Statement" is like he calls her album, it's not the official name.

Well... This is actually pretty standart for her. Her comeback singles and blockbuster tie-ins aside, she never really promoted all that much.

Will she have any promotion?? Like a digital single, or something to tease us with what is to come?

Her new album is called Fantôme, contains 11 Tracks. All of them have Japanese titles.

http://www.utadahikaru.jp/sp/release/images/fantome.jpg

http://www.utadahikaru.jp/sp/release/

This looks like it's going to be quite different for a Hikki album. I'm really really excited.

I'm in love with this cover and the concept.

That's so exciting. I'm not a huge fan of the font, but the picture they used for the cover art is beautiful. I like that it's blurry.

The other photos she took are stunninggg!! Love the hair

I can't explain how much I am looking forward to this.:heart
Having Utada back after so long. I am not used to it.:laugh
I am feeling the hype! I MUST know what the songs sound like.:dead2

Here's the tracklist:

For some reason I forgot that Sakura Nagashi existed, I was a bit surprised when I saw it in the tracklist :laugh

HYPED!!!

Love the cover but can someone make a textless version? I hate that it's not cohesive with all her other textless covers lol

IDK how I feel about the cover lol