I think the SG press also came with a slipcase but I threw it away a long time ago :roflmao

that's ... interesting

^ lol me neither Temmy but I'm guessing probably mastering/production bugs that she has to kill ? :shrug

Are her concerts usually... "painful"? oO?

OH okay, I've never seen them! But I surely hope she doesn't suffer through them hahaha

I would see her in the U.S.! It's not often Jpop artists come to the U.S. and it's ever more rare that they tour! I doubt she'll come to my city so New York is the farthest I'll travel...

Ehh.. Doesn't she actually say that there are two songs that she has and that there is only ONE of them she may place on the album?
Or that there is only one she'll be able to finish in time?

At least to me it sounds like that..

I think she ment its painful because it is about to end and she wants it to go on forever because she likes performing/recording so much!.

Oww, yes that definitely sounds better than my opinion! XD
I'm not really into Hikki as a person, I listen more to her music, so when I read something she said, I'm mostly taking it liturally.. *sighs*

If it's really like this, she's excited about writing music like this, hey, maybe that's not bad news at all :D
If she, herself is feeling good and enthousiastic about the work she's done until now, that might be a very good sign.
I hope there will be at least something Animato-ish on her new album, though I'm still afraid most of the tracks won't have an Exodus-mark on them..
I don't mean I want a second Exodus, but I think it isn't an album you can listen to once and then, hup take up something else and forget about it, like with most of mainstream music albums.
Take for example Madonna. Her singles are very okay most of times, but her albums aren't really .. The tracks aren't just very memorable..

I just think Exodus is an interesting album because you don't get the music at first time listening. That must also be why Americans didn't approve. Easy-listening dance music should be a good chance for a hit, Come Back To Me might actually be her chance to get more attention than previous time.
But only if, as stated before, proper promotion is done, if they get her ito the right style (PLEASE don't get her Rihanna-ish, dancing with nothing but a bikini and pumps on..)
Something like.. A cute girl, who can be silly and random with her music but who also has her adult side. Some kind of funny/serious mix, that might work out I think.

When I bought Exodus at Charlotte´s, NC, Best Buy it was on the World Music Section XD They probably saw she was asian and put her on there. But when paying the shopkeeper looked weird at me like "what a freak xD" and I answered her with a happy grin :D xD Exodus was my first J-Pop album ever (well I consider Exodus J-Pop) and I was very happy xD

I pray it's the better of the two ;)

Me too! I was like reggae, WTF?

Someone was probably too lazy to put it back!

Poor Hikki, forever lost in the reggae section -_-;;;

at least that means she's put alot into this US album and she wasn't lazy with it. :yes i'm happy if that's the case.

At my Wal-Mart, she's lost in Country and Karaoke CDs.

Aww, it's gone. ;_;

I hope the English album will do well when it is released in the US. ^^