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Songs of Utada Hikaru | the 52nd thread

Welcome to the uneventful thread of the legend Utada Hikaru!

ʕ•̫͡•ʔ NEW RELEASE! 「Songs of Utada Hikaru 」 Utada Hikaru no Uta (宇多田ヒカルのうた) December 09, 2014!

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ʕ•̫͡•ʔ ABOUT HIKKI

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ʕ•̫͡•ʔ NEWS

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ʕ•̫͡•ʔ DISCOGRAPHY

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ʕ•̫͡•ʔ US DISCOGRAPHY (as Utada)

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http://www.utadahikaru.jp/release/index_j.htm
https://twitter.com/utadahikaru

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SO I just discovered this new rap artist named KOHH, and I was listening to his album, which I really like, and came across a track called My Last Heart Break, which samples hikki's sakura drops in a REALLY AWESOME way. Check the song out here:

^ I like that. Notice they are also doing a take on Utada's "Goodbye Happiness" Music Video as well.

I like it that thugs be over there repping Utada, lol. Let me find out Tiddy Bear Girl got Street Cred.

Although..........marijuana is dangerous over in Japan. Hope they're Olay.

Thanks for posting that PV! Sakura Drops is my favourite song of all time and it's great to hear it sampled! I love it when songs are sampled in a non-obvious way!

Oh thank goodness someone dared to create a thread! LOOOOL Anyway, I've always been wonderin' if is anyone here knows where I can watch/download HD versions of Hikki's
music videos? Her vevo/youtube account doesn't have HD versions :(

Another year another period of time without new music from this trick.

I can only listen to HS so many times.

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Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold (Post 3144392)

Another year another period of time without new music from this trick.

I can only listen to HS so many times.

this this this.

I love you hikki, but ugh, I need new music. Even the cover album didn't hold my interest as long as I thought it would, and I can only listen to Sakura nagashi so many times before I start skipping it on my ipod.

I was actually going to make a new thread. I was even trying to make it look nice by listing her discography in a "graphic design" type of way and designing everything, but then I thought to myself, what's the point? Who cares really? Someone else can make the thread. Why put all this effort into something when you can just start a new thread that takes two seconds to copy and paste stuff from wiki and it would be just as good? lol I gave up.

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^ that's wicked cool tho

save it for next time

(which will be like a decade from now unless she gets off her ass and releases something)

I wonder if her husband still works. :|

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Originally Posted by CoriKaru (Post 3144408)

I wonder if her husband still works. :|

Your post made me realize that I know absolutely nothing about her husband. What does he do exactly?

He's some Bartender in France. That's how they met. I imagine Utada isn't taking all this time off to be by herself. Especially since if this thing works out, her husband will never have to work another day in his life. :|

I thought they met in London?

That music video was wild... lol I didn't know Japanese rappers were so explicit. So... Uh... What do we even talk about? lol. We're not getting any music news till closer to the end of the year I assume.

Gotta hand it to Hikki though, we're still able to fill up threads even though her release schedule has been dryer than Yuna Ito's career. You go girl!

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Originally Posted by chocopockymaster (Post 3144412)

I thought they met in London?

Could be. Don't quote me. France just came out so I trusted it.

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Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242 (Post 3144416)

I hope the end of the year is when we get a new album, not when we get news about a new album. I want to find out by the end of summer/beginning of autumn that we're getting an album soon, not wait until December to find out that we're getting a new album in March or something. That'd suck.

Gotta get the singles first.

^Oh yeah I forgot about that.

Well then..

I hope by December we get our first (Second if Sakura Nagashi counts) single for her then upcoming new album.

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Originally Posted by chocopockymaster (Post 3144404)

save it for next time

(which will be like a decade from now unless she gets off her ass and releases something)

Let's start talking about our favorites singles, our favorite lyrics, which one is the best album, what's the worst one, how do we interpret her lyrics, talk about her secret lyrics in the songs...

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Originally Posted by orangeakira (Post 3144424)

I hope the end of the year is when we get a new album, not when we get news about a new album.

I'm taking anything. If she posts something on her blog about her taking surf classes or baking cakes for charity, I'm in. It feels like she's dead

I hope she'll put out a new full album on iTunes with 12-15 brand new tracks without any announcement! gawd i'll die and reincarnated at once.

I need Boku wa Kuma pt 2

Well, this was the most pain staking thing to do ever. I guess, I'm ready to start the next thread whenever we get this one filled up. Which will probably take a year.

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I might do dvds/concerts if I really feel like it. And it's not like she has many.

After checking out Bentley Jones' cover of M from the recommendations from the Ayu Rarities Etc thread, I also listened to his cover of Sanctuary.

It's well worth a listen! Similar to the original but also in his own style. You can hear a preview on iTunes.

I can't believe I didn't realize until the 15th anniversary release of First Love that B&C stands for Bonnie and Clyde. I guess since I never owned a physical copy of the album, and I personally consider it her worst album ever I never actually looked at the lyrics to any of the songs.

Up until the anniversary release, the only songs I ever listened to from that album were automatic, time will tell, first love, and amai wana. Then I really gave it another listen with the remastered quality and actually looked through the album booklet. I still think it's the worst of her five studio japanese albums, but I give it a lot of respect.

But, I'm still amazed that I've been an Utada fan for 13 years, and I now realized that B&C means Bonnie & Clyde

B&C is the best song from First Love how dare you

I...don't think I've ever heard it? Even tho I've been a Hikki fan since 7th grade and am now a quarter of a century old. YIKES.

"Passion is the 22 year old version of "B&C"

^I always found this quote so odd. I just can't relate Passion to B&C, and I also think B&C is really terrible. I think it's the only song from First Love that I don't like

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Originally Posted by chocopockymaster (Post 3145051)

I...don't think I've ever heard it? Even tho I've been a Hikki fan since 7th grade and am now a quarter of a century old. YIKES.

It's on her album First Love. If you've listened to that album, you've heard it. Do you maybe not remember what it sounds like?

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Originally Posted by ahtka-chan (Post 3145066)

^I always found this quote so odd. I just can't relate Passion to B&C, and I also think B&C is really terrible. I think it's the only song from First Love that I don't like

Same here. I think she was drunk when she said it.

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Originally Posted by Zahara (Post 3145060)

"Passion is the 22 year old version of "B&C"

Oh goodness lol. I'm sure there's some reason somewhere.

I skip B&C along with about half of First Love.
Hikki really upgraded over time.

Wow okay then guys lol

Never even heard her "FIRST LOVE" Album.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2itj28x.jpg

Hi guys!! i'm looking for HD versions of Hikki's music videos especially Final Distance and Deep River (the one with the poem introduction). I searched everywhere but i can't find anything (sobs).

^Well, since we only ever got the videos on DVD, that's about as High Definition as you're going to get with the videos. Jpopsuki has all the videos on there if you have an account.

Also HD is such vague word. I wish we could make the interent discontinue using it. Ever since youtube came around, it has become so watered down. So many people used to (and sometimes still) put things like "Super Extra High Quality HD" as a title for a video that's 480p. Honestly, unless it's 720 or 1080 at the very minimum, it's not HD.

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Originally Posted by CoriKaru (Post 3145105)

Never even heard her "FIRST LOVE" Album.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2itj28x.jpg

*shocked* if that's true.

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Originally Posted by orangeakira (Post 3145205)

Also HD is such vague word. I wish we could
make the interent discontinue using it. Ever since youtube came around, it has become so watered down.
So many people used to (and sometimes still) put
things like "Super Extra High Quality HD" as a title for a video that's 480p.
Honestly, unless it's 720 or 1080 at the very minimum, it's not HD.

What? :roflmao :laugh

Utada who? Don't know he

This is what it's come to in this thread. KH3 has another trailer. Imagine if the full game uses Sanctuary.

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Originally Posted by JackieRos (Post 3145222)

What? :roflmao :laugh

You don't know what I'm talking about? Haven't you ever been onto youtube and seen people just slap "HD" at the end of a video title that's like 360 or 480p? People don't seem to know what "High Definition" actually means. Isn't there a DVD Rip thread on AHS that says "Super High Quality"? As if DVD quality is actually that great or "super high". It's not so much a problem anymore, but pretty much up until 2010, if a video seemed to be higher quality than 240p, people had a tendency to call the video "Super High Definition quality".

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Originally Posted by orangeakira (Post 3145205)

Ughh i don't have JPOPSuki account. Is that the site where you gotta have some invites first before joining?

And btw ofcourse When I say HD i definitely mean either 720p or 1080p. LOL I have no idea there are videos on YT that pretends to be HD because whenever I search for HD videos, i sort them first quality-wise. Do you know that youtube has that feature? LOOOOL

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Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold (Post 3145227)

Uganda who? Don't know he

This is what it's come to in this thread. KH3 has another trailer. Imagine if the full game uses Sanctuary.

Me and my best friend has a joke that Square Enix waited until hikki would return to business to release the game.

Such fantastic trailers, yet no release date yet *sobs* if hikki will have a song on it. Please no Simple & Clean/Sanctuary again, I want a new hikki song for KHIII if hikki will be involved.

Maybe they will give kuu to sing the new song because of her live video screens of WOML tour where she's a part of the organization 13 lol.

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Originally Posted by ayumisrael (Post 3145332)

Those two thought I had in mind, too.

I think they will either wati to announce the release date and Hikki as the singer together or they will have Kuu sing the song, because of the tour screens*-*

Both would be awesome!!!

No way they'd use Kumi. Square-Enix already cut her from their English release of Final Fantasy X-2 because of her questionable command of the English language.

^Took the words right out of my mouth.

whoever they use, it better not be Leona Lewis again.

I'd rather have them reuse sanctuary then tbh

Passion please, Sanctuary is awful imo. Passion is hikki's best song. What an opposite.

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Originally Posted by CoriKaru (Post 3145377)

No way they'd use Kumi. Square-Enix already cut her from their English release of Final Fantasy X-2 because of her questionable command of the English language.

Questionable command. LOL TRUE DAHT

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Originally Posted by CoriKaru (Post 3145377)

No way they'd use Kumi. Square-Enix already cut her from their English release of Final Fantasy X-2 because of her ~~questionable~~ nonexistent command of the English language.

Fixed.

^ *Canon loaded with Shade*

http://giant.gfycat.com/SnoopyAngelicIguanodon.gif

*Direct Shot*

Teruzane confirmed on Twitter that Hikki's next song is in it's final stages!

Can't wait... The Queen is coming back :love

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Originally Posted by DeepRiver (Post 3145970)

Teruzane confirmed on Twitter that Hikki's next song is in it's final stages!

Can't wait... The Queen is coming back :love

Omg yaaaaassss

OMG!!!!!! It's probably for the last Evangelion movie, right?

You are all comin' but where is the song? :P

OMG OMG can't breathe

Not getting my hopes up until I can hear the song for myself, but this is promising!

Let's see...possibly for Kingdom Hearts 3, no?

I assume it's for the last Evangelion movie. Someone in the last thread said the last movie is coming out this year, and since she's done the last three might as well be consistent lol

I'm praying for more news
There's only so much we can talk about
Remember when her music went Christian AND became rustic (Farm Station)

OMG love that Simon Amstell gif - my favourite Buzzcocks moment ever!

HOping for another Take 5esque song. Uggghh that song is pure genius!

^The prayer circle is ready for that.

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Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242 (Post 3146155)

I assume it's for the last Evangelion movie. Someone in the last thread said the last movie is coming out this year, and since she's done the last three might as well be consistent lol

I do hope she's doing a new song for the movie. In movie 2 they just make a plantib remix.

But I'm happy that she's making a new song :).

Tetsuya Nomura may announce the release date for KH3 in November in a KH fan event so it's highly possible that Hikki will sing another epic theme for KH series. :)

Guys..........it was confirmed months ago that Utada was making the next Evangelical song.

Ya'll forget?

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Originally Posted by CoriKaru (Post 3145105)

Never even heard her "FIRST LOVE" Album.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2itj28x.jpg

You shouldn't be suprised if people skip an album with THAT cover

Didn't First Love sell 7 million copies alone when will your faves ever.

You guys are amazing.

Does anyone know when will the movie come out?

OMG so many funny GIFs

and that FB page doesn't work for us Yanks

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Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242 (Post 3147514)

Didn't First Love sell 7 million copies alone when will your faves ever.

That doesn't change the fact the cover is terrifying

Well most of her covers are not that great anywayz...

I like First Love's simple cover. :D

First Love is iconic lol.
The song and the cover. Poor Utada on the cover, she looks like she hasn't slept in weeks. I feel her pain.

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Originally Posted by visionfactory (Post 3147777)

That doesn't change the fact the cover is terrifying

how is the cover terrifying? the off shots make her look like a crack head, but the official cover, if anything, is just boring.

Her moustache on the cover is iconic

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Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold (Post 3147824)

First Love is iconic lol.
The song and the cover. Poor Utada on the cover, she looks like she hasn't waxed in weeks.

I fixed it for you! :)

You people are too obsessed with looks. Stop it. :'D Hikki still sold 7 million copies with this album, why do you care how she looks like on the cover? It's the music that counts and First Love is hell of a epic debut album. :roflmao

Yep, she had a female version of a nice Bar Mitzvah moustache on First Love's cover.

While we're talking about awful-ly amazing album covers lets do Farm Station I mean Heart Station. she looked like a real tired mess on that cover.

^Please tell me you're trying to troll because that was too funny. :roflmao

You're not listening to the cover you're listening to the music duh

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Originally Posted by JackieRos (Post 3148435)

You're not listening to the cover you're listening to the music duh

Heart Station's cover seems to be more iconic than First Love's cover.
Like "this seems/sounds better than that." You're not actually listening to it (whatever it may be).

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Originally Posted by JackieRos (Post 3148435)

You're not listening to the cover you're listening to the music duh

True but if the cover wasn't important then she wouldn't have bothered making a cover and we would've gotten something like the single collection covers, but she wanted us to see her hairy lipped ass on the cover to establish the mood of the album.

Hikki gave birth to a boy o_O
A new album is also on the way, she worked on it during her pregnancy but it's not done yet.

http://www.utadahikaru.jp/from-hikki-e/both/

What?!??

Congratulations Utada!!!
Now most of the J-Divas have babies :O

OMG NEW ALBUM FKYPELVKSOOCKSLVLWPPACKM LCLFLCLFLWLSL
I ain't gonna lie this makes ayuma's lil quick mini album seem so boring.

Wait what?
She was pregnant?!

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME@?!

she had a boy!? She was pregnant!? SHE HAD SEX!? You think you'd mention these things maybe once or twice to the general public.

I didn't realize she was side saddling pee wee herman in private. I knew they were married, but it never even occured to me that they would have done anything. I thought she couldn't have kids? Didn't she have a tumor in her uterus years ago that was removed?

Also two things are popping in my mind right now. The lyrics for About me "What if I don't want a baby yet?" Over ten years ago, I guess she's ready now. lol

And now that I think about it, maybe the video for Sakura nagashi was a hint at what she was trying to do? It shows a baby being born. Maybe that was her "subtle hint" to everyone that she was ready and thinking about it.

HOW DID THE WOMAN THAT SOLD 7 MILLION COPIES GET PREGNANT AND NO ONE IN JAPAN PUBLISHED ABOUT THAT?

Mixing those gene pools in secret. You go Utada. :)

I just realized that this baby is going to grow up knowing English, Japanese, and Italian, and that is going to be the coolest thing ever. Please don't fuck this up hikki by only teaching them English.

I had a friend in high school who was mixed race. His dad was from Mexico and spoke Spanish and English both fluently, and his mom was from Vietnam and spoke, English, Vietnamese, and Mandarin all fluently. They decided that they didn't want to "confuse" their son, and raised him only knowing English, and to this day he never got over it. His heritage was pretty crazy. He had family members that spoke Japanese as well. So I went to one of his birthday parties, and his extended family came over and I heard so many languages being spoken, and there was my poor friend only knowing English. He had cousins that were half his age that knew three languages.

I don't think I'd ever get over something like that either.

On a side note. The party was fun and really weird. There were pinatas and tapas, and tacos, and Chinese paper lanterns, and lo-mein noodles, and it was such a crazy cool mixture of two cultures.

Learning two languages is hard enough and you're talking about three?

This is so out of the blue lmao.

Congratz Hikki.

Omg, The Rapture is coming!

And I guess Hikki got her Dirty Desire on. And on.

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Originally Posted by JackieRos (Post 3148470)

Learning two languages is hard enough and you're talking about three?

That's not how it works here lol

I'm jealous. I wish I was naturally fluent in just more than English. I could have been fluent in Italian but that's water under the bridge...
At least the kid will know two completely different languages and even a Romance language.