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[Utada Hikaru] 59th Thread: New best-of album, SCIENCE FICTION (2024)
LATEST SINGLE "Kimini Muchuu" released in November 26, 2021
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LATEST STUDIO ALBUM「BADモード (BAD MODE)」released January 19, 2022! Spoiler:
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Credits: The Previous Thread The Official Site Official Twitter http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Utada_Hikaru Official Instagram Official YouTube I pretty much just copied everything from the past thread, so, credits to both Maemi and Xianghua |
I just needed a place to say that BAD Mode may be her best album yet and that after revisiting Exodus and TITO I still love her English work and miss her horny tracks.
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Has anyone been able to listen back to their Zane Lowe interview? I'm in the UK and it doesn't appear on the Apple Music app for me (I'm not a subscriber) but I can see later shows. Thanks in advance!
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Love it :)
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Physical sales
Week 1 Weekly album ranking #1 BAD Mode - 91,102 units Digital sales Week 6 Weekly digital album ranking #2 BAD Mode - 2,839 downloads (Total: 24,873) |
Been obsessing over the new album so much. I wasn't expecting to get so emotional during 'Kibun Ja Nai no (Not In The Mood)' every time I listen to it, especially at the end when Hikki sings the end section "Hey how are you"... followed by her son. What an unexpected touch to that song.
Definitely a favorite on the album, but I utterly love "Find Love" and it's probably my #1 off the album right now. |
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I don't think I'm really in love with the album... Bad Mode is still the only album song I really like (I just can't get into the other three). However, I have been hooking onto PINK BLOOD and Face My Fear for the past month, though I prefer the single version of FMF. I just don't like how hikki took on softer approach in the album version. As a whole I think this album is better than Hatsukoi, but I prefer the concept of Hatsukoi more. |
^I had hoped she'd get 100k first week but it's a very solid number!
In other news Hikki is going to perform at Coachella this Saturday! https://twitter.com/88rising/status/...--HI4Krow&s=19 https://twitter.com/88rising/status/...PCm5jIQWQ&s=19 Apparently there's gonna be 8 artists in 80 minutes, so Hikki will probably do two songs. I'd love for them to perform Find Love. Also, some fans have speculated that Hikki might perform sth with Jackson Wang, since she started following him recently. Could simply be due to appearing at the same event and nothing more, who knows. I'm shocked but also super happy! :) Hikki's tweet: https://twitter.com/utadahikaru/stat...iusn42UYQ&s=19 |
Hikki's setlist (it was basically a ten-minute medley):
1. Simple And Clean 2. First Love 3. Face My Fears 4. Automatic It was very nice! :heart Hikki was clearly nervous & the stream had some sound issues but it got better as the performance progressed. Hikki also seemed a lot more relaxed during Automatic (my personal favourite of the night). Still can't believe this actually happened. I wish they had sung Find Love but god, seeing her on that stage felt wonderful. She really deserves it! :love Apparently, they will perform next week, too, so I'm really looking forward to that. Lastly, this is completely off-topic BUT Spoiler:
UPDATE: HIKKI JUST PREMIERED A NEW SONG!!! |
The new Song is amazing. Her Performance was cool but she was so nervous. ;)
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^Agreed! She was a lot better by the time she started singing Automatic, tho! Some non-fans made some harsh comments about the vocal but most seem to realize it was the nerves and that it got better (+ Hikki just struggles more with these really high notes). Hikki isn't the best live performer by any means but Automatic showed she's a lot better than what the S&C performance would lead one to believe.
I'm really liking the new song! :love I'm also glad that Hikki has been getting quite a lot of attention (they even trended in the US), as I kind of expected them to go a bit 'unnoticed', but thankfully that's not the case! There are tons of tweets about them that have thousands of likes. Get that promo, Godtada! :) |
I loved Automatic, rest of songs were messy
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I Love how people write „they“ and „she\her“ in the same sentence lol
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Did she perform at Coachella in this weekend? She was trending on Twitter last weekend and I was surprised she was there.
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^She didn't.
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received my utada records today that I ordered!!! all of her studio albums on vinyl now minus the english albums of course!
P.S. BAD MODE has a blank slip that states "Music Label - DO NOT SHIP" oops? lol :) |
^Beautiful collection. That little cover is that a sticker or magnet?
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^should be the bonus sticker. Its small. damn
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yes, i didn’t realize they came with stickers, so i dumped them in one of the sleeves. I already had the original three albums and hatsukoi, so i didn’t have to repurchase them. :)
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Great news!
"Hikaru Utada Live Sessions from Air Studios" is now available on Netflix. An accompanying live album was also released on digital platforms. That is, if it's 9th June already where you live! The Netflix version also has subtitles. :) What an awesome surprise! :heart |
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I've been looping the Live Sessions audio a lot since it dropped officially. Absolutely gorgeous. |
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BAD Mode has been in solid rotation here. Took me a while to get into it because I had been listening to many of its previously released singles so much already, I found it difficult to experience it as an album rather than a bunch of semi-recent and new tracks slapped together on a disc. Less of an issue now though, I really like it. |
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Amazon has them all up for preorder, to be released 12th of August.
Amazon.com unfortunately - not sighted anywhere local yet for me, so that would add hefty shipping and VAT fees. |
ah so they are reprinted again?
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https://www.utadahikaru.jp/news/detail.html?id=545422
"First Love / Hatsukoi" vinyl release on 12/9 1. First Love (2022 mix) 2. Hatsukoi (2022 Remastering) |
Absolutely in love with this, the visuals are gorgeous |
I'm not surprised how ugly the album cover is but still lol
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It seems that Hikki is releasing a new best album, SCIENCE FICTION sometime in 2024.
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:) can't wait. I hope we get new songs ...
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I love the visuals and name for the tour and Best Of! Looking forward to hearing more!
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I am loving the daily release of the 4K PVs! I mean, I wouldn't have even noticed if they had left out Prisoner of Love (not a fan of that style of video) but they all look amazing! So sharp and shiny!
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i saved "Can You Keep A Secret?" pv in case they remove it later. can't wait for "traveling" pv, the one in vevo so bad in quality. |
OMG yes can't wait for Travelling! And the Deep River & Ultra Blue era PVs!
Automatic is also...not one of my faves! That text!! |
Y'all. I have been dying for 10 years to have Passion in high definition I can't wait omg :luv2
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I'm really happy that she released 4K videos. Strangely tho she omitted FOL and Goodbye Happiness (she did include Sakura Nagashi). Also I wish she would also release 4K of the recent videos. Her latest one (Naniiro Demonai Hana) is so beautiful...
Edit: I realized she did include FOL. And also I just realized that how small number of pvs she has lol. The number of Japanese pvs before her haitus was... 25 right? (Automatic, time will tell, Movin' on, First Love, ATY, W&S, For You, Time Limit, CYKAS?, FD, traveling, Hikari, SD, DR, COLORS, Dareka, BML, Passion, Keep Tryin', Boku wa Kuma, FOL, BW, HS, POL, Goodbye Happiness). And after during and haitus... Sakura Nagashi, Hantaba, Nijikan, Forevermore, Anata, Hatsukoi, Time, OLK, PINK BLOOD, Kimi, BAD mode, Gold, Naniirodemonai Hana. 13, not bad... Maybe ayu released so many pvs throughout her career, so compared to her, hikki's collection seems so minimal lol.... |
OMG the Deep River & Ultra Blue PVs are tiny! :(
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omg, "traveling" new ver sound so good in her latest CM...
『綾鷹 meets 宇多田ヒカル ‘traveling’』スペシャルムービー >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmeIXhK4c1U |
album is already out.
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Listening now on apple music (bought it at cdjapan but will not open the album anyway)...
Hikari... interesting... sound like Donkey Kong music.. :D Quote:
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Love it tho!! very underwater stage! :D:D:D:D |
Oh yeah it does sound like underwater stage as well lol.
I actually like re-recordings (probably except ATY). She managed to give modern vibes to Hikari and traveling. Gotta listen to those 202X Mixes and see if they do good or bad to those classics :). |
While I appreciate new takes on material in general, Deep River is a masterpiece of an album and I'd really like for her to not touch and ruin anything else from it. The new version of Traveling is...not good. Ultra Blue and Heart Station are full of duds she can mess with as much as she'd like.
Edit: Listening to the album, the new mixes are fine. But the re-recordings are a no. Hikari is also...rough. |
Debuted with over 100k copies on Oricon Daily Albums :blove
i actually enjoyed very much the new versions, i believe it doesnt ruin the old material, and you can still listen to the old ones ^^ |
I'm not the biggest Utada Stan. It took my a lot of time to get into their discography and it was a slow process to find a liking to everything they put out, that said rewatching the TVs I came to a realization that I already had some time ago: Utadas Music, whille always a testament to its time and Utadas personal circumstances, never sounds outdated like a lot of their peers music. Utadas discography is also one of the few enigmas in the J-Pop landscape, putting out rather crafted bodies of work with only a very few overall (compared to the average "female" J-Pop singer).
SCIENCE FICTION is what it is, a rather bland Best-of like the last few Single Collections. Utadas music never was fancy for the most part and I guess that's what the charm is (and the reason for what I stated above). I do think the new mixes are superior to its originals. The sound quality is so good. These new versions just made me realize how much of Utadas vocals are muffled in its original and the addition of new instruments (or maybe just a polish of what was there?!) really makes them fuller. As for the re-recordings: they are exactly what I would expect from a "2024" Version of those songs, and for that matter they are rather clever. Compared to Namies rerecordings or even Taylor Swifts, who are just vocally updated versions of their originals, Utadas are more of a self-cover. If we never knew these songs, we wouldn''t question them at all. For that matter I can't share the sentiment of "ruining" older works. Firstly, those are Utadas Songs, and if they don't feel consent with those versions anymore, they are free to alter them to their liking. It is, as a matter of fact, what most artist do during live shows if they have an extended career anyways. Other than that tho, they are not taking away your memories with the originals. Especially in our day and age, where music is this readily available, you are free to chose what to listen to - and in this case which version. I enjoy the updated version of traveling a lot. Do I think it's better than its original? - probably not. But I like the freshness of it and it brings me new memories I enjoy. |
Yes, I'm well aware that the original versions will always be there for me to enjoy. My hope is that these new and lackluster versions don't become a staple for them. Personally, I find that they take away from the greatness of the original works instead of add something new. It's not that I ever expected they would be better than the original, but I feel like they don't add anything worthwhile - and I think their vocals sound really rough. Particularly in Hikari there are parts where they could've benefitted from changing the key or doing something more drastically different. Not to make an Ayu x Hikki "competition," but I think of the 10th anniversary re-recordings - while I don't like them better than the originals, they added some new color and flavor that I can appreciate as their own thing. I just wish the Hikki songs did the same for me.
Obviously most everyone here disagrees and really likes them, and I think that's great for you all. For me, it's just disappointing. Maybe "ruin" is being taken too literally when I say it, and again I do appreciate the idea behind it all, the execution just feels poor and unnecessary. |
Hmm I don't see why it should add something, as enhancing the song is not the main goal. Something I already pointed out. It is simply a different version. traveling has updated vocals and a fresh sound, which I fairly enjoy. Hikari is like a different remix, not even really comparable to the original and it shouldn't be, since it is a version its its own. I also enjoy this new take for what it is and it certainly is what you call "a new color and flavor" that you simply don't seem to enjoy. Which is also okay, but it does not take away from the fact that it is exactly what you seek. Lastly I don't think they are "poor" since this album is sonically one of the strongest Utada albums, as everything sounds polished and clear.
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done listening to the whole <SCIENCE FICTION>, and i love it!
"Goodbye Happiness" and "traveling" are my top 2 fav! |
Hikaru Utada - First Love (CDTV LIVE . LIVE)
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVOF1ufnvM |
Mine or Yours MV
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Nrl9qXxow Mine or Yours (MV Behind the Scenes) >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQaIXSMDSU [THE F1RST TAKE, Epd 544] Mine or Yours >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qjnc5xpMe4 [THE F1RST TAKE, Epd 546] First Love >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBUV7dxGhno |
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