"Come Back To Me" - like it? hate it?
 

http://islandrecords.com/site/promo/...tada/index.htm

well, what do you think? :D personally, I LOVE IT :smitten

thanks to Akutenshi for originally posting this link in the utada hikaru thread! :cool

This will get it the exposure it deserves. And as I've stated probably hundreds of times, SONG OF THE YEAR. :heart

It's alright.... Sounds too much like what you hear on the radio though...

bah~ how can you not love it <3 :luv2
though still not one of hikki's best~

lame. boring.

i was really hoping for an upbeat song...

i guess this is ok, and i'm sure it will grow on me some, but its pretty repetetive honestly.

Yes I luv it! I just found it and I'm on my second listen. I can't listen to it too much. I wanna get a chance to hear it on the radio so I can feel the epicness of the song. lol


*sigh* The day I don't read comments like the one i just quoted....

Sounds like every other song on the hip-hop/r&b radio stations in the US :)

Lyrics included. "Come back to me baby, I admitted I cheated now I regret it!"

I've already heard this song a thousand times already in the US ;)

^IA

That said, I like it, even though it sound like something that Chris Brown or Beyonce would sing. However, since I like both of the artist, I don't really mind.

But I wonder since the song's less experimental than the stuff on Exodus, it might mean greater commercial success because American mainstream might like it better.

The day people stop making music like this is the day you won't read those comments :P

I hope the other tracks are better -_-;

I really do love this song. It's catchy and sung really well <3

I LOVE IT! I'm like...a sucker for this kind of stuff lol

I wanna let my friend listen to it but considering she's an emotional wreck right now - I think I'll hold it off XD

Whoa, that's quite a statement to be making a week into the new year! :laugh

It's a very standard sounding R&B ballad. It's nice, but there's nothing special about it. Although I am glad it's not all electronic sounding like practically every song on Exodus. The last track on that album, which featured a real acoustic guitar, was like a sudden breath of fresh air.

BUT I HATE how Hikki changes what she's all about in her US songs. It's like....so fake. Her Japanese songs have all these domestic, honest feelings about "turn off the TV and look only at me" (hikari) or "when I see my weak face in the mirror, I want to smash it" (keep tryin'). Then her US songs are full of all this superficial, overdone crap like "boy, you're so hot, let's turn this room into a melting pot" or the "I cheated" BS in this song. I know those subjects are popular in US music, but come on. It's not her at all.

hikki sure is damn smart :laugh

I don't really like it, because it's not really the style that I like...

and um, some of the lyrics are really cheesy...the one in a million isn't cool...

but I hope people here will like it, since it's a pretty standard ballad.

I wish it was a little more catchy though, don't we americans love catchy music ;)

I guess it's okay. It disappoints me a little, because I didn't want her to do this, but, i can't really blame her.

If you liked Green but not this song then I-I have to question your quote. :P

^a lot of people on this forum would LOVE GREEN and HATE this...

so...

that statement makes me laugh :)

the forum is crazy :laugh

^LOL. You may be right but then I have to question their R&B taste. :)

It doesn't really leave any kind of impression on me. So I voted for "don't like it," since voice/melody/lyrics all lack that something that would catch my interest.

I really just don't understand how the two songs are comparable?

lol It has more to do with what he said in his quote than the two song comparing.

I LOVE IT

:luv2

I think it's way better than the regular R&B ballad, and it indeed sounds very beyonce/chris brown-ish. But I love it!

I think it's just okay, not amazing.

I wish it were catchier too! But let's see how it does :)

I don't quite follow you, but let's agree to disagree, okay?

I like it , it's really nice

for a moment I thought Utada was covering Vanessa Hudgens's Come Back To Me but thankfully it's an original song :laugh

hopefully a PV will be shot for the song

I love the song! But I think I'm going to get tired of it after a few more listens :laugh but well I love it for now.

hate it - lame and poorly produced.

Its okay, but not as good as Utada can do and what she has done in her Japanese songs!. But, well I kinda love it because Utada sings it and I just think her voice is really amazing.

The song is OK.

The lyrics are cheesy, and the music is too generic.

But I did like it more before reading all the negative comments on here lol.

I think it's okay, not as amazing as Stay Gold was, just a same kind of a R&B song like everything else nowadays. :D Seriously, I hear songs like Come Back To Me too much in Finland too.

Yet I'm sure that she won't release the single in Finnish radios and I still liked the song so I'd like to hear it when it comes. Song sounds a lot more promising than Exodus imo.

It's good. Not smth "OMG amazing!!!" but still very enjoyable ^___^

Meh. Hope the rest of the album doesn't sound like this. If it gives her exposure though, I guess it's okay.

I do like the guitar at the end.

Love it!

It's alright, I guess.

So awful and generic :/ I'm so disappointed

I agree :yes I can't stand UTADA's lyrics >_>'

I really like the song so much... I hope it gets some airplay or exposure in the US, sound like something that could succeed there

I effin' love it! :D
I'm so proud of her!

I definitely see the Mariah comparsion. Very standard R&B ballad with some cheesy lyrics. Crossing my fingers for the rest of the album to be better.

boring..

Its okay/good ~ Its missing something though. Its definitely mainstream but its missing a hook ! :S ~!

I voted "loved it" though I don't love it, just like it. It's a nice sdong. Generic and cliche, yeah, but it sounds nice.

It's all right, imo.

Lame. Way to not be original for once Hikki.

I freakin' love it <3

Lol, I think it's terrible. :(
Can't even force myself to think it's even decent.
It's too hottzy. Lol.

I voted that it was okay...but I really wanted to say that it was forgettable.

Too bad tic-tac pancakes can't fix this mess.

"i think it's just okay/good, not amazing."

I hope there will be better songs in the album.

I love CBTM its so catchy ^^!

One big resounding meh.

Seriously, I am an open-minded person. It is not that hard for my favorite artist to please me. But her voice is the only distinctive thing in this song and even then only at certain parts. The piano part at the beginning is quite nice but I am sure I have heard that beat more times than I can count. That and I know she can write better lyrics in English (Simple & Clean?) so I don't see why this comes off as so completely unlyrical. It's more like a poorly worded monologue.

Loved the song. The lyrics are pretty good too. <3

I really liked it at first but I got bored of it quickly.

i dont like it

I think it's just okay/good, not amazing.

It sounds like any other song on the radio.

i think it's just okay/good, not amazing.

It's OK, not amazing...plain I think

It's Ok to me.

Amen

Utada can make beautiful songs with actual meaning in japanese. But this did not happen this time :no There's nothing special about this song. (in other words, booooooooring :P lol)

nothing special..like Cyria said, no impressions of it

I like it
the only song on TITO I like

love it

only decent song in TITO

its okay. its a good song. not amazing. many artists are capable of making a good r&b song.

i used to love it of course in my "hikki is perfection" days. .. but now its worn off.

a more r&b person would love it though im sure. . .but thats not me completely

Yes, I love it!!!

I don't normally like these mainstream pop songs, but I think Hikki did well :)

I liked this song. I think it's great. It got me the first time I heard it. And how does it compare to GREEN ><

i think it's just okay/good, not amazing.

But that's just because I know that she is so much better.

It's okay, just pretty generic..

i love it~

is ok,not amazing

an okay song and i like it !

I LOVE this song! I think I could blast it forever and not get tired of it. It's actually one of my favorites from her overall career. :yes

Did not like it at first.

It's nothing special, but I don't hate it.

Love it!

It's just okay.

But this song is the only (I think so) from Japanese could make up our in local radio station.

nope, i don't like it. I always thought it were really bad lyrics. I don't like songs with lyrics like that, and it don't matter if the song is from a boy or a girl.

Old post, but oh well... :D

Hikki writes amazing lyrics but something changes when it's not in Japanese since it's not her first language, I guess. But her songs on her US album were pretty much all dreadful lyrically, in my opinion, that is. Come back to me lacks a wow-factor of any kind but I remember seeing the video for the first time almost ten years ago on remember being baffled by her gorgeousness <3