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Way to jazz it up! Didn't even release there needed to be a new thread.

wait, by 2nd studio album, that means for her english album right?

wow thats awesome.

hmm...i think...

Well Utada isn't the same as Utada Hikaru and Cubic U. At least to me anyway. :)

^i know, how are they promoting this?

like...are they gonna say it's her debut album, or her 2nd album, or just a new album?

well it is a new label right? Does that mean they count Exodus or no?

I thought she was still on the Def Island Records.

I've been thinking about it today and wonder how the new album will be promoted. They can't simply ignore Exodus. They probably have to say it's her second but then they might bring up how well Exodus did.

It's strange. They've started banning copyrighted music from being watched in certain countries but other countries can watch it without a problem too rather than just delete it.

Island might say it's her 2nd studio album, but just not mention Exodus.

picking up the conversation from the last thread ..


am i the only one that thinks this sounds much more like a Rihanna ballad than Mariah?

i don't think this sounds anything like Mariah ..

Is that the album cover? @_@ Oh no she still has that haircut x_x

no i don't think it is

i'm prett sure that's fanmade ... i THINK.

it looks like a heart station pic

and she goes by utada in the states, not utada hikaru

Nope! It's just fanmade! Hikki never uses "Utada Hikaru" for her english album... It's just "Utada"! :P

I don't think that's the cover...?

^ Fanmade.

As if it wasn't already obvious. D:

Yeah I think I recognize it from her HEART STATION promotion.... It wouldn't be a bad cover in Japan hahaha

If it was official the text would be level, and it's not.

So, will we be able to have the album here for download before it comes out in America?

I don't think so since we can buy it locally...
Pretty sure other places will have it for download

I need to spend my money on like, Kelly, so I'll download it first, and then buy it later

i don't use iTunes. but my brother uses it, and my mom won't let me buy from there. :P

i'm already getting BoA's english album for free, but i dunno if i can get utada's. if it's at BEST BUY or something, then i have a chance of getting it :D

yes Jasmine because by right her 1st Eng album Precious was released under the name Cubic U .

In EXODUS's case , she released it under her surname Utada

I'm pretty sure they won't say "DEBUT ALBUM" when they promote it. They'll just say "UTADA - TITLE OF ALBUM" in stores now. No need to acknowledge her first album...

Hopefully this song gets a music video premiere on MTV. It definitely needs it. Wasn't FNMTV supposed to be like "music video debut central"? That thing ended pretty fast.

It would've been great promotion for both Utada and BoA.

They need to get CBTM on Itunes D:

Through traffic jams in Tokyo, New music on the radio~

I'm listening to Exodus '04. I forgot how laid-back and well done it is <3

not to mention she cowrote it with Timbaland before he hit the big time :O alongside with Let Me Give You My Love

speaking of songwriters , who else is cowriting with her on her upcoming new album ?

StarGate is all I'm remembering. :doh

I'd rather she names this song "Come Back 2 Me". Looks more American Slang style.

i like the new song. it gets kind of repetitive but it's very sweet. her vocals sound really good in it

oh how did Exodus affect her japanese career?

^ She hasn't done ska, jazz, trip-pop, country, or reggae.

I'd love it if she went back to Deep River Era. The songs had right amount of R&B and her "experimental", "artsy" music. HEART STATION did touch on mixing the two genres a bit but it still leaned heavily toward the artsy/experimental music.

I wonder what she will come up with next?

I'm guessing more instrumental sounds - orchestra, perhaps? There was a bit of piano in the beginning of Come Back To Me. There's also rock, but a part of me feels like her vocals aren't strong enough to handle rock (although she could compose/produce around that).

thanks Melody

maybe there're more songwriters that she collaborated with ?

Anyone knows if her album will be out outside the US? Cause I really want to buy it physically here in Europe... When I bought Exodus I was lucky because I was on the states at the time but now I will have to buy it online if they don´t sell it in here :( (and it´s not the same to buy things online from the US that from Japan for me, cause YesAsia doesn´t makes me pay for the shipping costs)

I think she's still on IslandDefJam, so it will count Exodus. They'll probably just say new album. :/

Don't expect it in stores on the release date. If you want it ASAP, you'll have to order it online.

I happened to run into Exodus in FAME in Amsterdam, but I was very lucky, there was only 1 copy and I immediately bought it! It actually started my true fan-being, was my first Hikki CD.

Maybe stores will have it a bit later on here? When she has released a few singles which are at least a little bit successful xD

Oh my.. I thought that was the cover for her upcoming eng album! It looks plain n reminds me of Heart Station.. ok it's good that it's not.
I hope her eng songs will be nice. I've onli heard a few.. haven't yet listen to this new song hahaz.

lol i live in America yeah, but i can still find Exodus in nearly any CD store i go to ..

^really? you're lucky, I never see it.


the only things i see are ayu singles lol

i never find ayu singles lol

I've found many utada albums and ai otsuka albums though ... XD they are the only actual j pop Cd's I've ever seen in American stores though.

the stores near me have nothing asian, except for chinese restaurants, lol.

^ I know right owo;;


they do sell some anime soundtracks at Sam Goodies;

but that is no where near the same as J-Pop albums.

A store in Nashville sells some JPop CDs. Can't remember the name but it's like the only one that does.

Really? That's great!!! =D I wanna go to that store someday! D: But anyway!! *ahem* Her official myspace... http://www.myspace.com/thisisutada

^ I know it's not Opry Mills, it's either Cool Springs Galleria or Rivergate Mall. It's a basic DVD/CD/Game store with anime and manga and some Jpop CDS in the back. Hopefully the store is still there.

oh dear :roflmao

that's why people in future if you were to come to S'pore , give me a ring , I bring you to downtown's HMV where you can shop silly there

Come Back To Me is un-interesting; very boring and safe. It sounds more like an album filler than a lead single. I was hopeing she'd get all experimental again like Exodus, except the album sounding less like it was made on the Mac.

You're not talking about Suncoast, are ya? That store was gone a long time ago! It didn't have many JPOP cds! D:

I see Exodus a lot at Sam Goody, Wal Mart, and Barnes & Nobles. My local Wal Mart also had ULTRA BLUE.

I think Come Back To Me is safe because her company wanted something more radio friendly, so she might do better initially. I have a feeling though that she will still be a little experimental, but single-wise, she might play it safe to try to attract more new fans.

I bought Exodus from Best Buy shortly after it had been released.... but they had her in the, get this, REGGAE section... O_o

LOL :laugh

which part/s of EXODUS is Reggae influenced ?

^ Um.... NONE. :laugh

^ ditto :laugh

is your copy of EXODUS made in US ? my copy's made in S'pore

I saw someone selling Exodus' japan version on eBay and realised it has a slipcase :o I didn't know that.

yeah i dont get that. At the stores here, the jpop section is ALWAYS right next to the less mainstream reggae section :laugh always cracks me up.

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. ^^

Nah, it even had a sticker that said "Reggae" on it.

Woah, that is weird oO?

I saw it in the reggae section too. :P It wasn't an accident!

Somebody needs to learn their genres again.

I always saw it in th dance section.

I'm guessing it's probably just easier to buy it online and have it shipped or something.

I have Exodus. Bought it at Borders...it was in Dance.

^ Every time I went to a Borders to see if it was there on the shelves, it's never there. It's always up for order online, and then they ship it to you. Hate that.


Same here.


ALSO.

Quote:

Oricon Sales: “HEART STATION” HEART STATION 43rd Week Sales Weekly Ranking: TBA | 1,312 units | Total Sales: 1,004,342 units

Quote:

Utada.jp: “Come Back To Me” Chaku-Uta 1/21 Utada’s Japanese website has been updated with news that Chaku-Uta downloads for her single “Come Back To Me” will be available beginning on January 21st.

Wow, the first time I read the Musica Magazine. It's nice. I enjoy that all she talks about is her American Career! I've always wanted to know more.

I do hope that they promote the song really well. I doubt it though...they like to pour more money into people like Mariah Carey (her label IDJ).

when i bought Exodus it was in Pop/Rock

Exodus can be found in
-Pop/Rock
-Reggae
-Dance
-Country

What's next?

^ Gangster rap! xD;

LoL, I saw Exodus in the front of the store. She had her poster stand that had CDs on it. In other stores they put her in the Rock/Pop section and her singles in the dance/singles section. Of course, the Japanese version of Exodus is super easy to find. It's right there on the shelf in her own section.

LOL

dance's more fitting in a way

:rofl

& congrats to HEART STATION for finally crossing the magical million mark in sales :D

I bought the Japanese version of exodus online, because I wanted to see her translations into Japanese of the lyrics, and the cool slip case. I don't think I've seen it any stores, but then again I never really looked. For this new album though, I think I will look in the stores to buy it.

It's about 10 months since the release of HEART STATION and it's still selling 1000+ copies a week :thud

Yes! Finally passing 1 million mark! Good job hikki~~~~~
Wow I haven't been here for just 6 days or so, and the first english song was out already.. :P.

HS is so consistent! It's going to keep sellin for a while, IMO.

^ I agree. Pretty much all of Hikki's albums have had amazing chart runs :yes I can't see HS being an exception~