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Originally Posted by njanjayrp
^ The only thing that I could disagree with is the statement that Hikki isn't doing anything to satisfy the public, wasn't the whole purpose of creating This Is The One for public to easier accept her music, as opposed to EXODUS which was more or less experimental? HEART STATION was also very poppy sounding and it had an over all more positive feel to it (that imo UB didn't have), UB and HS are imo pretty similar genre-wise as Utada also developed a recognizable sound over the years, sure she doesn't have as many songs as Ayu and to casual listeners her music might seem more fresh, but I've been listening to her since 2002 and yes her music did have some obvious changes and freshness to it at least back then, but in my opinion she has been running in circles since Keep Tryin' the same way Ayu has since Memorial Address.
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I never like hikki's English side in the first place so I dun really care about TITO or Exodus. But true TITO is much more radio friendly compared to Exodus. As for UB and HS, they are in similar genre (synth computerized music) except, like you said, the former album was pretty blue. Also, the way she constructed the songs and the album was too complicated at some degrees. HS is a more soothing one and I prefer HS much more than UB in overall. Still HS isn't something really public friendly at all. TITO gives me a feeling that she's going to head into another direction again and I really expect her to release something weird, as she loves to do experimental stuff in Japanese side.
I should stop right here cuz I dun wanna turn this into hikki vs. ayu thread, which is not my intention. When I brought out hikki, what I meant is that I hope ayu could resume her popularity like how hikki did after UB period. They are two of my most beloved artists (the last one is a Hong Kong singer btw
), so I want to see them doing good
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