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Originally Posted by CoriKaru
I will say it was one of the first Japanese songs and videos I heard and saw and when I did I thought, "Wow......this sounds simultaneously alien, foreign and as oriental as anything I'd expect out of Japan and so I thought EVERYTHING in Japan sounded like this. I didnt think there would be different genres or anything. I thought Japanese was a genre and "Sakura DROPS" WAS it and all there was.
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You know... actually Sakura doroppusu was actually the very first "oriental" song from hikki. (Or that's the only one if you think Kairo doesn't sound "oriental"). Like I said I didn't like the song in the beginning because it sounded so not R&B at all. I was used to her R&B style from First Love to Distance. traveling and Hikari aren't really R&B but at least they sound modern, but Sakura sounded like a song for a 60's movie. (well actually Hikari sounds like something you'll sing on a grassland with lots of wild animals surrounding hikki
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Of course, in the end I think Sakura doroppusu as one of the signature songs and DEEP RIVER as her best album (I think I should stop right here or else we'll start another best album debate again).
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Originally Posted by drdolce
Exodus sounds like Hikki to me. It's just that it takes a bit more experimental tone than before. I mean, DEEP RIVER was rather experimental but to me Exodus is probably the most experimental album in her discography. At first I didn't like the album too much but later I found so many gems from it that I really started to love it♥
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I agree. Exodus is totally a DEEP RIVER pt. 2 (music wise), except it's in English and it's more experimental than DR.