[Utada Hikaru] 58th Thread: New album BAD Mode, out 19.1.2022

[bluegie]

Well I'm a bit shocked that she only sang one song from UB.

First Love (2): First Love, Automatic
Distance (0): None
DEEP RIVER (3): traveling, SAKURAドロップス, 光
ULTRA BLUE (1): COLORS
HEART STATION (2): Prisoner Of Love, Kiss & Cry
Single Collection Vol. 2 (1): Goodbye Happiness
Fantôme (5): 道, ともだち, 真夏の通り雨, 花束を君に, 俺の彼女
初恋 (6): あなた, Too Proud, 誓い, Forevermore, 初恋, Play A Love Song

Half of the songs in this concert are from her post-hiatus albums. I'm kinda shocked she didn't sing Flavor Of Life, consider this song was mega popular back in 2007.

[ahtka-chan]

Originally Posted by bluegie

Well I'm a bit shocked that she only sang one song from UB.

And it's literally the oldest and the most performed song of the album.

That's the pity of her only touring once in a lifetime, we always get single-driven setlist and very few (when it happens) album tracks.

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by ahtka-chan

And it's literally the oldest and the most performed song of the album.

That's the pity of her only touring once in a lifetime, we always get single-driven setlist and very few (when it happens) album tracks.

Most concerts are single-driven (hence lately there are more so called side-track concerts), but I believe UB has more than one popular songs. I know that UB probably was the "rock bottom" in her career (BML got less than 100K on the first week, Passion was the first single she couldn't get no. 1 (well no. 3 precisely), UB was the first album not getting over 1 million copies on the first week, and the only album not getting over 1 million copies overall before hiatus), but she did pretty well in digital (at least Keep Tryin' was pretty popular), and BLUE was pretty popular as the album song. Dunno why she only did one.

And for Distance... it remains as a mystery. Probably she hates the album as well lol.

[Xianghua]

Lots of info up ahead.

1. Hikari and Chikai from the tour will be made available on PlayStation VR December 25th.
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/...ahikaruvr.html

2. Face My Fears Short Ver. KH3 opening trailer
English:


Japanese:


3. Face My Fears analog jacket, drawn by Tetsuya Nomura


4. Tour concert report with more photos on Natalie
https://natalie.mu/music/news/311125
direct link to photo gallery-> https://natalie.mu/music/gallery/news/311125/1066885

5. To celebrate her 20th anniversary there are 2018 remastered versions of the following albums:
Distance
Deep River
Ultra Blue
Heart Station
*These are available digitally and on streaming services

https://www.universal-music.co.jp/ut...18-remastered/

6. Additional Info on the TV broadcast:
Sky Perfect - January 27th, 9pm
M-On! - March 10th, 8pm

7. Don't Think Twice will be available for streaming December 10th at midnight in every country.

[Zeke.]

She really should have worked with Porter Robinson. He created a whole album and artist concept inspired by things like Simple & Clean and that sound (+anime, Final Fantasy, Jpop, Japanese cyberpunk culture, etc.)



What a wasted opportunity.

The track with Skrillex isn't bad, but it's very adapted to his style, which I am not a fan of.