[Utada Hikaru] Shiawase ni Narou! It's the 20th Official Utada Hikaru Thread!

[sora-kara]

^you should just move here.
all of that is a reality for me 8)
and only 20 minutes and $2.40 on a bus away.

[Brodie Boy]

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

this is my dream:

Hikki's next English album will be well-promoted and popular enough you can actually buy it LIKE A NORMAL ALBUM in any normal music store in the USA and Europe! And other non-Asia areas of course!

For me, the closest store where they sell Exodus is 2 hours (and 40 euro's worth of public transport) away, and they only sell Exodus there because it's American. I really have to buy all my other j-pop online, there's no other option

(my dream gets very unreal here: maybe Hikki will even become popular enough to have her Japanese albums also sold here like normal CD's! that would be heaven)

This should happen!!

[CoriKaru]

I had no idea a new thread had been made being that the previous one hadn't reached 500 posts yet. Bizarre.

Well I actually just saw a commercial on the television and there's this "new" artist in America whose name is Karina and the title of her first Album is "First Love".

I found it interesting.

[Melon Panda]

Will the English album still be made with Island Records?

[Keiichi_JPU]

^ You mean Hikki's new English album right?

yep I guess she's still at Island. She's still listed as one of Islands artist on their website. And the "laterst" Hikki news there is from the "Do You" duet with Ne-Yo, so assuming that track will also be on her new album, Hikki is still at Island.

@sora-kara: Spoiled Hikki fan, is spoiled! ^__^ good for you though. I'd love that lol, I still really want to have First Love, Distance and Deep River!! I'm not a real Hikki fan unless I own those albums XD

[Luv ~Venus~]

OMFG x 970466584

You guys prolly wouldn't give a crap but oh well. I was watching Morning Express with Robin Made (I luv CNN okay! ) and when they were going to CM they played "You Make Me Want To Be A Man"! OMG! I freaked out and started singing to it. I was seriously liked shocked and just amazed. This is like the 3rd time I caught something featuring Hikki on tv and like the second time they played an Hikki song on her show. She or someone must really luv Exodus. They played Devil Inside and YMMWTBAM on her show...yeah, they most like Exodus. I might just be a matter of time until they play Easy Breezy..if they haven't already. If I end up catching them paly any song of hers, I'm seriously gonna freak out big time.

This only gives me hope that when she releases her second album that Robin will promote the album on her show like she do with most artists (like today she promoted Ice Cube's new album on there.). Also, I hope that VH1 will feature her on their "Artists You Ought To Know" segment. Seriously, that would be great great promotion for her since just about everyone that is featured on there become like really well known and great album sells. Amy Winehouse and Duffy were featured on there and they are pretty much luved her.....well, I can't say for sure of Amy now since she's been dubbed as a bad girl. Duffy is well liked her tho. There's another girl who is well popular her too but I can't remember her name. She had song that had this line: "I can write you a love song, if you ask for it." I did like that song too. XD

Spoiler:

Sorry, If I'm freaking you guys out by my Hikki fandom! ^_^'

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

I still really want to have First Love, Distance and Deep River!! I'm not a real Hikki fan unless I own those albums XD

OMG! I know right! I will have those three albums before her 10th anniversary comes up tho especally First Love (my fave hikki album forever). I already brought Exodus and her SC from someone...so Woot, to my first Hikki albums. (I so might make a thread for it. lol)

@Cori: It was at 500 posts (actually 504 posts) but the mods deleted some of the posts and closed the thread since a new thread was made.

^That's really cool that it was on, Shanny. Very cool, I remember not too long ago you posting something similar about CNN. Awesome

OMG YOU GUYS! HEART STATION actually WENT UP recently! I'm so happy! It was at #60 this week (last week it was #71) and it sold 2,254 units!!! Total sales so far is 981,134. ~19k more to go

[Luv ~Venus~]

^Yea, the last time they played Devil Inside which I was speechless...because I couldn't believe they played a song of hers.

Anyway, I'm happy that she finally reached the 980k point. I hope she can keep selling in the 1k-2k range for the next few weeks. My faith in this album crossing the million mark is strong again. This will be too cool if two female artists were to crooss the million point. Like when was that the last time that happened? What 2004? DDDD:

Hikki question: In the Hayatochi-Remix, is she saying, "Oh my God!" "Just Leave me alone?" in the background? DDDD: I have been luving this song for the past few days and I still can't make out what she is saying in the background.

[PSYCHEDELICOdust]

Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~

^Yea, the last time they played Devil Inside which I was speechless...because I couldn't believe they played a song of hers.

Anyway, I'm happy that she finally reached the 980k point. I hope she can keep selling in the 1k-2k range for the next few weeks. My faith in this album crossing the million mark is strong again. This will be too cool if two female artists were to crooss the million point. Like when was that the last time that happened? What 2004? DDDD:

Hikki question: In the Hayatochi-Remix, is she saying, "Oh my God!" "Just Leave me alone?" in the background? DDDD: I have been luving this song for the past few days and I still can't make out what she is saying in the background.

That's usually what I hear in the background myself. Good choice on a song to love lol.

[CoriKaru]

Anybody remember that sears Commercial that was airing like 2-3 years ago that would play the end part of Utada's "WINGS" songs? It's not actual vocals but the part that lasts for a while at the very end. I did hear that Utada herself sampled that exact part that was in her song so the commercial may not have had anything to do with Utada, with them sampling it as well from the original artist.

[AyUta]

Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~

Hikki question: In the Hayatochi-Remix, is she saying, "Oh my God!" "Just Leave me alone?" in the background? DDDD: I have been luving this song for the past few days and I still can't make out what she is saying in the background.

Yes she does! I thought it was really cute!

[Luv ~Venus~]

Originally Posted by PSYCHEDELICOdust

That's usually what I hear in the background myself. Good choice on a song to love lol.

LOL! Ikr! The thing is, I didn't know that Hayatochiri had a remix until a few days ago. I was on limewire dling a few of her songs and like I saw Hayatochi-remix and without really thinking about the difference of the two, I dled it thinking it was the original version. When I listened to it on my ipod, I was like, "What is this? Hayatochiri doesn't sound like this! " I looked at it again and saw that it said remix....but it still didn't click in fully to me that this was the remix until I looked it up on her wiki.theppn page. I was like, "OMG! I can't believe I'm just now discovering this! :embrassed" The odd thing about is that like I kinda knew about but didn't know about. Like, on her Distance wikipedia page, they tell us the difference between the titles (i.e. It's called Hayatochiri but she remixed and renamed as Hayatochi-Remix) but I overlooked it I guess because I always thought I was listening to the remix since it's actually a full version of Intrelude from FL. DDD:

@AyUta: LOL! Thankies! I'm glad I discoverd the remix tho because the original is okay but I don't listen to it all the time. Sorta like how I don't listen to Kotobani Naranai Kimochi and Kettobase all the time either. DDD: This remix made me luv Hikki's R&B stuff like 86968809096 times more again. lol I really luv the R&B tone to it plus her vocals. Her vocals were really on point and shows off her vocal quailty during her younger years.

Originally Posted by CoriKaru

Anybody remember that sears Commercial that was airing like 2-3 years ago that would play the end part of Utada's "WINGS" songs? It's not actual vocals but the part that lasts for a while at the very end. I did hear that Utada herself sampled that exact part that was in her song so the commercial may not have had anything to do with Utada, with them sampling it as well from the original artist.

That wasn't a sample, that was all original music and vocals in WINGS. I saw the commercial and it actually did use WINGS itself.

[Luv ~Venus~]

^

I only saw the Burlington Coat Factory CM that had a sample of Wings in it. I never did see the Sears CM. Lucky guys!

Originally Posted by Foxxy_Fuyumi

HELLO HELLO I am back to the Hikki thread xDDD
And lovee the title Miss Shan-san!
I feel soon we will have more newwsss! Let's wait a bit more people!

Foxxy! Foxxy! Foxxy! I missed you sooooo much! Please be on here more often okay. I luv you being around here. I even used one of your masterpieces because I missed you so much plus it was beautiful. Thankies for the compliment.

[Mirai Noah]

^ I never got to see either commerical.

I <3 HAYATOCHI-REMIX.

[Beauty4123]

you can see utada's HS poster at 1:24 in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qyMKmi0hfA

[CoriKaru]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

you can see utada's HS poster at 1:24 in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qyMKmi0hfA

Those were the days huh......

Anticipation for HEART STATION was at an all time high with posters thrown around everywhere. Performances here, performances there. Utada in her puffy clothes all tanned and the like. People praying that "Boku wa Kuma" would be on the Album. People speculating that HEART STATION could possibly reach 1 Million in sales.

*Sigh*

Yeah, I remember those days.

http://ds.ign.com/articles/725/725433p1.html

Here's an article done in 2006 about Utada's Tetris Tournament. I don't know how I feel about how they said, "She didn't live up to the academic scene." I didn't realize she had anything to live up, not to mention she quit of her own accord because of her career. It's not as if she failed. Anyway, did you guys know that Utada may possibly be viewed as a "MILF" someday, and that legitimate sources actually use the term "MILF"?

Ha.

[CHE.R.RY]

Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~

Hikki question: In the Hayatochi-Remix, is she saying, "Oh my God!" "Just Leave me alone?" in the background? DDDD: I have been luving this song for the past few days and I still can't make out what she is saying in the background.

Rofl I always loved that xD! It's just so random and unexpected. And yes, that's what she's saying .

[Keiichi_JPU]

@CoriKaru: MILF?! I didn't know what it meant but I googled it. Do you mean what I think you mean? and why? she's not even a mother.

[CoriKaru]

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

@CoriKaru: MILF?! I didn't know what it meant but I googled it. Do you mean what I think you mean? and why? she's not even a mother.

Haha. No no my friend. In the article that I posted a link to above, they referred to her possibly being that in the future and so I was referring back to that statement in a bewildered manner because of the fact that they even said that in the article. Not that it's an insult to Utada, more rather it kind of being inappropriate and unprofessional.