the 2nd offical thread of erika sawajiri

[Raleigh]

Um... that's pretty obvious. I just don't get what it has to do with Sony being experimental.

[cloud♥honey]

And Mika? I forgot her when I was talking to you. She's not the obvious. I hope Erika run her way, proving various different styles.

[Raleigh]

Mika experiments? Since when? Her music's either ballads or ballads. The only time she did something different was because of NANA when Sony was pretty sure that Mika would sell anyway, even if the quality wasn't that great. And they only did it because NANA was a craze back then.

[cloud♥honey]

She has a lot of experiments. Fine, she had a reggae song, a pop-ish song, rock-ish songs, western music, blues, ballads (as you said), instrumentals, "original" japanese songs and stuff. And by the way are you still thinking she doesn't? =O

[Raleigh]

They all sounded the same to me except the NANA releases. All of them were ballads or soft pop.

And some of the stuff you mentioned are not experiments but just random stuff thrown around. J-Pop, Western and ballads are not experiments. They are regular J-Pop and almost all J-Pop female singers constantly churn that stuff in the J-Pop Industry. Instrumentals is not a genre or an experiment. And I've listened to some of her blues/reggae stuff and it sounds very much like her regular stuff with some minor tweaks.

If you seriously want to see some bold experiments see someone like Ayu or Hitomi Shimatani who have experimented with a load of genres. Anyway there's no need for Erika to experiment. People like her pop-rock and she fits well with that genre without sounding like a chipmunk so I'm happy with her direction.

[cloud♥honey]

Yeah, I agree but I don't feel the same about Ayu. Shima is totally crazy and nonsense (that's a joke, no worry) to do various styles like them. Neva Eva was funny, I loved that!

[Raleigh]

You're serious? Ayu is probably the most experimental and daring artist in Japan. And Shimatani, I guess she has nothing to lose so we get a load of fun material. Neva Eva was an awesome release

[cloud♥honey]

Shima rocks, that's why I love her and her awesome voice. Ok, I have to say, I had to wait a time to accostum me with her strong voice as well but now she's quite fine to me.

Ayu? Oh, do you think this? I have to agree again with a thing again. Recently, I'm really impressionated with her stuff and "revolutions" in her music, but in old stuff I don't think it was experimental and stuff like it. I think they were normal songs. That's why I love her newest stuff. I just like/love some songs of her "older stuff" and no more. I was impressionated very much with knowing Japanese music before, that's why I thought I was loving her older stuff.

Since Memorial address, she's the best for me. And probably it won't change anymore.

[Raleigh]

Yeah most of her newer stuff is more daring and I enjoy it more too

[LacusClyne]

i was reading the above posts, and for a minute, i fear that the both of you are gonna start fighting.....then the topic start to change to ayu??? *ke ke ke*

anyway, i'm fine with the current Erika, this is her! i would feel uncomfortable if she starts to sing sugar pop

[AyuGAME]

by the way her "destination nowhere" PV, looks very interesting, but i think it will be an eye candy PV with no meaning

[Raleigh]

The thing I'm liking best from this new song is the pronunciation of English. No crappy Engrish being butchered to death.

[AyuGAME]

but when she sings "wind is crying"
i don't know that part is an english lyrics, i thought its japanese...

[sora2522]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

by the way her "destination nowhere" PV, looks very interesting, but i think it will be an eye candy PV with no meaning

well, it looks pretty good...i like htat really cool effect with her closing in and then zooming out XD

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

but when she sings "wind is crying"
i don't know that part is an english lyrics, i thought its japanese...

i always thought she was saying when it's night XD

[cloud♥honey]

I thought she was singing "Take ant to the sky, whhoore is craw" XDDDDDDDD

[AyuGAME]

^LOL
i know that she say "take off to the sky" and then i thought she sings something in japanese..haha..but this song ROCKS!!! love it

[Beauty4123]

the PV's airing on the 5th. which means by sunday night (for me) the PV should be up on JPS. i'll stay up for how long it takes, lol.

[sora2522]

I WANT IT NOW *dies*

[AyuGAME]

^same...i think i already played "destination nowhere" for about 100times...this song ROCKS, hope the PV is good

[Weslicious]

I saw 7 people who like my kind of music post here. What's her genre?

*Needs new Pop*