how cool would it be to be in the same class with Hikki xD

2010 is a year of disbands, taking hiatuses and retirements for me. :(

A bittersweet news... I'm happy that she's finally said something proper to fans and decided to put this album... Of course I can't be glad that we have to wait for her more though. But... I can wait. I'm anticipating really good, mindblowing new songs in the Singles Collection and I'm sure she's going to come back with amazing music. Man, I haven't listened to her for ages... I have a Hikki marathon right now, listening to all albums... First Love is such a masterpiece.

Just read about the hiatus.
I will miss her too, but if it's what she needs, she should have space and rest.
Man 2010 is really a crap year...

What will become of the hikaru threads? We are just kind of moving along talking about nothing for the last few threads, and that was just between february (end of the concerts) and now in august. What will there be to talk about for the next 5 years? Do you think the threads will just die out? I have a feeling, we really do not have enough to talk about for that long without going completely off track. Until this announcement, we were just getting by, by talking about whatever as long as it was hikki related. Who knows how we will be in that long. Imagine all the fans she will lose after such a long wait. T_T

I come here today and find this~

I think deep inside there's a part of my heart that is sad and wants to cry. But right now I'm not feeling it

This! This is bull****. Like wtf, hikki. Like okay. How is that 3 out of 5 of my most fav and touching musicians ever are on like super long haitus for various reasons. All I have left is Ayu (bless her soul) and MUCC. Like wtf?!
I don't think ill miss her much but its a shame. But I'm all for her putting her heart first. And not mer music career. Although I think she's often done that.
Anyhow I only wish the best for her as I always do and look forward to another hikki dominated year as of course anything she releases will sell excellently

I expect this compilation album to be the best selling album of the year.
For one. Its Utada Hikaru. Secondly it has 4-5 new songs (like a normal album might have). Also she hasn't released new songs in a while. The combination of new songs (like album tracks) + compilations always sell well anyway + she announced she's leaving (so what dedicated hikki fan who can buy it wouldn't buy it) will make this album explode on the oricon lol. And if it doesn't then japan has really changed.
I mean this is the most perfect compilation album. It better sell well. And I'm sure hikkis putting all her heart and soul into the new tracks
Damn why can't all compilation albums have all these new songs. Cmon A Complete lol.
Maybe ill make my parents buy this. Although I'd rather have new ayu singles I think

Oh hikki~ such a simple person but one with talent. I wish she had the personal drive to release more but I'm all good
Ill be just fine musically surviving off of ayu and MUCC (and then hikki and others old works)

If this were two yrs ago where she was my number 1 inspiration I might be crying. But nowadays she not and I feel fine strangely.
Good luck to you, hikki, baby. :heart I just want to send her a bunch of love messages

LOL, she's been away from jpop for like 4 years, and now she says she's gonna take some years off?
Dunno what to say really... That's how she is I guess... Her comeback album better be THE album of 2011/12/13/14/15 or whatever!
At least some new songs this autumn, I hope they're awesome and not just something she slapped together to ease her conscience bcz she's having a break lol. I bet they're good! :)

Bittersweet news, but it's her life, and it's not like she has some kind of responsibility for her fans, she didn't sign a contract with us for anything, so I guess it's fair... Gah, still kinda sad news...

The problem for her though, might be if she actually doesn't release anything at all for five years, she will lose alot of fans who will forget about her along the way...
If I see her having new music in 2015, I might not even check it out, you know what I mean? There are artists I liked 5-6 years ago, that i wouldn't even bother to listen to if they had new material today. It's not like people will sit around refreshing her website daily for the next 5 years because she might have news about her music. So when the day finally comes, alot of her old fans might not even bother.

(There, my mini-rant about her break) >_<;;

I dont mind if they die out....as long as they don't become the troll convention that is the Utada Hikaru thread @ JPM forum. :rolleyes. You all know who you are.

Still kind of weirded out by how some people seemed not to be expecting this?

Besides, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often in Japanese music. Western artists take breaks all the time. Green Day took 5 years between American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Madonna generally takes a good 3/4 years between studio albums. (Granted, they often spend part of these years touring or making videos for singles, but it still means no new music.)

^They're all used to Avex and their monthly cycle :laugh

I'm with you on that. I don't go to another place, but I can think of another Utada place that's nothing but a breeding ground for trolls now. :innocent

JPM is only full of trolls anyway.

Why anyone would love that community is beyond me.

First time that we have essays in a hikki thread:laugh

I'm so surprise in people's reaction, what you didn't know it was bound to happen?

She's beengone for like two years already, it's no surprise she's not coming back. And a lazy best album is no explosive finale :l

I am really sad but at the same time happy for her that she is taking off from her career to focus on real life like we face every day. And OMG a Singles Collection Vol. 2 with new songs! :D

@Polyrhythm: are there really that many people here on the hikki thread at jpm. I never noticed.
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Lol guys what's wrong with JPM? Lovely haters/people. Which reminds me I haven't been there since a few days after I joined XD the hikki fans there all have a stick up there a**. And even took the time to bash me behind my back (why can't they say it to my face and not another site lol) for saying nothing rude or offensive. I like this hikki thread and I'm gonna miss it while it fades into oblivion.
Maybe I should visit jpm to check on the reason I don't like talking to hikki fans anymore (although you guys -well most of you- are quite lovely)
I don't even consistently post in the other artist thrads here T.T I need this one

Man its gonna be a long time until the hikki thread can be consistently active. Hopefully ayu doesn't retire :)

At least well axctually have stuff to talk about now :yes

First of all it's not a lazy best because she's including 4 or 5 new songs. Second, you have no idea how explosively awesome these songs are probably going to be. Stop judging music before it's even released. I saw you do the same with Crossroad and L, and I'm sorry but it's ridiculous.

(I'm sorry but I'm a bit agitated after this news, don't take it too personally)

:rainbow

^Agreed. At the risk of sounding like a Hikki-stan... everything Hikki releases is explosively awesome! xD

I agree with you.

But I also agree that it's a lazy release. She could have done more to say goodbye...

Expectation and emotion may not be directly proportional.

As a fan since 1999, I've been encountering hikki's hiatus from time to time. I'm sure most of you have the same experience. We know hikki's release schedule. Sometimes she took a long time to release a new album (First Love to Distance (back then I consider that as a big gap), DEEP RIVER to ULTRA BLUE), sometimes she just came up with new materials in a really short time (Distance to DEEP RIVER, and possibly UB to HS). No matter what everytime I was so eager to wait for her new stuff. After all, she's hikki, the person who dragged me into the JPop World. For every single hiatus she was on, I wait either patiently or getting annoyed or no new hikki songs (not getting annoyed by her btw).

This time, she even releases a statement about the hiatus. It makes me fear of the no hikki songs for another long term of time. It's like... her songs has been around me for 11 years, and even tho she didn't produce anything in some moments, at least I felt like she was doing something about music. Now all of the sudden I see a gap in front of the hikki's bridge. It could be a small gap (2-3 yrs?), or it could be big one (5+). I feel a bit sad and empty, but at the same time I agree that she should explore her life. Looking at her blogs, it's always kuma, music, and some little stuff. Like her said, it may seem like she has lots of rare experience gained as a musician (traveling around the world, being a statue worshiped by tons of people, gotta meeting different types of people, etc). At the same time she's somehow isolated from real world (I think she's less severe than ayu tho...). It may good a good moment for her to put down her music stuff, and try to do something else (e.g., go back to school again, travel around the world to look at beautiful stuff instead of meeting people from the industry, etc.).

When she's back to music, I will stand in line for sure :).

I guess we may let the hikki thread fading out, or make it as a place for hikki fan to talk (hey this is a rather peaceful area compared to other hikki's forum). I dun think hikki will lose tons of fans. You know, when she's been in your hearts for more than a few years (e.g., me 11 yrs), it's hard to wipe her out from my mind. I'm sure that she will release some OMG music, because she's hikki.

That will be the end of my JPop world. Two of my most beloved artists are leaving?? Can't imagine that :'( (I have three most beloved artists: hikki and ayu from Japan, and Sammi Cheng from HK :P)

I thought it was said that this wasn't the last thing and that she would do stuff til the end of the year. Maybe I should improve my reading skills
Like at least do something afterwards...

Regardless I'm excited for the new songs. I wasn't so excited for hikki since TITO (which was average and kinda sad) so I'm hoping this time the excitement is worth it. Worth it being Ultra Blue quality if she wants to go out with a bang. HS quality is tolerable though.
Let's go hikki!