I think it has a very LL2 sound and actually reminds me of ETERNAL☆SUNSHINE.

Everyone should do a track by track review of the album :yes

I'll start


1. Hands up!!: This song is pretty catchy. However I don't really think that much of it and not for any specific reason. I guess it just doesn't seems like anything special to me. Her english is pretty good, its comprehensible and that says a lot.
2. Time Machine: Really cheerful. Reminds me of her classic music style but still kind of brings something new to the table. The only thing I don't like is how this song is so short.
3. Private Flower: It's simple, I don't like this song. It sounds like a knock off a Ami Suzuki song. I also find it kind of boring.
4. Heaven & Paradise ~ 2010 ~ make money: I don't really have anything to say about this song. I like it and thats about it.
5. Lights on☆: Pretty funk and different from her usual material but it works. One of my favorites. I reminds me a lot of that song "What Is Love" from that movie A Night at the Roxbury LOL.
6. Spirit☆: My favorite from the whole album. It's like a feel good song and gives off those "Happy days let's have fun" vibe.
7: Sweet & Honey: Sounds like a Perfume song. I like Perfume but my problem with song is that it doesn't really seem to go anywhere, it just stays on the same level for the entire song.
8. Love me♥ Love body☆: I've loved this song since I first heard it. It fits the album and yet at the same time it kinda doesn't. I think its because its really rocky and classic hitomi style unlike most of the other songs on the album.
9. Freedom☆: Not a bad song, but I think the autotune is a bit much.
10. Supernova: Not anything special. Honestly I forgot it was on the album.
11. Song for you☆: It's a nice song. But I think it would be better had it been on LL2.
12. Rollin' wit da Homies: You can barely even hear hitomi during the song; its more like Rollin' wit da Homies ft. hitomi. Also it sounds like one of those awful songs by one of those horrible Alternative Rock band. Total thumbs down.

The album was really good. It's a shame it won't get the promotion and publicity it deserves. Also I think it would have been better had Smile world been included.

hands up!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song, I knew it since I listen to the first few seconds. Im not sure if the vocoder make hitomi sounds like she's pronouncing the english phrases so well or what, but she sounds like she speak them fluently! I really like the atmosphere in this song, I bet this will be the first song in her upcoming concert and she maybe have some hand movement to teach the audience to do it with her when she sing this song.

Time Machine This song is good, but just good. I think hands up was too amazing that making this song doesnt sound so memorable to me. And yah this song is so short, but I dont really care about this song :P the chorus sounds interesting though

Private Flower omg I feel this is one of the songs that rejected by Kylie or Britney :laugh and the producer let hitomi sing this song. I like this song, but I dont love it, it's not what hitomi did in the past, it's refreshing, sounds cool too, and sounds 100% western music style


2010 I LOVE this song. It's so summery, the song gives me so much positive energy, I got a great feeling listening to this song. It reminds me of eternal sunshine from LL2. A great song for party as well.

Lights on Is this the first dark themed upbeat song that hitomi has sang ever? this is so new to her, I love how the song sounds in this song, it's very western too, i hope I have a better earphone so that I can feel the bass, it should be even sound better

Spirit This is a continuous of 2010 I guess, I love it how they give me positive energy when listening to them, just like LOVE2000 as well. I think this is one of the reason why I like hitomi. She just make every song sound so positive, so supportive.

Sweet and honey This sounds like take me take me by perfume, I like TMTM, but not this one. I just skip it.

LMLB Love it since I listened it to the preview. Hands down to this song.

Freedom This is not bad, but not a fan of the melody of the song. She sounds pretty good with those vocoder, but not memorable enough

Supernova I dont like how the verse sounds, but the chorus sounds pretty cool. Along with 2010 and spirit, these are the songs that are so summery, so good to be played in summer activity or even beach.

Song for you It's nice to hear there's finally a slower song in this album, and this song sounds so perfect with hitomi's vocal, and with the decoration of the strings, just make the song sounds so perfect, really love it

rollin with da homies I'm surprise how people hate this song. I know you barely hear hitomi in the song, and she kinda messed up all the lyrics, but at least the weezer guy's voice is so cute and sexy, and the melody is so light and fun, I LOVE how this song end the whole album, it even sounds like an encore song.

overall, this is a very good album by hitomi. Very refreshing, a very nice try for hitomi to explore more music league, and this album proves that she did it very well. Well done hitomi.

Fav track: hands up!!
Least fav track: sweet and honey

So I guess I'm not the only one who thought that song sounded like Perfume.

I was browsing her older picture in twitter, and there're so many of them! she looks so great

http://twitpic.com/1fapn8
http://twitpic.com/1oa0ds
http://twitpic.com/1r5wpx
http://twitpic.com/1rrbpi
http://twitpic.com/1ritu6
http://twitpic.com/2ukqlf
http://twitpic.com/3k6j60

Anyone have any scans / pictures of the new album :D

Haha @ her bubble dress.

Yeah second this.

125 1,055 *,**1,055 hitomi SPIRIT 2011/4/27 MXM 1

ooops

So it's number 125?

1055..that's really sad

Yeah. But there was no promotion whatsoever besides the announcement on her blog and website.

doesnt sound interesting :(

^
But don't they usually use early/rough versions of songs whenever they appear in CMs or as the opening/ending theme for a TV show? I am is different in the intro of Inuyasha than it is on the huma-rhythm.

gasp! Another song!? It sounds cute and fun!

^nope, it was aired in the TV before SPIRIT was released. There are 2 new song, one for the opening and the ending theme of that cartoon

Didn't know she had a new album out, just started listening to it. Hitomi rocks.

^she was, she is and still will rock

Wow this thread is dead and she just released a new album.

On Sunday June 12th at 17:00 (JPN time) they're putting on live broadcast of her show at Akasaka Blitz @ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/junstv.

I'm very disappointed by how poorly this album did, it charted for 1 week and has only sold 1055 copies. Do guys think she might be at risk for being dropped? She's already kinda been demoted from her own sub label to the indie label.

I think the fact that she's leaving avex for this album was the reason that the album sold poorly. Her last single sold pretty good compared to the other, wasnt it?

I missed the concert :( and it doesnt seems like available for us to watch the recorded video. Too bad