Probly this one is too advanced? lol. If this is a slower/"tidier" jazz, the song would gain more love :P.

my iTunes says I've been listening to this song ~35 times in 2 days :P.

LOL I read sukide, sukide, sukide as suicide, suicide, suicide XDDD Wow for a Japanese iTunes they got some twitchworthy incorrect tags.

she's utada after all


I personally love the jazz

LOL Indeed it looks like "suicide, suicide, suicide".

omg it does look like it! lol

But everybody knows that Japanese people don't think hard

:innocent

Sorry if I'm harsh...but that's me. I'm pissed at this song. lol
I know people here who love everything Rihanna does, and I'm like...really?

I can't talk cause I am completely biased when it comes to ayu...but ughhh

sorry if I offended anyone.

BUT STILL. UGHHHH

Well, Japan is known for having different tastes...

The song is only number 1 because it's utada hikaru. Anything she releases is going to be at the top. Given they know about it lol

If I remember correctly iTunes actually isnt that popular in Japan at all like it is in the US or UK.

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN.
I love hikki, but ugh.

If ayu did this song, I would not want her to get #1.

so, whatever japan.

Hikki is Hikki. She's a sales monster!

I don't get the whole "I don't like this song by an artist I like so I don't want it to get no. 1" attitude. Seems a bit childish : /

lol why did I immediately hear this as the song in my head? I listen too much music. And so do you ;)


This is true. She's kind of "Japan's sweetheart", and she takes so long releasing things, every single one of her albums feels like a come-back after a long break or something :laugh

Hikki's way of releasing stuff is good. It's good to wait imo. And I don't care how much time she uses to produce amazing music, because I know I'll blown outta my mind at once. <3

I love this ahahahha

How is it childish?
When I like an artist, of course I want them to reach the top.
If they release something of extremely low quality like this, and doesn't deserve to be at the top, shouldn't something else that DOES deserve it, get it?

That's what I meant.

^This is Japan. It is very possible that everything else being released atm is crap.

very good point. lol

Yeah this is true. I thought Koda Kumi's Sukide Sukide Sukide should have been the weekly #1 also. Japanese people do indeed make poor choices sometimes. I wouldn't blame them if Hymme does badly though....its not that much of a hit song. At least its doing okay atm.

I get what you mean, it's just that you can't really use the word "deserve" when talking about music. : P

Most music these days might not "deserve" to hit no. 1, but I don't mind if it does, as long as there's also good music to listen to.

It's a bit silly to discuss this, though, since it's your opinion : P. I can see where you're coming from, though

Guys, i love Utada´s recent stUFF(ULTRA BLUE and Heart Station) but i hardly listen to her older songs (appart from First Love song, Distance, Final Distance, Sakura Drops and Letters). What do you recommend for a "Stay Gold"-type songs fan??

^there isn't much to recommend. She only has 5 albums, and you said you already listen to/like her latest 2 albums. That only leaves 3 albums worth of songs to pick. I'm not even sure. Especially since you mentioned you already like sakura drops, letters, final distance, and first love.

I was listening to PoL earlier... I'd love another song similar to this :heart great lyrics, beautiful composition... the quiet version is amazing too.

Yes! It was my favorite song off the album when it was first released, and then when she said it'd be a recut single. I was like :thud :D yay

^ hi-5~

I remember watching Last Friends and I fell in love with it that way! It's my fave off HS as well

Deep River is the closest in terms of sound... Final Distance, Sakura Drops and Letters are all from that era...

this is actually true lol
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on another note. i love hymne a l'amour. its what i need right now

since a week ago ive been obsessing over jazz, big band, and swing styles. and learning about it and all

and personally im very happy that hikki has covered this song. cuz it fits the jazzy style ive been really into lately. thank god im in this mood or i probably wouldve had negative views of this song :D

i hope everyone that doesnt like this song (and i can understand why and all) will have another they like with the new songs.

^^I hope I like the other new songs as well!

I wonder if can't wait till Christmas will actually be a Christmas song...

^ I hope not. D:

I hope it's a really dark ballad. That would certainly reflect my feelings of the winter and Christmas, I really don't want another All I Want For Christmas type of song. Way too cheerful for such a depressing time.

Rumor that Utada is a lesbian lol

http://community.livejournal.com/ara...t/1341394.html

^
:roflmao Either way, it wouldn't change a damn thing that I love about her! :)

This doesn't surprise me. She could release a 5-minute track of pure silence entitled "UTADA HIKARU" and it would sell like crazy.

Lesbian? I don't really care, it has always been rumoured...

WHAT x_x

Isn't Ayu a reported lesbian too? They can get together and have a drinking party. They can catch up from that time when they karaoke-d at that gay bar.

^I always thought it was suspicious they both dropped their men around the same time >_>

Ayu is definitely not a lesbian. I've believed Hikki was for years now...I don't know how people don't see it.

Next thing I know people will be trying to tell me that KD Lang is straight.

They did?

I wouldn't be surprise if Hikki and Ayu are secretly dating. j/k

^I wouldn't be surprised either! Taking over Japan :laugh....well I think Ayu would probably go for someone younger, maybe BoA. She's pretty hot right now. Hikki may be a bit old for Ayu's tastes in young curtsey things.

^Not really, considering she is too much into Midoring, that should be around Ayu's age...

I wouldn't be shocked if both of them were at least bi

I couldn't agree more! </3

What should she sing at Yokohama? My picks:

01. Deep River
02. Passion
03. BLUE <---hello. long overdue
04. Flavor of Life
05. Beautiful World
06. Prisoner of Love
07. Making Love
08. Final Distance
09. First Love <---as if its not happening
10. Shiawase ni Narou
11. This Is Love <---love it or hate it :P
12. Time will tell
13. Hikari
14. Can You Keep A Secret
15. Eternity

and maybe Teiku 5 and Kairo....with videos or something as a transition....She's going to probably try to pull some English songs in....hope she doesnt but if she does, hopefully they're On and On, This One (Crying....) or Kremlin Dusk.

I'm hoping for more album tracks from ULTRA BLUE and HEART STATION, than the usual A-side lives. I would love to see Nijiiro BASU and Nichiyo No Asa live. <3

woooooooo lesbian my hikki?

ooooooh yes

Hikki's twit.
I love Hikki!

AWWWWWW

LOL :roflmao

RETWEET. <3

she's not a lesbian. haha / yay. let's all make our concert tracklist! haha

-concert intro- (I was so bored one day I actually made a video to show what I want her opening video to be for her next concert. lol)
01. Let me give you my love
02. THE WORKOUT
03. traveling ~ celebrate ~ traveling
04. Fight The Blues
05. Heart Station
06. Hotel Lobby
07. Prisoner of Love
08. Hymne a l'amour
09. Taking My Money Back
10. This one
11. FYI
12. First Love
13. Deep River
14. Making Love
15. Kairo
16. Nichiyo No Asa
17. About Me

^loved that face! She's thinking "dumb ass people who can't recognize the genius of this song" :laugh

I'm glad! :yes

And about Hikki's tweet, Yeah I definitely wish! I would LOVE it if she was gay. It so fits her. I've actually always kinda thought of her as gay, I mean she's just so.. so gay :laugh In a very good way, might I add!

YES omg. I just spend the last 5 minutes spamming the crap out of hikki's twitter about In the Flesh tour on dvd lol

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9...intheflesh.png

hahaha I feel so happy :D Even if she already said this and I'm late. It's greatness.

YAY! HA-PPIEEEEE.......except they're going to mix footage and not have just one concert it seems =/. It would've been cool to watch the NYC live MC-intact.....but it looks like its going to be like budokan again.

Hikki goes to ni-choume? I think it's scary at night O_O.

Yay, glad that it will be released! :)

I think i might buy the concert when it comes out on dvd.

as for the yokohama concert (is that what it's called?) I hope she performs mostly ultra blue/heart station/exodus songs. Just stay away from tito. she actually sang all but 3 songs from the album during the itf tour so I hope she's done with that. she so far has only performed 3 exodus songs live in concert and we need more!

I also hope she's done with the devil inside, kremlin dusk-ymmwtbam part. It was cool but she did it for 2 concerts and I'm hoping for something else cool this time around.

I know that would be perfect for you guys in New York, but please think about us in London (well.. far from London, but who traveled to London) as well :( I would kill someone for even just 1 minute of London Finale footage on the DVD! It would be amazing (and a life-time first) to see an artist on DVD on the same night I saw her. And not just some artist, but my favorite artist ever!

Oh gosh I'm getting myself excited now *cries tears of ecstatic memories*

^I wish we could watch performances of all tours separately. I think it's a plausable idea considering she only had like 10 performances. Or if she did something like "A Visual Mix" haha and let us be able to control camera angles and switch between any performance at anytime without interupting the performance. haha [/weird ideas]

This would actually be amazing. And your first idea is quite plausible if she'd release a different US and UK version.

However, for some reason, I feel like this will be a Japanese release. You know, give the Japanese fans the opportunity to see it. So in that case, it'll most likely be a mash-up of the NY and London shows (or maybe more shows, not sure which shows were filmed exactly).

i took a listen to hymne la amour a few days ago, and i don't really love the song as a whole (i'm not into jazz :P) but i really like the break down part with the clapping! lol.

nice to see the in the flesh tour will be released in the near future! :D

^^The part with the clapping has grown on me too.

So good we will see the tour!!

I remember at the last Pussycat Dolls tour in the UK, each show was recorded, and for like £30 you could buy a cool Pussycat Dolls USB wristband, and it was loaded with the show that you just watched. I thought that was a great idea, although the quality wasn't the best since it wasn't properly edited and mixed in a studio.

i would very much like this. very ideal. and i personally wish she would perform songs like BLUE. songs like that are much better than songs like Come Back to Me and Apples & Cinnamon.

i think it will be cool for Exodus-Heart Station things :yes

but i guess she would incorporate different eras. i hope she sings DEEP RIVER.

I'm SO happy that In The Flesh is going to be released!! :D I'm betting they'll combine the London and New York City shows because there were cameras at both. We should bombard her on Twitter asking which show or both! :) I don't care if it's all the London show as long as at least one clip is from New York. I need to see that! :DD

This is exactly how I feel, but then the other way around! :D Even just 1 clip or 1 song from the final London show and I'm more than happy! :luv2 Right now it's all I'm hoping for! So the more she gives me, the better! So can we combine forces and find out which shows were filmed?

Obviously the New York show and the final show in London. Was the first show in London also filmed? And any more shows in the USA?

God a New York / London combination and I might just die of happiness.

Track´s length revealed...
http://tower.jp/item/tracks/2786022

I nearly died when I saw the little speaker symbols, but they're not click-able yet :weep

Based on just the titles, I'm most looking forward to hearing Show me love and Goodbye to Happiness

I'm pretty sure the only show in the US where cameras were present was New York. I'm almost positive, actually. I never head anything about the first London show either.

I did the same xD, but hope we can click soon...

I was hoping for a dvd. >> I have a feeling this is going to be an itunes only thing.

OMG HE MENTIONED LONDON!!! :luv2 and New York for you guys!!

YES and before the end of the year, omg best news since the announcement of Single Collection 2! :luv2

I wish I knew more of you guys back when I went to the NYC show...lol I didn't really know anyone!

You knew me. That's all that matters. :thumbsup

there were cameras filming the LA show, BUT I'm fairly certain that they weren't "her" cameras...and that they weren't like "filming" in a sense, where there's multiple shots and close ups, etc.

I think they were just for the House of Blues, because they were airing the show up and around in places during and after the concert.


"Need to find other options" LOL This is the internet. There are LOTS of options.

omg, I died when I saw that she will be releasing in the flesh tour dvd :thud I'm so buying.

You didn't bother to look at my post from a while back did you? It's still on this page too. They are not releasing a dvd. it is going to be internet released only. probably itunes.

^ Oh =/ Darn. I'm crushed. Thanks for the info though...I would have been so mad if I found out later lol.

The official Kim Kardashian B-day party CM o_o Seriously? She needs to advertise her birthday?



Also, a kind of weird but really neat mix of Sakura Drops

the kardashians advertise all lol

Has anyone with a twitter account asked Teruzane to also release her NYC Skylight Studios debut? haha. I hope he releases it too.

LOL at that Kim Kardashian CM. Desperate for attention? At least the CM used Utada I guess.

^they used a really good song too. Is that airing on tv? I might just try to turn on the tv to get a quick glimpse of devil inside.haha

^Its not. Party was 2 nights ago xP

Yeah...although I think New York and London had actual filming crews that were filming it dvd style...at least thats what people have been saying :/

the cameras at the LA show were for more the House of Blues I think, but I KNOW they have the video of the show lol I dont know if others venues did the same though.


about my set...XD I wanted to change for a while now...I usually change with the seasons lol I might change this one again though for lena fujii..dont get confused! ;)

I can't wait to hear even just 10 seconds of one of her new songs!!

Come on Hikki, get promoting! :D

lol, ah the kardashians.

Oh so she is releasing the tour online only? Pretty cool idea, altho I wish there would be a DVD.

You could just burn it onto a DVD?

^I would if I knew how. I can only burn isos. I tried burning avi files one time to a dvd and it was ridiculous, i ended up downloading 3 programs. convert this, convert that, relabel this, relabel that, place this here, copy and paste that there. this doesn't work, that gave me an error message, the root is misplaced among the folders and didn't burn properly cause one of the files in audio_ts is mislabeled. etc

blah blah blah. ridiculous and got me no where after 3 hours of trying to figure stuff out. I think i actually did do it once, only to find out that the file was "corrupt" or something. It just pissed me off I wanted to punch my computer. Feel free to do it for me though. ;D

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

burning DVDs that actually work like DVDs is like...the worst experience of my life. ugh.

^Whenever I try it turns out to be just a data disk :/ they never work on a DVD player...

I'm so looking forward to seeing this footage!! since she forgot about Canada