qft amen

Not to direct this thread to me BUT i covered this song in English already :D and i dont wanna start a thread in the fan works crap sooo enjoy everyone! :

桜流し

^ omg, you're Mitchel? Back in my MySpace days (oh Lord lol 2005-2006? It was back when I was in 8th grade lol) I was obsessed with your covers! I thought you were cute :x I loved your acapella of Fly Me to the Moon. I was depressed when I found your YouTube account closed LOL /fangirl

Really nice cover, love your lyrics and voice!

^^very good job mhmm :)


Lol we can compare it to old hikki songs, and but then it looks not so good ...idk, this is no Dareka no negai ga kanou koro or anything, even if she hasn't released in forever. She can do better. Though I do like the song a bit more now. Her voice...

I wonder if she can take a new direction I the future. Though it's not even necessary. And hopefully the future isn't too far off. Was there any mention of any plans for releases or recordings or anything besides this single?

I think (and I hope) she will have a new direction when she returns. Her last (kinda) big break was in between DR and UB, and those have totally different directions. Given this break is the longest yet she's made, the possibility should be higher :P.

^I loved that direction change dearly

She just did those styles so well. I'm interested to see what else she can master lol.
Though maybe she'll stick with what's comfy?

I love your voice, marry me :thud

She should release a song like Sunglasses (Sangurasu from Distance if you didn't know) again. I love that song too much. R&B as its best imo♥

^OMG, Sunglasses is one of my fav too! Her voice sounded amazing in it, imo.

Also Drama/Another Chance was amazing too.

^Yes, Drama and Another Chance are gorgeous too. :D I used to hate Drama for some reason back in the day when I had just started to listen Hikki's music. Nowadays I love it into bits♥

I wonder how long it will be till hikki's next release
Maybe versus 13 will be out by then.

^^ omg poppin' my bootay to Another Chance. Love that song. B&C is my jam too omfg!!! <3

LOL so it's going to be a while then.

Amazing cover, RikkuK, your voice is pretty O:

People, did Hikki said if she created this song recently or if it's something from earlier eons?... this keeps on getting back to my thoughs everytime I listen to the song

Thank God you didnt say KH3

My favorite songs are swift kick, traveling and wait and see.

"Watching the cherry blossoms fall
In the wind casting shadows
The trees could only watch the loss
Of their beauty, powerless
No matter what or how scared I am
I can't look away ever again
When I slow down and time stops for me
I'll finally find you and where I should be"

nice work on the lyrics

Swift Kick would be Kettobase!! right? haha

I don't really like the album First Love... I think if I got to know Hikki thru that album I wouldn't have become a fan... at least at that time.

I wish Hikki get back to her roots when she comesback! I LOVE Distance as a whole!!

I can't really feel HEART STATION, It's the album of hers I listen less...

first love was the first japanese album I ever heard.
Thank you uncle!

WOWWWWWWWWWWW @ that story. Talk about a dream come true!!

^ IKR I hope it's legit!

Aye sir!

Hmm, Sakura Nagashi triggered a huge Hikki obsession for me. I've been waiting for one so now I'm listening on shuffle. I love this amount of flawlessness touching my ears. I also feel very nostalgic since it's my 6th year as her fan. It's also 10 years since I first heard of her on Christmas when I first played Kingdom Hearts. Gosh, that was one of the best days of my life♥

Another Chance is too awesome♥

I don't know anyone posted it yet, but 桜流し debut on Billboard Japan Hot 100 at no. 4 last week. This week it climbing to no.2, hope it will top the chart next week.

maybe i should have
We all know that we aint getting KH3 until hikki makes the theme song.
XD

that's how good hikki is!

I don't know. They did use Olivia Lufkin for Dream Drop Distance. ._. Of course, to me it's not a Kingdom Hearts game if the theme song isn't done by Hikki. She's like a soul of those games for me. Without Kingdom Hearts I wouldn't even be a fan like I am now. :D

I think this can be applied to a lot of fans, including me.

I thought they reused Simple & Clean for Dream Drop Distance? I love OLIVIA too and she's probably the only person I could accept to replace Hikki for the franchise-- but I can't find any info about her ever having done a song for KH anywhere online. Someone help? If this is true, I wanna hear/see!

^Olivia sang a song called "Calling" for Dream Drop Distance. :)

I don't even want to think how weird KH3 opening movie feels if there's no song by Hikki on the background. Seriously. :D I'm so used to hear her singing those theme songs. :p

^exactly

OMG I listened to Calling. Seriously worst out of tune song ive ever heard. If they replace Hikki with that talentless ***** I will never play again.

lol drama queen. OLIVIA has lots of talent. She just has some really eh songs, which Hikki also has in her discography. No artist is immune to a slump. For the most part OLIVIA'S lovely. Dreamcamp, Cupid, Alone in our Castle, Sea me, Space Halo, Ballerina, and Denial are really gorgeous.

Olivia....talentless?

Brb checking my pulse.

But honestly, Utada should be singing the themes. You made two songs with an artist, keep the trend going!

Yeah, OLIVIA's pretty talented...she just has her own style. I've tried. Really, but it's just not for me.

Don't even.

Someone grab Miracle Utada and get her to record the KH theme song.

Whoops *Miracle Hikaru

If they got Hikki back to sing for Eva, I don't see why this would be a problem tbh. She can still stick to her hiatus, and while I might make jokes that a hiatus usually involves no work, I'd be very happy to learn that she was creating SOMETHING.

Olivia is gorgeous. I love her music too though I haven't listened to it that much yet. It was painful to find some of her albums too but it was worth all that trouble. :)

You need help.

I swear to God, i've been always thinking about the same thing! RFOL.

from what I've read, it seems like people would NOT mind hikki getting replaced by OLIVIA for KH3 (if/when it is released).

im shocked and appalled.
especially in a hikki thread...
i need to eat some sakura drops to cleanse my mind of this blasphemy.

Um, no one is going to actually "replace" Hikki...especially not OLIVIA (not cause she's untalented per se, but because her career's over). They can try, and they will, but they will fail. Hail to the queen. Haters stay pressed. You're being overdramatic, people. :rolleyes

I love OLIVIA! I would not mind if Hikki was replaced by her! She has an amazing voice. I don't think she has ever been that popular though? I know she had tie ins with NANA, and Jigoku Shoujo Live action theme song, but people I know don't even know who she is. It's such a shame. I also love her sister Caroline's music! To call her untalented makes you delusional... A person who writes lyrics and puts effort into their works makes you talented IMO.

People take KH way too seriously... @_@

While we're at it, lets reverse gravity.

To me, Hikki made KH.
It's nostalgic to the maximum.
Replacing Hikki for a main game would be like.... Blowing up earth.
Not even if someone like Ayu did it.

KH3 ain't ever coming out anyway.
Nomura is too constipated making Versus 13.

I just loved it for hikki, I had the second game since it was released but I never played it.

LMFAO. He's too busy adding more "belts" to the character designs.

Hahaha me too. I would love it if she just came out with an album and like....didn't tell anyone it was her but let them believe it was Utada.

ugh I freaking love everything you post. marry me?

Actually, maybe hikki saying no, and them having no game is good.


Maybe down the line, she'll say yes...and it'll have been so long since there was a last KH game, it'll sell **** tons.

As much as I love Olivia, I still prefer Hikki to make the new theme song for the games. I find her songs being perfect fit for the games. :D

Hell, speaking of KH makes me wonder when did I play Birth By Sleep last time... ._. Ventus♥

idk guys, Hikari/Simple and Clean was such trite nonsense to me :shrug The only good thing Hikki's contributed to KH is Passion/Sanctuary -- but tbh those songs are so freakin' good that I just pretend Hikari/Simple and Clean doesn't exist. Because again. Awful. D:

Quoted for life :laugh

Um no Passion was a step-down from the planitb remix of Simple & Clean and Sanctuary is absolutely dreadful to listen to.

Hikki :)

^ And it includes the instrumental.

When will Perfume?
no matter how much i love them robochicks, no hurly burly and spring of life instrumental is death.

So happy Brazil was included <3

Oh my, 14 years. I always forget how long she's been on the run. Her music is so timeless.

She did begin her work in music scene in 1993 though so in that case 2013 would be her 20th Anniversary but before her solo debut she was doing music with her parents so it's not the case I guess. XD

Sakura Nagashi is available in iTunes Finland too? Wow. :O

I count precious because she did release an album so 20 years EEEESH

HOLLA.

I can't believe anyone can even say Olivia and Utada compare...before Hikki totally destroyed her voice on tour nobody could touch her. I mean I listened to a few of the songs people said to check out from Olivia and I just don't get it. She has a voice like YUI but is worse at pretending to play guitar. I didnt think I'd find fans that love her as much as she loves her own reflection on a hikki thread...She needs more voice lessons than ayu fresh on the industry.

Let me sing the new KH theme song if you want someone who has no idea what theyre doing to be publicized.

EDIT: Sorry to TROLL but good god, Olivia needs to be swept off this thread ASAP take it to the dead Olivia thread (if there even is a thread for her...?) k thx

EDIT2: Why are they making KH like final fantasy? They are never going to make a better game than KH1 and its just cheapening the whole story. I barely made it through 2 the only reason i beat it was to hear sanctuary after the battle lol totally not worth it.

I hated 2...so, honestly.

I only want KH3 to get a new KH song from hikki. If they pick someone else to do it, they can all go suck a fat one.


Also...I never count Precious for her. I'm not even sure I heard the whole thing lol

Most of her avant-garde stuff was listed - you need to hear:
Starless Night
Wish
Recorded Butterflies ~studio live~ (not the LIVE version but studio live version)
SpidERSpins
Denial

tears & rainbows

^
^
You forgot Dreamcatcher, A Little Pain, and Color of your Spoon...

LOL! ily

Olivia's old voice from D&D was impressive, even more so than Hikki's. I don't know what happened from then to now, but she somehow makes it work in a different way. She's not conventional pop, which is what I like. Her Cloudy Dreamer works are amazing for pop.

The song Bicycle, her sisters song, sounds amazing in the live floating around. She adds something to an already great song.

Absolutely hate Color of your Spoon.

But I should've mentioned a little pain! The ~studio live~ version is SO GOOD.

I listened to a little pain...it was the last song before I posted my previous reply actually xp

I'm kinda hope they hire an US star if they go with a new singer. Engrish just makes KH seem cheap. Not that Olivia is really bad but some of her phrasing is veeery odd.

Do you mean in odd in English or Japanese? Because her spoken Japanese is...not so good lol.

I meant English! I feel like shes stuck somewhere between English and Japanese. But I understand her style more and more now. I just don't like her voice on the ears she can sing super high but that doesnt mean she should...or maybe it just sounds strained to me...idk. Any news on more music from hikki?

I've been jamming to TITO again
Oh yeah

Good joke!

We ain't ever getting nyuu music from this chick
We're gonna die in like 3 days anyway. Sakura Nagashi was a farewell to a legend.

still don't like tito hah!

OLIVIA's music is much more artistic and lyrically deep, that's why I love her music!!

I recommend listening to her music before "a little pain" and after her first album "synchronicity" because that's when she had more control over her career ;)

...because people keep forgetting that this isn't the OLIVIA Thread...

making rhymes with ayu's do it again is not accepted in twitter thread but talking about olivia in utada hikaru's thread is? lmao

The admin give a lot more leeway in what is considered "on-topic" when an artist only releases music once every 5 years.

I think the admins give a lot more leeway when people aren't spamming every second like they were in the ayu thread as well.

Tokyo nights is a jam.

I'm starting to grow fond of Play Ball.

^ It sounded good for the first minute then drags imo

Completely random, but when is the new single coming out again?

It's already out.

Thanks guys for the info. I kind of forgot about it for a bit.

I love gack hes the best

Anyone ever noticed the Masonic Square and Compasses on the SC Vol. 1 cover? .___.

http://www.jpophelp.com/cdscans/JPN-...5300_front.jpg

Illuminati Queen

^ LOL!

Fairly said!:yes RFOL. Someone should ask hikki about her link to it.

Flawless* Illuminati Queen

#4 on Weekly Oricon DVD charts...20,681 copies sold. Pretty floppy for a legend like Hikki but surprisingly great considering what it is; it seemed like it was a last minute decision to do a physical release and I guess DVD singles aren't that popular? BoA's sold like way less.