:laugh (Sorry you little ";-;" is cute!)

Well, I think the only reason EMI is releasing PoL as a single is because of the Last Friends drama. I think its to promote the drama and the album more. She could have added something a little extra to it though. People don't buy Hikki's singles like they use to but rather dl her stuff.

@ruixiong89: THE TEXT?!?!?! I'm not diggin' the picture. I mean I like but it doesn't fit as a cover. It looks like it was taken during the recording of the PV.

@Triple D: C'mon now! You and I both know that Hikki releases her albums only in March or June! :yes

lolcats are soooo 2007 =x

Utada may not have had any say in the decision to do this. Who knows really?

Anyway, Utada looks like a Prisoner in that Single Cover............a Prisoner of Love..........I'll rescue her and we can become a Prisoner of each other's love.

Hehe.

But yeah, disappointed in the Music Video. I'll be buying this though for the Quiet Version and the Instrumentals, which I've been really really feeling the need for, along with instrumentals for the rest of her other Album Only Tracks, being that I love singing Utada's songs with instrumentals, not to mention it's nice to hear just the instrumentals themselves. Especially for this song it'll be nice to hear the instrumental with no vocals and just the strings and everything else. I'm of course purchasing the Single for the Music Video as well.

But I say nay for the whole decision for pushing back the release of "HEART STATION". I'd be so pissed if "HEART STATION" hadn't come out yet and she's releasing yet another Single from the Album. That would have been just 4 new songs + "Gentle Beast Interlude".

And by the way, Utada has released DVDs with Music Videos on them before with Past Singles such as "Be My Last" (Which I have) and "Passion" (Which I have).

just watched the clips...

PV = Prisoner of Making music

Hikki doing push-ups!!! She's really slowly turning more manly recently...

The font is so boring ;-;

I wonder how well this single will do...

@UH+:*blinks* ....okay.....:shrug

I just saw the clip and I liked it! I liked it! ::spazzed Hikki seemed to be really into the PV. I just luv the pink/coral blue w/ the light blue jeans outfit and I absolutely luv the earrings. She has been wearing them a lot lately. She must like them alot. Hehehehe

I wonder if "Quiet Version" would be 4 minutes and 47 seconds of pure silence.

WTF, Shanny! Are you on drugs... again? :P You should request help otherwise you'll be ending up on the streets as me. :lmfao

I keep imagining something like the "After The Battle" Version of "Passion" or something very whispery and wavy like "Stay Gold" or something like the Verses in "Teiku 5" which have the preceeding effect to her actual vocals where you hear a bit of what she's going to sing before she sings it. Like a "Before Echo" or something. I really like that.

lol what a joke

maybe a more-Ballad version of Prisoner of Love...XD
like FoL...

How...strange. :shrug The cover is alright, but they need to do something about the text they have been using lately. :laugh
But I think what CoriKaru said is true. She might have not had any say in this sudden turn around. But I think it was rather a stupid idea. They could at least have had more tracks on it, like remixes or something. But I'm looking forward to listening to the quiet version, it sounds like it'll be nice on the ears xD I want to see the PV too. I don't know where to see the clips though =/

YAY! ^^ i love this song!!! ^^ w00t! thanks for the info! ^^

I'm not surprised; if Prisoner Of Love becomes the next Flavor Of Life, consumers will be more likely to purchase a single than a whole album, especially if they weren't Utada fans to begin with. The cover is completely unattractive, though. With a title like Prisoner Of Love, the cover could have been far more dramatic and "romantic." Something with a prison, or a heart, or something! Also, that yellow text is butt-ugly. Utada and/or Toshiba EMI, learn a thing or two about covers from Ayumi.

(The -Quiet Version- better be great, or I'm going to be irritated that no remixes were on the single. Now that I think about, a piano version might not be so bad.)

I wonder why some people get upset at this release. For real...

-Album cuts are normal. It's the american way of releasing singles. It works if an exclusive album song was actually quite succesful. If PoL was a succesful song, Hikki has every right to milk on it.
-There's no problem in Hikki doing an album cut. With or without album cut, her next single would only be here in 4-6 months anyway, there's no way she'd come up with new material so early, so it's not like this single is taking up our chance for listening to new material from her.
-Hikki is not forcing anyone to buy this. You only buy it if you want the single. Don't like it, don't buy it. Simple as that. If you're a collector, then that's not Hikki's problem but yours.

:P

I'm really in love with this song!!!
thanks for the info!! =)

I can't imagine a -quiet version-... hopefully it's as good as Flavor of Life. and they feature it in Last Friends. :)

Wasn't SURREAL released on like the same day as Duty though? Does that even make it a recut single?

And anyways, I don't care for the song, so I don't care about the release either. I don't see it being successful after HEART STATION already releasing though. Blah...

Actually, "Last Friends", the drama which will feature this song, is (IMO) the powerhouse of the Spring. Artistes like Ueno Juri (Nodame), Nagasawa Masami (Proposal Daisakusen), Eita (Orange Days, WATER BOYS, Atsu-Hime), and Nishikido Ryo (1 Litre, vocalist for NEWS) really kill, to be honest. So many big names starring in one drama is bound to bring A LOT of attention. So those that didn't purchase HEART STATION will (or the single), and if the -quiet version- is featured, then that'll boost sales, chaku-uta or otherwise.