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I would switch out a few songs on the English best album, but otherwise it includes most of my favorite English songs by her. I'll buy the US version (as I assume there will be one).
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About Utada... it would make no sense for her to say it's a hiatus if she wanna retire... Everything was going to sell far better if she retires xD |
more gorgeous pictures! :luv2
when i first saw that tracklist, i was wondering why her english songs were on it. then i realized it's a "Utada" best album. :laugh i don't think she's gonna release any more english albums, so i guess they might as well make a best to end it. :shrug |
^Yep. We can finally put the semi-disaster behind.....o_o And the European folk might get a release too....seeing how they didnt get TITO
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GORGEOUS :luv2
I demand a booklet!!! :luv2 And I will stop attacking people who complain. Go ahead and complain allll you want but I am going to love and enjoy these releases to the fullest, because nothing we say will change them anyway :yes |
I officially decided to give Utada Hikaru yet another try! Listening to Ultra Blue right now~ Forgot how much I liked "This is Love!"
PLEASE HIKKI STANS DON'T DESTROY ME THIS TIME, that's what pretty much killed her music for me the first time - the crazed fans :laugh |
hmmn... does hikki have really crazy fans (compared to ayu's side)? :P
And the three new pictures. The first one is weird... The background is really weird. I love the 2nd one and esp the 3rd. The 3rd pic has a hint of mysteries Japanese taste. It's like a Japanese novel about the already deceased lover (or a mysteries girl if you dun want to connect hikki with death :P) appearing in front of the forest.. |
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And yes, some Hikki fans are worse than even the most extreme Ayu fan. But I think that one particularly insane fan is no longer on this forum anymore. Must have gotten banned. :shrug Anyway since I'm not a Hikki fan quite yet, I won't weigh in on her compilation albums too much. But I will say that I am happy she's taking a break because she never really seemed like she was all that into what she was doing. That's just my outside opinion. Hopefully she'll come back bigger than ever. :yes |
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Have fun! Today I also listened to Ultra Blue, it's such a gorgeous album. Dareka... has to be one of the most beautiful ballads ever made. Be sure to look up the translated lyrics as well, it's like poetry. |
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I'm only up to COLORS now. The whole album has a sort of ambient feel to it... In a way no track is too over-done, I think "over-produced" is the word I'm looking for. It also kind of feels video-game'ish but not in the same way NEXT LEVEL was. Instead of sounding inspired by a video game, the tracks sound like they could be featured in a video game. They have familiar video game sound effects... I don't know if I'm explaining myself well hahahaha. [edit] KATAMARI! Especially One Night Magic, it sounds like it could be in Katamari xD;;;;; |
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It's ok. but this would be my tracklist. too much? lol Spoiler:
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^ Now that sounds like a great release project.
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OMG THOSE PICTURES ARE SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
Ayu doesn't do natural. TITO sucks, is my opinion. Don't care what anyone thinks and is not being closed minded either. Is called having different opinions. No one has to agree with me. Don't like it shove it. Ok ok don't shoot >.<. |
TITO isn't fantastic in hikki's discography, as it's too mainstream. But there are a few songs that I like from the album. But oh well I dun like her Epop side anywayz. So let's get our focus back to SC2 instead of UTB :P.
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LOL it'd be pretty funny if Universal somehow struck gold with this US compilation album....it'd be wierd if she took #1 and #2 on Oricon at the same time. I don't think that has happened before.
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Come Back To Me is a good song I have to admit
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^I dont think people count those as two albums...
but tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened. You don't have to sell a ton to get the top spot in Japan, especially if you set the date right. When you see people in like the 5-10 spots only selling like, a couple thousand...it does make you wonder. |
I don't like the idea of releasing an english best. It really means she's sealing the deal with this hiatus. I feel like she's going to die, or never come back to music. Like she's finalizing everything before she "leaves us". An English Best album, AND a Japanese Best album? This all just makes me realize that she really is leaving us for a year and is trying to wrap everything up on a good note before she leaves.
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^^I think hikki's the only big artist releasing albums on that week rite?
To be honest tho I dun really care if this album is gonna get no. 2 or stuck at the bottom. I think this album is just made in rush (by looking at the tracklist). It's just a way to milk more money from fans. It's obvious that UTB will be placed right beside SC2 on the 24th, so if 1/3 of fans gonna pick up UTB as well there will be a profit anywayz. Quote:
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^^^ It doesn't really matter how people count them though. They're still two separate albums.
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I don't really mind a english best lol. :D Someone here was actually hoping for one to be released. I'm personally happy that there's a english best being released which includes Sanctuary's after the battle version. I've been dying to get that. Now I can because I really worship this song as a whole. <3 But I wonder why Simple & Clean isn't included there, but it was already released on COLORS single back in 2003 in Japan so maybe they doesn't want to include it in anymore but who knows? :3
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I can't wait to see the whole package of the best album when it's released.
Even though I think the cover art is silly, I'm still excited to see everything all put together :P |
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Hikki's mom releases albums?
O.O I know her parents are artists but I didn't know they like still release stuff or released anything. |
So......anyone see the cover of Utada The Best yet? I don't have the heart to post it.....its THAT bad....
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I don't understand why they would pick a picture from the biggest mistake of her career....and slap some horrid text right in the middle....ontop of her face.....Unless its a slipcover.....then.....i dunno what to say. I'm still going to buy it though.
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.. is it bad? Am I blind?
I like that picture, and the font is actually really nice. I like the cover.. am I a freak now? :( don't abandon me, guys! edit: well I don't wanna be a blind stan, I like the cover but that doesn't take away the fact she / defjam is being ****lazy about this Utada The Best thing. No new tracks, not even new remixes, a tracklist that looks like it's been put together by a deaf raccoon, and now a recycled cover. Why have I already ordered this? :laugh |
The cover sucks..
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well at least they chose an okay picture.
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OMG the close up makes it look like she has Cushings disease, and the track list for the English best sucks since it doesn't have Poppin'. Nice way to milk the fans though, lol.
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I don't mind the actual pic much cuz I'm not too picky with faces. Idk. Its not bad, just a teeny bit off
Really though the text ruins it. They shouldve just made a new cover. Id take the stars over this. No irritating text |
I hate how the text is slapped over her face, and It actually is a very nice picture and wouldn't be unoriginal if it wasn't used already as the cover for her Exodus '04 single.
EDIT: also, ooh...close up head shot as the album cover...surprise surprise... >> |
yeah...text placement sucks lol
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Oh, the picture is nice. The way the text is over her nose gives the allusion of a smushed Pig Nose, but seems fine to me and doesn't really deserve anymore attention than that.
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Hmmn... I know that people usually use old pictures for their best album, but... the design is pretty bad. Lower the contrast of the picture, and smash the title in the middle of her face.
Another rush job to rush out the album... At least we still have the better SC2 :D. |
Just a heads up, YesAsia sells The Best Utada + Single Collection Vol. 2 as a double deal. It saves 2$. I know it's not a lot, but hey if you haven't ordered yet, why not save some.
Also, with YesAsia's free shipping it's MUCH cheaper than CDjapan. I had almost finished my CDJapan order, for a total of €57, and then I decided to check YesAsia, and I ended up paying €45.. Converted to dollars, that's about a 16 or 17 dollar difference. Just a heads up. Usually I'm a CDJapan fanboy, but my financial situation right now requires cheap cheapness. |
Awwww. If only the YA shipping was Fed Ex :P I love CDJapan for the free fedex shipping they gave me
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The cover's okay.
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OMFG THAT COVER WOULD HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE STUPID TEXT </3
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It is a very nice picture, but why couldn't they even bother doing a shoot for a cover of a Best album? smh
Cheap re-cycling of old images// If I ever wanted to buy it, I certainly don't now. |
^They could have at least used like, a booklet picture from TITO...
they used them for everything else, dont see why it wouldnt apply now. |
OMG WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HER COVER ARTISTS.
I'm always so disappointed. |
Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised... she's never exactly been the Queen of Covers anyhow.
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O M GOOOOD. she needs to fire everyone on her US team.
WHO WOULD LET THEM USE THAT COVER?! i mean...come on. its like the come back to me vs. this is the one cover fiasco all over again except ten times worse. ugh. |
I actually think that's a prettier and much more flattering picture used here. It's not the same as the EXODUS cover - it's from promo of "You Make Me Want To Be A Man" or "EXODUS'04" single cover ... one of the two I think.
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I think that's the EXODUS'04 cover. YMMWTBAM's cover show the full hikki sitting on a chair/sofa, and should be an image taken while she was filming the pv.
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I think that picture is fine, but I don't the placement of the text. :no
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I liked HS cover...but she does kinda...look like a boy. I do like the simplicity of it, but it doesnt really go with the CD for me...but oh well. |
I quite liked the androgyny of HEART STATION's cover.
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I think DEEP RIVER has the best pictures (even with the foot lol). When the cover was revealed I was blown away (well.. probly because the last album cover was so meeh.. :laugh).
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Utada Hikaru isn't one to care about her image, ne? It seems obvious to me from the majority of her covers, except for - as someone pointed out - ULTRA BLUE. I guess she's proof covers are not what matter most lol.
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^Or probly she cared, that why she want all her studio albums with big head shots lol.
I think the only covers that have nothing to do with the album theme are First Love and Distance. The hikki on the First Love cover radiated "hey I'm young but I'm talent" aura. In Distance... it totally has nothing to do with the theme at all. DR was the first serious cover she made. It's really haunting, and it matched the atmosphere of the album. UB's cover is great because she used RED to emphasize BLUE. That is quite magic. HS cover showed the general aura of the album: soothing and peaceful, yet it brings you to the silence of death world... (Take 5? :P). |
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I'm actually really surprised she always has headshots.
Doesn't she seem like one who would like, come up with a whole concept theme for each album? Just like the singles collection I guess lol Honestly, sometimes I don't really know if hikki actually cares about being a professional entertainer. Like, having to release stuff, and appear here, and there, and do this and that. Sometimes I feel like, she just makes her songs, and her label keeps up on it, and whenever she's made enough, they make an album hahaha but that's most likely not how it goes ;P |
^ I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. She doesn't seem to have that desire to entertain others. I'm pretty sure she'd be satisfied just making music and that's it. But if that were the case, why not be a composer or anonymous like GReeeeeN?
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^then she'd have to actually do work :P lol
no i dont know, she'd be a fantastic composer. Her songs are always like, not catchy, though many of them are, but they're just, memorable, but not in any cliche ways. (not counting tito lol) |
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"The release of "Utada the best" is entirely against my will. I wish that my fans won't have to buy it. There's no new material in it." I had a feeling... :( Sucks. I'm gonna act like it doesn't exist. |
we all had that feeling, it's so obvious.
I don't understand the hate for hikki's covers, her face was made for close ups. I think they her covers are gorgeous. |
I'm surprised she tweeted sthg like that :tired
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I'm kinda surprised she tweeted that too! But I'm not surprised that it is being made against her will. It's a pretty pointless release.
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Oh my.. but.. I ordered it.
What should I do? Is anyone of you ordering this? Will she hate me if I buy it? I'm just so excited about her single collection I decided to just throw in Utada The Best as well :( |
I plan on getting it. I want it for my collection. :shrug
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I always kind of wondered how that worked. Is it in her contract or something? How does making a best album for two albums even make sense? |
^Ayu never told people not to buy A-best though and still sold a crapload. She only said it was too early or something. Utada's flat out saying this is wrong, its not her decision, and to not buy it.
This makes me kind of sad....I want to buy it cause I want to complete my collection.....but I probably won't if she doesn't want her fans to buy it. |
I'm glad to read that. Shows she's not the moneygrabbing ***** some people at other forums were pretending she was.
If people want to buy it because they don't have any English albums or just to complete their collection, then sure, go ahead, but just know that it's not "to support here". It'd be awesome though if her Singles Collection vol. 2 did amazingly and that the other one bombs : D |
^ She never struck me as someone who cared about money.
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She tweeted (in Japanese) that she'll talk more about the whole 'Utada The Best' thing later.
It must suck to have put your energy into creating the music and then have it misused like that. |
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Sure she might not want fans to buy it if they don't want to, but if they DO want to have it, then I'm pretty sure she'd feel sort of flattered? |
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It sounds more like "I wish that my fans wouldn't have the option to buy this" |
^# Universal Japanから発売が発表された「Utada the best」ですが、私の意志とは全く無関係であり、EMIの宇多田ヒカルのベストと同日に発売をぶつけてき た彼らのやり方にもあまりいい印象を持てません。予約を考えている人は、少し待ってください。
Translation: Concerning the release of "Utada the Best" which was announced by Universal Japan, it has absolutely no relation to my own will, and their way to release it the same day as EMI's Utada Hikaru Best doesn't impress me much (or doesn't leave a good impression). To those who are considering to order it, please wait a little bit. # 売れなかったら叩かれるのは私なんですけど、正直なところ、ファンにお金を出させたくない、全く心のこもっ ていないモノです Translation: If it doesn't sell, the blame will be on me but, to be honest, I don't want my fans to spend their money on something my heart is not fully in. |
Haha, so it's basically the Japanese branch of her English record label that did it to ride the wave of (probable) success for her Single Collection?
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Some competition and/or conflict, apparently?
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Awesome...I'm not gonna buy it.
Let them crash and burn with that release. It'll show them not to do things against her will. But of course, people are still going to buy it, unless she goes on some campaign, which she wont....so meh. |
Unless she goes on TV.....and does a big public announcement....or something....I think Universal is still going to get away with it.....theyre probably going to put SCVII and UtB next to each other in stores on the day of release....and people will probably pick up both....
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^As Nackar has said, it's up to you whether you wanna buy this album or not. If you dun have any of her English album or if you wanna complete the collection, it's good to have one. Hikki won't think you as a bad person if you buy this. She is just concerned about her fans probly spending money on something that she didn't put her heart in (in this case, Universal JPN just takes the chance of SC2 to get some profits).
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hmmn.. probly she wanna stop the release? LOL That's why she told the fans to wait? :P. Or... maybe she decides to step up and change something in the english best (like, changing the cover, or remake the tracklist, etc?)
Ah I'm glad that I'm not into her English side, or else I will be confused for this UTB as well :). |
I admire her for saying that...actually, to me, its quite bold..
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Ok I get the point but after all it was thanks to her label that she was able to release music in USA and other countries. It was not her but the label that put a lot of money on her first album and I don't think it did very well on the charts, therefore she should stop being a diva just one moment, she is just another artist for the label after all, she doesn't own the label, stop complaining and let them release Utada The Best properly.
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^hikki is NOT like that.
Her music is her business, and it's personal. When she decides to release stuff, she'll release stuff. She's not behind it, mostly likely, because she knows the label is just trying to milk her fans. I'd be mad too. The label didn't risk huge losses with her first album. It was sold in Japan too. |
^^I can't believe you think hikki is a diva.
Among all the top Japan female artists, I think she's the least diva-type. If the label means everything to artists, does that mean they can release a best album for a particular artist every two years, even tho that artist probly just release 1 - 2 studio albums in that time length? Besides, hikki's management team (or agency) is her father's company (u3music). That means she can release stuff whenever she wants to. I think the problem is that u3music doesn't have good communications with universal music. It seems that her father is surprised by the release of UTB as well. Even I dun care about her English side, I think UTB's tracklist is cheap. It's like universal tries to combine her two albums and a bunch of remixes (as fillers), so that they can use SC2 to milk some profits. |
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Respect for Hikki + 1143245232464734737.
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Poor Hikki :<
Awesome how she's standing up against them. Hope she drops a comment about it on TV when she promotes SC2. |
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