I love OLIVIA but holy shit that was awful lol

Utada confirmed via twitter that she is working on new music
http://aramajapan.com/news/utada-hik...w-music/15443/

OMG hands down

Finally. I hope this means she will end her hiatus. Defenitely sounds that way.

YAAAAAAAS PRAISE JESUS

AHHHH Hikki please be back asap... I need new incredible songs from you...

Thanks heaven she's working on new music.. :yes

Calling is so much better than Sanctuary lol

This doesn't necessarily mean she's off hiatus. She could just be working on the new song for Evangelion. It was the same with Sakura nagashi.

^Here's to hoping though, right? All signs seem to be pointing in that direction!

avex needs to do an Ayu Tribute album and get Hikki to cover one of her songs now. :heart

I would LOVE an ayu tribute album. As long as they don't DESTROY her classics like they did with Utadas.

Imagine what Hikki could do with Free&Easy...I'd pay for that shit.

"Hikari" was the only song I thought got DESTROYED. :dead2

An Ayu tribute album would be worth it just to hear Hikki sing one of her songs. Is it too much to pray for an "alterna" cover? :heart

^ Hikari was my favourite cover out of them all :O

^Mine too! Such a lovely version!

Loved their folk approach to the song;

Let's not front and say this isn't the most likely scenario. C'est la vie.

I'll just quote her directly from her hiatus message "Of course I may be making music or singing as I like, during that time." I really wish this meant she was coming back, and it might mean that, but until she says something directly or makes an announcement we won't know for sure because making music does not mean she's done with her hiatus.

I had a dream that Utada released a double A-Side single that contained the theme song for Kingdom Hearts and then the theme song for Evangelion. Woke up in tears cause it wasn't real.

then what's the point.

If I wanted to hear known good versions of good Ayu songs, I'd just listen to Ayu's versions lol

Anyways, do hope for new album :D

Ugh, yes, I would love an alterna cover

Ayu's Rock songs would fit Hikki's voice omg

Guys, let's also not forget that when she posted the message about entering hiatus she estimated that it would be for 2 to 5 years. We're pretty near the five year mark! I'm just gonna be optimistic, ok? xD

I hope she'll release a new album and it sells 3 million copies. :D

^I wish that would happen, but realistically it wouldn't :(

^who knows, anything will happen. But that's too much, I mean 3Million LOL. Selling more than 300k these days are great by this generation's standards.

Y'all just keep acting like y'all know it all. :rolleyes

I can see her selling that in digital sales. She does very well in that area.

I feel like this is the real end of hikki.

god bless you

I made a remix of Prisoner of Love. you can listen to it here: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3114839

:)

Lmao. This post is everything.

I just hope we get another album someday. 3 million is an impossibility, but I reckon she could do 250K with a new studio album.

Nostalgia for the old thread.
Stay gold ~chastity mix~
Etc...

WTF!!!!!!!



I don't... understand this kind of music

I'm not a fan of French Montana at all. I think he's annoying as hell. But the instrumental has me moist.

^Is he a well known artist?

I just realized I didn't sing Tokyo Nights while I did overnight karaoke in Tokyo. The regrets are huge.

there actually many rappers who sampled Sanctuary:
http://www.whosampled.com/Utada-Hikaru/

Lmao.

How about Lupe Fiasco (an awesome rapper) sampling SAKURA Drops?!

^I see where you're coming from, but I don't think it's sampled from Sakura Drops. It's similar, and the notes are the same, but they're different instruments, and it's too small of a sample to really claim it's a sample. It's just the same couple of notes looped. I mean that sample also sounds reminiscent of Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles and about two minutes in in the song Nakushita Kotoba by No Regret Life.

He's not like, SUPER well-known but since I like to listen to mainstream stuff I know of his name since he has done a collab with Jennifer Lopez and Miley Cyrus.

Yes is he is well knownnnnn

And amorphose that is grasping at strands saying that's a sample PSH

I mean, hey, it's listed on that link that U-GO-BOY posted. I didn't do research on it, just assumed that the list was compiled from official credits or something.

This one:
http://www.whosampled.com/Utada-Hikaru/

^No. anyone can submit something. Anyone can link 2 youtube videos and claim they sampled each other. It's not an official website. Notice the submit button at the top.

I still think it sounds the same.

any new news?

Ah I thought she finally had some news... :no

LOL :D.

This is Hikki we're talking about. The only news will be about Kuma and/or a picture of her husband's nose.

STOP

http://i57.tinypic.com/1042k9l.jpg

Let's talk about our favorite Hikki albums guys! LOL

Lmao!!

let's watch dish washing in memoriam.

Ultra Blue or die

I went to karaoke last week and we sang sakura drops and colors. We really wanted to sing poppin but alas.....

ULTRA BLUE ftw!!! But HEART STATION is <3 too!!! LOL

Heart Station
Ultra who

Sigh, how many times have we been on this topic... Hikki see what you did to us. :mischief

DEEP RIVER for the win!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bshake
(actually I love HS as well :luv2... hmmnn UB isn't that bad, First Love is kinda great, even Distance isn't that boring...)

O God...i really watched it all over again...she even not washed it properly...
she not washed bottom part of two plates also not using soap for washed the glass and spoon..eww..hahaha

I forgot how terrible that PV was omg lol

I don't particularly have a favorite Hikki album. I enjoy a lot of her songs, but was never really fond of albums entirely (I'm the same with Ayumi). But one of my favorite albums will probably have to be either DEEP RIVER or HEART STATION.

I hope when Hikki comes back to music, the next video is a sequel to Hikari and she vacuums her house or something.

Knowing her she won't do a good job and the nastay dust bunnies will remain :O

I been listening to her Exodus album alot. I love Workout.

EXODUS is one exceptional album IMO. I really love it but i don't overplay it as much as any other hikki album i have so it alwAys sound fresh to me!! HOTEL LObby is my jam on that album. :)

Sakura Nagashi's instrumental version gives me life.

Her instrumentals (or original karaokes) are super. She is one of the few artists who can pull off background vocals so well.

I used to love listening to the Colours instrumental.

Those were the days. Remember when a fan found her in the London subway? Now that's luck.

Remember when she married a fan? Now THAT's lucky.

The guy she married was a fan? That's news to me tbh.

^No, he wasn't.

I could have sworn he was a fan of her music. An entire discussion surfaced about whether or not it would be awkward to marry someone who idolized you.

Lol, I can't find anything on it but I remember discussing something about it in the forums. Maybe it was just a fueled rumor?

Yessss. I love when instrumentals have the background vocals as well.

I honestly hate it when instrumentals have background vocals lol that's why I usually enjoy Utada's so much. Sakura Nagashi and Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro have such beautiful instrumental tracks!

^ and also Be My Last.

Wait where is the be my last instrumental?!

I never liked discussions about your favorite hikki album. I mean... oh boy, we get a whopping 7 to pick from. :rolleyes The choices are endless.

I always loved it when she released official instrumentals. Final Distance (Instrumental) is really peaceful and I feel just so calm when I listen to it.

Forgot to say, the unofficial one, someone at Utadanet made a near-perfect instrumental, it sounds official though, but I don't know if still there or not.

Oh I see, thanks.
I almost had a heart attack, I've been searching for something of an instrumental for that song for years.

omg how could I forget the FINAL DISTANCE instrumental omfg! Stay Gold as well.

To add on, her arrangements are beautifully executed as well. Background vocals + haunting instruments = masterpiece of the instrumentals/original karaoke :D.

Any song that has Utada as sole writer and primary producer aka most of heart station and ultra blue. But nijiiro bus > ultra who.

Lol.

Nijiro Bus is annoying and I hate the way she sings the verses too. However, I really like the part (melody/composition) where she goes:

Ensoku zenya wa kanarazu nebusoku
Tanoshimi de tanoshimi de
Kininaru ano ko ga totsuzen ryuugaku
Setsunakute setsunakute

I guess that's the prechorus?

Reminds me what could have been with Kiss n Cry and an extra 'rap' verse. That song up until the 2nd chorus is everything.

SayWhat?!
http://i62.tinypic.com/160zsht.jpg
KEYBOARD WARRIOR!

Nijiiro BASU is a good song but it's not an anytime everyday song.

^ Nijiiro bus is my soul song, I can do it everyday all day tbh.
But I won't front and say that Be My Last and even Kairo is worse. Then we have Eclipse which is probably my favourite interlude.

Nijiiro Bus is an ew never song. It's just so ugly and gross and annoying lol

There was a phase where I could listen to nothing but DEEP RIVER and I always had the interlude on repeat. Nostalgia ~

I love nijiiro bus. then again my points are never valid because I like all of utada's songs. Some more than others but she doesn't have any songs where I could legitimately say I hate it or it's gross or terrible.

I like the bridge in Niji-iro because the song goes from happy-go-lucky to "take me to a planet where there is no one" like aight Utada

It's been 7 long years. I've been a fan of Utada for FAR LONGER than ayu and...
Oh lord when she dropped sakura nagashi out of thin air it was just... I couldn't believe it. I thought Angela Aki won that year with Kokuhaku but Sakura Nagashi made me go like 'who's ayu? Who's namie? Who's Kumi? Who's anyone else?' I'm in a better place in my life so her melancholy isn't as impactful as it once was (and it REALLY WAS. I can't even make myself listen to Be My Last volitionally, but comimg up randomly is ok, because personal reasons and I wanna forget it exists sometimes because it just hit every chord at one point) but if she were to make another ballad I will be onboard 100%.

^Sakura Nagashi is the only song I like from her, I was curiuous because it was her supposed "comeback" song, the voice, the piano, It's a beautiful masterpiece.

Sakura Nagashi. The one song she happens to just nonchalantly release while on hiatus shits on every ballad ayu has released since utada went on hiatus. Even without her vocals, the instrumental for Sakura Nagashi is so fucking beautiful and powerful. It easily stands on it's own.

Yeah, that's why I don't enjoy Ayumi's instrumentals as much which is a shame.

...from the album Ultra Boob!

Niji Iro Bus is AMAZING! I always pretend that Boku Wa Kuma doesn't exist and listen Take 5/Niji Iro Bus. They would be amazing as a two part story PV.

My favorite album of hers will always be Distance, but I think her masterpiece is DEEP RIVER.

I really dislike HEART STATION.

Yaaaaaas to Gentle Breast.

Heart Station made me appreciate the layering found in her songs.