No, I know, it's definitely part of her decision process lol

I'm a new Hikki fan and don't know her songs
I would like to know which are good songs from Hikki

^ ALL! lol well ofcourse i lied... but those songs that i don't consider good are those that i don't consider worst as well... it's like, their not my favorite... and you can count them with your left hand fingers. lol

Check out ULTRA BLUE. Best. Album. Ever.

Check out DEEP RIVER. Best. Album. Ever.

LOL. I dun think this will help her, since all of us have different opinions on hikki's "best album".

@ayumi.hamasaki: I can give you the list of her single songs... Try them first, then we can give you our fav album songs :P.

from First Love: Automatic, Movin' on without you, First Love
from Distance: Addicted To You (I prefer UNDERWATER MIX), Wait & See~risku~, TIME LIMIT, For You, Can You Keep A Secret?
from DEEP RIVER: FINAL DISTANCE, traveling, Hikari, Sakura Doroppusu, letters, Deep River (it's not a single song, but it's excellent anywayz :))
from ULTRA BLUE: COLORS, Dareka, Be My Last, Passion, Keep Tryin'
from HEART STATION: Boku wa kuma (it's a kid song tho..), Flavor Of Life, Beautiful World, HEART STATION, Stay Gold, Prisoner of Love

^Haven't heard of Addicted To You (UNDERWATER MIX), by anychance, do you have an mp3 for that bluegie?

Deep River is her best album by far. Not biased because of...you know :P Give it a listen though.

Utada - This One (Crying Like A Child) Acoustic Preview



Now THAT is strange.

Umm... That sounds really fan-made... With the whole muting in between the bridge and all... Me not like.

If it is real though (doubt it), then this is probably the song she was roumored to be recording with her guitarist a while back.

^My problem with it though is that...it doesnt sound like a re-recording at all....and as far as Utada remixes go...this one sounds kinda poorly done compared to past ones like Beautiful World

^I think it isn't true either. lol. This ain't a remix. It's an edited version only.

Hmm, yeah, I'm pretty sure this isn't official...

That's considered to be acoustic?! :laugh

WTH? It's the same song. Just parts muted out. That wasn't done too well because you can still hear the echo. Why did they mute out parts of the song itself anyway? Some of those pauses are really awkward.

*grumble* it's been deleted already. I like the idea of it though.

I think Hikki said in an English interview while promoting Exodus that she couldn't wear a mini skirt in Japan because "she would look like a skank" but she could do it comfortably in America. Maybe its because of the image she has built herself in Japan.

^it's the oposite... she said she can't wear skirts on the US because there are too much asian women fetishism

^ No, I remember that MTV interview thing, and she was walking down the sidewalk in New York and said she feel freer to wear things like short skirts in New York because people won't judge her like they might in Japan.

^Really? I'm pretty sure she said she felt inconfortable using mini skirts on the US while promoting Easy Breezy o.o Maybe i'm mistaken

uhh..regarding the skirts thing...

-no skirts in USA appearances/music stuff :shrug
-yes skirts in USA when she goes out, cuz no one recognizes her :P

thank you :)

I will listen to this songs on YouTube and than I will decide which album I buy

Also listen to:

Ultra Blue: BLUE, This Is Love

Heart Station: Take 5 (Teiku 5)

:) Some of my favorite songs.

And I think you should buy ULTRA BLUE.. :D But make your own decision lol.
However, after you've listened to Take 5 and Beautiful World you might wanna buy HEART STATION just because of those perfect songs :p

Yes I do. Here's the mp3 --> http://www.mediafire.com/?yzizw2nozgg

Addicted To You single has two mixes: UP-IN-HEAVEN MIX and UNDERWATER MIX. When Toshiba first plugged the song on radio (I think I downloaded the song in late September 1999), it was UNDERWATER MIX. Somehow when the pv came out, it was UP-IN-HEAVEN MIX. I mean I like both, but I prefer UNDERWATER MIX (except the long ending music). I think the reason they used U-I-H MIX as the main version because it was produced by Jimmy Jam& Terry Lewis.

Btw... talking about UNDERWATER MIX... does anyone happen to have that radio version..? It has a TINY difference compared to the one on the single. The "uh" in the beginning of UW MIX was actually incorporated into the beginning music on that radio version..

^Thanks bluegie ^_^.

The Old Navy in my mall was playing Apple and Cinnamon when I was in there the other day.. I nearly pooped my pants with excitement :D

^lol. I had the same experience. I was walking down a straight "mart-like area in a nearby city when i heard a familiar sound. It seems that Come Back to Me just hit the airwaves of the Philippines last week. @_@

I'd love to hear her in public. When I saw her stuff at FYE I was like :O!!!

I saw This Is The One AND Exodus today at Barnes & Nobels @_@ Weird.

erm what's so weird about it , Bryan ?

sorry there's no Barnes & Nobels store in here so excuse me on that :dead2

^Yeah. TITO is not weird but Exodus is REALLY weird :laugh

I STILL think it's fake but atleast they did a better job this time.

^Oh wow...trust me...it wasn't private when I posted it here. This just makes me more suspicious.

can anyone rip the audio of TITO acoustic preview whenever you find it, please? :lech

This is so fake lol. The chorus is so bad and it's a complete mess.

This One (Crying Like A Child) radio stats:
http://www.mmr247.com/mmrweb/Reports...1144&NumDays=7

wow, it's already starting to air on radio?

Uh wow...why are ads for Mariah plastered all over Hikki's site >< Mariah's awesome but thats distracting

http://utada.com/

Mariah is in the same company as Utada.

^Yeah I know that. I'm just saying its rather distracting ^^

is there any updates surrounding U3's 9 Sai no Omoide ? :shrug

I know it will be out this month on 21st but I'm surprised to see virtually nothing about it at all

Wow 5 plays with absolutely NO PROMOTION. lol. I hope she promotes this single better. I know she was sick in bed but This is the One is actually a really nice album. Very rnb-style; can be defined within a genre; is not crazy experimental like Exodus. I hope it does well. it needs a new music video and for some reason MTV doesn't play utada's music videos...sad.

^MTV doesnt play videos at all....atleast not when I'm watching it @_@. VH1 does. Hope they give hikki a spin someday

Is 9 Sai no Omoide supposed to be songs she wrote at 9 years old?

^ It's a re-release of two U3 songs she made before.

Even as an avid Utada fan, I really don't see the point in the re-release single. :shrug.

^New Century Records trying to scab money from Hikki's success.

That's awesome that it's already on the radio. :) Now we just need the official announcement and hopefully some videos!

When Come Back To Me was still somewhat popular, I saw it on MTV Hits and Logo (which is owned by MTV.) :yes

I don't see any ads for Mariah... :no

LMFAO!! i see obsessed ads in 3 places!! :laugh

About 2AM Eastern Time they show music videos. They even show videos from 2001. Seriously MTV...what's up? lol.

hopefully this one (cryin' like a child) gets a video and utada promotes! =)

I hope they promote Utada the same way on other artists' sites.

I find it weird that up to now , there's still no cover update of U3's 9 Sai no Omoide considering that the single will be out on 21st this month

^ I have a feeling that the 9 Sai no Omoide cover is just going to be text with maybe a drawing or something...

^Or keiko fuji in heavy makeup :laugh

LOL LOL

that's very random , Bryan

What provoked these emotions ( :P )?

Hahaha! That would be funny... maybe they should put all three of them on the cover... the whole premise of this "single" is so... ( :dead2 ).

^If we have the premise in mind maybe the cover should be some New Century Records executives with sacks with dollar signs on them. :innocent

^Or the CBTM single cover with text changed :laugh. It'll be the 3rd time she uses that pic :)

I just saw two new tracks at iTunes Japan:

Sanctuary (Opening) [Bonus Track] and Sanctuary (Ending) [Bonus Track].

Is this supposed to be the new US single? I only have the digital version of CBtM, so I don't know if the cover was included or not in there, but here she has her eyes closed and is looking down, she's also wearing a black blouse with a white stringy thing on it.

^Sanctuary is/was released as a single for Japan only.

Ok...it's fake...but it's really nicely done in my opinion...

gawd this cover is so awful.. it looks like she's trying to hide that she ate too much cheese.. :/

^or like she's pregnant XD

or both xD

^lol. agree!

<3 ah i was in the taipei airport yesterday and in 2 of the makeup stores, apple and cinnamon was playing!

^Awesome! I wish they would play it in Canada. I heard a song that sounded almost exactly like a hikki song the other day. Why can't they play her stuff!!

I miss Hikki's japanese works already...

Godiva
 

^Last year we had a japanese album... considering Hikki standarts, we are not getting a new one anytime soon...

well, she released 17 new songs since 2008... This is A LOT considering it's Hikki... We are most likelly getting a new single next year and maybe a new album on 2011 or 2012^^

I got so used to her slow way of doing things that I don't really bother anymore xD

yeah, i see them x_x

that's what i was thinking lol, hope not! Dx

me too :( i want a new album! :weep

I think 9sai no omoide won't have a new cover shot.

It'll either be an old pic of hikki or just text or something.

lol I just completely forgot about that single. :laugh

the single cover for 9 Sai no Omoide hasn't been updated yet on CDJapan despite the fact that the single will be released this month on the 21st T_T

maybe someone of us should buy it and take a picture of it so everyone see what the cover is :laugh

It won't be uploaded on her official site since it's from another record company I guess.. So I have no idea where it would be uploaded :P

^Sorry if I sound a bit rude, but people have asked that so many times and others have answered so many times. xD

It's really not a real single. It's a re-release of a song that she did when she was still a part of U3 and the songs have already been released on one of the U3 albums.

Here's the cover, btw:
http://i25.tinypic.com/z65nd.jpg

Nothing special. If any of you guys are actually interested in this single, go find the U3 album that has these songs and then tag them as a single and use this cover in your iTunes. xD

i KNEW the cover was going to be that way :laugh

thanks amorphose.

Is that at least actually drawn by Hikki? As a child or something? It'd better be :P

Oh crap, I was right. Text and a drawing. :cry

Yeah, I'm finding the wait for new music much longer this time too. I think because she's been releasing stuff I haven't liked, so I'm a bit apprehensive/eager to hear what her "new" songs will be like. (Whenever that is!).

I love your avatar and sig (me)JackieRos! Sakura Drops is my all time favourite song and one of my all time favourite vids. The set captures the PV perfectly!

mi|kshake~

I shall revive this thread! *says magic incantations*

k...now to be on topic...I really don't like the cover of the single =/ I'm all for hand drawn pictures, thats cool with me but the font is really something horrid.

^Did she draw that? Do you have a source, cause I don't remember reading that anywhere. That's kinda cool.