And it's literally the oldest and the most performed song of the album.

That's the pity of her only touring once in a lifetime, we always get single-driven setlist and very few (when it happens) album tracks.

Great looking setlist, happy to see Ore no Kanojo on there along with Sakura Drops, Travelling and Hikari. The main song missing for me is Shittosarerubeki Jinsei.

Most concerts are single-driven (hence lately there are more so called side-track concerts), but I believe UB has more than one popular songs. I know that UB probably was the "rock bottom" in her career (BML got less than 100K on the first week, Passion was the first single she couldn't get no. 1 (well no. 3 precisely), UB was the first album not getting over 1 million copies on the first week, and the only album not getting over 1 million copies overall before hiatus), but she did pretty well in digital (at least Keep Tryin' was pretty popular), and BLUE was pretty popular as the album song. Dunno why she only did one.

And for Distance... it remains as a mystery. Probably she hates the album as well lol.

again, I don't think she hates distance and there were excerpts of can you keep a secret, she even sang it... hahaha

well lately there are a LOT of people recording her concerts lol on the first day I didn't see one single person recording, but now there are many. that's nice :D

Does “as well” mean it’s a generally hated album?
I love it lol.

Wow, I'm so glad filming wasn't banned. I'm watching second Fukuoka day videos now and she's in a surprisingly good vocal form. And the arrangements...I'm almost crying of joy and heartbreak that I'm not there.
Is there any info on filming for DVD or TV broadcast?

I don't believe they have announced broadcast info yet.

Youtube fan footage:


Yes, she sounds very good.

Wow. Utada seems energized and confident for this tour. We need a blu-ray/dvd release.:luv2

Good question lol. When I said "as well", it meant that I dislike the album, or I should say it is my least favourite album. Gotta admit that I got too much hype for it (due to Distance vs A BEST lol). It wasn't as good as I hoped for :P.

Anywayz back to the concert topic. I kinda wish it is a circular stage (like WILD LIFE). Then Hikki could walk around and people at the back could see her closer.

Believe me, the circular thing it's justa bad for anyone who's not in the middle hahahaha cause I was at a corner at the back and when she went to the middle i couldn't see almost nothing haha and she was on her back to us most of the time (although she was slowly spinning so everybody could see her)


Before the concert I was also hoping for a center stage, but then I thanked it wasn't haha

I don't think she hates Distance, it's just that she's a mother now and a woman in her 30s, it's probably very hard for her to connect with the lyrics she wrote back when she was 16 years old about lots of teenage experiences that she's way past it.

And that's natural, I mean, even Britney and BoA themselves said that they havve hard times performing Oops! and Valenti, respectively, 'cause they don't really feel the lyrics of the song anymore.

For questions regarding the broadcast:

"Hikaru Utada Laughter In The Dark Tour 2018" will be broadcast on Japan's SkyPerfectTV in January of 2019, followed by M-ON! TV in March 2019
http://www.utadahikaru.jp/news/detail.html?id=499602

Awesome! Thank you!

YAAAAAAAAAAAS

Hatsukoi has come in at #5 on Tower Records best selling albums of 2018
https://tower.jp/article/news/2018/12/03/n101

Lots of info up ahead.

1. Hikari and Chikai from the tour will be made available on PlayStation VR December 25th.
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/...ahikaruvr.html

2. Face My Fears Short Ver. KH3 opening trailer
English:


Japanese:


3. Face My Fears analog jacket, drawn by Tetsuya Nomura
https://i.imgur.com/y3AYRlM.jpg

4. Tour concert report with more photos on Natalie
https://natalie.mu/music/news/311125
direct link to photo gallery-> https://natalie.mu/music/gallery/news/311125/1066885

5. To celebrate her 20th anniversary there are 2018 remastered versions of the following albums:
Distance
Deep River
Ultra Blue
Heart Station
*These are available digitally and on streaming services

https://www.universal-music.co.jp/ut...18-remastered/

6. Additional Info on the TV broadcast:
Sky Perfect - January 27th, 9pm
M-On! - March 10th, 8pm

7. Don't Think Twice will be available for streaming December 10th at midnight in every country.

Face My Fears cover HQ I love it :luv2


Don't Think Twice already available on Apple Music & iTunes JP: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/fa...-ep/1444992414

I love the "Face My Fears" cover artwork and I'm so ready to hear "Don't Think Twice" tonight!!

But WHO THE HELL does Skrillex think he is?! AUTOTUNING UTADA HIKARU'S VOICE?! Nah, he can take that back where it came from.

I love the cover 🥰

Skrillex's dated production is bad, but the melody sounds beautiful. I'm conflicted lmao.