I'm pretty sure I'll be dodging rotting tomatoes after this comment, but that dress and how she puts her hand ..
It makes her look like she's pregnant ^^; Noes? ^^;

She's HYPER pretty in that picture and I even forgive her wearing sneakers there (I actually want to wear everything she wears XD ) but just that hand and .. Argh XD



@CoriKaru; XD I don't think you'l do that to her ^^
You respect her too much for that ^^

...WHAT you'd do is pick her up in your arms after half an hour having stared at her and asking yourself "will I do it or not?" and bring her to the security and tell them they should take very good care of her ^^
Nah? :) *writes fanstory about CoriKaru and Hikki*


@kang daesung; hey, I'm happy for you you'll be seeing her ^____^
Be sure to make a lot of pictures of her and stuff! Oh, and don't forget to share with us ^_____^


@topic; heh, funny to see I wasn't the only one wishing for her to make a new single similar to Beautiful World ^___^
I was the first to mention it, though
US physical releasing date is coming closer. It was hard to wait, but times passed by pretty quickly if you asked me ^^
For her next single, pretty sure she'll take an upbeat song and then follow with either Apple&Cinnamon or This One.
It isn't like her to be releasing two ballad singles in a row for a (second) debut. She's one of these artists that can handle a lot of different styles, and wants to show of.



Btw.. Something I really wondered. This thread is about Utada, but the comparison will make it safe for me to be asking this I think ^^
Utada talks about herself being more of a producer/songwriter than a performer. Could it be that BoA loves performing more than singing/producing?
When she just dances, she looks happy to me.
When she sings, she looks always less relaxed to me ^^;
Wonder what you guys think about it ^^;

Top 50 Albums Of '09 :

13 *,202,329 **7,708 This Is The One / Utada 09/03/14

But didnt BoA's album chart higher on Billboard than Utada's?

omg, what am i gonna say 2 hikki when i see her?

lol just think that you'll talk to hikki

hmm if i ever meet hikki i would say "i love you, now give me everything that you ever released with an autograph or better yet, give me your address" :roflmao

:roflmao

nice one Jasmine :laugh

LOL! i want her jpn&eng autographs :D

^Anything from Utada would make me happy....seriously, Utada, just mail me a piece of lint from your pocket...it'll make my day

So I was browsing AHS and then my cousin calls and says she wants me to go out of town with her cause she has to drop a friend off. Being it was 1 in the morning I just grabbed my sweatshirt and hopped in the car. The way there and back then radio was on the local station.

On the way back we decided to stop at Jack In the Box as we hadn't' had dinner and it was the only place open. Were sitting in the car and all of the sudden Hikaru's voice comes out the speakers...

I screamed. "Omg they're playing a Hikki song on the Radio!" and my cousin was like "what?" then i explained that, Hikki is the one I want to go see in San Fransisco.

Yay. Too bad it was 1:52 in the morning. Oh here's the radio stations website for any one who cares http://www.hot1047fm.com/index.shtml

Sorry if this post doesn't make any sense due to lateness( earlyness?) of it.

Oh Hikki you totally bored me to death with this album, please bring some new & fresh japanese music back! T_T

Oh Hikki you totally entertained me with your new English album. I hope your Japanese works are as good as it in the future ;-;

^Ditto. :love

Anything except another bear song would be fine(^^))

aww boku wa kuma is cute! she should do a whole series, next should be boku wa usagi XD

^LOL!

anyway, i just realized that it's been almost a year after we heard something new from "UTADA HIKARU" except that Prisoner of Love ~silent version~ and that Eternally ~Drama Mix~ right?

awwwww...

Strangely enough, when Utada was working on/releasing Heart Station, and the rumors of another American album started, I was more excited for the American release than the Japanese. Now that TITO is out, I really cannot wait for her new Japanese works... So, the saying is true; You always want what you "can't" get...

I'd so die. Bunnies are one of my three fave animals.

just a random rant: i just recently got into her song "This One (Crying Like A Child)" after reviewing the lyrics. i could totally relate to 90% of the song (due to the lines independent woman and living on my own, aint true with me, hahaha.)

sigh.. i miss him. xxDDD

This One (Crying Like A Child) << My new favorite song!

Or Boku wa Neko x3



NEKOS RULE!

or boku wa baka xD that would be kinda funny

^ Haha I'm going to start singing it as Boku wa Baka now.

WOO HOO!!!! *dance* (I literally did yell woo hoo out loud) lol :)

What genre is she filed under? I can't see her.

Thanks!! No wonder I couldn't find her. I was looking in the physical chart.

:) No problem.

:roflmao

^ :roflmao

the local 8 DAYS did a crap review of This Is The One which's only a mere 4-5 lines T_T

at least they gave it 3/5

I see the bonus tracks aren't included on Amazon..

btw I asked in my local record store and they can't see This Is The One as a European release yet, so I guess the EU release will be later..

the physical release is so soon now. I wonder who is going to win that myspace karaoke thing.

http://ksolo.myspace.com/actions/sho...do?uid=8768189

Here's my friend's version. I think she's an amazing singer but I wouldn't be surprised if someone who can't sing for **** won.

I should try and make up lyrics or something. :laugh

so my bf just called me from the local gay leather bar and told me that not only are they playing the dance mix of "come back to me" but everyone there is apparently singing along with it.

and i thought that no one else here had heard of utada. guess i was wrong!

^ local gay leather bar xxxxxDDDDDD

(i wish we have one of those here)

^Wow...i actually thought it was good....I dont like it...but she's amazing...if you know what i mean. Thai is already like a super hard language to speak....to sing it...and that in tune...not to mention having to write the lyrics....she's just wow.

Yeah that. Not bad. Cool actully.

Yea she's real good, but I still have my doubts that someone who actually has a good singing voice will win lol. I just looked at the top rated and they suck :/

Here's mine -

http://ksolo.myspace.com/actions/sho...54&uid=7556110

It took me a while to record cause everytime I started singing, my birds would scream lmao. It's a bit quiet but oh well. I'm soo not singing this again XD


I still haven't heard some of the Come Back to Me remixes :/

^ Aw, your voice is so cute (^-^) I love your vibrato.

Yeah, this IS good. :thud

Haha, she still has like poor enunciation. She likes to slur pretty much in her speech. But yup, I like her red top! :D

^hehe I do that but mumble alot...

CoriKaru thanks for posting. I had not seen it before.

REALLY GOOD :yes

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/157/utadatokyo.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6875/utadatokyo2.jpg

So happy in these pics :)

Where are those from? :) She looks real happy.

her hair looks nice there...and i like her shirt.

she wears comfy clothes~

yeah the shadows are kinda...eh...and her mouth is scary...

but she still looks happy :)

Yeah the pictures are not the best but she looks happy and that's a good thing. I wonder where she buys her clothes from exactly.

Top 50 Albums

13 *,208,401 **6,072 This Is The One / Utada 09/03/14

Love the bright colours and her nails!

her clothes dont look expensive at all, probably at H&M or somethin :)

Utada Hikaru: New Japanese Single

9歳の想い出 (9 Year Old Memories ?????)

release date: August 21

Source:http://music.yahoo.co.jp/shop/c/10/nccp90821

Thanks AyUta.

Ah I wish I knew how to speak Japanese fluently.

One day!

She was laughing quite a bit in the begining hehe. :D

and probably mcluva420 :)

Any more news about Hikki being in San Fransisco and such?

o_O

the title's interesting but the release date's a bit eh since 21st Aug's a Fri

she was on a sf radio station that i dun listen to, and they spelled hikaru wrong -__-
http://www.movin997.com/Utada-Hiraku---St--John/4166326

I'm still waiting for her to come, and when she does, i will definitely post pics and maybe videos :)

should i give her a present or ask her anything you guys wanna know?

OH YES ! enough with her English crap ! I can't wait till August ~~~~~~!

You're rite... It's Friday... But well Can You Keep A Secret? released on Friday as well (if my memory is correct). She doesn't care about no. 1 anywayz. As long as she's releasing something (in japanese), I'm fine with that :D.

New Japanese single :D

August.. so long O__O why is she bringing out this news already

Yay for new Japanese single! :D

OMFG YES! but why august? :weep by then my summer is over :scry

but seriously, i'm beyond excited. can't wait!

Not only that but it's not being released by EMI Records but by New Century Records. They usually release her U3 singles.

^ weird, it must be that there has been 9 years since something xD

And the single's title is actually "Memories of a 9 year-old"

Source : http://hyperballad.wordpress.com/

wait, this song has vocals of hikki from when she was 9? please tell me she resung it, lol.

but it kinda sucks. so what's this single that she's been working on all this time during her US album? this isn't it? :shrug

hopefully a real new single can be released BEFORE august :laugh

August is so faraway though! :(

Eh? It will be resung, it won't? 'Cause if the vocals are from the past... This is not the new single that she were working in.

She needs to focus on her US career -w-;; she is just starting to get popular here she doesn't need to go back to Japan atm to be honest.

she shouldn't start working on something and just stop. And that doesn't sound like Hikki anyways, so i doubt there will be a japanese single soon.

New Century Records is just greedy, taking advantage that Utada is famous and also in the states, so that they sell off her old, unreleased music. Legally, they are allowed to sell it because Utada made the song with them, which means the rights also belong to them.

oh... so it's not a "new" song. And it is not the one she was working on a month ago. Darn I was getting hyper for a new hikki song..

I wanna hear nine year old Hikki (´∀`)

OK so it's not really a new song T_T

Aug's still quite faraway though

What other songs could New Century Records release with it? Other than the U3 songs. Unless they plan on only release that one song on the single. Still I'm getting visions of a PV with images of baby Utada and toddler Utada. That would be so cute.

I don't think it's unlikely that we'll be seeing an official Utada Hikaru single around the same time, but we shall see

this may be really stupid to ask, but........what does U3 stand for? :laugh what is it specifically?

@_@ it's just her voice when she's 9?.....

I thought U3 was used because the family name is Utada starting with a U and there were three of them. Could be wrong

Anyway, I'm pumped for this 'new' single!!~ :yes

I uploaded a really pretty cover of Sakura Drops I found <3 I highly recommend it!

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...41#post1933941

That's it. U3 is her father Utada Teruzane, her mother Fuji Keiko, and Utada Hikaru all together.

I listened to their album STAR some time ago. She was ten when they released that.

^Yup! STAR is a great album! I believe Hikaru actually sang THANK YOU on the album.

She is? I know she sang in that one song with her mother but she's sang THANK YOU entirely? I gotta relisten. Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks! I really like it :heart

Utada on the cover of the Japanese magazine CUT:

http://ro69.jp/store_images2/cut/20495_0.jpg

Pics from the photoshoot (as posted earlier):

^ very pretty! :)

That's her best pic since she killed her hair.

omg best picture ever.

She looked so fierce.. LOL. I love this pic ...any news about her *** single?

She did not kill her hair. She actually fixed it. She killed her hair back in the Heart Station era x_x


Hikki meeting with a San Francisco DJ:

http://imgsrv.movin997.com/image/DbL...jpg?1241852580







but then he pissed her off.....



http://imgsrv.movin997.com/image/DbL...jpg?1241433412

That second picture is cute.

The edgy bangs rock!

Hikki meets photoshop xD

You can't share it anyway.

I wonder if I will be able to walk into a store and get her album next week.

<3

and I liked her hair in Heart Station era. It gets not love :(

what do you think they photoshopped?

her eyes?