There was a JPN MySpace Utada Karaoke Contest as well as a America Myspace Utada Karaoke Contest. I posted the link to the JPN winners somewhere in the first pages of this thread.

I love Uso Mitai na I Love You. It's a very good song. :) I like the way she used that Hikari-ish melody. I was very shocked though when I heard it for the first time. I thought "why does this sound like Hikari so much?" and later I found out why. :D

Yeah I remember that. The Japanese words just couldn't fit in to the first part of the chorus, so she had to change that part of music. IMO... I think the Japanese part (that melody) is much better. It builds up the intensity :D.

Ohhhh okay thanks, guess I missed something then!

Minor Utada news today....kinda disappointing.

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sucks when nobody really asks her an INTERESTING question :rolleyes

oh cool!


"I'm considering it."

Well, thanks. And I don't doubt that we're crazier...Japanese people just sit there and clap.

I agree. "Hikari" just explodes upon you. It startles me sometimes and I have to make sure the volume is turned down a bit. Has rocked my ear drums a number of times.

Haha. That made me laugh for some reason. You know what. A thought just occurred to me.

You know how it's shunned upon to be publicly known as an "otaku" and how they wear masks on Youtube to keep their identity hidden? Perhaps that's the same thing that's going on in those crowds during television performances. They don't want to display their passion for an artist to its fullest extent so they subdue themselves. Not to say that I have never seen a Japanese crowd go crazy publicly but yeah. I don't know. Perhaps.

^yeah. the crazy fandom thing is sorta cultural ^^"

And I always thought the japanese fans are more crazier than american opposite. How strange. Maybe it's just that in Finland we don't go crazy over our favourite artist (well I go). :D But anyhoo, lucky americans if you get a Hikki concert. I'd die to jealousy. :<

EXODUS is 100x times better then TITO, and no one can convince me in other stuff, because TITO sounded very typical and NOT-special-outstanding, sorry :(
and I don't really care about sales, because music quality in EXODUS is 100x times better

I do NOT understand why BoA & Hikki made it to America. they spent so much money & time, I mean, waste so much money & time, but DO NOT earn much and DO NOT get much

I want another Japanese release like Passion :yes

moreover, I want her to Come Back to Japan and release music there

is there going to be an Exodus vs TITO showdown poll? xD

ditto

This Is The One's frankly too much for me even though lyrics wise , it's more mature & not out there unlike Exodus :dead2

Exodus pushes Utada outta her music comfort zone so it's natural for some people to like it or don't

I thankfully fall into the 1st category

That would be awesome!!! :love

^ There is already :D

^Wow....that re-release cover should have been the cover of TITO....and hikki looks so beautiful in that pic. She looks less frail and her hair is finally growing back. Thanks for the news.

no she does not. its just as ugly as the album cover.