the 2nd offical thread of erika sawajiri
 

waw 2nd thread..
start from now..
hehehe

i will go to sony and threaten to bomb them if destination nowhere doesn't leak soon >(

yeah..im waiting.
maybe got canceled after the stupid attitude of closed note conference .

it's already been aired via mop girl


i doubt they woulda cancelled it now

it's not cancelled. the tracklist and everything is still on schedule. but where the hell is the full song?!

Ever heard of capitals? :|

But yeah, it's definatly on, but I want the song and/or PV!

what are they? (XD i'm just really lazy like that)



seriously, it's been like, years since the mop girl preview came out :irked

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ERIKA'S GONE BACK TO GRAVURE!!!!!!! WHY?!?!?!?!?~~~~~~~

say what?

yay! I love gravure <3 But~ I doubt she'll be posing in a bikini for the magazine. It looks like she's dressed like old Hollywood or something.

yea, but she is still doing music right?

^ I don't see why she wouldn't. A lot of gravure idols sing and act and stuff while still modeling, though they usually retire from being a gravure idol to do those things.

I really like that cover she's on^^ it's very burlesque =)

OMFG FINALLY!!!

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65383

^ yay, thanks!

the song is brilliant. the full version is fantastic!!

the song is just amazing! I love it - really love it!

Is it me or this sounds something Olivia would sing?

^ It's not you, I immediatley thought of OLIVIA after hearing it too!

Haha good to know :D well this new song's definitely good though lacks something I can't put my finger on

still download it, hope its good

A PV!!! XD



omg i love this song. i will listen over and over until i get tired of it (AS IF!!)

^ Personally right now I think it's a blander version of 'FREE'. But that's just me I guess. :|

"Destination Nowhere" is awesome. I'm not suprised, I've LOVED everything she has released so far! I wonder if it's gonna sell well though. Because of the recent incident... hehe.

you suck






haha, jkjk, i still luv ya (you have olivia set!! YAY!!!!)

i just knew that Destination Nowhere is composed by COZZi...the same composer who wrote quite a few songs for YUI ...

i starting to imagine YUI singing the song instead of ERIKA >_< cuz i dun feel the song as all even though i loved FREE a lot!!! ....maybe because erika sounded like she has water in her mouth when she's singing ... :P :P


edit...just found out 'Stay with me', 'FREE', 'Time to go home' were ALSO composed by COZZi >_< ...

i think she's trying to go the 'YUI' path..

I also thought of YUI when I heard the song which isn't a bad thing since I like YUI^^

well, they're both alike in alot of ways XD


who else did cozzi compose for? he sounds familiar...

Well, if she's going in the YUI's path, she's definitely rocking it more than YUI herself! :P Actually, I do like YUI's music style... A LOT. It's just that her voice is really irritating. Maybe I need to get used to it. I used to hate hitomi's voice, but now I LOVE it. I wonder if this could also happen to YUI for me.

And sora, lol. I don't think they are that alike apart from having the same role as Kaoru Amane! XD They seem to be totally different!

Nah I agree. It sounds a bit bland, cookie-cutter pop-rock. But then I doubt she'll steer away from this direction. Sony is not known for experimenting and taking risks.

YUI sucks, I hate her lol. DESTINATION NOWHERE IS PERFECTNESS BETCHES! Oh my god it's so damn good. I can't stop to listen with WISH (by ARASHI) and Aoku Yasashiku (by Kobukuro). The song is perfectness! Perfectness! Perfectness a lot. All I was waiting for, most than I was waiting! One of the best songs of the year.

i meant that they also had a connection between them for closed note XD


also, her voice has changed recently. it used to be kinda squeaky high, but now it's kinda...'matured'...almost like ayu =3

YUI DOES NOT SUCK *blocks you*

Oh sorry sora, but I had to spread my opinion. Well I don't think the same. Erika isn't trying to be like YUI or OLIVIA and stuff, her songs are different than the others. Destination Nowhere is different of YUI's and OLIVIA's music stuff.

And why they released FANTASY then?

FANTASY was a b-side and also it's predominantly pop with some electro undertones. It's nowhere near experimentation. If you want to see some serious experiments look at avex. Though they might not always be successful they like taking risks. Seriously I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to fit her in the niche of YUI and OLIVIA. And Destination Nowhere seriously sounds like something Livi would sing. It's not the end of the world anyway but bashing YUI won't get you anywhere, apart from getting her fans annoyed at you.

And her stage name's ERIKA. Dun-dun-dunnn.

I don't think this was posted before. Here's the new layout plus covers

WOW!!!! :o what fancy covers, lol.

Personally that wig looks hideous

yea, i can do without the blonde wig. but it's really...different kind of covers, lol.

Yeah true. I wonder why the sudden change of style.

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arc...rika/photo.jpg
promo picture

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arc...652/jacket.jpg
First Pressing

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arc...654/jacket.jpg
Regular Edition

First pressing cover is really nice. :heart

Her covers are so much more creative than Ayu's!

Funny I was thinking it was a fashion disaster gone horribly wrong. The regular edition seems pretty tacky. The first pressing looks decent at least. She still can't figure out she can't pull off blonde hair.

I don't really like the font of the title but other than that, I like the covers^^ but not as much as FREE's covers.

Ayu tried the huge blond hair too and it failed also. I don't think many asian can pull it off! And yeah, Erika definitely looks a LOT better with less makeup and normal hair like in her movies. She's a bit too extravagant as a singer. XD Blond is definitely not for her, she should stop LOL.

ok, that turned me off =(


she prolly could pull blonde hair, but i mean, with hair THAT huge, it's no wonder she isn't pulling it off XD

even the closed note premiere hair was huuuuuuuge

Ewww...

the only time i hate her with blonde hair is during the closed note conference.

Nah it didn't. She looked hot in STEP you. The problem is that Erika isn't compatible with blonde wigs. She looks like a clown most of the time. I wonder if she has a stylist or something because sometimes her fashion sense is really off. She should stick to brown and black only. I like Erika but she thinks she can get away with any style and she gets carried away and the result isn't that great.

On the other hand the pv looks real nice and her hair looks natural.

i just like her first pressing cover, the rest is ewww...
i can't stop listening to destination nowhere

PV PREVIEW!!!

http://erika-fantasy.blogspot.com/

it looks beautiful!

looks really good^^ can't wait for the full version!

I keep hearing about this girl and some incident, and then I try to check her out and I meet those covers. Ew, now I don't wanna check her out at all lol!! >.<

I agree Sony is a non experimental label, but FANTASY had promotion in TVs, it was a success in the music stations and stuff. I don't know if it is such a B-Side or not because this. Well I think Erika is going well to me. Destination Nowhere sounded sooo different than FREE and Taiyou no Uta to me.

Well, nice covers. The promo pic is UGLY A LOT, I tried to make a set with that thing but I couldn't look at her face. It made me want to die :thud

I loved the First Pressing cover a lot but I was still waiting more. Funny, not much more, that's ok to me. Considerating the song is awesome AS HELL!

It had promotion. So what? Sony wanted to make sure to make "FREE" sell well to the point that they decided to give it a boost by shelling money for a promotional video to "Fantasy". In the end "Fantasy" doesn't have any special or different features from regular J-Pop.

Erika's career will probably be limited to that of an idol-singer, similarly to Leah and from the looks of it we'll be getting cookie-cutter J-Pop. The difference probably is that Erika will have more professionals to work with which will give her music a higher quality. Because up till now I have not heard anything which sounded mediocre and I'm pretty happy with this.

All labels want to sell well or higher than the others. It's a fact, all labels want to her products be recognized by the people. Ok ok, and not's that what avex do too? Make various PVs to the artists sell well too.

Labels are always so.

Um... that's pretty obvious. I just don't get what it has to do with Sony being experimental.

And Mika? I forgot her when I was talking to you. She's not the obvious. I hope Erika run her way, proving various different styles.

Mika experiments? Since when? Her music's either ballads or ballads. The only time she did something different was because of NANA when Sony was pretty sure that Mika would sell anyway, even if the quality wasn't that great. And they only did it because NANA was a craze back then.

She has a lot of experiments. Fine, she had a reggae song, a pop-ish song, rock-ish songs, western music, blues, ballads (as you said), instrumentals, "original" japanese songs and stuff. And by the way are you still thinking she doesn't? =O

They all sounded the same to me except the NANA releases. All of them were ballads or soft pop.

And some of the stuff you mentioned are not experiments but just random stuff thrown around. J-Pop, Western and ballads are not experiments. They are regular J-Pop and almost all J-Pop female singers constantly churn that stuff in the J-Pop Industry. Instrumentals is not a genre or an experiment. And I've listened to some of her blues/reggae stuff and it sounds very much like her regular stuff with some minor tweaks.

If you seriously want to see some bold experiments see someone like Ayu or Hitomi Shimatani who have experimented with a load of genres. Anyway there's no need for Erika to experiment. People like her pop-rock and she fits well with that genre without sounding like a chipmunk so I'm happy with her direction.

Yeah, I agree but I don't feel the same about Ayu. Shima is totally crazy and nonsense (that's a joke, no worry) to do various styles like them. Neva Eva was funny, I loved that!

You're serious? Ayu is probably the most experimental and daring artist in Japan. And Shimatani, I guess she has nothing to lose so we get a load of fun material. Neva Eva was an awesome release :D

Shima rocks, that's why I love her and her awesome voice. Ok, I have to say, I had to wait a time to accostum me with her strong voice as well but now she's quite fine to me.

Ayu? Oh, do you think this? I have to agree again with a thing again. Recently, I'm really impressionated with her stuff and "revolutions" in her music, but in old stuff I don't think it was experimental and stuff like it. I think they were normal songs. That's why I love her newest stuff. I just like/love some songs of her "older stuff" and no more. I was impressionated very much with knowing Japanese music before, that's why I thought I was loving her older stuff.

Since Memorial address, she's the best for me. And probably it won't change anymore.

Yeah most of her newer stuff is more daring and I enjoy it more too :D

by the way her "destination nowhere" PV, looks very interesting, but i think it will be an eye candy PV with no meaning

The thing I'm liking best from this new song is the pronunciation of English. No crappy Engrish being butchered to death.

but when she sings "wind is crying"
i don't know that part is an english lyrics, i thought its japanese...

well, it looks pretty good...i like htat really cool effect with her closing in and then zooming out XD

i always thought she was saying when it's night XD

I thought she was singing "Take ant to the sky, whhoore is craw" XDDDDDDDD

^LOL
i know that she say "take off to the sky" and then i thought she sings something in japanese..haha..but this song ROCKS!!! love it

the PV's airing on the 5th. which means by sunday night (for me) the PV should be up on JPS. i'll stay up for how long it takes, lol.

I WANT IT NOW *dies*

^same...i think i already played "destination nowhere" for about 100times...this song ROCKS, hope the PV is good

I saw 7 people who like my kind of music post here. What's her genre?

*Needs new Pop*

even though my last.fm says i played it about 50 something times, i'm almost near 100, lol. the song is just that good.

kinda rock-ish. try her out, she's only released one single so far =3 (well, two, but one was kaoru amane...)

i think its rock-pop..its really good, she need to polish her voice, but her song is rocks, i hope she will train her voice, so she will be a real singer

^yup I agree! Her songs are nice but then I guess she
still has room for improvement for her vocal.

Destination Nowhere is great!

the PV's aired already, i think. not too much longer till it gets uploaded.

PV PV PV PV:

http://mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_be...tails&id=39516

I JUST SAW THE COVERs RIGHT NOW..

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EW WTF????

I find it quite hilarious you said it was going to leak soon and it does 1/2 an hour later. :3 GO! GO! Do your thang Queen Of Uploading!

-Waits for [SS] "ERIKA - Destination Nowhere (PV)" thread-. :D

LOL you know me too well. it's still downloading, but it'll be up very soon!

Yayyy! -Jumps up and down-

all done:

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65621

PV's nice. At least Erika doesn't look like a clown. I love the hairstyle.

I love the song, the bridge is CRAZZIE~~~
The PV is just nice altho I expected some weird ideas and a lot of confusing concepts

Shes very beautful, again.
The PV is great!
Go Erika!

So you're saying that it took you 30 minutes to download and upload the PV? D: It'd take 1/2 an hour to download it and another 2 hours to upload it! That's amazing, your connection must be... off the hook! (:D)

lol i didn't keep track of the time, so i guess. :P yea, optimum online is great. thank god i got it last march.

The song is AMAZING.
The PV is cool. Erika looked so pretty in it! The band's outfit, LOL.

She looks really good without all the heavy makeup on! But I was a little bored with the PV =\ but the song is just great. Keep up the good work Erika^^

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