The 9th Official Thread - The Girl With The Big VOICE
 

SHE IS PUTTING DAISHI DANCE?!?!?!..OMGGGGGGGG THAT IS SO COOL..
I hope this album is really gd...juding form the variety and the singles..

she looks hagard on the cover though


WAITTTTTT...only 3-4 new songs?!?!

yeah she's putting the DAISHI DANCE instead of the original on VOICE which's a good decision since I find the original to be quite boring

& yeah only 4 new songs :( I count 4 because I already heard how あなたがいるから sounds like as it's a digital release song

I do enjoy the original SH :P

Anyway, I lolled at the name of the thread

i don't like daishi dance so much, i prefer the original SH. :P but i love the cover!

here is a promo picture ^^
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8...151copyqb9.jpg

Oh, that is pretty. :heart

Mika is so... freakishly skinny.
Her heade is like 3/4 her torso width XD


I still love her

And that promo pic? <3

It's so original

And it feels like nature :D
I think ill ask my friend to order it for me :D


Btw guys, I drew Mika : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/102245913/

Only four new songs? Eh, what's with this year's Japanese albums being filled with B-sides?

Ugh.

Nevertheless, I'm glad Mika's finally releasing an album!

yeah you got that right Jacky & somemore the most I have seen in an album 4 B-sides :O

anyway CDJapan just sent me this :

AICL-1981
Mika Nakashima/Voice[w/ DVD, Limited Edition] CDA
3333 yen US$34/99.4 Release Date:2008/11/26
Description:Fifth album release from Mika Nakashima featuring the track "Life" (theme to TV series "Life"), "Orion," "I Don't Know" sung as Mica 3 Chu, "Eien no Uta" (the theme to film "Southbound"), "Sakura - Hanagasumi-", and more for 14 songs total. Limited edition includes bonus DVD with music video of her single.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=AICL-1981
*********************************************
AICL-1983
Mika Nakashima/Voice[Regular Edition] CDA
2913 yen US$29/99.4 Release Date:2008/11/26
Description:Fifth album release from Mika Nakashima featuring the track "Life" (theme to TV series "Life"), "Orion," "I Don't Know" sung as Mica 3 Chu, "Eien no Uta" (the theme to film "Southbound"), "Sakura - Hanagasumi-", and more for 14 songs total.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=AICL-1983

I like the background of where the cover was taken :D

CDTV My fashion leader 2008 Top 10



For Girls :

*1　浜崎あゆみ
*2　安室奈美恵
*3　持田香织（Every Little Thing）
*4　aiko
*5　幸田来未
*6　YUKI
*7　木村カエラ
*8　绚香
*9　大冢 爱
*10　中岛美嘉

video clip: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDgzNjA4MzY=.html

CD journal comment and interview :
http://www.cdjournal.com/main/interv...ew.php?ino=191

http://www.cdjournal.com/image/inter...nakashimaa.jpg

and comments about each track of the upcoming album:
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Inf...tsu_voice.html

wow Mika is looking great!

This cover is looking so different than all her previous album covers, but I really like it ^^
It's a beautiful pic and Mika's looking so pretty and happy :)

she looks great in that cover!!

with the background its much better...first time for a natural cover?? lol..

hm....i think the cover will look better in person, haha...

i'll probably get this...i liked a lot of her b-sides xD and eien no uta is soooooo good :D

I wonder how FLOWER OF TIME and Koe will sound like

^ According to the liner notes for the album, Koe involves piano and a lot of strings. I'm super excited.*__*

UMYGAWD..
the cover looks so strange and scare... buaaaa

wow the new cover is beautiful I LOVE Mika's image ^^ Did she get a new tattoo?

love love love the cover. i didn't at first, but i like the sort of stripped down look... it's a nice change and really shows her versatility... she can look beautiful all done up, with flawless make up, amazing costumes and very styled hair, but she can also look so beautiful with a bare face, in a white tank top and messy flowing hair. absolutely gorgeous <333

also love the track list since i haven't been buy any of the singles... can't wait to hear the new tracks too!

OMG Stringgssss in Koe

I love stringss
I'm hyped now :D

LIFE is such a great way to start the album. It starts slowly and then gets into the beat.

That cover looks beautiful. She is versatile. She's had it short, long, in braids, in a scarf, wavy, straight, with and without bangs. I like how she braided her bangs out of the way in this shot.

Oh Is the CD and CD+DVD cover going to be the same? I'm so used to seeing two covers for the albums nowadays and she had two for YES so I was hoping it was coming.

totally love the cover~ so serene and peaceful..and no photoshopping :lech

not sure because I know for the CD + DVD of YES , what you see on the net's the slipcase

not sure for VOICE's case

NINKI for ORION:

#07 37.90 中岛美嘉 ORION

Well i'm not surprised at its position because the album is also going to be out in the same month plus the only contents in it that's not going to be in the album are the instrumentals =\

ick that's not really good

but kinda expected since the album will be releasing in a matter of a few weeks so people would rather wait a while to get VOICE instead of ORION

I did a drawing of Mika in the fanwork thread, chek it out :D


Only 30k?

That's just sad... I wish it would sell much higher.

Even YES sold 200k+

^ Mika's not really strong when comes to single sales . Even the sales of the singles that make the cut in VOICE , only LIFE cross the 100K where the rest were duds

I wouldn't be surprised if VOICE can't sell as well as YES :(

& oh ya before I forget she will be performing at MUSIC STATION next Fri :

2008.11.14

• 青山テルマ (Aoyama Thelma)
• 加藤ミリヤ (Kato Miliyah)
• ゴスペラーズ VS 常田真太郎（from スキマスイッチ） (The Gospellers VS Tokita Shintarou (from Sukima Switch))
• SPEED
• 土屋アンナ (Tsuchiya Anna)
• 中島美嘉 (Nakashima Mika)

too bad she wouldn't be doing FOCUS :(

poor mika..
actually she musnt release ORION IMO

Are you kidding me ? XDD Of course VOICE will do better than YES..
Just with the simple fact that LIFE is in VOICE will help the sales, and better ORION is promoting the album so well so far! I won't be surprised if ORION gets the same digital sales as LIFE.
The album is #14 on HMV pre-orders top 200, 4th on Neowing CD top sellers. orion is #75 on HMV pre-orders charts, not bad at all.

YES has no good seller single, except Mienai Hoshi with almost 60k (not much). This album was more experimental than Mika's past albums (gospel, soul and reggae are not really popular styles of music in Japan music industry)
I really hope that album will outsell YES' sales O_o

If ORION sells 30k I'll be happy. Physical sales are not that important nowadays and the song is doing more than well digitaly, so I don't really complain =3

I wouldn't complain about the sales as long as the music is good.
But higher sales means more frequent appearance and more music. Plus who wouldn't want our beloved Mika to be loaded ?

So is FOCUS the 1st B-side that Mika made a video for ?

^ nop, she did PVs for some b-sides : BLACK&BLUE, FAKE, VENUS IN THE DARK, I LOVE YOU, HEAVEN ON EARTH ^^

Mika was beautiful in Ryusei no kizuna's 4th episode <3!! I really want to see her more than in one only scene T_T

ah I totally forgot that she made PVs for BLACK & BLUE & I LOVE YOU T_T

thanks a lot for telling me

I LOVE YOU PV is very pretty, I love it :D

:yes

erm has the CD only cover of VOICE been released already ?

I don't think there'll be 2 covers, I think the cover we already have is going to be the cover for both versions:shrug

eee that will be stingy :eviltongu

I love the YES covers though , she looked so beautiful in both editions :(

If there aren't two covers then that will be kinda confusing~~~

I wonder how the deluxe box for the CD+DVD is going to be like. I hope it'll be something special rather than just a slipcase :eviltongu

I have a feeling it'll be a digipak of some sort.

Ok I realised I'm Mika deprived , well sorta

can someone upload her previous songs like FIND THE WAY , Yuki no Hana , Sakurairo Mau Koro ?

not picky when comes to file sizes , 128kpbs or smaller will do for me thanks :D

EDIT - I also would like the song Oborozukiyo ~Inori too

I have Sakurairo Mau Koro and Yuki no Hana in 320kbps, do you still want it? :(

sure cloud , go ahead & upload them

I can convert the file sizes to 128kpbs , thanks :D

oh damn, I just have school in 10 minutes. hope you don't mind waiting or someone else uploads it for you.

oh sure I'm in no rush to get the songs , no worries

maybe Utena can help me on this :innocent

Nevermind Karen, I hadn't school today. I didn't realize it before lol

FIND THE WAY
Yuki no Hana
Sakurairo Mau Koro

Here is Oborozukiyo~inori ^_^
(I had school today ahah)

:roflmao

thank you guys :grouphug

So when is VOICE being released again? (For some reason, Google is not working for me. :()

26th which's in 2 weeks & a day's time

& YAY for HQ of FOCUS :smitten

http://www.barks.jp/feature/?id=1000044721
BARKS mika feature, you can watch a preview of the FOCUS PV. crazy as it is :lol:

oooh i wanna see!

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1981/mptl5.th.jpghttp://img133.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

preview screens. hopefully everyone can stream it from the link I posted earlier.

i streamed it, but the quality was low, lol. it reminds me of a kaela kimiura PV...JASPER, maybe? :laugh but it really was nothing like i expected. i dunno, i hope you can actually see her singing instead of just moving around. :P

thanks for the LQ previews , it looks interesting & colourful

hopefully it wouldn't suck when the PV for FOCUS's out

yeah thanks!
wow! Mika's looking so awesome ^^ & yes colourful!

Did anyone else see that tiny VOICE pic down that site.
She looks so pretty there XD

I just downloaded ORION and I must say, I love FOCUS! ^^

me too Jacky

real glad that FOCUS made the cut in VOICE & so's for IT'S TOO LATE as well :smitten

Mmm! I love how Mika is heading back into the Jazz genre. I miss her MUSIC days~

Guys, ORION is at #7 today. At least it's in the top 10 given that both tracks will be included in the album which will be released this month xD

wah not bad considering VOICE will be released in 2 weeks's time

then again it's only the 1st day so you never know what will happen in days to come

Hooray for a top-10 debut on the Oricon daily charts! ^O^

this is looking very good for her, go Mika! ^^

ouch..#7? but RnK is doing so well. :( i guess people really are waiting until VOICE to come out in 2 weeks.

I really like this single. FOCUS is great. <3

Hopefully the new tracks on VOICE will have a similar sound.

Coool..congrats to her...ORION is a nice simple humble ballad

Promo Pic
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o...xia/nlpua3.jpg

I haven't been keeping up on Mika and her tattoos. I know about the one on her back but when did these two pop up?

The promo pic is freaky. She seriously, looks plastic.

^ the one in the back was a fake only made for Mika's photobook LOVE FILLS ALL.
She made the star and "trust your voice" during this summer =)

interview + photo gallery : http://event.music.yahoo.co.jp/nakashima/
(love the other promo pic in the background when you click on interview *.* and the shoot looks great so far!)

So there's only 1 cover for VOICE at this moment ? Cos the CD only cover it's not uploaded yet on her official website is it ?

I am just not getting a feel for the FOCUS PV when I see the screencaps~ I never thought that Mika would dress like that. I prefer her more glammed-up look she had before, instead of shocking colors for costumes like that. But I haven't watched the whole PV yet so I might change my mind after that.

I love the promo pic! So beautiful!

omg ORION was played just now on MTV China :thud

I got a shock when I saw it as it's FAST that MTV China played the PV as it was released like what yesterday in Japan :O

anyway I think the reason on why ORION's doing pretty a-ok is probably because of Ryusei no Kizuna ? since it's served as an insert song & etc

the new shoots for VOICE are SOOO BEAUTIFUL XD

Drop dead beautiful

I think I have to buy it XD

i love that new pic :love

ORION is at #6 today! :D it went up!

I wasn't expecting ORION to do this well...go Mika! :luv2 It'll definitely be interesting to see how the sales for VOICE turn out, though I won't get my copy until CDJapan ships Days/GREEN...cry. T^T

I KNOW! I just downloaded and listened to both ORION and focus and they're reallly good! I think her LOVE and MUSIC days were her best...

This photo is AMAZING compared to the CD cover photo, that just looks soo bad... she looks sick there.

I think her tattoo's pretty neat. :) (Or at least the text is.) I agree that the promotional image is better looking than the actual cover for VOICE, but I like VOICE's cover too.

aw :(

guess I will wait for the OS press of it to come here but that should take pretty fast , I hope

mika's at #7 again today :D

EDIT: new VOICE promo pic:



new mag cover:

What does her tattoo say, and does anybody have her albums besides Love, Music, and Yes? I don't caer for the mini-albums, though and I do want the Best album, I tried requesting in the Sub-forum for the downloads but no answers.

her tattoo says "trust your voice", right?

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j6.../mikavoice.jpg

man she looks beautiful in here :love

Nice promo pics!!!..THAT should have been the cover...

and she looks VERY gd on the Mag cover

:yes Finally a picture I like.

ORION is at #5 today! :D

ORION at MUSIC STATION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22NWNTbJqVk
LIFE+ORION @ Koi Uta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPPiHc1XZ8

^ wow ORION's doing really well , I'm impressed

japanese really like simple/humble ballads/songs it seems
happy for her

i SERIOUSLY dont recognize the MICA 3 CHU in her...gosh..its crazy...esp when the Mika in the talk section...it's just so tamed...LOL

Surprisingly ORION's doing really well! That's a good sign! xD

I really thought ORION will flop badly considering that VOICE will be released in what 2 weeks's time + both the A & B sides will be included in the album but it's doing better than I thought

Just watched Koi Uta performance and my first thought was Is she barefoot?
I thought it was a nice touch to zoom in at the Orion Stars as the song starts.
She always sings beautifully live. She's one of those singers that can sound exactly like her songs go.

yea, she sings barefoot for some reason, lol. it probbably makes her concentrate more? :shrug

the magazine cover makes her actually look like she's alive :D

haha but im excited for this release! more so than I was for YES :[

I know. She looks really pale lately. Tell the makeup artist to put some blush on that girl. It seems to be a theme going thru the pictures though.

ORION is 3rd today !! *_*
Hope she'll stay here ahah <33

OMG! ORION is doing REALLY REALLY well, that's awesome. Especially being in the top 3.