What got your interest in Utada?
 

For all the Hikki fans on the board...if any xD...what drew you into listening to Utada Hikaru in the first place?

I have to saywhen I heard Hikari/Simple & Clean I was hooked. I heard the English version first, then downloaded Hikari and then her more and more songs from her. I've loved her since then, espeically Can You Keep a Secret, COLORS, Sakura Drops, Passion, Kremlin Dusk and Flavor of Life -Ballad Version-.

How about you?

Automatic and In My Room. I've been a fan since her First Love album. Probably because Pop/R&B slow jam vibe the album has.

Another quality from her that I look up to is her ability to still making interesting and quality music without being a fashion image (Unlike Ayu, Mika, Namie, etc)
Even a genre switch doesn't turn me off. I'm still lovin' EXODUS, although I have to admit I also feel weirded out by that album. But it's grown on me.

i like her song after i heard '1st Love' it was a very popular song last time..

Passion from KHII!
I loved the rest of Ultra Blue, but I don't like any of her other stuff!!
And Flavor of Life is ..... *Looks the other way*

I first heard Automatic, but I also got interested because she was the first j-pop artist I learned was born in New York. And because I'm American, I thought, "Cool." It's not like I started liking her only because she was American. I liked her music, but that fact got me more interested.

I had heard a lot of buzz about Hikki online, but I didn't become a fan until I heard "Simple and Clean" in a Kingdom Hearts commercial. Then I sampled all her music. :)

My Story......

Well, it was sort of random for me. I heard S&C on the KH commercial and I really liked it but I didn't know who sung the song for it. So, I guess a few months after listening to it, I was searching for Inuyasha/FFX-2 songs and somehow I happened to have found S&C and I instantly downloaded it. Once I played it on Media player it said the singer was Utada Hikaru. So then I decided to look her up and after doing that, I found a few more songs of hers (Sakura Drops, First Love, and Automatic -live-) and I happened to have really them. A few years later while watching MTV, I saw "You Saw It First" feat. Utada. She was talking about how Japan was different from Amercian and so on.

While she was talking they play clips of Automatic and was soooo suprised. I was like, "Wow, an Asian chick was singing a hip-hop song!" After that, it took me a while to find Automatic (I think about 2 years! XD) but I found it and I really was addicted to it and from then on I found more and more Hikki songs that I happened to have really enjoy and ummm....yea, I became a major Hikki fan! lol

Ever since her First Love single. omg, i still looooooooooooove that song... and all her other songs... so beautiful :)

ever since i saw an KH commercial on tv, which had "simple and clean" as the background music. then i got this gamepro magazine, i think, and it had utada's bio and picture in it. so i looked her up online and found her music.

I like her "First Love" , "Distance" & "Deep River" albums. Most of the stuff she has released after those albums isn't anything that special.

My favorite album by her is "Distance". It's very american pop/RnB because she worked with american producers like Jimmy Jam & Lewis and Rodney "Darkchild" Jenkins , but that's why I like it since I'm a big fan of anything by those RnB producers.

What? Automatic is hip hop song? :roflmao

Now, Hikki is my 2nd BEST artist EVER, after Ayu and before Kuu~chan

the same for me!!
my favorite song are: you make me want to be a man, exodus, traveling, canyou keep a secret and the new song flavor of life

i got interested in her when i downloaded the johnny vicious remix of automatic and liked it, so i went to find more of her songs and liked them all.

this is really what got me into jpop as a whole.

I've always somewhat liked her. Her genre wasn't really my thing, but I liked the select songs here and there, and Deep River album as a whole. It wasn't until the Exodus/ULTRA BLUE era that I became a fan. Now I anticipate her new releases as much as I do with artists like Namie, Gackt, etc. (I can't say Ayu, because that's a different plane of existence in and of itself :laugh)

Kingdom Hearts I :yes

and when I heard the japanese version...woah...soo much better...then I just...started...damn I don't even remember...there's like this huge gap between KHI and ULTRA BLUE lol I was probably only listening to ayu then...I don't really remember...but I love her now, she's right up there next to ayu.

Simple and Clean (Planitb Remix) from the US Kingdom Hearts CM and videogame!

I came across Hikaru while I was looking for another artist.
I noticed that Simple & Clean was very popular, and I downloaded the remix version.
I was very surprised; it was a great song, and Utada sang in English really well (I didn't know anything about her, not even that she was born in the U.S. or anything).
After hearing Distance, I became a fan -- not a big fan, but I still have my favorites.

i heard Hikari/S&C first, but it was "SAKURA drops" & watching the gorgeous PV that really made me interested in Hikki! :)

IMO, YES!:P

Now that I think about it, Sakura Drops was my first J-PV!!!!:D