[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Rogue

I've been listening to both previews a lot (actually set them on repeat and played a bunch of tetris games with them on XD )
I'm starting to appreciate Utada as a songwriter more and more

The lyrics of Dirty desire that say "I'm thinking 6 to 9" can be interpreted in a lot of ways, like someone (sorry but I forgot who) understood the lyrics first as "sex tonight", it can be interpreted as a pose (no need to make a drawing heh ^^; ) , it can be seen as a mention to a time-spending. I like the references like the one to full metal jacket and the overall feel of the songs (yes I love Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI a lot too ^^ )

Other artists lyrics, like Britneys music don't have that many layers and well-overthought lyrics.
What someone said about Utada not liking to wear skirts because she felt it as people were thinking she was a prostitue, the lyrics of Easy Breezy make much more sense to me now.
Everytime I learn something new about Utada, her work overall gains deeper meaning for me.
I love being fan of an artists that's smart in so many ways.

Btw especially Dirty Desire reminds of Britney work.. Can't help, but it really feels like that to me, and I mean it as a compliment.
This music will really help her making it in the US and A (Borat was on tv last night XD )



Edit: Luv, I think you might download the leak since you're intending to buy the album anyway huh?
Lieke was right when she mentioned that it was like pre-listening an album in a music store ^^
Hence, nobody buys albums that they don't like, ne?

I really hated Exodus when first it was out... I keep listening to it thinking "why did they do with my favorite songwriter T-T"... A friend of mine that had a hikki fansite (the site is down and my friend passed away some years ago) asked me to translate the album (even if my writing English is far from being the best, I think I'm pretty good into translating from English to Portuguese). So, when I started the translation process, I saw how complex the lyrics were... Some parts could be read in 2, 3 ways and of all them made sence with the rest of the song! There were so much irony and so many inteligent references and word games... It took me 3 days with the help of 2 friends (I didn't want to miss anything, so I could make the lyrics justice). When it was all done, I couldn't help... I was in love with the album^^ And then I took a look at some of her japanese lyrics, and then I understood that many of then was much more than plain love songs...

I really think Hikki is the best songwriter pop music have this days