[Not Fade Away]

Whoever said 'Blue' was a hot mess during 'Wild Life' was right haha....I have to skip past that song every time.

I feel like Utada needs to get back into her R&B stuff because she can hit those notes.

When it comes to a lot of her Japanese songs, she goes higher than she can on some notes, and while she DOES get those notes out, it's obviously a struggle. A struggle in both studio form and live form.

As weird as a lot of her English-language songs are, she does a better job hitting those notes (ie: The verses in Exodus '04, Devil Inside, The verses in FYI, The verses in Taking My Money Back...etc...)

For some reason...she feels the need to go a few notes higher in the choruses of most of these songs...I don't know why.

In terms of technique, tone, quality...w/e on Ayu's part...I just find myself going "whaaat?"

As much as I love her, the last live that I thought was pretty solid from her vocal-wise was Rock N' Roll Circus, and even a lot of that was improved due to technology.

Despite Kuu going crazy with the vocal pyrotechnics at times, I think she probably knows her range the best out of anyone.