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Originally Posted by sxesven
My conclusion was that Exodus was actually a more than decent album, a pretty good one actually. In the end, I think Exodus was an extension of Deep River in many ways. It has some very good songs, and it's quite strong overall. Hikki'd definitely deserved to sell millions with this.
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I think some of the tracks were really inventive and as much as the lyrics suck to some I found some of them to be clever and interesting. The album had some bad flaws though:
-Utada's voice is nowhere near consistent in this album. You know how a very shy person is suddenly dropped in front of a microphone to say something to a huge crowd? That's how Utada sound, her voice trembles, she seems scared and her voice sound that of an intimidated person. She didn't seem so secure of her english at all.
-The excessive reference of her being japanese and asian felt completely wrong, ruined the whole mood of the album. Utada has already traces of being asian she doesn't need to use the songs to tell that. Plus from interviews and other stuff people would get to know she IS japanese. The I'm japanesey thng was unecessary even though to so,e it was clever. for me it seemed stereotyped, it didn't feel nice.
-Putting traditional japanese instruments in the song was something not really needed at all, specially to try to achieve a market where not everybody is interested in hearing the cultural richness of one particular song. She could use all the japanese instruments she wanted in one situation only: if she had achieved enough popularity which obviously wasn't so it wasn't a safe step to try experimenting with such stuff.