[Utada Hikaru] Finishing the Decade with a Bang in her 39th Thread

[amorphose]

To be honest, I really don't like it. I'm so upset that I can't make myself like it cause I've never ever disliked a song from her and this is one of the last ones we'll get for a long time, so why now?

I don't really like how drastically she's changed her image. Not that she doesn't look great... just that it seems she's going against what she normally would just to sell her last album. =\

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by amorphose

I don't really like how drastically she's changed her image. Not that she doesn't look great... just that it seems she's going against what she normally would just to sell her last album. =\

Well, this is not the first time she had heavier make up and a more trendy haircut. In fact her new look reminds me her W&S era. I dun think she changes her image to sell cds. More likely she suddenly wanna have a different make up and style. I mean, people dun work the same type of clothes or make up throughout their lives. At one moment hikki might want to have a natural look. Now she wanna have a more feminine look. Nothing wrong with that.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by bluegie

Well, this is not the first time she had heavier make up and a more trendy haircut. In fact her new look reminds me her W&S era. I dun think she changes her image to sell cds. More likely she suddenly wanna have a different make up and style. I mean, people dun work the same type of clothes or make up throughout their lives. At one moment hikki might want to have a natural look. Now she wanna have a more feminine look. Nothing wrong with that.

Well... actually she tends to change her image with every release, pretty much like any other pop star... I'm surprised nobody notices...

Usually she wears similar outfits for TV lives of the same songs and have at least one different haircut for each era.... Nothing wrong, anyway, she doesn't need to dress like a homeless person to prove she has talent^^

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Well... actually she tends to change her image with every release, pretty much like any other pop star... I'm surprised nobody notices...

Usually she wears similar outfits for TV lives of the same songs and have at least one different haircut for each era.... Nothing wrong, anyway, she doesn't need to dress like a homeless person to prove she has talent^^

Hmmn, true. Her recent lives are like that. But I think so hard and can't see she did that back in the old days (like... First Love, Distance, DR era). I dun think her hair style changed because of the lives tho. It's just coincidence that the hair style changes whenever she has a new song (and you know, it takes a her long time to release new stuff). Also, her outfits are always very casual, so it's hard to tell if she has different styles for different songs' live. All I can recall is that she wore formal dress in BML, black clothes and pants in Passion, Really loose top in FOL, tight tee in Beautiful World..

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by bluegie

Hmmn, true. Her recent lives are like that. But I think so hard and can't see she did that back in the old days (like... First Love, Distance, DR era). I dun think her hair style changed because of the lives tho. It's just coincidence that the hair style changes whenever she has a new song (and you know, it takes a her long time to release new stuff). Also, her outfits are always very casual, so it's hard to tell if she has different styles for different songs' live. All I can recall is that she wore formal dress in BML, black clothes and pants in Passion, Really loose top in FOL, tight tee in Beautiful World..

I can remember she wearing similar outfits while performing Can you keep a Secret too... And those were similar to what she weared on the PV...

I do believe she changes her looks based on releases, but I don't see this as anything wrong or as a statment of lack of talent or whatever... Usually her outfits fits her music at the moment, and in the end of the day, marketing is a good thing for a pop musician...

On the old day she had very few image-oriented promotion compared to the huge number (to her stantard) of performances and magazines Exodus, Ultra Blue, Heart Station and TITO had, what makes it harder for her to fix any image on her older releases... All of her post DR eras had a defined style to her clothes and hair^^

[Keiichi_JPU]

Everyone should follow these 2 twitter accounts:

@utadahikaru = this is her official twitter, she's mostly tweeting in Japanese but she's placed 1 English tweet.
@UBlog = U-blog's official twitter, they're translating and retweeting her tweets!

lol she's not used to twitter yet, she tweets like 10 messages in a row, forming 1 story. This is what she tweeted (or should I say: blogged ):

Out of the 5 new tracks of the best album being released in November, I'm on the last line of the last song... The lyrics won't come! All the staff are waiting. I really should be recording vocals at this point blaaaaaa.

Thanks! I was able to finish the last lyrics and record the main vocals. Though I said 'the last line' of the song, it was really more like a line at the end of the first half of the song. For some reason lyrics never really come to me in order... Generally once I come up with a lyrical theme, the last half comes pretty naturally, but somehow I always struggle with the end of the first half of the song.

Finished recording the harmonies and back chorus! Fwaaah! Was a really mentally challenging song... Just drained me, something of a first. Ah but now the CD can be released on time~ Thank goodness. It's a storm of Thank Yous! Everyone, thank you for your hard work! There are some staff members still working at the studio... Syncing all the layers of back chorus, arranging data on different tracks... Just now (10PM) the engineer and assistant engineer were finally able to eat dinner. As to why "(my legs) are so drained"... I always stand when I record, but today's song... The lyrics required a lot of courage, I guess. Before I even realized it, my legs were so dead, I was kinda shocked that they didn't even feel like my own legs.

Credits to U-blog for the Translation!

[SPEAKERnight.]

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

Finished recording the harmonies and back chorus! Fwaaah! Was a really mentally challenging song... Just drained me, something of a first. Ah but now the CD can be released on time~ Thank goodness. It's a storm of Thank Yous! Everyone, thank you for your hard work! There are some staff members still working at the studio... Syncing all the layers of back chorus, arranging data on different tracks... Just now (10PM) the engineer and assistant engineer were finally able to eat dinner. As to why "(my legs) are so drained"... I always stand when I record, but today's song... The lyrics required a lot of courage, I guess. Before I even realized it, my legs were so dead, I was kinda shocked that they didn't even feel like my own legs. [/i]

Credits to U-blog for the Translation!

Tell me why that vaguely reminds me of what I read that Ayu went through when she was recording momentum?