[Utada Hikaru] Can't Wait 'Til Christmas in the 42nd Official Thread

[nanakopy87]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

me too. i was thinking it'd look like this. but instead we get a black silhouette paper cutout. >>

me too.i thought it is something like that.

[Picaflor 7/4]

didn't hikki say in a tweet that she was gonna work full force as utada hikaru till the end of 2011? so far, it doesn't seem like she's done that. the new 5 songs are all amazing. but besides that we get a hikki-less album cover, a cheap, black (not even full color), paper cut out kuma charm, a nice and nostalgic, but still low quality and cheap and probably filmed in one take music video, and a poster that looks dreadful with two unlike photos slapped side by side.

Sorry, but this is turning into such a cheap farewell album. She could have atleast given us a dvd with all the pvs of the songs on disk 1. that'd be nice for a change.

AND we aren't even getting in the flesh on dvd. they're probably going to release it on itunes or some other interent way.

[tenshi no hane]

She is still going to do that live performance, isn't she? Wild Life or something. Maybe she's busy with that.

[amorphose]

I'm wondering when we'll get In The Flesh news. They said we'd have it by the end of the year and it's almost December.

[Polyrhythm]

LOL....she probably procrastinated....and was like....*****, forgot about a first press bonus. *grabs a stack of black construction paper and traces out Kuma shapes.

[tenshi no hane]

Some clips of her radio interview

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2jFYR_efI)

She talks about wanting to normal things. She doesn't want to end up like some old woman who can't do anything without her manager.

[Cherry Dynamite]

LOL The Kuma charm sucks.
I felt so bad for not buying the album but now I'm thankful I didn't.

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

Some clips of her radio interview
She talks about wanting to normal things. She doesn't want to end up like some old woman who can't do anything without her manager.

This explain why she decided to make charms herself xD

[bluegie]

Today sales: 26,843 (from jpm)

Still no.1

[tenshi no hane]

I wonder if the weekend will boost her sales a bit.

Show Me Love (Not A Dream) and Goodbye Happiness translations are up at my LJ (here)

[Minttulatte]

Hmm, I still haven't listened to the new songs :0 I haven't had enough time to do that. -.- But I have to since it's Hikki. <3

[Keiichi_JPU]

Originally Posted by tenshi no hane

I wonder if the weekend will boost her sales a bit.

Show Me Love (Not A Dream) and Goodbye Happiness translations are up at my LJ (here)

Thank you.

I cried when reading the lyrics to Show Me Love. I can really relate to them.

Beautiful, Hikki is goddess.

[Andrenekoi]

I must confess i find it funny when people get pissed at releases as they were forced to buy them or something o.o

As Blugie said, she always was like this, so, really, I can't understand the surprise nor the disapointment...

[emi♡]

Guess artists hype up their crap all the time.

Why SHOULD we be surprised.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

^^idk why, but I certainly am.

[Nackar_91]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I must confess i find it funny when people get pissed at releases as they were forced to buy them or something o.o

As Blugie said, she always was like this, so, really, I can't understand the surprise nor the disapointment...

I agree with you on the first point, but not on the second. Why is it so weird that people are surprised that their "awesome packaging" is just bland normal packaging, and that their first press kuma charm is a cardboard cut-out that we could've all made ourselves?

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

It never said phone strap or anything, right?
If anything, it was lost in translation and people just anticipated the wrong thing.

As for the packaging, Utada was the only one who said it was amazing. No artist is going to be like "Yeah...the packaging is awful, so don't expect much." And maybe she really does think it's amazing. I mean, she did make a video of herself washing dishes...

[nanakopy87]

but she can choose to not comment on the packaging when the cover was announced.
and,about the charm,maybe its me who has high expectation after seeing the kuu charm months ago.i thought it would be at LEAST something like this :

[Picaflor 7/4]

I swear it said it was a cellphone strap. Maybe I read it wrong, or someone translated it wrong.

[Polyrhythm]

It has always been Kuma charm. The first thing I thought was cellphone strap too.

[CoriKaru]

Originally Posted by Keiichi_JPU

hahahaha I love how you're always too shocked to even participate in this thread. And you're totally right. Apart from the music, everything about this release sucks.

Jeez. I know right. I feel like your Wendy Williams gif.

Can't get much worse. Watch this be her first Region Locked DVD.

When Fedex arrives at my door, I'm walking away. I'm not strong enough and I don't trust myself.