the 2nd offical thread of erika sawajiri

[Raleigh]

Personally that wig looks hideous

[Beauty4123]

yea, i can do without the blonde wig. but it's really...different kind of covers, lol.

[Raleigh]

Yeah true. I wonder why the sudden change of style.

[Beauty4123]

promo picture


First Pressing


Regular Edition

[elepop]

First pressing cover is really nice.

Her covers are so much more creative than Ayu's!

[Raleigh]

Funny I was thinking it was a fashion disaster gone horribly wrong. The regular edition seems pretty tacky. The first pressing looks decent at least. She still can't figure out she can't pull off blonde hair.

[stickyrice]

I don't really like the font of the title but other than that, I like the covers^^ but not as much as FREE's covers.

[elepop]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

Funny I was thinking it was a fashion disaster gone horribly wrong. The regular edition seems pretty tacky. The first pressing looks decent at least. She still can't figure out she can't pull off blonde hair.

Ayu tried the huge blond hair too and it failed also. I don't think many asian can pull it off! And yeah, Erika definitely looks a LOT better with less makeup and normal hair like in her movies. She's a bit too extravagant as a singer. XD Blond is definitely not for her, she should stop LOL.

[sora2522]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

Funny I was thinking it was a fashion disaster gone horribly wrong. The regular edition seems pretty tacky. The first pressing looks decent at least. She still can't figure out she can't pull off blonde hair.

ok, that turned me off =(


she prolly could pull blonde hair, but i mean, with hair THAT huge, it's no wonder she isn't pulling it off XD

even the closed note premiere hair was huuuuuuuge

Ewww...

[Beauty4123]

the only time i hate her with blonde hair is during the closed note conference.

[LacusClyne]

i hate the hair, but other then that i quite like the covers. looks neat!

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by asongforXX

Ayu tried the huge blond hair too and it failed also. I don't think many asian can pull it off! And yeah, Erika definitely looks a LOT better with less makeup and normal hair like in her movies. She's a bit too extravagant as a singer. XD Blond is definitely not for her, she should stop LOL.

Nah it didn't. She looked hot in STEP you. The problem is that Erika isn't compatible with blonde wigs. She looks like a clown most of the time. I wonder if she has a stylist or something because sometimes her fashion sense is really off. She should stick to brown and black only. I like Erika but she thinks she can get away with any style and she gets carried away and the result isn't that great.

On the other hand the pv looks real nice and her hair looks natural.

[AyuGAME]

i just like her first pressing cover, the rest is ewww...
i can't stop listening to destination nowhere

[Beauty4123]

PV PREVIEW!!!

http://erika-fantasy.blogspot.com/

it looks beautiful!

[stickyrice]

looks really good^^ can't wait for the full version!

[Kaiouforever]

I keep hearing about this girl and some incident, and then I try to check her out and I meet those covers. Ew, now I don't wanna check her out at all lol!! >.<

[cloud♥honey]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

FANTASY was a b-side and also it's predominantly pop with some electro undertones. It's nowhere near experimentation. If you want to see some serious experiments look at avex. Though they might not always be successful they like taking risks. Seriously I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to fit her in the niche of YUI and OLIVIA. And Destination Nowhere seriously sounds like something Livi would sing. It's not the end of the world anyway but bashing YUI won't get you anywhere, apart from getting her fans annoyed at you.

I agree Sony is a non experimental label, but FANTASY had promotion in TVs, it was a success in the music stations and stuff. I don't know if it is such a B-Side or not because this. Well I think Erika is going well to me. Destination Nowhere sounded sooo different than FREE and Taiyou no Uta to me.

Well, nice covers. The promo pic is UGLY A LOT, I tried to make a set with that thing but I couldn't look at her face. It made me want to die

I loved the First Pressing cover a lot but I was still waiting more. Funny, not much more, that's ok to me. Considerating the song is awesome AS HELL!

[Raleigh]

It had promotion. So what? Sony wanted to make sure to make "FREE" sell well to the point that they decided to give it a boost by shelling money for a promotional video to "Fantasy". In the end "Fantasy" doesn't have any special or different features from regular J-Pop.

Erika's career will probably be limited to that of an idol-singer, similarly to Leah and from the looks of it we'll be getting cookie-cutter J-Pop. The difference probably is that Erika will have more professionals to work with which will give her music a higher quality. Because up till now I have not heard anything which sounded mediocre and I'm pretty happy with this.

[cloud♥honey]

All labels want to sell well or higher than the others. It's a fact, all labels want to her products be recognized by the people. Ok ok, and not's that what avex do too? Make various PVs to the artists sell well too.

Labels are always so.