[Utada Hikaru] Utada Hikaru（宇多田 ヒカル）'s Official Thread [v.19]

[GRACE]

^ you even hate Kremlin Dusk!? Do you have no taste whatsoever!?

Originally Posted by GRACE

^ you even hate Kremlin Dusk!? Do you have no taste whatsoever!?

I didn't say I hate it, but it had no place on EXODUS. And I really hope she doesn't do anything that experimental if she wants to have any bit of success in the States.

[GRACE]

Kremlin Dusk is the only reason, for me, that EXODUS is above Heart Station on my favorite Hikki albums. I'd LOVE an entire album of songs like that, oh my god <3

[Luv ~Venus~]

I luv Kremlin Dusk but let's face it, who the hell wants to hear Edgar Allen Poe in a song? =/ The only flaw in Kremlin Dusk was that fact that it took too long for it to climax. I don't to the song alot because of that reason. I mean, she drags on and on from beginning to the middle and like she gets to the end to only give an big explosion....and I wanted more of that explosion in the song too.

[GRACE]

I had no problem with the Poe reference. I thought it made her look pretty cultured, which is so much better than 99.9% of American songs. Seriously.

Although, I'm the kid who read The Raven for fun

I totally agree Shanny

Originally Posted by GRACE

Kremlin Dusk is the only reason, for me, that EXODUS is above Heart Station on my favorite Hikki albums. I'd LOVE an entire album of songs like that, oh my god <3

I'd love to see how that would sell for Hikki

[GRACE]

^I really don't care how good it sells. If the music good, what do sales matter? It's not like she's going to get dropped from her label if she does one thing that doesn't sell morbidly well. And things that aren't so good can sell extremely well *coughHScough*

If she won't do it on her English album, maybe as a b-side =D

Originally Posted by GRACE

^I really don't care how good it sells. If the music good, what do sales matter? It's not like she's going to get dropped from her label if she does one thing that doesn't sell morbidly well. And things that aren't so good can sell extremely well *coughHScough*

If she won't do it on her English album, maybe as a b-side =D

I hope to god for Hikki's sake she plays it safe on this new album. No weird experimental tracks, please, unless she wants to bomb again in the States.

[Luv ~Venus~]

IMO, all the songs on Exodus were excellent from start to finish. I luv the flow of the album. Just excellent. I don't find myself listening to Easy Breezy or YMMWBAM that much from the album that much tho. Prolly every one in a while or when I watch the videos (EB pv is luv! ) I'm so dissapointed that Hikki picked EB over DI. I mean, Devil Inside is a waaaay better song and it did fairly well on the club charts than EB did. I know I'd luv DI more if it had a pv. Exodus deserved a pv over YMMWBAM. She started on the wrong by making those mistakes.

@Grace: Meh. She should stick to have remixes on her english singles. I did want a remix to Eb instead of a pitty Out Call Hook or wuteva version of EB that was. =/

@Triple D: IMO, she needs to make it big before doing something experimental. Ugh, it's kinda hard giving something new to the american ears. =/

[GRACE]

^I read that Devil Inside did to moderetly well on some chart... It was a single too.

If she played it safe, she wouldn't be Hikki. She'd be some alien who possessed Hikki's body. The only way she can make a bang is to find something new that takes off like a rocket. That's the only reason she succeeded in Japan after all.

Originally Posted by GRACE

^I read that Devil Inside did to moderetly well on some chart... It was a single too.

If she played it safe, she wouldn't be Hikki. She'd be some alien who possessed Hikki's body. The only way she can make a bang is to find something new that takes off like a rocket. That's the only reason she succeeded in Japan after all.

EXODUS itself is often accused of "not being Hikki," so I think she can do a repeat of that. A more mainstream American style might be just another facet to her, and its one I really hope she shows.

BTW, Devil Inside got #1 on the US dance tracks.

[GRACE]

Mainstream American music SUCKS though. I don't want to see Hikki putting on that mask, thank you very much.

The reason Hikki succeeded in Japan was because she used a style that wasn't as present when she debuted as it is now, and Japan ate it up. If she'd tried to be "mainstream" then she would have failed, because Japan was still in love with it's nasal 90s pop, and Hikki couldn't do that. So, she should pull the same thing, she just has to find what that new style is.

[♥ you!]

Def Jam just needs to give her album promotion. In the States all she got was like a radio and mtv interview. Oh, and she was featured in America Magazine (never heard of that magazine until now..) and had a tiny article written about her on in the New York Daily times, and there you have the promotion for Exodus. Hikki can make the best album in the world but without promotion it's nothing.

I doubt she did any promo for Exodus in Canada/UK...has she even been there before?

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by ♥ you!

Def Jam just needs to give her album promotion. In the States all she got was like a radio and mtv interview. Oh, and she was featured in America Magazine (never heard of that magazine until now..) and had a tiny article written about her on in the New York Daily times, and there you have the promotion for Exodus. Hikki can make the best album in the world but without promotion it's nothing.

I doubt she did any promo for Exodus in Canada/UK...has she even been there before?

I don't know for the last paragraph but yes I do admit that Def Jam gave her too little if not no promotion activities when comes to EXODUS which suck

although it bombed in US , at least it did pretty well in Japan so that's not so bad is it ?

[Meat Pao]

^ Well i believe that's because Hikki was very popular in Japan then so they just bought it

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by meatpao

^ Well i believe that's because Hikki was very popular in Japan then so they just bought it

haha

er maybe but to sell a million copies of EXODUS in Japan considering that the whole album's in Eng , I think it's not bad

[ayuayu798]

^ goood point lol, but for some reason I fell hikki is gonna do better regarding the sales in America, since she is going a little "mainstream friendly," (Hopefully not too much)
I hope Def Jam give her more promation, I mean with all the crappy artist we have, in the state already whose songs dont even make sense ,yet the STILL make millions, Hikki has to have a chance !!! All she needs is a GOOD promotion... I wonder why they never really gave her one in the first place ?

[KarenPang]

^ I think it's a bit weird that when comes to EXODUS , little or no promotion was given to her which's unfair as they sees her like a greenhorn artiste

she should deserve the kinda respect she should be getting . She should have voiced that out in her blog or vent all that out to her Kuma bear

[ayuayu798]

^ SHE better not make a song about that bear in her english album, I can see it now...
Boku wa kuma (english version). I would cry if she did that!
Back to the subject- Yea but if she were vent on her blog, wouldn't that look a little unprofessional, or something... I mean I dont disagree or anything, but cant she get in trouble for that OH well, either way it would get the point to def jam, If I were her I would go vent to Def jam myself lol

[KarenPang]

if she got the guts to , she should go & ask Jay Z out & have a good talk with him