[2007] This really convinced me! Utada is THE best!

I think you guys are overlooking one of the most talented vocalists of our time!!!

[prussian blue]

^she looks so old in that video...

she's younger now

and i dont think there's a defination for "the best" singer

this all are just everyone's own favourite

[Bashumaru]

Originally Posted by dddaiyamondo

I think you guys are overlooking one of the most talented vocalists of our time!!!

Lol, she looked so qt back then .

OT but I'm mesmerized by that gif in your signature.

[TITANIC]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

I have to agree.

hikki is an awesome technical singer, something that ayu's vocals lacks but imo ayu's emotional vocals are superior to any other because you just hear emotions all over it, whatever the style of song is.
hikki's voice specially live is really good technical voice but it's really flat and I don't really feel that it's emotional (except for really small amount of songs).
Therefore which one has it's positives and negatives, even with perfect technical voice like kumi's, sometimes even such a voice is not enough to bring excitement (and lately most of her performances as of late for some reason imo).

I'm just glad that any of them has a unique voice and you can atually tell who is who and all of their voices are really good and full of enjoyment.

I agree with you. ayu could tell us the meaning of the song just from her emotion.
I dont say hikki is bad but her music and voice are too flat for me. not like ayu, kuu, BoA or the other have different kinds of music.. Ayu's music doenst stay in one genre only like hikki..
it's just my opinion

[DeepRiver]

AMAZING but look at this ... The Ending is just WOW ... the best i've ever seen ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8vle...eature=related

[pommy48]

Originally Posted by riozz

I agree with you. ayu could tell us the meaning of the song just from her emotion.
I dont say hikki is bad but her music and voice are too flat for me. not like ayu, kuu, BoA or the other have different kinds of music.. Ayu's music doenst stay in one genre only like hikki..
it's just my opinion

yeah i'm like this too~ this is probably why i fell in love with ayu in the first place, i don't have to force/fake myself into loving her songs, it just comes automatic(ally), but i had to try hard to force myself to like UB, until in the end i did love it on my own

Originally Posted by DeepRiver

AMAZING but look at this ... The Ending is just WOW ... the best i've ever seen ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8vle...eature=related

I LOVE her ad libs at the end. I was surprised she could do them, they're really impressive!

[UHPlus]

[prussian blue]

^i just impress with her sound

her sound can be hear even though the distance between her mouth and the mic is 20cm away~ i try it before, and i think i'm dying

[bulmasman]

Personz - Dear Friends


JILL's voice was far from technically perfect, but it had a certain charm & huskiness to it which resulted in absolutely fantastic vocals.

Originally Posted by UHPlus

I don't think Namie is really a good singer... her dancing is okay, too, but her real strength is with her producers.

[Ayumi27]

Originally Posted by dddaiyamondo

I don't think Namie is really a good singer... her dancing is okay, too, but her real strength is with her producers.

Yes, that's true

[kirei_ayumi]

ah~ my favorite song from hikki! she ended that beautifully

[TITANIC]

Namie has + point. she can sing very well during dancing time and her voice is aww really amazing.
not many singer can sing and dancing very well like her.

she has very good power and stamina

[prussian blue]

^thats really true, i wanna see how the other artist do that

and i cant deny kuu has the same stamina like her too

[Kikaru]

I dunno. Kuu has a great voice, but she doesn't do the "dance and sing" that well.

[sugarbasil]

See--and first off, I'm a huge Hikki fan. She's one of my all-time favorite artists--I really didn't like that performance. Okay, let me rephrase that: I LOVED the actual performance as a WHOLE. As in, I LOVED LOVED LOVED the set and background, and I ADORED the background music. In fact, the ONLY thing I didn't like was her singing. I would even go as far as to say the singing ruined the performance for me. If I could get just the instrumental I would be one happy camper.

It's just that, well, I hate the song to begin with. In fact, I really REALLY dislike all of Exodus. Absolutely terrible in my opinion, and that's saying something coming from a long-time Hikki fan. The lyrics are extremely bad, in my opinion; completely lacking of any consistency and creativity. They're basically a bunch of extremely short and unrelated sentences put back-to-back to form a song. Furthermore, I just wasn't a fan of her voice in this performance. It wasn't very smooth, to me. That's not saying, however, that she has a bad voice; just that I didn't think it was up to her normal standards in that performance, and it wasn't because of her emotions (at least, not during the entire performance).

And I may sound like I'm bashing, but I'm just trying to give an honest criticism coming from an honest-to-god fan. Personally, this is not a clip that would convince me she's a good singer. There are many other ones, however, that would. This one in particular was just not in my tastes.

As for her having the best voice, like many others have said: that's really a matter of opinion. Heck, the word "perfect" doesn't have a uniform, universal meaning/significance in the first place. You can say it means, "no flaws," but flaws to one person are perfections to others. Personally, I do like Hikki's voice, but I get bored with it after a while, and it's just so...standard. Most Japanese singers with "perfect" voices have nearly the same voice, and I personally like something a bit more unique. If we had to go with a "perfect" voice though, I would choose Koda Kumi in perhaps her song Aishou. That to me is a perfect voice, but many others don't like it.

[Beauty4123]

i think the artist who can sing the best while dancing is nami tamaki. her dance routines are so much more difficult and complex compared to BoA or namie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W5oHYhdecQ (live)
PVs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVY3HQX7fbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPXKYte0J4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA-A2...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGspoUCJals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAt22tkTNk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2_fj...eature=related

now, nami isn't the best singer either, but her dancing is amazing. if only she'd do that now.

[Chu-Lip506]

I think everyone is the best Hikki to Ayu to Ai-chin- to BoA but over all my Fave is Hikki!!Hikki Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

See--and first off, I'm a huge Hikki fan. She's one of my all-time favorite artists--I really didn't like that performance. Okay, let me rephrase that: I LOVED the actual performance as a WHOLE. As in, I LOVED LOVED LOVED the set and background, and I ADORED the background music. In fact, the ONLY thing I didn't like was her singing. I would even go as far as to say the singing ruined the performance for me. If I could get just the instrumental I would be one happy camper.

It's just that, well, I hate the song to begin with. In fact, I really REALLY dislike all of Exodus. Absolutely terrible in my opinion, and that's saying something coming from a long-time Hikki fan. The lyrics are extremely bad, in my opinion; completely lacking of any consistency and creativity. They're basically a bunch of extremely short and unrelated sentences put back-to-back to form a song. Furthermore, I just wasn't a fan of her voice in this performance. It wasn't very smooth, to me. That's not saying, however, that she has a bad voice; just that I didn't think it was up to her normal standards in that performance, and it wasn't because of her emotions (at least, not during the entire performance).

And I may sound like I'm bashing, but I'm just trying to give an honest criticism coming from an honest-to-god fan. Personally, this is not a clip that would convince me she's a good singer. There are many other ones, however, that would. This one in particular was just not in my tastes.

As for her having the best voice, like many others have said: that's really a matter of opinion. Heck, the word "perfect" doesn't have a uniform, universal meaning/significance in the first place. You can say it means, "no flaws," but flaws to one person are perfections to others. Personally, I do like Hikki's voice, but I get bored with it after a while, and it's just so...standard. Most Japanese singers with "perfect" voices have nearly the same voice, and I personally like something a bit more unique. If we had to go with a "perfect" voice though, I would choose Koda Kumi in perhaps her song Aishou. That to me is a perfect voice, but many others don't like it.

That's exactly what I meant when I said that hikki's voice is flat!
As I wrote in my post, hikki is really good technical singer, but when it comes to emotion (specially with figurative and not simple lyrics she writes) I can hardly feel it from her excluding some songs/performances where it's really emotional (like FINAL DISTANCE) but most of the time her voice is just flat, smooth, normal which makes other artists vocals be better but I still could enjoy UTADA UNITED 2006 because all of the other things were awesome! and it's not like her voice was bad not at all, just not touching or special (again, in most of the songs).
And I love hikki's music too of course she's one of my favorites.