[Utada Hikaru] ☆ Utada Hikaru: The 46th Thread ☆

[CoriKaru]

Disney's Rendition of "Sakura DROPS"...........Worthless.

You know Utada's daddy wanna say something but he's trying to give Utada her say.

He be like:

"So we gon' get dat Kingdom Hearts 3 money we were asking for now right?"



Disney like:

[Delicious n Bold]

^ it's not disney.
It's ALL square enix. Tetsuya Nomura does not know that he's human anymore and spends his time daydreaming that all his projects he wants to make are complete.

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold

TBH Passion could have squeezed in DR somehow. It's kinda like Hikari part 2 in some respects. Passion is like an ethereal pop ballad, perfect for DR.

Both songs are for Kingdom Hearts, so they may share some elements. But arrangement wise I think Passion fits UB more, and it's the best choice to close the album. The only songs in UB that I think it's out of place are COLORS and Dareka. COLORS feels like belonging to DR, while Dareka placed in the wrong section of the album. These two songs kinda ruin the flow of the album.

[primavera♥]

I adore Kairo too. I think it's beautiful and lovely just like the rest of that album.

DR is nice and a great album but for me it's tainted with songs that I really don't care for, like how I don't care for many of her early songs from First Love and Distance. But I love Tokyo Nights, Sakura Drops, letters, etc.

But nothing beats UB for me

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by bluegie

Both songs are for Kingdom Hearts, so they may share some elements. But arrangement wise I think Passion fits UB more, and it's the best choice to close the album. The only songs in UB that I think it's out of place are COLORS and Dareka. COLORS feels like belonging to DR, while Dareka placed in the wrong section of the album. These two songs kinda ruin the flow of the album.

yeah. I can't see it on any other album.

and really, idk why they couldn't have just, at the very least, switched Dareka and One Night Magic.

random...This is Love

[Not Fade Away]

Originally Posted by Delicious n Bold

^ it's not disney.
It's ALL square enix. Tetsuya Nomura does not know that he's human anymore and spends his time daydreaming that all his projects he wants to make are complete.

ThisX10000000. I feel like I've been waiting for Vs. FFXIII for years now (probably because I have - and I think they've even changed the name of it to 14 now, right?).

Sometimes I really feel like Nomura should go back to only doing character design. He gets in over his head with all this other crap and then ends up making the same games only with slight differences (ie: the million kingdom hearts versions). It's no wonder they keep using S&C and Passion in their promos for Kingdom Hearts -- nothing has really changed about the game lol.

Alright, mini-rant aside, DR will always > than UB for me. I love Ultra Blue, butttt I love more songs on DR as opposed to UB.

[Zahara]

Originally Posted by bluegie

Both songs are for Kingdom Hearts, so they may share some elements. But arrangement wise I think Passion fits UB more, and it's the best choice to close the album. The only songs in UB that I think it's out of place are COLORS and Dareka. COLORS feels like belonging to DR, while Dareka placed in the wrong section of the album. These two songs kinda ruin the flow of the album.

Hikari was never made for Kingdom Hearts though. It just happened that someone over at Square Enix/Disney liked it.
CORRECTION: I think she was in the beginnings of creating Hikari when they picked it out and she went all "lol wut? Ok!"

I agree with you on COLORS. It does feel like it should be on DR.

Kairo took me a while to get into. I have to be in the mood to listen to it, and because it's so soothing, it puts me to sleep.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by CoriKaru

Disney's Rendition of "Sakura DROPS"...........Worthless.

You know Utada's daddy wanna say something but he's trying to give Utada her say.

He be like:

"So we gon' get dat Kingdom Hearts 3 money we were asking for now right?"



Disney like:

LOL, what is that gif of Jackee from!?!?

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by Zahara

Hikari was never made for Kingdom Hearts though. It just happened that someone over at Square Enix/Disney liked it.
CORRECTION: I think she was in the beginnings of creating Hikari when they picked it out and she went all "lol wut? Ok!"

I agree with you on COLORS. It does feel like it should be on DR.

I can't really remember about the details of creating Hikari. I just remember that she couldn't fit the Japanese lyrics into the chorus in the original melody, so she had to remake that part, and the original melody was used on Uso, so that that melody was included in the album production.

Well, since COLORS was made after DR, so it doesn't matter after all whether it fits DR or UB. But I think she should just leave it in single collection. I dunno why she always wanna put all the singles into the albums. I can see FINAL DISTANCE fitting into the flow in DR, but COLORS just didn't do the same thing in UB.

Originally Posted by emi♡

and really, idk why they couldn't have just, at the very least, switched Dareka and One Night Magic.

random...This is Love

Ah actually I never thought of that. I dunno about that cuz I think One Night Magic flew quite well with Kairo. I think if One Night Magic --> Dareka --> Kairo, that would be fine, as long as she dumped COLORS from the disc. I love COLORS so much but I just think it's so out of place in UB.

And This is Love... I dunno but it always remind me of traveling somehow, and since traveling is one of the masterpieces, so I dun love This is Love as much.

[Delicious n Bold]

Originally Posted by Not Fade Away

ThisX10000000. I feel like I've been waiting for Vs. FFXIII for years now (probably because I have - and I think they've even changed the name of it to 14 now, right?).

Sometimes I really feel like Nomura should go back to only doing character design. He gets in over his head with all this other crap and then ends up making the same games only with slight differences (ie: the million kingdom hearts versions). It's no wonder they keep using S&C and Passion in their promos for Kingdom Hearts -- nothing has really changed about the game lol.

Alright, mini-rant aside, DR will always > than UB for me. I love Ultra Blue, butttt I love more songs on DR as opposed to UB.

I find it funny that people actually like the entire KH series. I only like 1,2 and BBS.
My friend loves them ALL. I'm thinking "what? They're so boring and dry". I even have 358/2 days and its... well bad.
They couldn't even use a new Hikki song for the theme. Beautiful world or even... hmmm... COLORS would have worked.

[NintendoHTF1242]

^ Kingdom Hearts is magical, but then Kingdom Hearts 2 was a HUGE disappointment. I stopped following the series ever since (and because they decided to release 25 spin-offs).

[primavera♥]

I like KH2 better.

I actually would like to play the other games, since I enjoy that series a lot and I'm not that seriously into video games, but can manage KH. At least Birth by Sleep since it's a bit more important imo. But buying DS, 3DS, and PSP isn't worth it to me since I'd never play them. I'd like to play the new game too. But oh well. I'll wait til we get something on PS3.

I would like to hear a new song though. Thatd be nice lol and I'd be interested to hear what it sounded like.

[Minttulatte]

Kingdom Hearts 2 is perfection imo. I can't even express how much I adore this game. I love it more than I love the first KH (which is great too, but I have already finished it like 500 times so lol). What I love the most about KH2 are the new special effects, awesome music, Organization XIII and that huge amount of humor. It's just a awesome game and I laugh every time I see some funny stuff. And of course, this game has Roxas so it's enough 'cause Roxi is such a bad ass.

Birth By Sleep is awesome too. I played it with my friend and we are complete Ventus fangirls lol. XD I'd like to play 358/2 Days as well, but I can't because I don't own Nintendo DS. I really hate that they make all these spin offs for a different consoles and main games are for Playstation. -.-

And imo Passion fits ULTRA BLUE perfectly. It gives the album a epic closing that I really love.

[CHE.R.RY]

I agree on KH2. I thought it was an amazing game. I actually felt like it was a step up from the first one. God...that was so long ago now though . Funny enough though, I preferred Hikari/Simple & Clean over Passion. Passion is epic, but for some reason I always found Hikari/S&C more appealing. I guess it's that I found Passion to be a little too long & somewhat boring.

[koumori]

I prefer KH2 as well, but I think it's because I played it first and after that, KH just seemed lacking in graphics, gameplay and even the voice acting grated on me..maybe I should give it another chance..

I'm hearing lots of rumours about new Utada songs, but no proof. C'mon Hikki, you must be bored of sleeping by now. I'd even take a Boku wa Kuma ~Part II~. RETURN TO US.

[JackieRos]

I have KH2 and never played it

[emi♡]

I barely played it...up to the Mulan area. The cut scenes were annoying me lol

[CoriKaru]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

LOL, what is that gif of Jackee from!?!?

I have no idea, but it's BOSS.

Originally Posted by JackieRos

I have KH2 and never played it

Originally Posted by emi♡

I barely played it...up to the Mulan area. The cut scenes were annoying me lol

[RikkuK]

Bwahaahahahah you're hilarious. I'm just hoping for some pre-ultra blue quality stuff this time. I mean if we get all hyped up for months over another apple and cinnamon I'm gonna just pretend Utada went on hiatus permanently. <3

[bluegie]

If something that has DR elements, I dun mind at all. But I dun want First Love or Distance type songs.

But in the end, I rather she makes something out of the blue, like how I felt when she did DR, and when she did UB, etc.