[Utada Hikaru] ʕ•̫͡•ʔ A Vacation for Only Two Hours in the 55th thread ʕ•̫͡•ʔ

[DeepRiver]

Lol, i remember Hikki's CM. The good old days

Not to forget ... A Best had 597 Versions and Distance only 1!

[jean-baptiste]

Originally Posted by bluegie

I gotta say avex did a better job on promoting A BEST.
1) Change the avex logo to A BEST in every avex commercial since Jan.
2) Pasted ayu's face in every corner, so that you can't miss seeing her face wherever you went. (Yeah, even the lamp posts on the streets have her banners).
3) Ayu almost dominated magazines' covers.
4) Lots of cms.
5) The glamorous countdown cm from day 5 to day 1.

And all I can remember from Toshiba's promotion on Distance is the ugly album cm...

Originally Posted by DeepRiver

Lol, i remember Hikki's CM. The good old days

Not to forget ... A Best had 597 Versions and Distance only 1!

All that and yet...didn't Utada get #1 the first week? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Distance is, in my opinion, Utada's lesser album.

[Katsuyuki012]

Originally Posted by jean-baptiste

All that and yet...didn't Utada get #1 the first week? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Distance is, in my opinion, Utada's lesser album.

She got #1 in the first week but it in the second week it was Ayu with around 500k copies sold.

[Miduhyo]

Originally Posted by jean-baptiste

Distance is, in my opinion, Utada's lesser album.

I agree. I love Parody because I think it's such a fun song and kind of an affable slap to the face of her own career like 'yeah, yeah, I'm famous. So famous someday I'm going to release a music video of me doing the dishes for four minutes and you're going to love it. Now go away.' But the rest of the album is just... not for me? I suppose.

Actually Fantome is my new favorite of hers (still can't get over the amazingness of this album). Ultra Blue is a near second.

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Anyway, I just wanted to randomly say: I had no idea A BEST had six different covers. I thought it only had the one with the tear. I wonder how Ayu felt driving around everywhere seeing all this advertisement for an album she didn't even want released. (Though I'm sure she was too busy/exhausted/in pain because isn't that when her ear problems began?) to even care all that much. But still.