Elton John Praises Utada

DeepRiver · #1 8th March 2005, 04:02 PM

Elton John Praises Utada

In a recent piece for the February 2005 issue of Interview Magazine, Elton John calls Utada a "surprise," and that her album Exodus contains "interesting dance and pop music." He goes on to proclaim that Utada "could be the first Japanese recording artist to really make it in the West."

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Raleigh · #2 8th March 2005, 04:29 PM

Great!!!

thejadedangel · #3 8th March 2005, 04:44 PM

Wow...Elton John sang her praises?
YAY~! Hopefully she'll get more attention

Sakuragirl421 · #4 8th March 2005, 05:06 PM

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In terms of surprises, there's an interesting girl, Utada, who's a pop star in Japan and who released an album late last year called Exodus [Island]. It's really interesting dance and pop music. She could be the first Japanese recording artist to really make it in the West.

that's exactly what he said. I gotta admit that I really agree with Elton John about his views towards music these days and in the future (I don't have radio satellite though)... I hope that someday, we might see Elton John and Utada perform! That'd be interesting.

I'm still very surprised that Elton John talked about her (some other artists).

***bulmasman*** · #5 8th March 2005, 05:18 PM

That's excellent. Elton's been around long enough to have a pretty decent view on music, and to say that has got to be some great praise

**Corybobory** · #6 8th March 2005, 06:10 PM

Weee I love Elton John

**Cyria** · #7 8th March 2005, 07:58 PM

That's really great news for Utada, that someone as famous as Elton John has noticed her.

URANUS · #8 8th March 2005, 08:16 PM

That is such a good thing to happen to Utada. I'm glad someone as big as Elton John praises her. This is good.

sxesven · #9 8th March 2005, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bulmasman

That's excellent. Elton's been around long enough to have a pretty decent view on music, and to say that has got to be some great praise

Fully agree - definitely a great praise. I hope this sparks some interest among music fans in America, Europe, and the like.

Brittany · #10 8th March 2005, 11:01 PM

It's good that Elton John has an open mind

but I can't really see that happening with the sales and poor promotion of Exodus

**Corybobory** · #11 8th March 2005, 11:14 PM

They should give her a tv commercial. That would be cool.

Mirai Noah · #12 9th March 2005, 12:06 AM

Thanks for the article!! It's awesome that Elton John noticed Utada!!

voltron · #13 9th March 2005, 12:34 AM

While it's good to get praise from someone so big, he's been annoying a lot of people with his baseless comments in the past few months. So he's lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of many people.

Brittany · #14 9th March 2005, 02:44 AM

No, they should give her a reality show

ssj_montse · #15 9th March 2005, 03:00 AM

Great! I hope he could say the same about her japanese works (that I like more than Exodus, but... congratulations, anyway)

kournikova · #16 9th March 2005, 09:48 AM

wah great things! ^^

extepan · #17 9th March 2005, 04:55 PM

yeah! this is a really good piece of news!

***isaac hiew*** · #18 11th March 2005, 08:10 AM

I never liked Elton John because of his attitude problem, and he's praising Hikki? That means Hikki really has something to impress this man. Cheers to her!