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

[RikkuK]

Originally Posted by CoriKaru

Coincidentally enough, I've been listening to A LOT of "This Is The One" lately and I am shocked to say that those songs age amazingly well.

I like it so much more now and I wasn't even expecting to when I popped the Album in my car disc player.

Also in "On and On" at the "intoxicated emancipated unapologetic" part, it sounds just like the part that starts off with "Mister DJ" and "Sexy Lady" in "Celebrate."

I do find myself not skipping On and On when it comes up on my ipod ahahaha touche. This One only scores like 50% as an album tho imo

[sxesven]

Ultimately I liked This Is The One a great deal - first few spins I had the feeling nothing could really top the 'older' material tacked on near the end, but it grew on me, amazingly so. Dirty Desire and Poppin' always felt like a bit of weaker sequence (though I can stomach them alright) but elsewhere there's some outright brilliant material. Particularly partial to This One (Crying Like A Child). Right up there with my favourite Hikki tracks.

[NintendoHTF1242]

Originally Posted by RikkuK

Agreed. Poppin, taking my money back, automatic pt II all were really underproduced and not even funny they were so bad.

how dare you

[primavera♥]

There are good songs on that album. For me, it's On and On, Taking My Money Back, Me Meuro, FYI, and yeahh...I guess Apples and Cinammon but I got tired of that.

[Delicious n Bold]

Since everyone's talkin' bout their favourite tracks on "This Is the One", here's mine:
- on and on
- apple and cinnamon
- this one (crying like a child)
- come back to me

... top 4 of 10

[Zeke.]

Here are my favorites from This Is The One:
















































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[CoriKaru]

Originally Posted by Zeke.

Here are my favorites from This Is The One:
















































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Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

how dare you

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by sxesven

Ultimately I liked This Is The One a great deal - first few spins I had the feeling nothing could really top the 'older' material tacked on near the end, but it grew on me, amazingly so. Dirty Desire and Poppin' always felt like a bit of weaker sequence (though I can stomach them alright) but elsewhere there's some outright brilliant material. Particularly partial to This One (Crying Like A Child). Right up there with my favourite Hikki tracks.

holy crap... sxesven is back!!!

and i'm in agreement with you on This One (Crying Like A Child). that track is phenomenal.

[Zeke.]

Lol, I actually enjoyed This One (Crying Like A Child) for some time but overall I don't think the song is that great. When she starts belting out the chorus it just seems rather annoying. I love the composition and the opening melody most definitely, but the song as a whole... it's a little overkill. I have it on our iPod that plays in the lobby at my movie theater and a co-worker started imitating it and we just laugh about this song all the time now, lol.

[Andrenekoi]

I find TITO to be among her strongest albums...

[inthezone]

Ultra Blue and Deep River are her best albums.

[KremlinChaos]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

Poppin' is so awesome omg that panty line, so amazing.

I never get tired of Poppin'. It's one of my favourite songs by her XD.

[Delicious n Bold]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Ultra Blue and Deep River are her best albums.

Just Deep River. And most of Heart Station.
Hikki sounded so bored for most of Ultra Blue, and some tracks are just filler fodder. There's like 4 good songs on it.

[sxesven]

Interesting; for me Deep River and ULTRA BLUE are pretty much on the same level. For a while I preferred ULTRA BLUE, slightly, now I prefer Deep River. Both are genius. I seriously couldn't point out any filler material on ULTRA BLUE. I love the dream-poppy quality of it, it's like a pop version of shoegaze at times. So good. Heart Station though... such a love/hate album for me. I felt it carried on in the same direction ULTRA BLUE had taken, but that it took it too far. It's too clean, too polished. Mind, great material on it (Stay Gold is one of my fav Hikki songs ever; Fight the Blues plus everything from Gentle Beast interlude onward is also good) but the bad is SO bad. If Beautiful World were a person I'd punch it in the face.

How I'd rank Hikki's albums:

1. Deep River
2. ULTRA BLUE
3. Exodus
4. Distance
5. This Is the One
6. Heart Station
7. First Love

[emi♡]

If Deep River got rid of the "Play Ball, ASAP, tokyo nights" songs, I'd rank it over Ultra Blue.

Maybe even Shiawase ni naro. Just too many bad songs for me. But the rest is brilliant.

[sxesven]

Ha, seriously. Oh mang. Dat songs. Love them! Stylistically I think Deep River is where Hikki hit her artistic high. A song like Tokyo Nights has a dreamy, (shoe)gazy quality to it that was expounded upon for ULTRA BLUE, I think. Yet Deep River got it just right. So right.

[Andrenekoi]

Both UB and DR sound like single collections... Utada's first album that really works a whole body of work from begining to end is Heart Station... And if u punch BW in the face, I would chase you and kick u right in the ass u.ú

[sxesven]

I think it's rather that both Deep River and ULTRA BLUE are so strong that every song had the potential of being a single in addition to their contributing to the overall album (no wonder so many singles were culled from them).

Heart Station, sorry, no. I'd punch Beautiful World in the face and laugh, too. And steal Kiss & Cry's lunch money. And use it to buy a gazillion rolls of toilet paper which I'd throw all over Heart Station's, the song's, house and all over the tree on its tidy and boring lawn.

[emi♡]

I think Ultra Blue sounds significantly less like a singles collection than Deep River :/

With the exception of Colors lol

Even dareka and be my last work because of the key work in the other songs.


Kuma is going to come after you sven lol

[CoriKaru]

2009 Article On Utada's "This Is The One" Attempt