[Utada Hikaru] Finishing the Decade with a Bang in her 39th Thread

[haikudasai]

I see she wants to go out on a sour note

[amorphose]

I'm trying really hard to like it... but the combination of the bad French (which is the part that bothers me least) and the soft vocals with the chaotic background arrangement is just not working for me at all.

I feel better now knowing that artists always cover a strange song and do something out there for this Pepsi line. I had no clue Kuu and Perfume also did something similar to this. That means the other new songs will probably be exactly what I've been waiting for so I won't let my current discontent with this song ruin the whole release for me.

[Keiichi_JPU]

Originally Posted by amorphose

I'm trying really hard to like it... but the combination of the bad French (which is the part that bothers me least) and the soft vocals with the chaotic background arrangement is just not working for me at all.

I feel better now knowing that artists always cover a strange song and do something out there for this Pepsi line. I had no clue Kuu and Perfume also did something similar to this. That means the other new songs will probably be exactly what I've been waiting for so I won't let my current discontent with this song ruin the whole release for me.

This is exactly how I feel about it, I'm also having faith because of the fact that Pepsi Nex songs are always silly covers
Her next real single (hoping she'll have one, and otherwise the 4 / 5 new tracks) will blow us away!

I mean. Wonder 'bout exists on the same album as Kremlin Dusk.. so nothing stands in the way of this new mini-album being absolutely amazing

[Nackar_91]

Wow... she releases one cover FOR A CM as a download and people are acting like now her other new singles will automatically be crappy as well?

It's a CM song. It's a cover. I don't see how that tells us anything at all about what her 'final' songs will be like.

[Mirai Noah]

I don't speak French, so I can't comment on that, but the backing track seems overly chaotic.

I will say, though, I love her hair!

[Beauty4123]

i still can't get over how gorgeous utada looks in the CM! i like the song preview. the "bottle band" in the CM is cute, lol.

[Picaflor 7/4]

if anyone cares. this is what she is singing.

Tant que l'amour inondera mes matins
Tant que mon corps frémira sous tes mains
Peu m'importent les grands problèmes
Mon amour, puisque tu m'aimes...

the english translation they gave me was wrong so this is the makeshift english I have.

As long as love will flood my mornings,
As my body quivers under your hands,
I do not care for the major problems
My love, since you love me ...

[dreamland2.0]

awww that's nice! I can't wait for the songs!
And wow that's definitely more like a blog entry XD

[CoriKaru]

Utada against the 140 Character Limit.

Who will win?

US.

[Picaflor 7/4]

Finished recording the harmonies and back chorus! Fwaaah! Was a really mentally challenging song... Just drained me, something of a first. Ah but now the CD can be released on time~ Thank goodness. It's a storm of Thank Yous! Everyone, thank you for your hard work! There are some staff members still working at the studio... Syncing all the layers of back chorus, arranging data on different tracks... Just now (10PM) the engineer and assistant engineer were finally able to eat dinner. As to why "(my legs) are so drained"... I always stand when I record, but today's song... The lyrics required a lot of courage, I guess. Before I even realized it, my legs were so dead, I was kinda shocked that they didn't even feel like my own legs.

no way in hell will I believe that is 140 characters. Do some people have special rights when it comes to tweets? I don't have a twitter so I don't know their rules.

[bluegie]

Wait.. this is the translation of her tweets rite? If so the original must be in Japanese and is there a 140 characters rule in Japanese tweets?

[CoriKaru]

I just figured that post was a bunch of smaller tweets posted together in succession.

If that's all ONE TWEET....well gosh......a lot of things must have been GAINED in translation.

[ll moments ll]

there is a twitter app (twitlonger) where you can tweet more than 140 characters. it just sends a link to your twitter followers, but yeah anyway, she's not even using that. she's just sending out multiple tweets.

you can say so much more by tweeting in Japanese. since kanji can shorten the character count. and spaces count on Twitter too.

ex) 私は本を読んでいます。 (11 characters)
I am reading a book. (20 characters)

anyway, the song preview sounds interesting. can't wait for the full version.

[ohsixthirty]

Heck yeah, I'm gonna follow ublog for the translations. Twitbird translations aren't quite the best!

[Picaflor 7/4]

[primavera♥]

Oh so I've finally watched the cm and etc.

And I am happy as hell that she did this. This is a cover? Idc. Its lovely
And finally a language I'm learning to speak. Although initally I honesyly couldn't translate a word she said XD
I can't remember the melody and all that so its really not all that great to me so far
I just like the arrangement even if the composition isn't too great
Jazz more inspiration to do jazz band next year. I love jazz music sometimes. Its just lovely.

Ah~ and she looks so gorgeous. And Pepsi? Now that's good promotion.

I know some people hope nothing else is in this style but I'm kinda ditching my liking of her experimental synth stuff if she goes to this XD
I was just worried shed do r&b again since that's like the other major genre of her career.

so just this little preview, I like. But its a cover someone says? what's the original?
if I don't like the final outcome of this song I can probably survive off the instrumental

^___^ wow. The opinions u can have on a short preview when deprived of some decent Utada Hikaru music.
(Man hikki should do a duet with shiina ringo)

[JackieRos]

Originally Posted by StrawbariSnowAyumi

(Man hikki should do a duet with shiina ringo)

they did a song together "I won't last a day without you"

[Andrenekoi]

^http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTGmbA40ZQ
the original^^

[ohsixthirty]

Edith Piaf is so amazing. ♡

[Picaflor 7/4]

the only thing I dislike is how she says "pepshi" at the end instead of "pepsi". come on. >>