[Utada Hikaru] Coming Back to the 23rd Thread♥

[kawaii otaku]

^ yeah, look at all the singles from Britney's 'Blackout'

[emi♡]

^Exactly, music is just different here...

although, I remember singles when I was younger...I don't know if any of my friends do.


What I really hope...is that they don't use the cover for promotion.

What really disappoints me the most, I think, is that it kind of gives the impression that Utada is sort of a newb, which she is, here in the US. But I don't think they should market her that way.

Hikki is huge, and I think they should give her just a little more credit...and maybe invest a little more in her.

but you know...she did say she wants her US music to be different...so whatever.

[amorphose]

I doubt they will use the cover for promotion.... unless (god smite me for even considering this XD) it is from the same photoshoot the album cover is from.

A little offtopic: But how does a new artist, such as Utada, go about promoting correctly in the US? The city I live in is very small. I never see any promotion for an artist except for an occasional poster in a record store or commercial on TV. It's not like Japan with the countless music shows and giant billboards and stuff. xD

[Sundae]

Maybe they are trying to distance themselves from Exodus. With BoA, they are always talking about her previous sales. But can you do that with Utada without mentioning Exodus? They should be able to, but they don't seem to want to work that angle.

[amorphose]

They talked a bunch about her amazing Japanese sales when EXODUS was released. Didn't seem to do anything. They mentioned her sales on MTV's "You Hear It First" and the EXODUS press kit thing.

I haven't heard anything about BoA really outside of the JPop fan forums. I did see "Eat You Up" on TheN though.

[Brodie Boy]

I really hope this can be succesful for her!. But, with the effort they put into the font on the single I'm not sure they are trying that hard with Utada!. Good luck anyway!.

[jbrat2219]

What is e-single?

[rookies]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

What is e-single?

I think it's a single that is released digitally (online).

[amorphose]

Okay, so assuming that the general American public DOES know what you're talking about when you say 'single' and trust me, around here, that's NOT the case: Name one place where the average American is actually going to see the cover if they're not a.) Hunting for it online, or b.) Going to buy the song from an online vendor like iTunes or Amazon?

Originally Posted by [kokoro♥]

And people WILL see this cover if they put the single on Itunes.
Thats how it works.

Like I said multiple times before, if someone heard the song and liked it enough to go to iTunes with the intent to purchase it, an ugly cover isn't going to make them change their mind. And if it does, that person was never really interested in the music in the first place.

I wish people would just stop *****ing until the ALBUM artwork is revealed. That's the real important cover; the one people will actually see in more than one, isolated location, not this backseat single cover.

[jbrat2219]

I certainly hope the album cover is better... The album comes out in March, so we should get a cover mid February, right?

[amorphose]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

I certainly hope the album cover is better... The album comes out in March, so we should get a cover mid February, right?

Mmm... I'm not sure exactly when I found out about EXODUS, but I'm pretty sure it was about a month or two before it was released and the cover had already been revealed at that point and all the tracks had previews you could stream at utada.com.

This time around though... I'm not so sure it will be the same because Utada said in her blog that she's not even entirely finished with the album yet. I think with EXODUS the album had been finished for a long while before they released it.

This album's release schedule is shaping up to be more like her Japanese work. Lots of tedious deadlines, it seems. I bet we won't get the cover until the very end of February, a week or two before the album comes out in Japan (assuming it's not pushed back.) I wouldn't even know what to think then.

[Yum!Fruit_Salad!]

Hopefully the album cover will be 10x better than the little effort made for the single cover. Also, the rest of the tracks won't have CBTM generic sound going on.

[jbrat2219]

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more this is single is just a stepping stone to something bigger and better...

[[kokoro♥]]

The single photography is really good.
its clear and crisp and professional.

BUT, whoever photoshopped the text on there failed.
it kind of looks like she did it herself in paint just to have something up D:

That isn't the cover anyways is it ._. Isnt the Vector one the one they are using?

[Rogue]

Funny nobody is mentioning her birthday tomorrow XD
The girl is going to get bigger again

Congratulations on beforehand, Utada!

[CoriKaru]

Well her birthday is kind of 2 days away for me being that I haven't even been to bed yet for tomorrow to begin.

Utada's Birthday>Martin Luther King Day>Inauguration Day

Rogue, is that girl in your Avatar intentionally wearing an outfit that looks like the one in Utada's "Passion" Music Video? Looks like it. That hair (could be a wig), and that pose. Yup.

[NintendoHTF1242]

It's awesome having a birthday the day before Utada's xD I was really surprised when I found out her birthday was a day after mine.

My sisters birthday is the release date of Movin' on without you :B

[Meat Pao]

^ It's awesome sharing the same birthday with Hikki :3

[NintendoHTF1242]

^ Damn you XD

[kawaii otaku]

my dad, aunt, 6th grade English teacher, and my ex best friend (who loved hikki) all have the same birthday as her.