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

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Meat Pao

I saw someone selling Exodus' japan version on eBay and realised it has a slipcase I didn't know that.

I think the SG press also came with a slipcase but I threw it away a long time ago

Originally Posted by emiko

yeah i dont get that. At the stores here, the jpop section is ALWAYS right next to the less mainstream reggae section always cracks me up.

that's ... interesting

[AyUta]

Utada: Finishing Up Album Production

Utada has updated her Japanese blog today, indicating that she is nearing completion of her upcoming English language album. Utada says of the work involved, “If this were a live show, I’m at the painful part about 2 songs before the break for the encore.” She also states that, upon completion of the album production, she will be posting an English message. Keep your eyes peeled.

I don't really get the whole problem she's having.

[KarenPang]

^ lol me neither Temmy but I'm guessing probably mastering/production bugs that she has to kill ?

[jbrat2219]

“If this were a live show, I’m at the painful part about 2 songs before the break for the encore.”

Are her concerts usually... "painful"? oO?

[AyUta]

^ I wouldn't think so lol. They're always sooo good and flawless

[jbrat2219]

OH okay, I've never seen them! But I surely hope she doesn't suffer through them hahaha

[AyUta]

^ You should definitely watch Utada United 2006 tour, it's amazing I hope everything goes well for her if she has a tour here in the US. Hopefully she does, I'd kill to go see her.

[jbrat2219]

I would see her in the U.S.! It's not often Jpop artists come to the U.S. and it's ever more rare that they tour! I doubt she'll come to my city so New York is the farthest I'll travel...

[CoriKaru]

She's basically saying that she's at a point where she's been working strenuously nonstop for a while and she's almost at the point where she can take a break, like the break before an encore. It's a metaphor. She's just tired and ready for a break in the working process before she finishes the rest of the Album up.

[Rogue]

Ehh.. Doesn't she actually say that there are two songs that she has and that there is only ONE of them she may place on the album?
Or that there is only one she'll be able to finish in time?

At least to me it sounds like that..

[Brodie Boy]

I think she ment its painful because it is about to end and she wants it to go on forever because she likes performing/recording so much!.

[Rogue]

Oww, yes that definitely sounds better than my opinion! XD
I'm not really into Hikki as a person, I listen more to her music, so when I read something she said, I'm mostly taking it liturally.. *sighs*

If it's really like this, she's excited about writing music like this, hey, maybe that's not bad news at all
If she, herself is feeling good and enthousiastic about the work she's done until now, that might be a very good sign.
I hope there will be at least something Animato-ish on her new album, though I'm still afraid most of the tracks won't have an Exodus-mark on them..
I don't mean I want a second Exodus, but I think it isn't an album you can listen to once and then, hup take up something else and forget about it, like with most of mainstream music albums.
Take for example Madonna. Her singles are very okay most of times, but her albums aren't really .. The tracks aren't just very memorable..

I just think Exodus is an interesting album because you don't get the music at first time listening. That must also be why Americans didn't approve. Easy-listening dance music should be a good chance for a hit, Come Back To Me might actually be her chance to get more attention than previous time.
But only if, as stated before, proper promotion is done, if they get her ito the right style (PLEASE don't get her Rihanna-ish, dancing with nothing but a bikini and pumps on..)
Something like.. A cute girl, who can be silly and random with her music but who also has her adult side. Some kind of funny/serious mix, that might work out I think.

[hpg23]

When I bought Exodus at Charlotte´s, NC, Best Buy it was on the World Music Section XD They probably saw she was asian and put her on there. But when paying the shopkeeper looked weird at me like "what a freak xD" and I answered her with a happy grin xD Exodus was my first J-Pop album ever (well I consider Exodus J-Pop) and I was very happy xD

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by Rogue

Ehh.. Doesn't she actually say that there are two songs that she has and that there is only ONE of them she may place on the album?
Or that there is only one she'll be able to finish in time?

At least to me it sounds like that..

I pray it's the better of the two

[Mirai Noah]

Originally Posted by taskinillusion

I bought Exodus from Best Buy shortly after it had been released.... but they had her in the, get this, REGGAE section... O_o

Me too! I was like reggae, WTF?

[jbrat2219]

Someone was probably too lazy to put it back!

Poor Hikki, forever lost in the reggae section -_-;;;

[Beauty4123]

Originally Posted by CoriKaru

She's basically saying that she's at a point where she's been working strenuously nonstop for a while and she's almost at the point where she can take a break, like the break before an encore. It's a metaphor. She's just tired and ready for a break in the working process before she finishes the rest of the Album up.

at least that means she's put alot into this US album and she wasn't lazy with it. i'm happy if that's the case.

[Yum!Fruit_Salad!]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

Someone was probably too lazy to put it back!

Poor Hikki, forever lost in the reggae section -_-;;;

At my Wal-Mart, she's lost in Country and Karaoke CDs.

Originally Posted by HONEY_INSPIRE_ME19

You're not talking about Suncoast, are ya? That store was gone a long time ago! It didn't have many JPOP cds! D:

Aww, it's gone. ;_;

[AyUta]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

at least that means she's put alot into this US album and she wasn't lazy with it. i'm happy if that's the case.

Exactly Lisa. I can't wait for the album to release, it's going to be filled with amazing songs

[rookies]

I hope the English album will do well when it is released in the US. ^^