Deep River

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cdxoFcbYO4o

Final Distance

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jEq-GcmQnX0

COLORS

http://youtube.com/watch?v=V1CnxTt77hQ

Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AB268X3NrpM

WINGS - B side but it's a good ballad

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zeP_cuG4BMk


Utada has a lot of great non-ballads too, search her name up on Youtube and see Reccomonded: Every single >_>
Info about her: http://wiki.theppn.org/Utada_Hikaru

edit: Flavor of Life Ballad version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEu0fmzNlw

listen to original too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXofwOVd9Mg

Thanks <3

I've been behind on Hikki news lately...

edit -- I like it. It's not amazing, but it's just a preview... I'll wait for the full version to judge... =/

btw gotgod? -- Have you heard Flavor of Life?

thanks Ray

That wings song was dope!

I think it's much better than Flavor of Life...

does anybody read her blogs?

well i read the translated versions and she acts really......cute lol i think thats the word

I've read a few translated blog post. I think she is just a cute person.

excited abt the new single..can't wait to hear the full version

I think Hikki has a cute personality. Kiss & Cry sounds like her old stuff, can't wait for the full release though.

...What happened to utada online? its been gone for a week and now new utada news is hard to find. i need to know more about kiss&cry D:<

I just listened to Kiss & Cry. It sounds good.
I like it a lot!

I LOVE Kiss & Cry

I was disappointed with the preview, but WOW... so different o_O;;;

And I really like how she recycled Hotel Lobby lol

WTF WHERE IS IT YOU PEOPLE???

jpopmusic.com/forums

Actual lyrics from the song -- "Today's meal is Nissin Cup Noodle Cup Noodle Cup Noodle"

edit - Oh Ray, you sneaky fool. Editing out the naughty word in your post...

I need to listen to Kiss & Cry. The preview kind of dissapointed me so I'm glad it sound different from the preview...from the way people are talking about it.

yeah, from what i heard of the preview im not a big fan of 'kiss and cry' i prefer 'flavour of life' and WOW! was that a major hit for hikki in a very long time, didnt sell over 600,000 copies or something?


guess i gotta get cracking and listen to the full version of her new single, is it even released yet?
sorry im a bit behind with her news these days, but im patiently waiting for her supposed new english album, or is that a rumour also?

http://mdjasrie.vox.com/library/audio/6a00...33344e685e.html
^^you could listen to the full radio rip version there.

OMG IT'S SO AWESOME! I'M IN LOVE WITH IT! HIKKI ALWAYS MAKES THE COOLEST SONGS!
the bridge melody is from her exodus album song, hotel lobby.
and at the end of the song, some of the beats were recycled from flavor of life, the non-ballad version.

yeah... i've been listening intently and repeatedly.. that's because it's so freaking awesome!
i hope she does some type of video or something. i really wanted her to do a video of the song, blue, from ULTRA BLUE..

She has another ballad(but sorta rnb-ish) and it's from same album of First Love. The title is "Give Me A Reason". It's a very good song too, and one of my favourites. You can PM me if you want the song.

Anyway, I want to hear her new song too! I loved Flavour of Life...both the HYD and original version! xD

Im currently listening to her Music Box album...it's not an official album, but just a music box compilation of her songs from 1st and 2nd album. Reaaaally reaaalllyyy gooooood! I love listening to it! I like BoA's as well, but I think Hikki's music box is much better! xDDD


^OMG you're so right! The bridge sounds like hotel lobby!
I like this song too....Im glad she's releasing a more upbeat song!

Btw...did she officially release the Boku wa Kuma song? I find it hard to imagine her performing that cute song on a concert. lol.

i don't think hikki would perform boku wa kuma at a concert. maybe a concert for little kids.

Wow, I can't believe that this thread only has 6 pages!
UTADA IS THE BEST JPOP ARTIST OF ALL TIME (IMO of ourse).
I fell in love with her voice after "Simple&Clean" like most people here, and I was out of the blue for a while, but "Flavor of Life" totally revived my love for her again. I love Hikki more than ever!

"Kiss and Cry," I think it's okay. I have the song, but it's like...Low quality, so it doesn't sound too good, so I won't make a total judgment until I hear a high quality version of the song. I do like it though.

Wateva, yep, Flavor of Life is her most successful single since...Can't remember lol, I think "Keep Tryin."
It is the most downloaded song of all time with about 5.5 million downloads (Original+Ballad) and it sold over 600,000 physical cds, and remained at #1 for three weeks in a row making her also the only female artist to have two songs stay at #1 for 3 weeks (Hikari and Flavor of Life). She's the first female to have 250,000+ sales in one week since Ayumi's "M" (or was it "&"?) in 2002.
Not only that, it was #1 on the iTunes chart for two months which is an amazing feat, and with total sales of over 6.3 million, you can pretty much guarantee that it'll be the #1 song for the year end chart in Japan (Along with being one of the most successful singles of all time).
I think it's amazing how so many people downloaded the song, considering in the US having just 1+ million downloads is amazing, so 5+ million in a less populated country is even more impressive.
Yeah, you can see that I live this song a tad too much. Can you blame me though ?

In conclusion, I <3 Hikki!
I only wish this thread were more active...

flavor of love is an awesome song. it fit hyd2 very well.
i like how hikki makes all her songs personal when she writes them. nice form of self-expression.
THEN LET'S MAKE THIS THREAD MORE ACTIVE!
i think it's because people don't understand hikki's brilliancy.

Hehe, I guess we can try to make it more active by just posting as frequent as possible...Even if it's just two us us lol.
Everything Hikki does amazes me, the amount of emotions she puts into songs puts me in awe.
I think she is one of the most gifted artists in Japan, in the world in general.
I was talking about how much I loved Hikki at a thread at Asianfanatics, and I simply stated that she was better than Ayu, and someone totally flipped out on me.
It was...Amusing .

i love her song First Love!

WHAT!?!?! HOW IS HIKKI BETTER THAN AYU?!??!? YOU BETTER BE KIDDING, I SWEAR, IF YOU'RE SERIOUS, THERES JUST NO WAY!!!!!!

hahahahhaa jk, i love hikki, love her songs, i always read her blogs, well i read the translated versions, its entertaining

whether its a kidddin or not, if you came to Japan with that, you might dissapear lol













I'm jokin

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LYRICS AND TRANSLATION TO KISS & CRY!!! XD

ROMANIZED:
Furiou mo ryutosei mo sensei mo
Koi ni ochireba onajiyo ne

Komaku ni ataru basu doramu to
Kokochi yokutsu haihatto
Torokeru youna B-section, B-section, B-section

Anata no egao ga boku no
Kokoro ni kuritikaru hitto
Itsu no maniyara High tension, high tension, high tension

Motto chikazu ite
Gaman shinai de
Sukoshi kega wo shitatte
Maa iin djanai, Kiss & Cry

Higaï dja ishi kitte suki djanai
Uwa mezukai de sasotte kyouhan ga ii

Otousan no risutora to
Onichan to intaneto
Okaasan wa daieto, daieto, daieto

Minna yozora no pairoto
Kodoku wo iyasu munraito
Kyou wa Nissin Cup Noodle, Cup Noodle, Cup Noodle

Motto chikazu ite
Gaman shinaï de
Sukoshi kega wo shitatte
Maa iin djanai, Kiss & Cry

Don't worry baby
Kangae sugitari
Omotte bakari itatte
Sabishii djanai, Kiss & Cry

I just want to be happy
Sukoshi, sukoshi
I just want you to hold me
Watashi, yowamushi
Rainen no tanjoubi made ni
Kono mama dja nanimo kawaranaï
I just want you to hold me
Haji wo kaitatte kamawanai

Chotto kizutsu ite
Akiramenai de
Warai tobashite ganbare
Ato wa shouganai, Kiss & Cry

Motto youki dashite
Motto honki misete
Umakui kanaku tatte
Maa iin djanai, Kiss & Cry

TRANSLATION:
Delinquents, model students, teachers
Are all the same when they fall in love

Bass Drum that rings in my eardrum
Cymbal that beats nicely
B-section that seems to melt

Your smile is
A critical hit to my heart
It's become high-tension high-tension high-tension

Get closer to me
Don't hold back
Even if you get hurt a bit,
It's all right, KISS & CRY

I don't want to have a mindset of a victim
I'd rather make you look up to me and become an accomplice to crime

Dad's layoff,
Brother's internet,
Mom's on diet, diet, diet

Everyone's a pilot in the night sky
Moonlight that cures loneliness
Today's meal is Nissin Cup Noodle Cup Noodle Cup Noodle

Get closer to me
Don't hold back
Even if you get hurt a bit,
It's all right, KISS & CRY

DON'T WORRY BABY
If you think too much
Or always just wishing
Isn't that sad? KISS & CRY

I JUST WANT TO BE HAPPY
Just a bit, just a bit
I JUST WANT YOU TO HOLD ME
I'm a coward
At this rate, nothing will change
before my birthday next year
I JUST WANT YOU TO HOLD ME
I don't care if I get embarassed

Get hurt a little bit
Don't give up
Laugh it out and do it
There's nothing more you can do, KISS & CRY

Pluck up more courage
Show me more of your true power
Even if it doesn't end up the way you wanted it to
It's all right, KISS & CRY


CREDITS TO: 8thSin at the jpopsuki Forums & Hikkiforever.com

i swear i've never heard any singer whose voice is as good as utada..REALLY!
i love how her songs are always so different...the beats and everything
i love that her music doesnt sound..normal?? i cant find the word to describe it but her music doesnt always sound like the songs that are in now...LOL i dont know if that made any sense V_V
but neways hikki is the shizzle! LAWL

YEAH, Nissin Cup Noodle! <3

I just realized I bought 2 of them yesterday. Hikki is subliminally advertising! D:

thanks for the lyrics :]

The preview of Kiss & Cry didn't do it justice. The opening is really unique and cool. I love the ending where she's ad-libbing.

Velocitii, OMO...I thought you were serious for a moment and I was like, "Here we go again..."

Mary Elle, thanks for the lyrics!

JaeHo, QUOI?! I want some noodle cups as well, if only I knew where to buy them...Hikki is shameless, what can I say ? Kidding, kidding...

xyunaxfantasiesx, I don't think the full version does any justice either. At least the one that's available right now, I need to hear the full, HQ version please!

ahhhhh previews are sooo misleading!
thanks for the link to the whole song
ima like it a lot but i still prefer 'flavour of life' its such a bittersweet song
i love the way hikki incorperates english into her songs without making sound weird or


dang! the figures you put up about 'flavour of life' sales are impressive






hikki is soooo amazingly talented
all i have to say is

'YOU GO GIRLFRIEND!' *does the head bobbing from side to side*

AHHHH! The HQ version of Kiss and Cry is finally out, and I definitely like it much more now!
If you'd like it, just PM me and I'd be more than happy to send it to you.
I can't believe how crappy the radio rip version is now lol, it truly did the song no justice!

...

Never mind about the Nissin noodle cups. I've eaten those since I was little, I just never bothered to read the brand and my cousins had them today and I finally noticed the name. Chicken flavor all the way!

In the HQ version is the opening with the drums and elephant sounds really part of the song?

^ I'd like to know too.
That part sounds kind of out of place with the song. :x

Wait...Elephant sounds and drums?
Okay, I know what you are talking about, yep it's there as well lol.
It really does sound out of place and the transition is what makes it sound so awkward, the transition is too rough.
Still nice though .

It adds a bit of "flavor", I guess.xD
I want to buy the single now, but then it'd probably be on her album anyway. >_>

I like all stuff i've heard from her so far. she's unique

リズ *, actually, you'll have no choice but to buy the single since it's a digital release-only single. So no album to buy . Although that makes me a little sad, I want a new Hikki album!

The radio version probably didn't sound that bad to me since I listened to it through a headset which makes the instrument and everything sound so much better.

I love Kiss & Cry...really like the beat. I like this better than the normal version of Flavor of Life but It's tied with the Flavor of Life -ballad version-.

"This is Love" was a digital single as well, but it was released on ULTRA BLUE album.. so we never know.
you can call me liz, btw.^^

Just listened to my cd again so have to say Hikki is Great!

Kiss & Cry will only be a digital single? That means no music video! Utada is getting so lazy, where the heck are the music videos? I don't consider Flavor of Life MV a real one just like Time Limit and For You. D':<

Liz, oh that's so much easier lol . I am Kay.
Oh, that's what you meant by it being in an album. I thought you meant as in, "I don't want to buy it because I'll have to buy the whole album with it..." Although I wouldn't mind that.

Ray, yeah, apparently it was already released officially as a digital single on May 21st, but I didn't know that...
There's so much they could've done with a Flavor of Life MV (Original version), like have them flying and stuff, but oh well...I guess it's more like her management that's lazy...

xyunaxfantasiesx, oh, lucky you. I had to listen to them on loud speakers, and it was so fuzzy...It's got a very...Not sure how to describe it, retro flavor to it.

nothin much to write about so...

ehehe...have ya'll seen on you tube (dont know how to post up link sorry ) when hikki met leah dizon, oh hikki was sooo funny and cute...she was telling the hosts of utaban about how shes fan and how beautiful leah is yadayadayada and leah was right behind her the whole time and when hikki realised it, she startd banging her head on the table, she totally blushed...it was really funny...she looked really sincere when she said she wanted help leah out about feeling lonely in Japan...

^^Yep, just watched that recently and it was terribly funny! Hikki is so different in Japan. She's much more eccentric and expressive, but in English interviews, she's more composed and stern. Not to say I don't like stern and composed, but I prefer her in her natural habitat .

^ agreed.
Her personality just shines through when she's in Japan.


haha I saw that too!
she was so cute. XD

I guess there will be a physical single, but it'll be a long way before we can get our hands on it.

About her personality, just watch that show when she was against David Beckham and you can see how bubbly she can be. Of course, when compared to David Beckham, ALL of our personalities just seem so much more exciting.

yeah Utada seems a bit indecisive about what single to release next.....but hey at least its not a HUUUGE gap between singles, that would just be


merp Beckham and his ex-spice wife could excruciatingly kill you with their "lively" personalites...you'd have a more meaningful convo with a rock....

for the people who read her blogs, translated or not, she keeps mentioning about people e-mailing her or messaging her or whatever
how do they send her a message? just curious, i dont think imma do it or anything.....maybe

i think they send her mesages through her official website: http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/hikki/indexf_e.htm

she also has one in her US website utada.com, but i dont think they'll ever update that site anymore.

i love how her loading page has a growing onigiri.