Forum - View topicNEWS: Hikaru Utada to Appear in LA, NYC, Miami This Week
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camhostage
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Good to see some Exodus fans here. Sometimes I think I'm the only one who thinks that album is brilliant pop.
I don't know if I'd say that any difference can be attributed to it being in English. Exodus was just a dark album for her, more dance and club than the balance of most of her records. I don’t want to put too many words in your mouth, but given that there’s not a lot of Utada English-language music work out there, I think you just don’t like that album. (It doesn’t help my argument when Hikari/Simple&Clean was done multilanguage and is arguably better in its Japanese form, but that was a specific direction she intentionally took with that song.) It's a little unfortunate that she has never been able to dual-language her records (not that this would be an easy task, the poetry of language is quite different and she's a perfectionist who would rather rewrite a song completely over the melody than just translate the words), because there are songs like “Be My Last” that could have stood out and possible have been singles in either language. The relative failure of Exodus (and the odd struggle to return to prominence in Japan) probably made it tough to do work in English, but I’m glad she’s trying again. |
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sincerely-yours
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she's coming to NYC tomorrow... and I can't go because I have class at that time
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Gah... I wanna meet her! |
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) ... unfortunately that's not my type of music 
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