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aniboy1
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I think if you check your facts youd find that she is the worlds biggest selling soprano and had the 3d highest grossing tour of 2004. Multi platinum and gold record sales negate any jealous comments from other performers or naysayers in general. This is not the first time she has recorded a song for the Asian region, besides the aforementioned Sarahbande, she also did a song entitled Namida (When Firebirds Cry) for a video game. As a fan from Long Beach myself I did create an account here just to let you and others know that her fans are well aware of this move in her career and are thrilled. As I understand it the song is mainly english with the title sung in Japanese. Cant wait to hear the full version. Oh and yes, big anime fan here as well. |
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fighterholic
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Hmm, got some people hatin' on either Sarah Brightman or the fact that she's going to do Pokemon, as to saying that it's a step down in her career. I don't see the problem here with that. It's Pokemon, harmless, and many more people will know about her, or at least if at all remember the voice that was heard for the theme song for the movie.
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Iwatch2muchanime
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I've never seen The Sopranos (haha, get it, Soprano) and so I've never heard her before.
Seriously though, she was in Cats and that didn't help it, so I don't really know where she's coming from for this. |
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Dune
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This is a step down? Ok, I'm confused. When have performers ever hurt their careers by appearing briefly for children's animation? I don't see this as any different than any of the celebrities who appear in cartoon roles (which is... a lot of them).
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BleuVII
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It's not an animation, but Vanilla Ice's appearance in TMNT 2 was pretty bad. I would say it hurt his career. And I quote...
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mokitty
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Sarah was in Cats before Phantom, and it did help her a great deal because that's how she met Andrew Lloyd Webber.  But that was decades ago.
Nowadays she's rolling in dough doing "classical crossover" -- a sort of opera lite, if you will, which uses operatic vocals and pop/rock/whatever everything else. There are a lot of people whose renown would probably not be as great if she hadn't opened the door for a lot of people to listen to opera (Il Divo and Josh Groban come to mind though I'm sure someone out there will flame me for saying this). And I had forgotten about Namida; as aniboy mentioned, the song was recorded for Tengai Makyou 3 on PS2. The difference here being, it seems that this song for Pokemon was actually recorded for her upcoming album and is just being licensed for the movie, where Sarahbande and Namida (When Firebirds Cry) were both recorded specifically for the media they appeared in and never saw a release except as bonus tracks on the Japanese version of her last album. So really, being critical, this is actually a step UP from recording a song just for a little-known series of RPGs that's not available outside Japan.  And putting a song that was going to be released anyway in a movie is very unlikely to hurt anyone's career.
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Asrialys
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Well, they always go all out for the movies. Animation, music, a story of sorts.
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fighterholic
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That's what I find interesting about Japanese movies, a lot of them always have somebody sing an ending theme song for them, sometimes that song will be totally out of tune with what the movie was all about. This isn't the first I've heard about getting a non-Japanese person/group to sing. Remember there was the Red Hot Chili Peppers who sang "Dani California" for the first Death Note movie. |
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KrisEllieOphi
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I don't see the problem. It seems like it's being licensed out to the movie, and not specifically written for it. With my own opinions of Pokemon, it would seem like a step down to me, but I can't deny their popularity, so it doesn't appear to be a bad decision.
She has a good voice (though sometimes it's a bit lifeless) so I would say good job to the Pokemon people for getting someone so renowned into their movie. |
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Neverwhere
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I *never* said she wasn't a big seller (I think I rather emphasized the point) or that she wasn't popular. I know these things very well. I've been aware of her career for over 20 years, please don't assume I don't know these things because I do. Popular and talented are not always the same thing. Yes, she is a very good singer. She is not, however, a very good opera singer. There is a difference. I also never said it was a bad thing for her career to sing this theme. It sounds rather lovely, in fact, and I hope it boosts her album sales. I am not 'hating' on Sarah Brightman at all. I have no problem with her being popular, or renowned, or anything of the sort. My only issue seems to have been entirely of my own manufacture, I misread the press release and got annoyed by a turn of phrase that was not actually there, for which I do apologize. I know people *have* addressed her as an 'acclaimed opera singer' in the past and that label really, really irritates me, as I am also a singer who has trained in under a professional opera coach and know for a fact that most true sopranos dislike her intensely. Or at least, they dislike the songs she sings that many of her fans assume is operatic and is in fact classical pop music. Whew! Can we get back to being pleasant and happy now please? It's ever so much more fun.
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Dune
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Just recently I found the official Go Ninja music video. Be honest, how can something so extreme be bad?
If the next Pokemon movie rushes to a complete halt so that Ash, Pikachu, and Team Rocket could stumble into the middle of a Sarah Brightman concert... yeah, that'd be fun. |
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DragonsRevenge
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Pokemon is but a trickle now compared to the tidal wave it was about 7 years ago. So she's not really getting the mainstream attention many people are thinking she'll get.
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Jamee
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So it's really true!
Well, good for her. |
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Jamee
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Sorry, double post.
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Belldandy's Lover!!
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Just to set it straight, any person that cares about pokemon at all should understand that it doesn't matter whos singing what, but that it is still pokemon and the singers won't change that. But btw, Sarah Brightman is an acclaimed singer so we should be happy for her singing the pokemon theme, especially because it is the tenth anniversary movie apparently.
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