Utada Hikaru + Mini-Gallery

battuosai wrote:WHAT!!!UTADA had divorce with her husban......

yeah, i just found out myself on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utada_Hikaru. What was funny was that:

On the night of their divorce, Utada Hikaru performed in the music show MUSIC STATION and was seen already without her ring.

i watched that episode of Utaban with Hikki again and im now convinced that Hikki has a crush on Leah Dizon :bonk: lol

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niko2x wrote:yeah, i just found out myself on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utada_Hikaru. What was funny was that:

On the night of their divorce, Utada Hikaru performed in the music show MUSIC STATION and was seen already without her ring.

lol
I guess it didn't bother her that much. :sweat:

i really like her songs esp. deep river and flavor of life

sadly i cant seem to find any of her albums here in the philippines

:shakehead: :shakehead:

If you're lucky, you can find them in import stores. I had a really hard time to find her album Exodus. It was suppose to be distributed locally, but it took me almost 6 months to find it and I took the only one copy. =T

djlain wrote:i really like her songs esp. deep river and flavor of life

sadly i cant seem to find any of her albums here in the philippines

:shakehead: :shakehead:

i saw one though..but it was an old album, i think. Do you know Comic Alley? They sell various j-pop artists. I think the album i saw was Ultra Blue.

veela16 wrote:

i saw one though..but it was an old album, i think. Do you know Comic Alley? They sell various j-pop artists. I think the album i saw was Ultra Blue.

^^ i saw that one too in Festival Mall Alabang.. :woot:

ILm currently looking for a DVD quality (or better) version of the Wait & See PV but canLt find any. Can anyone help?

rina wrote:

^^ i saw that one too in Festival Mall Alabang.. :woot:

Oh really? What else do they have there? That's a bit far from my place though..

veela16 wrote:

Oh really? What else do they have there? That's a bit far from my place though..

^^ as i remeber, they have album of laruku(L'arc~en~ciel) and gackt.

MissMonika wrote:

LOL. Yea, I'm sure you're heartbroken right now. :hehe:

Here's the news article from Japan-zone.com

Singer Utada Hikaru (24) and filmmaker Kiriya Kazuaki (38) have divorced. And it was revealed that her parents also divorced yet again last year - for the seventh time! Just as her marriage to Kiriya was announced on Hikki's website four and a half years ago, on Saturday she used the same website to reveal that they had divorced the previous day. She thanked fans fopr their support and apologized for the sudden announcement. She cited different views of the future and a lack of communication due to her business international work schedule as the main reasons for the split. Kiriya posted his message on the same site, an indicator of the one-sided nature of their respective levels of success and fame. The two met in 2000 during the design of the sleeve for Hikki's 7th single, "Can You Keep a Secret?" Two years later, she underwent surgery for ovarian cancer and just five months later they were married. They worked together in several different capacities, one being Utada's title song for "Casshern", Kiriya's 2004 debut as a movie director. He also supported her during her attempt the same year to break into the U.S. market. According to a friend of the couple, neither of them are particularly sociable or talkative types and so communication was a problem for them. Utada, whose parents have divorced and re-married each other a ridiculous seven times since 1981, was looking to him as an older man who could support her emotionally. She made no mention of the split during her live appearance on Friday's "Music Station", where she performed her new single "Flavor of Life". Bittersweet is probably the flavor one would use in English to refer to her life right now, though she referred to it as being like "green pepper tempura".

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! :shocked: OMGGG That is so freakin sudden and horrible.

However, I didn't even know she was married. That's sad news. If it's true that she was feeling lonely then that's bad. However, if it's because of her work then it might have been inevitable. And i didn't know she had ovarian cancer. At such a young age. Wow, Utada has had her share of troubles in life.

MissMonika wrote:

Singer Utada Hikaru (24) and filmmaker Kiriya Kazuaki (38)

there's hope for me yet! :hehe:

rina wrote:

^^ as i remeber, they have album of laruku(L'arc~en~ciel) and gackt.

ahh..i guess the really popular singers only, ne?

veela16 wrote:

ahh..i guess the really popular singers only, ne?

^^yeye.. :puppydog:

kenjilina wrote:

there's hope for me yet! :hehe:

:lol:

and she's available too. :mrgreen:

tabana wrote:
:lol:

and she's available too. :mrgreen:

Not if I can help it. :hehe:

Here's something for Utada Hikaru fans... (from Japan-zone.com)

Singer Utada Hikaru has reclaimed her top spot in the hearts of Japanese music fans. For the fourth time, and the first since 2004, she has topped the Oricon annual ranking of the country's favorite artists. She took the No.1 spot back from Aiko (31), who held it the last two years. She's had an eventful year, releasing the No.1 single "Flavor of Life" in February and announcing her divorce from filmmaker Kiriya Kazuaki (39) in March. At No.2 were the duo Kobukuro, who grabbed their first chart-topping single in April, followed by veteran rock band Mr. Children. The ranking is based on a survey of 20,000 readers of the "Oricon Style" magazine.

Cool. I like her, even tho her lyrics are getting somewhat dirtier, except for boku was kuma. :)

Utada regains Favorite Artist title, backed by "Flavor"


Thu, July 19, 2007


On Thursday, the magazine Oricon Style revealed the results of its annual "Favorite Artist Ranking." This year, the #1 spot was recaptured by Hikaru Utada.

Kobukuro and Mr.Children were the next highest-ranked artists. In another survey published at the same time, Ayaka was named the top artist of the next generation.

The "Favorite Artist Ranking" began in 2004, when Utada was first named #1. The next two years, aiko took the top spot while Utada slipped to #2, then #4. But now she has finally taken back the title, spurred by the success of her "Flavor of Life."

Music group EMI announced on Wednesday that "Flavor of Life" has become Japan's most successful digital single, with sales of over 7 million across all digital formats. The previous record holder is estimated to be O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei," which sold about 4 million units digitally in Japan.

According to EMI, "Flavor of Life" is also now the most successful single of all time in Japan, with more than 7.7 million in sales across all formats (digital and physical). Masato Shimon holds the previous record with his 1975 "Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun," which had total sales of over 4.5 million

a-nesuto wrote:i watched that episode of Utaban with Hikki again and im now convinced that Hikki has a crush on Leah Dizon :bonk: lol

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i want subs so badly for this episode. i have it too but i don't understand a single thing except for when hikkie and dizon spoke in english. but that's not the important part :shamefulcry: i wanna know what the host said when those 2 spoke in english... it sounds really funny


anyway, you guys seen her new Kiss&Cry PV? :bleh: . she's not even in it. she's a lot better in cons, her PVs stink, no offence