celeb news Hikaru Utada's lyrics go "viral" for being.. interesting

[Pikachoo]

"hunnies if you're gay burn it up like a gay parade"

 

[DaddyIssuesX]

On 5/4/2022 at 8:38 PM, suburbannature said:

It's hilarious to watch her fans paint her as some sort of Japanese Bjork with an AC-leaning new album just because it's less generic than her others.

 

Namie will always be the Queen of JPop with a better discography. Her prime run and constant experimentation, phew.

Utada may be slightly overrated in the context of j-pop but her highs are on a different level to namie not to mention she has more consistent albums under her belt too  

 

OT: Hotel Lobby is better than half of the english speaking pop girl’s best singles let’s not do too much 

Edited May 7, 2022 by DaddyIssuesX

[suburbannature]

1 minute ago, DaddyIssuesX said:

Utada may be slightly overrated in the context of j-pop but her highs are on a different level to namie not to mention she has more consistent albums under her belt too  

 the blatant lie.

[AllyBunny]

I was obsessed with TITO back in day. Need to revisit that album. Dirty Desire, Mrlerry Christmas Mr Lawrence and On and On were my jams.

 

 

[Von]

This thread was an fun read.  Makes me miss the days of the old J-Pop Music Forum (can’t remember if that was the exact name) where tea was spilt on the daily…

I’ve been listening to these albums since I was a middle schooler and always wished people knew about Utada in the US so it’s interesting seeing some modern-day reactions 

[sxhunluv]

Namie stan talking about quality 

 

Anyways Ayu is the only rightful queen of Jpop. Even Times magazine co-approves!

 

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,218375,00.html

 

She outsells Utada and Namie by MILES. 

 

 

 

 

Official best selling female artists in Oricon Charts (album sales only, doesn't include physical singles): #3, Ayumi Hamasaki (29 Million)

8 million gap between her and Utada (4th) and 11 million with Namie (6th)

 

the best selling female soloist, and 3rd overall (1st and 2nd are either co-ed groups or girl groups), periodT

 

 

If we include CD singles...

Ayumi (2nd) >>>>>>>>> Utada (6th) >>>>>>> Namie (7th)

 

At 38, Ayumi Hamasaki has the most #1 single in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 25, Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive #1 single in Japan history for a female artist.

At 12 (1999-2010), Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive years with at least one #1 single in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 13 (1999-2011), Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive years with at least one #1 album in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 12,335,000 EAS, LOVEppears is among the top 10 most successful non-English speaking album of all-time.

 

 

Edited May 7, 2022 by sxhunluv

[sxhunluv]

Y'all arguing about the wrong queen of Jpop

 

Seethe   @suburbannature @Newt

Edited May 7, 2022 by sxhunluv

[suburbannature]

7 hours ago, sxhunluv said:

Namie stan talking about quality 

 

Anyways Ayu is the only rightful queen of Jpop. Even Times magazine co-approves!

 

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,218375,00.html

 

She outsells Utada and Namie by MILES. 

 

 

 

 

Official best selling female artists in Oricon Charts (album sales only, doesn't include physical singles): #3, Ayumi Hamasaki (29 Million)

8 million gap between her and Utada (4th) and 11 million with Namie (6th)

 

the best selling female soloist, and 3rd overall (1st and 2nd are either co-ed groups or girl groups), periodT

 

 

If we include CD singles...

Ayumi (2nd) >>>>>>>>> Utada (6th) >>>>>>> Namie (7th)

 

At 38, Ayumi Hamasaki has the most #1 single in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 25, Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive #1 single in Japan history for a female artist.

At 12 (1999-2010), Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive years with at least one #1 single in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 13 (1999-2011), Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive years with at least one #1 album in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 12,335,000 EAS, LOVEppears is among the top 10 most successful non-English speaking album of all-time.

 

 

Everyone knows Ayumi sold more, but Namie is widely dubbed as the Queen of JPop for the quality and influence of her work. Google is free.

 

Ayumi has a different title, I believe. Empress or something 

[Jormungand]

7 hours ago, ONOPKA said:

the namie slander in here

 

lemme bop to Past<Future 

The Namie slander in here is UNACCEPTABLE especially when the Queen is retired and her discography is golden. Also I love Ayumi Hamasaki but she's like Madonna at this point, should've retired ages ago. 

 

As for Utada, I don't hold these English albums against her because they were bops back in the day. 

[Johnny Jacobs]

I used to be a virgin, now I'm on island DefJam 

 

You're eazy breezy and I'm Japanese-y 

 

What a day, young boy next door passed away 

[Buddy]

Used to be a virgin, now I'm with Island Def Jam

[Rith]

not these lyrics SLAYING me 

have to stream their whole discography now

[FOCK]

These lyrics are serving “Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards”. 

[Attitude]

Should I go Winona Ryder?

[youcallingmyname]

Who said Utada is the Japanese Bjork?

 

Their music is too tolerable to the ears to even be compared to 

 

let me go stream legends POL

 

https://youtu.be/Be11C5RmYoA

[Exodus]

13 hours ago, sxhunluv said:

Namie stan talking about quality 

 

Anyways Ayu is the only rightful queen of Jpop. Even Times magazine co-approves!

 

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,218375,00.html

 

She outsells Utada and Namie by MILES. 

 

 

 

 

Official best selling female artists in Oricon Charts (album sales only, doesn't include physical singles): #3, Ayumi Hamasaki (29 Million)

8 million gap between her and Utada (4th) and 11 million with Namie (6th)

 

the best selling female soloist, and 3rd overall (1st and 2nd are either co-ed groups or girl groups), periodT

 

 

If we include CD singles...

Ayumi (2nd) >>>>>>>>> Utada (6th) >>>>>>> Namie (7th)

 

At 38, Ayumi Hamasaki has the most #1 single in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 25, Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive #1 single in Japan history for a female artist.

At 12 (1999-2010), Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive years with at least one #1 single in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 13 (1999-2011), Ayumi Hamasaki has the most consecutive years with at least one #1 album in Japan history for a female solo artist.

At 12,335,000 EAS, LOVEppears is among the top 10 most successful non-English speaking album of all-time.

 

 

Misleading stats. Ayu has more output. If Utada released a single and album every month during her peak the way AVEX had Ayu doing it, she would have obliterated. #4 with comparatively such little output speaks larger volumes about who's actually purchasing her music.

 

Anyway. We could all argue for days on whether Utada, Ayu or Namie is the "Queen of Japan" but this isn't their thread so I think we should refrain. ?

[Kevin Parker]

what the

 

[Guest]

Wait, is this why that album is not available on spotify? 

[cyclone]

COmparing utada to bjork is an insult to utada omg

 

Im not rlly into jpop and had to google who namie is i was so confuse reading this thread

[Rev8]

Didn't think the thread will turn into a stanwar

surprised there are so many hardcore Jpop stans here

[Harry]

im literally SCREAMING at home I didn’t know they were so messy

[Poxy]

Iconic 

[youcallingmyname]

13 hours ago, cyclone said:

COmparing utada to bjork is an insult to utada omg

 

Im not rlly into jpop and had to google who namie is i was so confuse reading this thread

Namie has a few good songs but she’s not on the same level of artistry as miss Utada legend Hikaru 

 

[suburbannature]

1 hour ago, youcallingmyname said:

Namie has a few good songs but she’s not on the same level of artistry as miss Utada legend Hikaru 

 

The blatant lie. Miss Utada could never reach the artistry of Sweet 19 Blues and Concentration 20. 

 

The way you've only heard Genic or something.

 

[Vermillion]

On 5/4/2022 at 5:48 PM, Khal said:

Sounds like a Katy Perry lyric that was translated to another language, then translated back to English.

The accuracy