Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" releasing June 27, features KH3 theme song "Chikai&

gods i cant wait master spockanot i cant wait for the full album i wonder though if the full song of oath/don think twice will be at e3 i mean e3 is littllay close to the alblum relase date

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

Wait so which song is the theme for KH3. Chikai or Oath/Don't Think Twice.

This is too confusing for my simple brain.

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

"Chikai" is the Japanese version. "Oath" is the English translation of that word.

Don't Think Twice is the English version.

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

This is exciting! I’m actually surprised; I didn’t think we’d get the full theme song until just a 2-3 months before release. I don’t want the song to be stale from listening to it on loop before the game comes out. I want it to still be fresh when I turn on KH3 for the first time. Hikari and Passion both released 8 days before the release of their respective games, so that wasn’t an issue. Maybe... nah. Surely, early July would be too early for this game to come out.

At least we should have the release date by the time the album drops, so maybe I can ration out my listens. Lol

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

I'm really excited to listen to her new album.

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

And the English Verison, i predict will be out as a digital single prior to the release of KH3, what i predict will be in the Fall

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

maybe but i wouldn't be surprise if the full songs of oath/don't think twice will be at e3 though i mean e3 is littaly close to the album release date

why can't june be here soon enough

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

UTADA <3

Ugh so much good music coming soon, too.

Utada's album is going to be my top summer jams <3

(Secretly hoping she releases a deluxe album with Don't Think Twice as the bonus track)

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

Double posting but for anybody who has a Japanese iTunes account, this is the link for "Play A Love Song"

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/play-a-love-song-single/1371317321?l=en

Re: Utada's 7th album "Hatsukoi" to release June 27, features KH3 theme "Chikai"

I am so excited! I wasn't expecting us to get the full version so soon! Between E3, the concert, and now this, June couldn't get any better!

Am I the only one that thinks it's odd (but kinda cool) that this album is essentially titled the same thing as her debut album, First Love? I guess because it comes full circle after 20 years. And it's her first album with a Japanese title!

I guess we will hear the full version of the theme song in June regardless of what comes outta the concert and E3!

SO EARLY SO EXCITED

I was already expecting a release date at E3 but this just increased that expectation. It would be amazing if the release date were only a few days after the album release, but very unlikely imo. If I do get the album, I'm gonna avoid listening to the KH3 theme until after I actually get to play the game and witness the opening on my TV.

I mean I really do doubt we'll get KH3 that early since we only just heard they were working on the English VO, but it would be exciting!



It was definitely intentionally meant to be a throwback to her first album's title xD

I am so damn excited!!

Play a Love Song is a bop

EVEN MORE LINKS

https://twitter.com/khinsider/status/988834423473782789

Utada is co-producing Nariaki Obukuro's debut solo album "Bunriha no Natsu" (releasing today/tomorrow) and is also a feature artist on his song "Lonely One" and its all good, soulful music. Check it out!

Rumor has it they are dating

No matter who she is dating or married to, she'll always come back to Ringo Sheena

[video=youtube;UPdlfIhzPEo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPdlfIhzPEo[/video]

(This is my not-so-subtle way of telling everybody to not discuss her private life because there are a million rumors and it is uncomfortable to have somebody's private life discussed like that)

Two days after my birthday! She's thinking of me...

...

SHE'S THINKING OF ME!

Coolios. Thash kinda ironic it is titled First Love. Though to me, it's a personal reason, but whatevs. Coolios that we'll get the full kh 3 theme song so soon.

I just broke this news to my sister and we lost it for a minute because it's releasing on her birthday and it's just too perfect. Back in 2016 the cover art and track listing for Fantôme were revealed just a day before my birthday, so we've both gotten a treat with her release schedules.

I'm ready for this album. Back when it was announced that she was already working on another one I thought it was a bit fast, like Fantôme is just too good and I wanted to spend as much time as possible with it, but she's spaced out her activities well and really positioned this album as another standout. I love that summary of the concept behind the album, indicating that she's moved back into the playful and ethereal nature of her signature pop music, like she's coming out of the darkness of Fantôme changed but not broken. Its release is gonna be an event.

I don't mind at all that "Chikai" is getting a release before KH3: I've already worn out every "Extended" YouTube video for this theme song, and getting to hear it in the full context of her album first is going to be great. My guess is it gets a single around the release of KH3 with "Don't Think Twice" and whatever remixes are used for the OP. So there'll still be something to look forward to.

Nooww I just have to wait patiently for "Play a Love Song" to drop on U.S. iTunes since my fake Japanese account got shut down way back when and I'm too lazy to make another one.

Wow, that is coming out ALOT sooner than I thought. Nonetheless, I'm hyped! I think I might try and put off listening to "Chikai" in it's entirety until the credits roll on KH3. I kinda want that full effect, ya know?

Also, she looks drop dead gorgeous in that pic.

I'm gonna buy this instantly, and listen to it on repeat for weeks lol.

So, do we think we will get a trailer with at least the full opening versions of the songs in the next 2 months? Or even just a bit more than the last one?

I'm on team whatever trailer we get next, prolly E3/LA concert, will feature the opening version of Chikai. Hopefully a remixed version if it exists.

Definitely possible, especially if we have a trailer that has more cutscenes/story and not as much gameplay (such as how the announcement trailer for the song had scene snippets from all the trailers). With how slow the song is (at least, unless a remix speeds it up) it wouldn't be fitting for a gameplay trailer, I think.

I hope they release a trailer with either Shimomura's new KH3 music or the full song at one of the concerts.

"Play a Love Song" is out on U.S. iTunes (may have been out for a bit, I just checked).

I absolutely love whatever is going on in the last 1:03 of this song. It escalates from one extended radio hook to a snowy woodland incantation summoning the old gods just like that.

I’ve had “Play a Love Song” on repeat for two hours. Help.

My bet is that we will get a short version trailer that is just a super hype af Shimomura song from the game, then an extended trailer with that song then it fades out and “Chikai”/“Don’t Think Twice” starts playing for 3-ish minutes of intense story scenes (but vague enough to not spoil the game).

Then we find out the best news ever: “Chikai”/“Don’t Think Twice” will have boppy remixes and we all cry into forever.

Back on “Play a Love Song”: THE CHOIR IN THIS DAMN SONG

The lyrics are so typically (read: crushingly) bittersweet Hikki. The first few verses are so honest and intentional they cut right through me. I can 100% relate. ;_;

For the upcoming trailers, I'm certain we'll hear the opening/remixed "Chikai" in part, but I doubt they'll reveal the whole of it. I wouldn't be surprised to get the Orchestral arrangement at the LA concert, and could see a trailer getting attached to that as well.

i mean with e3 and the concert close to album i wouldn't be surpise if we do here the full the songs in the trailer

I continue to love how she is able to pair these sad, yet romantic lyrics together with a peppy and uplifting melody. This is all I'll be able to think about at work.

I'm really hoping the concert has the orchestral version of "Chikai". I'm been waiting to see what Shimomura and Wada can do with the song.

this is just a cover but i think it might sound lie this

[video=youtube;-_QoU55ZK0s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_QoU55ZK0s[/video]

I'm just so excited to see what the setlist of the tour will look like

I want something like this:

First Love: First Love and Automatic

Distance: Wait & See (Risk) and Can You Keep a Seacret? (even though she didn't sing any songs from Distance during Wild Life)

Deep River: Hikari, Travelling and Sakura Drops

Ultra Blue: COLORS and Passion

HEART STATION: Flavor of Life, Prisioner of Love and Beautiful World

Fantome: Michi, Hanataba wo Kimi ni, Tomodachi, Manatsu no Tōriame and Sakura Nagashi

and the rest from the Hatsukoi album

If she sings 23 / 25 songs that gives space for 6 / 8 songs from Hatsukoi

She sang 23 songs during the Wild Life concert.

I really hope she keeps Passion on the setlist :(

Man, why couldn't she have toured when I was in Japan while Fantome had just been released and was being heavily promoted everywhere?

I guess it's possible but that's just a lot of trailer when there's also field and battle music to be used. I don't think(?) any KH trailer has been backed by the full length of its theme track.


Yeah. During her Exodus promotion, Utada mentioned how people tell her she always has a darkness or sadness to her voice, even when she's doing upbeat tracks (coincidentally, she attributed this to her mother's influence at the time). I think that frequently colors her work through her lyrics and composition, as well. "Play a Love Song" is catchy and dance-remix-ready, no doubt, but it's paired with this somber undertone. Especially when that chorus kicks in: it lends a sort of mandate to the last stretch of the song, like there's an urgency to her message.

If we don't get "Chikai" Orchestral this time, we can always count on it to be part of the 2019 concert set. :P


Nice list! I think we might see her skip Distance again, but if there's one song she could do off of it, I'd love to hear "Eternally." I'm also of the feeling that the opening track for this concert should be "Kairo" from ULTRA BLUE. This is going to be a very strings heavy concert (like the first half of WILD LIFE but ~more~) and that would set the tone nicely (it probably won't happen tho, the opening will be "Michi" haha). I'd also like to see one of those neat fade-in sections she does in her live shows between "Prisoner of Love" and "Forevermore." Though I think there's a chance she'll skip HEART STATION too, in order to make room.

Other wished-for, non-standard tracks from me:
"Arashi no Megami" (think she'll touch this one? might be too much)
"Kouya no Ookami" (I need this live)
"WINGS"
And use that sexy interlude from DEEP RIVER between segments like she did with "Eclipse" in WILD LIFE.


That's a shame. :(
I probably would have flown to Japan to see her if the process for purchasing tickets to stadium tours were simpler. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed she throws us a bone and schedules another 10 city tour through North America/the U.K. when she puts out her third English-language album in 20 years.

You really think she will skip HEART STATION this time around? :o It was a really successful era for her... I hope she keeps at least "Prisoner of Love" from that album.

I'm really curious how staging will be as well... We had Utada United with a really nice production stage and then we had Wild Life which was more simple but still great.

I just hope she doesn't cut Passion :( I love that song so much. Way better than Sanctuary lol

I'm 50/50 on it, whereas I think with Distance it's a lot more likely. She really went all in on HEART STATION with WILD LIFE: "Take 5", "Prisoner of Love", "Flavor of Life", "Stay Gold", "Beautiful World", "Boku wa Kuma" and "Niji Iro Bus." That's a full 1/3 of the set list! A lot of these tracks are string & piano based (with some synth here and there), so a lot like her newer stuff but more pop than R&B. I just think if she can choose to do a newer track over an older track which is structurally similar she'll probably opt for that, but Utada never fails to surprise, so anything's possible. I think the tracks with the best chance of making it in are "Prisoner of Love" and "Heart Station."


I think both United and WILD LIFE were really creative and fun in their stage set up, and more importantly they were an appropriate fit for the music and set the right atmosphere. As long as she and her team stick to something that matches her desired sound I think it'll work out fine. I'm interested in seeing what her costumes will look like! She usually seems to have such a laid back personality, it's really fun when she comes out in some flamboyant gown that ruffles and ripples all around her.


I expect she might do a variation on the ending version of "Passion" for this concert. She hasn't used that one in concert before and it would be more in line with the tone of the show. OTOH it would add another ballad to a line up of potential ballads that stretches for days so I could be wrong haha.

I wonder if the show will have a KH section where she does each of the themes (in order or not). Kind of like the Exodus section of United.

As it’s kinda around E3, maybe then we’ll get the opening cinematic? Just a thought, if not the whole game (which seems unlikely).