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my picks from C-group

cuiwenmeixiu was besties with tzuyu

 

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queen of being fluent in korean and being the main vocal of this show

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This is the crackhead energy I want in the pr videos!!!

 

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Furthermore, recordings of Du Meizhu's purported chat conversations with Kris Wu's staff arecirculating online. The chat reportedly reveals thatthe accuser has asked for 8 million yuan ($1.2million USD) from Kris's team, which was laterrejected and led to a settlement of 2 million yuan. 
 

What a damn mess. 30 girls?! Wtf

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former jyp trainee from pre-itzy era

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FNC really told these girls you need to play a character lmao 

 

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28 minutes ago, Irrelevant said:

former jyp trainee from pre-itzy era

She’s pretty 

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PoshLife's Utada Japanese Singles Ranking

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1.     Hikari
2.     Letters
3.     Flavor of Life (Original)
4.     Traveling
5.     Face My Fears
6.     Michi
7.     Can You Keep a Secret?
8.     Beautiful World
9.     Kiss & Cry
10.  Keep Tryin’
11.  This is Love
12.  Prisoner of Love
13.  Nijikan Dake no Vacance
14.  Addicted to You
15.  Wait and See
16.  Sakura Drops
17.  Movin’ On Without You
18.  Colors
19.  Hanataba wo Kimi Ni
20.  Goodbye Happiness
21.  One Last Kiss
22.  Time
23.  Heart Station
24.  Passion
25.  Flavor of Life (Ballad Version)
26.  Final Distance
27.  Be My Last
28.  Anata
29.  Oozora de Dakishimete
30.  Play a Love Song
31.  Automatic
32.  Chikai
33.  Forevermore
34.  Pink Blood
35.  Boku wa Kuma
36.  First Love
37.  The Sun and Moon (in London)
38.  Dareka No Negai Ga Konou Koro
39.  Time Will Tell
40.  Daremo Iwanai
41.  Sakura Nagashi
42.  Stay Gold
43.  Time Limit
44.  For You
45.  Manatsu No Tooriame
46.  Boukyaku

Favorite album tracks: Making Love, Tokyo Nights, Blue, Tomodachi, Deep River

I found as I was ranking them that "Addicted to You" and "First Love" were like tier thresholds: everything above "Addicted to You" are songs I really love, everything below it are songs I think are just okay, and everything below "First Love" are songs I never want to listen to.

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@PoshLife Just finished mine too

PopReaper's Utada Hikaru Singles Ranking:

Spoiler

 

Tier #1 - Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, ...

1. Movin' On Without You
2. traveling
3. Letters
4. Simple & Clean
5. Hikari
[Find Love, probably]
6. Michi
7. Too Proud
8. SAKURA drops

Tier #2 - Great

9. Can You Keep A Secret?
10. Nijikan Dake No Vacance (feat. Sheena Ringo)
11. Goodbye Happiness
12. Sanctuary/Passion
13. Kiss and Cry
14. Devil Inside
15/16. Keep Tryin' = This Is Love
17. Time
18. Automatic
19. COLORS

Tier #3 - Pretty Good

20. Flavor of Life
21. Play a Love Song
22. Pink Blood
23. Time Will Tell
24. Face My Fears
25. Forevermore
26. Addicted to You
27. Anata
28. Prisoner of Love
29/30. Darenimo Iwanai = One Last Kiss
31. Time Limit

Tier #4- Kinda good but something's off

32. Exodus '04
33. Be My Last
34. For You
35. Fight the Blues
36. Ozora de Dakishimete
37. Dirty Desire
38. Easy Breezy
39. Hatsukoi
40. FINAL DISTANCE
41. Come Back To Me

Tier #5 - Not bad, but also not very memorable or a bit grating

42. Chikai
43. Stay Gold
44. Beautiful World
45. Heart Station
46. Wait And See (Risk)
47. You Make Me Want to Be a Man
48/49. Flavor of Life (Ballad Version) = First Love

Tier #6 - If something made it impossible for me to listen to these ever again I would be totally fine tbh

50. Manatsu no Toriame
51. Bokyaku (feat. KOHH)
52. Hanataba wo Kimi ni
53. Sakura Nagashi
54. Boku Wa Kuma
55. Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro

 

Some of my favorite album tracks: Tomodachi; Paint It, Black; One Night Magic

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24 minutes ago, PoshLife said:

PoshLife's Utada Japanese Singles Ranking

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1.     Hikari
2.     Letters
3.     Flavor of Life (Original)
4.     Traveling
5.     Face My Fears
6.     Michi
7.     Can You Keep a Secret?
8.     Beautiful World
9.     Kiss & Cry
10.  Keep Tryin’
11.  This is Love
12.  Prisoner of Love
13.  Nijikan Dake no Vacance
14.  Addicted to You
15.  Wait and See
16.  Sakura Drops
17.  Movin’ On Without You
18.  Colors
19.  Hanataba wo Kimi Ni
20.  Goodbye Happiness
21.  One Last Kiss
22.  Time
23.  Heart Station
24.  Passion
25.  Flavor of Life (Ballad Version)
26.  Final Distance
27.  Be My Last
28.  Anata
29.  Oozora de Dakishimete
30.  Play a Love Song
31.  Automatic
32.  Chikai
33.  Forevermore
34.  Pink Blood
35.  Boku wa Kuma
36.  First Love
37.  The Sun and Moon (in London)
38.  Dareka No Negai Ga Konou Koro
39.  Time Will Tell
40.  Daremo Iwanai
41.  Sakura Nagashi
42.  Stay Gold
43.  Time Limit
44.  For You
45.  Manatsu No Tooriame
46.  Boukyaku

Favorite album tracks: Making Love, Tokyo Nights, Blue, Tomodachi, Deep River

I found as I was ranking them that "Addicted to You" and "First Love" were like tier thresholds: everything above "Addicted to You" are songs I really love, everything below it are songs I think are just okay, and everything below "First Love" are songs I never want to listen to.

Hikari and Letters being high on both of our lists  Letters actually clicked with me as I was doing the ranking, and it jumped from a low Top 20 position to Top 3 within days dd (A few more days and it might have challenged Movin' On Without You as my #1 tbh). First Love being the threshold for the bottom of my list too  From what I can see Time Will Tell + Wait and See are probably the two songs we disagree about the most.

I also just noticed I forgot to rank The Sun and the Moon (and that somehow my list has 9 more songs than yours ). Sun & Moon would probably be near the bottom of my third tier I guess, or somewhere on Tier #4.

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1 minute ago, PopReaper said:

Hikari and Letters being high on both of our lists  Letters actually clicked with me as I was doing the ranking, and it jumped from a low Top 20 position to Top 3 within days dd (A few more days and it might have challenged Movin' On Without You as my #1 tbh). First Love being the threshold for the bottom of my list too  From what I can see Time Will Tell + Wait and See are probably the two songs we disagree about the most.

I also just noticed I forgot to rank The Sun and the Moon (and that somehow my list has 9 more songs than yours ). Sun & Moon would probably be near the bottom of my third tier I guess, or somewhere on Tier #4.

Letters is so good! I remember when I was in high school I kept trying to get my friend (who also liked Utada) into that song and she just never connected with it. I knew it would be really high on my list when I started it.

Wait and See ranked higher than I thought it would. And yeah I just don't like her old-school stuff like Automatic, Time Will Tell, For You, etc. You do NOT like "Hanataba Wo Kimi Ni" lol. I think it's pretty alright. I also was not here for ballads while I was doing my ranking, they're just so boring compared to her more energetic songs.

Your list is longer than mine cuz you included her English songs and I didn't  I thought about it but ended up not including them, even though I didn't have a good reason not to (also her singles choices for both albums were... suspect)

But all in all I feel like we have a lot of agreement. I wish I'd thought to tier mine, would've made it better organized.

The fact that you found four songs worse than Bokyaku  

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7 minutes ago, PoshLife said:

Letters is so good! I remember when I was in high school I kept trying to get my friend (who also liked Utada) into that song and she just never connected with it. I knew it would be really high on my list when I started it.

Wait and See ranked higher than I thought it would. And yeah I just don't like her old-school stuff like Automatic, Time Will Tell, For You, etc. You do NOT like "Hanataba Wo Kimi Ni" lol. I think it's pretty alright. I also was not here for ballads while I was doing my ranking, they're just so boring compared to her more energetic songs.

Your list is longer than mine cuz you included her English songs and I didn't  I thought about it but ended up not including them, even though I didn't have a good reason not to (also her singles choices for both albums were... suspect)

But all in all I feel like we have a lot of agreement. I wish I'd thought to tier mine, would've made it better organized.

The fact that you found four songs worse than Bokyaku  

I liked most of Exodus's singles but there's always something on each of these songs' production that I find kind of annoying  and I ended up placing Bokyaku over these other songs because at least it has a beat/a pulse, while these other ballads felt very non-descript and forgettable. Upon relistening, I actually think Boukyaku would've been a perfectly fine song if she wasn't completely missing from the first half of it  But do I still resent it for getting a music video while Michi and Tomodachi got paid dust? Absolutely 

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Well now we've done Perfume and Utada, I wonder which JPop act's singles we'll rank next year  

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8 minutes ago, PoshLife said:

Well now we've done Perfume and Utada, I wonder which JPop act's singles we'll rank next year  

A retrospective look at Namie Amuro's singles at the 5th anniversary of the day she announced her retirement