{"id":318,"date":"2004-08-01T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T02:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=318"},"modified":"2004-09-25T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T04:15:30","slug":"exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2004\/08\/01\/exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully, most fans of Japanese music have heard that Hikaru Utada will be releasing a North American album sometime in October, under the name UTADA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And being the weird rabid filesharing people that we are… Her first radio single, “Easy Breezy,” was somehow leaked onto the Internet, and since then, things like “Devil Inside” and “Exodus Mix” have been available.<\/p>\n

I’m not very fond of “Easy Breezy.” Whenever I hear it, I think of Cover Girl cosmetics. (I guess that means they’ve done a pretty good job with their advertising.) As far as I’m concerned, it’s a below average song that still manages to be annoyingly catchy. I’m not sure it’s such a great choice for her first radio single, either. Cheesy lyrics. O_o; And the microphone business at the end makes no sense.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, “Devil Inside” has received more favourable reviews. I’m ambivalent about it, myself; it’s a good dance track, and it’s certainly better than “Easy Breezy.” It seems to me that it’s lacking something, though…<\/p>\n

What I know is, this isn’t Hikki from Japan. I’ll still be buying the album, of course \ud83d\ude1b
\n<\/p>\n

My preferred track from all this stuff is one from the Exodus Preview, “Exodus 04” (I’m going to assume that’s what it’s called.)<\/p>\n

With you, these streets are heaven
\nNow home, feels so foreign
\nThey told me I was mistaken, infatuated
\nAnd I was afraid to trust my hunches<\/p>\n

Now I am ready…<\/p>\n

Daddy, don’t be mad that I’m leaving
\nPlease let me worry about me<\/p>\n

Mama, don’t you worry about me
\nThis is my story<\/p>\n

Through mountains high and valleys low
\nThe ocean through the desert snow
\nWe’ll say goodbye to the friends we know
\nThis is our Exodus 04<\/p>\n

Through traffic jams in Tokyo
\nNew music on the radio
\nWe’ll say goodbye to the world we know
\nThis is our Exodus 04…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopefully, most fans of Japanese music have heard that Hikaru Utada will be releasing a North American album sometime in October, under the name UTADA. And being the weird rabid filesharing people that we are… Her first radio single, “Easy Breezy,” was somehow leaked onto the Internet, and since then, things like “Devil Inside” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}