Utada is currently on a break from the music industry. We don't know how long her break will be. I wanted to send her a fan message telling her how much she is missed and I hope she returns soon to produce more music. She has stopped tweeting for over a month, fans are missing her even more!
Our Japanese tutor Ben has helped me translate my message to Japanese. He did a great job translating (I did put him on the spot).
Karaoke is always a fun night with your friends. Singing out of tune to your favourite songs, eating lots of fried food. What more could you want!
Did you know the karaoke machine was invented in Japan 40 years ago by Japanese muso Daisuke Inoue. Karaoke became so popular in Japan that it spread across Asia in the 80’s and then to the rest of the world. Today, in the Philipines there are karaoke booths at shopping centres. If you feel that you want to sing, you can just pop in to the booth. The booths kind of look like fancy portable toilets. I think only 2 people will be able to fit in it.
We all have favourite songs to sing at Karaoke! I particularly like to sing James Blunt! Surprisingly, I cannot hit the high notes that he sings in his hit songs like ‘You’re beautiful’. Other favourites of mine are Utada Hikaru, Rain, Britney Spears, Spice girls. What are your favourite songs?
I went surfing on the net to find out what is the top karaoke song. On this website uskaraokealliance.com they listed the top 500 songs of all time. Interestingly the songs in the top 5 spots are songs I have never sung.
5. Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
4. Journey – Don’t stop believing
3. John Travolta, Olivia Newton John – Summer Nights
2. Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
And number 1 – Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock – Picture
What would you rank as the number one karaoke song of all time?
Happy April Fool's Day! Hope you all had fun playing pranks LOL
Thanks for tuning in this week! Hope you all enjoyed listening to the hot tracks this week. Here is the playlist.
Arashi - Lotus
4minute - Heart to heart
Kim Tae Woo - Echo
Piko - Sakurane
Big Bang - Tonight
Utada Hikaru - Heart station
Ga In - Irreversible
Perfume - Love the world
Ayumi Hamasaki - Is this Love
Remember to tune in same time next week! Send in all your song requests and dedications via our favebook or twitter page!
In Utada's final TV interview before her hiatus, she opens up to Chris Peppler and talked candidly about her experiences and future plans. Utada is quite a twitterbug, it seems that she will stay connected with her fans during her hiatus. You can follower her here: www.twitter.com/utadahikaru
Chris [C]: “When did you start thinking about being an artist?”
Utada [U]: “I’ve always loved music, but I didn’t want to be an artist because both of my parents are artists, and they put so much passion into it, like selling a car to pay for the studio fee. They didn’t hesitate to spend money on music, even when they didn’t have an income. They could not rent a house because their income was unstable.
Witnessing those things as a child, I wanted a job with more stable income; I didn’t want to have an unstable life, in which you go up and down with your emotions, passions, and overall living. Therefore, I believed that I would provably go to school and get a job.
However, when I was around 12 or 13 years old, my parents suggested that I create my own song. Since I always loved to sing and I loved music, I started composing songs, playing my piano, and writing lyrics. Thanks to my parents, composing songs led to releasing CDs. When I think about my childhood, I used to hold the ‘Hikaru Show’ at home, sending invitations to my parents, and it was always my parents, me, and music together. So I think I was in the flow (to be an artist).”
[C]: “Let’s talk about your declaration for ‘human activity‘.”
[U]: “I believe that everyone only knows how you live your life, and you can only imagine how others live theirs. These past 2 years, I started noticing that I’ve been protected, and that I lived in such a small society. Although I’ve learned a lot, had many experiences, and gained some confidence as a professional artist over these 12 years, other things – such as living ability, being considerate of others’ feelings, knowing about people who are in different environment – those kind of things are what people experience naturally. But I was in an environment in which I did not have to experience things like that; it was like ‘ growing in a hothouse’.
I noticed that I might be an adult who would not be able to live without the agency or the manager.”
[C]: “What was the trigger to make you think this way?”
[U]: “I started visiting the countryside recently and felt the greatness of nature, how refreshing and important it is to go outside. I’ve developed an inclination to go outside more; I noticed that there was a potential for a new experience whenever I went outside, and that nothing would happen if I stayed inside of my house. So I tried to go outside at least once a day for something that wasn’t work-related, such as going for a short walk with my own legs.”
[C]: “Why did you choose live concerts as your last activity before you went on hiatus?”
[U]: “I held a tour in North America and in London during January and February of 2010. A tour at small live houses was something I’ve always wanted to do ever since I debuted.
Compared to other singers, I have less experience with live concerts. I feel that an artist should hold live concerts at smaller venues first, and then go on to bigger places; but in my case, it was the other way around. It was my first overseas tour, so a lot of people came over to my concerts, and I felt such a strong passion and love from them. It also made me feel that having live concerts are great, and that I want to sing more lives in Japan. I was the artist who spent more time at home on making music and singing at the studio, than holding live concerts. However, this feeling of wanting to sing in front of fans started growing on me. That’s how I decided to hold the live concerts.”
[C]: “How did you feel when you left the microphone on the stage, and walked the runway?”
[U]: “It felt refreshing at the live, and I was told by many people that the concert was filled with a mysterious and warm love. I was happy to hear that, because that feeling was in my heart. I was happy my heart was able to reach out to the audience through my songs and through my body.
These past 2 years, I’ve started thinking about ‘love’ for the first time. I never considered seriously what it meant to cherish or love something before, or maybe I just tried not to think about it on purpose because it’s scary. But this time, I was finally able to face it. I think before, I couldn’t afford to ‘tuck up’ others with my love, but at the concert, my fans were able to feel my love and how much I wanted to cherish them. I was also able to receive love in return from the audience. It was a very warm time, and the concert became very precious to me.”
[C]: ”How was to produce your own PV?” (talking about the PV for “Goodbye Happiness”)
[U]: “At first, I was going to have someone else do it, like I usually did, but there were some things I felt like ‘That’s not the same as my feeling now’, and it didn’t work out well even though I tried to explain it. Then I noticed that I’m the only person who could understand my current feelings, and that I won’t be able to make any music videos for a while [because of my hiatus]. Therefore, I decided to do everything I wanted to do. I also wanted to make myself do things which other directors wouldn’t ask me to do.
People tend to think that celebrities do or possess special things, but that’s not true. I wanted to show people that I’m just a regular woman, and I thought it would be meaningless if I make a video with myself merely acting the role of ‘Utada Hikaru’.”
[C]: “You are about to stop your activities as an artist for a while. What are you planning to do?”
[U]: “I think it does not matter what I will do, it’s more important on how I do things. The thing I want to do the most is to study with other people, and I want to volunteer overseas if I get the chance. I’m currently searching for that chance. I hope there would be something I could do, at a place where I can meet people in different environments, like in a nursing institution.
I will probably be making music and singing freely at home, because music is not all about business to me. But I will focus on the point of being a ‘Utada Hikaru’ who can take care of herself, and now have people there to support me. I think, in order for me to do so, I will finally understand how much people have done for me, and I also want to cherish time, myself, and the people around me.”
Hi Everyone!!! I've been busy making webisodes for CherriiPOP, I hope you have been enjoying them. You can watch them direct at our youtube channel www.youtube.com/cherriipoptheshow
Cherriipop webisode 28Nov2010- Happy B'day Daniel Henney I wish Daniel a Very Happy B'day. Plus, there is some cool footage of him meeting his fans and him at a VOGUE fashion photoshoot.
Here's the websisode for 23 Nov 2010 How to Send Daniel Henney a b'day msg and Utada talks about her break from music
Hey Everyone! Our live show broadcasts have ended for the year. During our off season we'll be making weekly webisodes! It will be a mini version of our show.
This week's webisode covers: The 16th Guangzhou Asian Game's Opening Ceremony, Kim Hyung Joong's performance at the Games and Utada's New Album: Singles Collection Volume 2. The long awaited album will hit the stores on Nov 24th (7 more days!!)
Leah Dizon – LOVE U
2am – To love again
Jolin Tsai – Nothing left to say
Utada Hikaru – Goodbye Happiness
Leah Dizon – Softly
Gummy – I love you even if I die
Kylee – Everlasting
Leah Dizon – Fever
Rain - Pantech
This year is a huge year for Utada Hikaru, she announced that at the end of the year she will be taking a break from the entertainment business. She said she doesn’t know how long she’ll be gone for but she said it’s time that she go explore other things. Before the end of the year she’ll be releasing a new compilation CD that will include some new songs. She’ll be doing some special tours in Japan! And exciting news, she has gotten the twitter bug and officially joined.
Now you can follow her tweets everyday. She tweets in Japanese and English. She tweets a lot with her fans. If you want to tell her how much you love her music do so now before she goes on hiatus.
In one tweet she describes her breakfast which sounded so tasty. She had a traditional Japanese breakfast. I had a traditional Japanese breakfast in Japan! It was so delicious and incredibly filling. The size of the meal was fit for lunch or dinner. There was rice, soup, miso soup, salmon, seaweed… yumm… Follow Utada on twitter!
We had an awesome show this week! Hope you guys enjoyed all the tracks we played. Here is the playlist!
Brave brothers (feat. Jo Kwon) – I want to cry
Taeyang – I’ll be there
Jerry Yan –
Coco Lee – East West
Rain – Only you
Neyo and Utada – Do you
AKB48 – Heavy rotation (Current No. 1 song in Japan)
Utada Hikaru – Apple and Cinnamon
Big Bang – Beautiful Hangover
Nishino Kana - If
Thanks for listening to CherriiPOP this week!!!! Here is the playlist
SMAP - This is Love
Utada Hikaru - Keep Tryin
Rain - Slowly
Cecillia Cheung - The Stars Speak My Wishes 星語心愿
Son Dambi - Cry eye
Koda Kumi - Lollipop
Clazziquai - Come to me
2pm - I hate you
One meter - Jerry Yan
Fly to the sky - I want
Jang Nara - 나도 여자랍니다
She explained her decision on her website, stating:
"There are some parts inside me that have stopped growing since I began my artist-centered life at age 15, I'm thinking of focusing on 'human activities' by putting my 'flashy' artist activities on hold for a while. I don't know if it will take two years or five years".
She has been touring in the US for the last couple of years trying to crack the US market, like so many successful Asian popstars. She has performed on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. I'm sure her fans will be sad to hear this news and hope that she will return to the music industry in the near future. It was because of Utada's music that I became such a huge fans of her and became exposed to JPOP. She released her debut album 'First Love' at the young age of 15. The title song from that album 'First Love' is the first jpop song I heard and I can sing the song off by heart, even though I don't know Japanese. It's also one of my favourite karaoke songs. Before she takes a break from the industry, her compilation album 'Utada Hikaru Singles Collection Vol 2' will be released. I wish her all the best and I hope she will be back with more awesome music soon.
The theme for today's show is EUROVISION! In celebration of the largest talent song competition, we are playing songs that have the party, fun, crazy feel of EUROVISION. Hope you guys enjoyed today's show. Here is our playlist
Super Junior - Bonamana (no not banana - Bonamana means beauty, yes i was curious to find out what it meant =))
Ayumi Hamasaki - Is this love
Rain - Hip Song (The theme song to the new Karate Kid movie, starring Jackie Chan and Jayden Smith)
Utada - Beautiful Life
SS501 - Love ya (Yes i love you too SS501)
MBLAQ - Y (the ipad was released in melbourne today, and MBLAQ has got an app on the iphone so you can probably get that app on the ipad too! Their app allows you to preview songs, check out concept photos. )
Son Dambi - Bad Boy (Everyone seems to fall the bad ones)
SNSD - OH!
Coco Lee - Transfer
Kangta and Vanness - Scandal
Anna Tschuiya - Rose (check out her movie Sakuran! It's visually amazing)
Thanks for tuning in to another show jammed packed with awesome music. This is our best show so far!!! We had lots of song requests! So Thank you very much!
Son Dambi - Crazy
Utada Hikaru - Take 5
Big Bang - Make Love
Kiss - Because I'm a Girl
Anson Hu - Yin Le Rang Wo Shuo Ai Ni
Van Quang Long - Chuc em hanh phuc
Boa - Eat you up
T-ara - Falling you
Alan ke yu lun - Zero
Ayumi Hamasaki - Rainbow
Olivia - A little pain
Shin Mina - Kiss Kiss
Cyndi Wang - Yue Guang
Our Second Show was better than the first one! We had more listeners!!!! We hope you enjoyed the show! Thanks for all the song requests!! Keep them coming. If you have any song dedications or shout outs, send them in via our facebook page or twitter @CherriiPOP and I will read them on air.
We still experienced some technical issues, sorry for the delay in broadcast. We will work on this and have a smoother show next time. Third time lucky! Podcasts still not available. We will try to podcast our next show.
The playlist for the show:
SNSD - Run Devil Run (KPOP)
2pm - Without you (KPOP)
Hyori Lee - Chitty chitty bang bang (KPOP)
Rainism - Rain (KPOP)
Peter Ho & Jang Nara - Wanna tell you (CPOP)
Nhu Quynh - Chuyen Tinh Buon (Sad love story) (VPOP)
Diem Lien - Xuan Mong (Spring Dreams) (VPOP)
Anson Hu - Ling Yi Ge Zi Ji (Breaking Free - from High School Musical) (CPOP)
Michelle & Vickie - Xie Xie Ni (CPOP)
Jerry Yan - Yi Gong Chi (CPOP)
Utada Hikaru - First Love (JPOP)
Coco Lee - The ninth night (CPOP)
