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Not bad, but I still don't like her. I don't hate her like you hate Queen, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to her music.
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Sakura Drops and Wait & See are two good songs imho.
The ones Turtle posted I personally find uninteresting.
Close to you is also a nice song, but it's an american song and a cover, so some people might not like it just because it's not one of her Japanese songs.
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Those are good songs.
The problem with Hikki is that she has distinct eras so it's possible to like one and hate the other. My two cents sample from each era:
Classic/Pop (First Love~Distance):
First Love - ballad, her huge hit, though I prefer
Final Distance as a ballad. Her ballads aren't too bad.
Can You Keep A Secret?
Wait and See
Most of her others from this era (First Love album especially) are distinctly 90s R&B influenced so if you never liked that sound you won't like those songs. They're nostalgic for me.
Deep River~:
Travelling'
Sakura Drops
Ultra Blue:
This Is Love (I really loved cruising to this song for some reason. AH back when gas wasn't so effing expensive and I'm a homebody so I don't waste it going places)
I adore classic Hikki and up to Deep River, but after she took that hiatus to do the English album and her music afterwards wasn't... it just didn't have that feel. Deep River is my favorite Hikki era, but I can understand perfectly how people don't like that. <img src='
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Wait and See reminded me of how badly I wanted her haircut and how no one COULD EFFING DO IT. <img src='
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Album ranking:
.Deep River (I add Colors to this album because it was released around the same time, same with the theme to Casshern with the long ass title even though it's on Ultra Blue)
= Distance
> First Love
> Ultra Blue
= Heart Station