Comments on: OLIVIA’s Wish

By: Razorlight

Razorlight — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:46:43 +0000

I love the music in Close your eyes. Her brother Jeffrey Lufkin really did a great job on bringing unconventional creativity and mood to the piece, especially with those seemingly erratic electronic drum beats. It sounds a lot like some of Yoko Kanno’s electronic arrangements.

By: Lin

Lin — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:21:08 +0000

I never heard of Olivia until Nana came. Her voice is really awesome, she sings rock songs in a way it never was sang before. And it sounds good. Thanks for the review, was nice knowing more about her. I should buy the single……

By: 2Cent

2Cent — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:23:54 +0000

I love Olivia’s voice. It is very mature sounding, and it proves my point to my boyfriend that not all Japanese singers sound like little girls. Also, since she’s part english, her enunciation is good, and you can acually understand her when she sings the enlish bit of her songs. Anyways, I love her and her songs! :3

By: Katia 41265

Katia 41265 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:03:13 +0000

OMG!! I love Olivia’s songs like Wish and A Little Pain.
I LOVE OLIVIA!!!!!

By: Tenoh Haruka

Tenoh Haruka — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:14:48 +0000

your right, i like olivia’s voice, it reminds me of blessed hitomi…..thanks alot, wow, im really expanding my cd collection thanx to you man. take care, and you noe how much i love this site ur running

By: Rinoa

Rinoa — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:17:12 +0000

I’m basing this upon what Olivia said. Olivia mentioned in the j!-ent interview “It’s going to go on until next year.” The interview was conducted in October 2006 and I’m assuming that now her NANA work is over since avex released her “OLIVIA inspi’ REIRA (TRAPNEST)” album and now is due to release a best album by combining both Olivia’s and Anna’s work. It sort of released almost every single song used in the anime.

However you’re sort of right that in the end we can never be sure if we’ll see further inspi’ Reira singles. Yazawa might request them to continue working with her. Although Olivia would also mention in the another interview (Purple Sky) that she is interested in working on her own projects, which on most probability are not NANA related. The music which she is mostly interested in, is not so mainstream though it’s still slightly commercial and mature as I’ve observed from her latest mini album and her claims. Also she seems keen to promote her western-influenced style and artwork in her releases since she has mentioned she’s interested in having a musical career somewhere else.

And yes I’ve listened to her “OLIVIA inspi’ REIRA (TRAPNEST)” album and I’m considering doing a review about it too since it was a pretty good album. Thank you for your insightful comment!

By: sakuraangel

sakuraangel — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:19:04 +0000

I love this single from OLIVIA. For me it’s one of those rare singles where I like each and every single track. Most the times I either won’t care for the instrumentals or I won’t like the B-side or I won’t like the A-side or something (some artists, are an exception).

Quote:”I am rather sorry to know that there are no inspi’ Reira single planned to be released in the future”

Really? Where did you hear this? I’m just curious, because that makes me sad too. But in the NANA community, I’ve heard some pretty strong rumors of there being a second season of the NANA anime. I’m sure Ai Yazawa will want to keep OLIVIA and Anna Tsuchiya for the musical voices of the NANA anime if it will be continuing (I say this because those “rumors” are not 100% confirmed in print, just from a reliable source — nana-nana.net/some NANA forum/blog communities). So maybe there won’t be more release for now or in the very near future, but if the anime were to come out with a second season I’m sure they’ll need new OPs and EDs for it.

Regardless, thanks for the review. I love reading your reviews as you try to be objective as possible and bring in interesting info to them (from interviews you’ve read in magazines, ect).

Have you checked out the whole “OLIVIA inspi’ REIRA (TRAPNEST)” album? I know you mentioned it in the review, but can’t remember if you’ve heard of all it.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:01:01 +0000

I like the sound of Olivia. Thanks for the review Rinoa! Otherwise I would've never stumbled upon this. After reading other reviews from other artists that were somehow related to the anime NANA, I got intrigued and wanted to see what all the hype was about. Glad to see a bunch of episodes available on Stage6. I found out about two good things today, the latter I will have to catch up with later when I'm not bogged down with assignments :P