featpete wrote:
I read through the other posts and am very sad to hear that not everyone was able to meet/greet with Utada.

I went to the BoA signing/meet n greet just a couple days prior and had a pretty bad experience because of the sheer number of attendees, so I decided that I would show up earlier for Utada's event. I got to Sephora at 2:30 and put myself on the waitlist. Luckily, there weren't many people ahead of me at the time.

Even though the event was supposed to start at 6, I don't think it started until about 6:45 or so? My friend and I were pretty lucky because there were only maybe 150 people ahead of us, which meant that the store wasn't super packed when we were let in. We ended up inching our way on the left hand side of the room because there was a decent amount of space there and got a REALLY good view (as you can see from the pic below). I kind of agree that they shouldn't have done an album listening party because honestly, we've all heard the new songs already and it would have been nice to have more time for meet 'n greet. Before she came out, they said that everyone would get a chance to get a picture with her but I guess it's really unfortunate that they didn't. My friend and I ended up lucking out that we were VERY close to the stage where they started to form the line for the meet 'n greet. We were probably around the 30th-40th people who got to do the meet and greet with her.

They were VERY hurried with meeting Utada, which in the end was okay because there were so many people. They had a guy take your camera for you so that you could stand next to her and snap a pic. I was motioning to put my hand on her back (because that's what people usually do when taking pics together) but one of her security people kind of slapped it away, which was awkward. I didn't really get to speak to her but she was very nice and casual. She didn't do any personalized signings, but an assistant handed everyone an 8"x10" of her presigned, which was really nice! *My friend and I compared our autographs just to make sure it wasn't some preprinted thing, and the "d" on the Utada are different so she really did sign them. :)





In the end I guess I was one of the luckier people. Good luck to those who are planning on going tonight for the NY event and later for the Florida one!