Utada Hikaru is an American Japanese who has produced many albums in Japan and is known as one of the most popular artiste in that country. Before this, I had known Utada simply as a Japanese artiste until I watched Hana Yori Dongo season 2 last year because the show used Utada's song "Flavor of Life" as its main soundtrack. I was so in love with the song and started to listen to other songs by Utada such as "Simple and Clean", "Sanctuary" (both songs from "Kingdom Hearts" soundtrack), "Addicted to You", "Can You Keep a Secret" (from "Hero" soundtrack), etc. That was also when I started to read more about Utada and found that her first Japanese album "First Love" had sold 10 million copies worldwide and the digital sales of "Flavour of Life" had reached more than 8 million copies the last time I checked.
Unfortunately, Utada is not doing that well with her English albums. Her latest English album, the one I bought is called "This Is the One" which is produced under Island Def Jam label. One of the producers is LA Reid. For those of you young ones out there, Antonio "LA" Reid was "THE" producer during the 1990s and a Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter. He was half of LaFace Records, the other half was Babyface (if you don't know who Babyface is, go shoot yourself!). The LaFace team had produced for artistes such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton etc and Reid was the one who brought the then unknown Avril Lavigne to fame.
So, with someone like LA Reid to back her up, I am sure Utada will no longer struggle in the international music scene. I have heard her songs in "This Is the One" and I can assure you that Utada's music is definitely not the typical bubly J-Pop and she has a voice that could melt you. If I am asked to describe Utada's brand of music in one word, I would say "passionate" because that's what I feel everytime I hear her songs. But do not mistake Utada as a ballad singing J-pop star. She has songs that could make you want to move your body with the rythm.
Utada will start her official US Tour this month with a kick off concert in Honolulu, Hawaii this 15th. I hope I could be there!
Anyway, you can go to Utada's official website for more about her and also a sample of her music.
Below is the lyrics of my most favourite song from Utada's "This Is the One" album:-
Apple and Cinnamon - Utada
Tell me what is on your mind
Help me because I'd like to know
What the hell is going on
Never thought I'd sing this song
Lets not get started with
The he said she said
Sometimes it just doesn't go as planned (x2)
Started out so simple and innocent
So simple and innocent (x3)
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
Like apple and cinnamon (x3)
I can't believe that you and me were falling out of love
And everybody used to be so envious of us
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
What we had was just to good, good to last
Happiness don't last that long
What we had was beautiful
Lets not get started with
The he said she said
Sometimes it just doesn't go as planned (x2)
Started out so simple and innocent
So simple and innocent (x3)
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
Like apple and cinnamon (x3)
I can't believe that you and me were falling out of love
And everybody used to be so envious of us
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
What we had was just to good, good to last
Please don't look at me like that
Please don't look at me, don't look at me like that
You can't look at me like that
Please don't look at me, don't look at me like that
I can't believe that you and me were falling out of love
And everybody used to be so envious of us
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
What we had was just to good
Started out so simple and innocent
So simple and innocent(x3)
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
Like apple and cinnamon (x3)
I can't believe that you and me were falling out of love
And everybody used to be so envious of us
Chemistry like apple and cinnamon
What we had was just to good, good to last
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