Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru, who also goes by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese American singer and songwriter. After releasing the commercially unsuccessful English-language album Precious under the stage name "Cubic U" in 1998, she rose to prominence in 1999 with the release of her second album, First Love, which sold over eight million copies in Japan and became the best selling Japanese-language album of all time...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth19 January 1983
CountryJapan
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
The world is in motion, as it seems.
I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.