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Innocent Love director Toshiyuki Nakano originally decided that Utada's voice would suit the themes of the drama well. Hearing "Eternally", he felt the song was a perfect choice for the drama, as the song's melody, lyrics and title fitted, in his opinion, as if the song had been specifically commissioned for the drama.
English "First Love" † Utada Hikaru Utada Hikaru First Love: 1999 Japanese "Flavor of Life" † Utada Hikaru Utada Hikaru Heart Station: 2008 Japanese "Flavor of Life (Ballad Version)" Utada Hikaru Utada Hikaru Heart Station: 2008 Japanese "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" Utada Hikaru Bart Howard: Non-album 2000 English "For You ...
This Is the One marked Utada's last album with Island Records, and the Universal Music Group at that time, not only due to the end of her contract, but also due to her 2010 global recording contract with EMI Music. All albums, regardless of language, will be released under "Hikaru Utada", thus also retiring her Western stage name, Utada. [5]
Hikaru Utada was born on January 19, 1983 in New York City to Japanese parents. Her mother Keiko Fuji was an enka singer, while her father Teruzane Utada is a record producer. [7] [8] She grew up in Upper East Side, New York and moved to Tokyo, Japan at age 11 due to her parents work. [9] At the age of 10, Utada began to write music and lyrics.
Utada the Best is Japanese pop/R&B singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada's first English language compilation album, released on November 24, 2010, the same day as Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2. The album is a "best of" album featuring her more prominent and popular songs from her English career as Utada.
Both the original edit and remix version by PlanitB served as the international theme songs. It did not appear on Utada's English studio album Exodus (2004), but the original version was included on her 2009 English studio album This Is the One. The version was also included on the English release of Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack.
Bad Mode (Japanese: BADモード, Hepburn: Baddo Mōdo) is the eighth Japanese-language studio album (eleventh overall) by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It is the singer-songwriter's first bilingual album release, with songs recorded in both Japanese and English.
It is Utada's eighth consecutive studio album to be fully written and produced by her, with the help of her father Teruzane Utada and long-time collaborator Miyake Akira through the production. Recorded between 2006 and 2008, it was worked on whilst she was recording her ninth studio and second English-language studio album, This Is the One (2009).