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"First Love" is a song by the Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It was released on April 28, 1999, as the third Japanese language single from her second studio album, First Love, which was issued a month previously. It was certified double platinum for 800,000 copies shipped to stores in Japan.
In English: life is brief fall in love, maidens before the crimson bloom fades from your lips before the tides of passion cool within you, for there is no such thing as tomorrow, after all. life is brief fall in love, maidens before his hands take up his boat before the flush of his cheeks fades for there is not a person who comes hither. life ...
First Love is the debut Japanese-language studio album (second overall) by Japanese-American recording artist Hikaru Utada, released on March 10, 1999, by Eastworld. An R&B and dance-pop album, First Love centres on the theme of love and relationships. The songs were written and recorded over the course of about one year, between the end of ...
The first verse of the song. Hotaru no Hikari (蛍の光, meaning "Glow of a firefly") is a Japanese song incorporating the tune of Scottish folk song Auld Lang Syne with completely different lyrics by Chikai Inagaki, first introduced in a collection of singing songs for elementary school students in 1881 (Meiji 14).
Hajimete no (はじめての, lit. "The First Time Of") is a book collected short stories by Japanese novelists Rio Shimamoto, Mizuki Tsujimura, Miyuki Miyabe, and Eto Mori, which collaborated with Japanese duo Yoasobi to produce and perform the songs based on the novelists' stories under the theme "a story to read when you do [something] for the first time". [1]
In 1997, the Japanese band Circus were the first to record a cover version of "Love Love Love", included on their album Heart. In 2005, Hideaki Tokunaga recorded a version for his first cover album, Vocalist. In 2007, Japanese singer Yasushi Nakanishi recorded the second rendition of the song by a male vocalist for his cover album, Standards.
"Ai wo Torimodose!!" (愛をとりもどせ!!, translates as "Take back the love!!"in English) is the first opening theme song of the 1980s anime Fist of the North Star, performed by Japanese rock band Crystal King (クリスタルキング, Kurisutaru Kingu), with the verses sung by Monsieur Yoshisaki and the chorus by Masayuki Tanaka.
The single peaked at 12th place on the Oricon Singles Chart and was ranked at 45th place on Oricon's year-end chart. [2] Although never entering the top 10 on the Oricon charts, the song was featured on the shows The Top Ten (ザ・トップテン) and The Best Ten (ザ・ベストテン); it peaked at 14th place on The Best Ten before going down to 39th place in the second half of 1984 while ...