10 Years of Hikaru Utada

This post was originally going to be more informative and less half-arsed but as I got confused when previewing it, I lost all the info I typed! (Duh - hit the cancel button not the back button!)

Hikaru Utada celebrates 10 years in the music industry as of December this year and is to release two books to mark it. (In the book entitled Ten she talks about her divorce - how I want to read that - and her music of course.) Sadly, it's unlikely these books will be available in English, so I'll have to hope some nice person tranlsates it!

I thought I could use her 10th anniversary as an excuse to post some of my favourite music videos and songs. Though I will try to avoid posting the ones I have done previously - with the exception of Passion perhaps.

Colours - first song I heard when I got my first CDs of hers (being the Deep River/Colours set). I guess it's a mid-tempo ballad:

Be My Last - nice ballad, I do rather like the piano. The video was shot in Prague - I think - so we have some pretty shots.

Keep Tryin' - One of my favourites. A mid-tempo, kinda of etheral, pop song. The video is very bright and colourful and my favourite bit is at the 2:30 mark where it seems to turn into a musical.

Passion - Didn't think she could top Sakura Drops, but she did! Definately a song I wish I could hear for the first time again. I am crap with descriptions so I won't bother, Couldn't do it justice anyway! Was very happy it had a totally amazing video!

Simple & Clean =Bit of nolstagia. There is no video for the song, so here's it on the ending credits of videogame Kingdom Hearts: