@@PhaetonDurendal "Come on rude, boy, boy, can you get it up?" "Come on rude boy, boy, is you big enough?" I know Utada from her song "Sanctuary" that was in the video game "Kingdom Hearts 2" - so my (very limited) perception of her based on that one song is that she makes solemn, heart-felt songs - so I'm ever so slightly shocked that she do be a little goofy.
It actually means that you shouldn't waste your time to hook up with someone you love, because you know that you're gonna die soon like that young boy. -According to Genius
@@Spiderpunkrocks Hunnies if you're gay Burn it up like a gay parade Hunnies if you're straight Pump it up, take it all away Intoxicated, emancipated, unapologetic's What I am today, light me up
"sexy stiletto pumps, tight jeans no panties on, oops, did I turn you on?" from the bottom of my heart, this goes crazy. I AM making it out the mental asylum with this one.
Cupcakke: “I learned CPR that simple and clean way. So come be with me before you turn gay!” I don’t know what I should do for Hikaru but it would sound good.
Tbh, if I grew up in front of a Japanese audience and suddenly got to write English songs for an English market, I'd go a bit batshit too. Go girl give us those Japanese-y jaw-dropping gene pools
Utada actually was born in New York and studied in a international school,she's fluent in english. Her english lyrics here sounds weird because it was the 2000's.
You forgot a few: “All along, I was searching more ‘my Lenore’, in the words of Mr Edgar Allan Poe.” “I wish that I could photoshop all our bad memories.” “Like Captain Picard, I’m chilling and flossing.”
She's made several comments in English language interviews about feeling more lyrically free in English than she does in japanese, so it is unsurprising that we find her being more playful and sexual than we would in japanese, where it feels a bit more restrictive to do so, and where her audience knew her as a 15 or 16 year old when she debuted. To me it makes sense. And I actually really enjoy these lyrics. And on top of that, her English language albums were definitely more of a liberation movement and experiment for her musically. In one interview she said that Exodus was like a pile of laundry that had piled up over several years and that she was aching to write.
This reminds me of a Taiwanese singer that I love. He's famous for writing /singing sappy love songs in Chinese, and then he produced an English album which has songs about getting drunk and grinding it with an one night stand 💀
Utada when they write in Japanese: "Wishing for my own happiness isn't selfish, right? If so, I want to hold you as tightly as possible. When my tears dry, that girl starts crying. The ground beneath us can never be dry at this rate." "If you can't see the blue sky, just put up a blue umbrella! That's good enough, right? The canvas is yours. ... A white flag is something you only wave when you've given up. Now I am a color that you don't know." "The window is painted a nostalgic color. ... Can we meet again if we cut out what came before? Beneath those big billboards, the future seemed to stretch on forever." Utada when they write in English: EDIT for those wondering - song 1 is Dareka no negai ga kanau koro (When someone's wish comes true,) song 2 is Colors, song 3 is Passion
I actually prefer more of her songs sung in Japanese, Hikaru Utada's English songs always got some very confusing lyrics to me, even I know she's growing up in US 💀 But I still love 'Come back to me' though
@MapleMasubi she said in interviews that she has much more lyrical freedom in english, so really you're seeing a very real/authentic side of her that she does not expose often in her Japanese lyrics. Arguably more sexy and playful.
@@drkchoco6061 It's better than it used to be. Part of it was also self imposed mental barrier perhaps, as she debuted as a young teen and people see her a certain way. Her newer songs have expletives (in English though) and also a bit more sexual innuendo. I think she feels more comfortable now than before.
@@takochan796 It’s a cheeky way of saying her old music label, Island Def Jam, screwed her over. She’s not a virgin anymore because she got “f*cked” by Island Def Jam. Hope this helps!
@@takochan796 the comment above and also i assume that maybe her old label wanted to project a very clean "good girl" image of innocence who expressed no sexual desire, since she debuted very young with cute teenage love songs with sweeter more innocent lyrics
Wasn't it her? Idk if she had specified her pronounce lol. Imagine a woman writing a song which include burning gay parade💀 would care about that (Yes I intentionally uses as many gendered nouns as possible)
@@hazyhope._. I accept the gays but not the activist and the woke culture in general. I just wanna mock that person(furries?) for being overly cautious about something so obvious
@@estroayeUtada did come out as non binary in 2021 tho. Having time to mock the people who uses Utada preferred pronouns but can't do a fucking simple google search. So pathetic 🤷♀️
@@estroayeHikaru Utada actually has come out as non-binary though…. So it’s not like op is being “overly cautious” or something lol that’s literally just their pronouns
Are you going to sit there and tell me Simple and Clean is not beautiful?? Also, their lyrics were definitely cleaner in Japanese before 2004 when they released Exodus, the album where a bunch of these lyrics came from. XD But even then, not 💯% : I'm looking at you, "DRAMA* by Utada Hikaru! XD But it was a bit more subtle than this stuff lol. I still love their music, have for twenty years now. But yeah, Utada has definitely lyrically altered over the years. She went the route of Mariah Carey. XD
@@miammiammiamuh….? I knew her because of KH :c I feel like a lot of the disrespect are the meme tik tok kids. The people that grew up with KH and knew of Utada would never disrespect like that.
Definitely give the rest of their music a listen! We love an artist who can go from this to Sakura Nagashi, First Kiss, and Hatsukoi 🙏 but fr their Japanese discog is sublime. Utada Hikaru is my favorite nepo baby lmao
More than a decade later its really easy to see just how difficult it was for Asian solo artists, to enter the U.S. market. Utada and BoA both had trouble doing it in 2009, which doesn’t make sense their production and ideas all aligned with club music trends. What’s interesting though is that a group like wondergirls was able to breakthrough and continue the hallyu wave, for Gen 2 Kpop. Was being in a group much more appealing for a western audience.
Unfortunately it is. U can see even now, westerners prefer groups in general. K soloists can’t even hold a candle to just how much of a “demand” there is for groups. As someone who grew up on Boa, it stings bcuz u can tell this is a woman who cares about her craft but the western world wasn’t very accepting of foreign talent at the time. Not saying they were completely against it, just that they rarely ever had a big break
Her song about being easy breezy is actually really cool in a feminist fashion. She’s talking about how Japanese women are treated like they’re “easy” to get.
It really sucks that America wasn’t ready for an Asian pop star at the time. Utada could have been pretty big here if the market wasn’t stereotypical. Back then only White female pop stars could be cute and pretty and then came the time for famous Black female pop stars to model a more sensual idol. At the time Asian people were typecasted as intellectual beings or undocumented people with bad English, sometimes some sort of martial artist. What I can recall watching as a kid. So when Utada debuted in America they understood that they had a big disadvantage and you could see how uncomfortable it made them. If times were different they could have been a staple before the Kpop industry influenced the expectations of what Asian pop artists should look like and do.
Jpop's adoption in the west was always tied to being a fan of Anime/wider japanese culture. Its intresting that Kpop can just kinda do their own thing and instead of being a product to be consumed down the line for alot of people its the first media they consume from korea.
Well, she's been well known and enjoyed in America for most of my life at least so at least we have the fact that she has only been moving forward. Hell there's people that can drink now whom have probably remembered her stuff being super popular back before they were ten.
Yah idk why you bothered commenting of your uneducated and stupid. Beyonce? Rihanna? Mary J Blige? Selena? There are plenty of non whites became pop stars in the US. The problem with Utada Hikaru is she didn't have an "it" factor. You can't be modest and timid and expect to become a pop icon in the west.
from my understanding she did not too bad over here, she was just way hotter overseas in japan, and also moved back after living in the states for years so it kinda makes sense that she'd focus her efforts where she lived. that said: had she come around in the last ten years she'd be one of the biggest pop acts on earth easy--collaborating with the likes of rhianna and swift.
Bro I have been waiting for her “This is the One” album to get more recognition for it’s fantastic songs with absolutely bonkers lyrics that….for some reason just work, you can’t even question it coz you’re too busy vibing to her absolute truths, who doesn’t think about 6s and 9s during their nine to five??
They really didn't think twice about some of these lyrics. I need to seek sanctuary after all that. This has spawned fears that I'll never be able to face.
@@sillycreatureI don't get it, did the artist state that she belongs to some 'non-standard identity'? Outside of neologisms, the known, particular 'they' doesn't exist.
“What a day, a young boy next door passed way”
has me dead’ 💀
out of pocket💀
The young boy too.
@@pryingeyes1551 LMAO
@@pryingeyes1551 HAH
maybe you're the young boy
"Sometimes I had to just stop recording because the lyrics were too deep"
💀💀💀
What quote is this from????
@@N1carrapatosecatapultas_fan I think Rihanna said it.
"6 inches deep in me"
@@PhaetonDurendal
"Come on rude, boy, boy, can you get it up?"
"Come on rude boy, boy, is you big enough?"
I know Utada from her song "Sanctuary" that was in the video game "Kingdom Hearts 2" - so my (very limited) perception of her based on that one song is that she makes solemn, heart-felt songs - so I'm ever so slightly shocked that she do be a little goofy.
it's the transition from "what a day, young boy next door passed away" to "can you and i start mixing gene pools" IN THE SAME SONG
It actually means that you shouldn't waste your time to hook up with someone you love, because you know that you're gonna die soon like that young boy. -According to Genius
@@fkhrhdzfWHAT..that took a wildly different turn
@@fkhrhdzf actual lyrical genius 😂
disgusting
@@fkhrhdzf nah man she horny cuz her neighbor died
I love the inclusivity of her lyrics. From the born agains to the gays
Lmaoooo.
*their
And the Japanese-y
And the Wynona Ryders of this world
@@ursamjr4406they use she/they pronouns
"during my 9 to 5, im thinking 6 and 9s" that's actual lyrical genius right there
Agreed
Sounds like it'd be a pretty iconic Doja Cat lyric tbh
That song is extremely good, specially a live they did.
I work 10-7 during the night😭
@@crayonburry 11 to 9 over here ;w;
I can’t tell which I like more “you’re easy breezy and I’m Japanese-y” or “burn it up like a gay parade”
japanese people actually got offended with the breezy song lmaolma
Before I decide I wanna know what she said to the straights first lol
@@cxckdestrxyer which makes it funnier bc iirc that line was *against* Japanese people being seen as “easy”
@@Spiderpunkrocks
Hunnies if you're gay
Burn it up like a gay parade
Hunnies if you're straight
Pump it up, take it all away
Intoxicated, emancipated, unapologetic's
What I am today, light me up
LIKE?! 😭 Okay Millie 💀
It’s so hilarious to me how she can make the most beautiful profound emotional music and then just have some pop songs with lyrics like this lmao
The lines, at least most of them, sound much better in the context of the full songs.
Why? These lyrics are clever/funny
@@ayanp353 she also wrote music for evangelion, the the dichotomy is hilarious
@@ayanp353 What "why"?
it called versatile, honey
"a hundred jpeg files filling up my hard drive" who told this line was fire
Amazing 😭😭
Me
It's good though
It's giving frutiger aero tbh
guys a hundred jpeg files is like a speck to a hard drive, even considering the time of it's release
Unironically "during my 9 to 5, I'm thinking 6 and 9s" is genuinely an amazing lyric
Literally
Ironically
These are all amazing lyrics
“You’re easy breezy and I’m Japanese-y” 💀
Yas Melanie😍😍💅🏾💅🏾
Omg yasss slay 💅💅
i don't get it😭
@@notorious.a.r.i. bc she’s japanese so she’s calling herself “japanese-y” lmfaooo😭
@@notorious.a.r.i. if you used your brain you’d understand
"I like to make music that moves people"
and the music in question ranges from “everybody finds love in the end 🥰” to “HUNNIES IF YOURE GAY BURN IT UP LIKE A GAY PARADE‼️‼️”
The music moves people to a gay parade
Why doesn't she then?
CLAP,CLAP, CLAP
Idk about you but this got me moving for sure
how are you all overlooking the absolute zinger that is “can you and i start mixing gene pools” i’m in TEARS
It's so scientific lol
We were busy talking with a born again christian
🔥 ✍️ 🔥
@@doug9779 I thought this was AI and I looked up the songs and I was in shock 😂
What duh hell
"sexy stiletto pumps, tight jeans no panties on, oops, did I turn you on?" from the bottom of my heart, this goes crazy. I AM making it out the mental asylum with this one.
She just roasted USA without even knowing it (maybe she did know it, my bad).
she was SO right for this
these mid-2000's beats are killing me 😭
it's just r&b isn't it
@@EphemeralPseudonym rnb standard changes from time to time, 1970 rnb sound different compared to 2000s and 2020s
She should collab with Cupcakke, they would create a modern masterpiece
Cupcakke: “I learned CPR that simple and clean way. So come be with me before you turn gay!”
I don’t know what I should do for Hikaru but it would sound good.
agreed
Absolutely not but thanks!
Cupcakke’s lyricism actually goes crazy
omg yes PLEASE
None of this was simple, none of this was clean
But it was the way that it was making me feel... tonight.
@@BettyAlexandriaPride And it's hard to let it go
@@ultradejaender it just holds me. Cause what ever lies beyond this morning...it's a little later on.
Lol bye
@@maybemablemaples2144 Regardless of warnings, the future.....it scares me a little
Tbh, if I grew up in front of a Japanese audience and suddenly got to write English songs for an English market, I'd go a bit batshit too. Go girl give us those Japanese-y jaw-dropping gene pools
Utada actually was born in New York and studied in a international school,she's fluent in english. Her english lyrics here sounds weird because it was the 2000's.
She's fluent in English 😭😭😭 Im like pretty sure her first album was like mainly in English
@@Anna-zr1tk
It doesn't sound weird, what are you talking about ? LMAO
Yes
@@Anna-zr1tkThe 2000s don’t have anything to do with it. Lol. Even in the 2000s, these lyrics would’ve been odd. 😂 I know, I was there. *waves cane*
“burn it up like a gay parade”
NAUR 😭😭 FOUL
It’s was Millie’s doing
I see you everywhere now😭😭
@@fruitylicous177 same 😭😭
Millie Bobbie Brown collab when🤩🤩🤩
no cus they spilled
The way she sings Blackberry is so emotional.
blacKBERREEEEy
Same with Winona Ryder😂
Makes me want to get a Blackberry again, lmao.
"young boy next door passed away" and "can you and i start mixing gene pools" being in the same song is absolutely killing me 😭😭😭
Hikaru got me crying with Sakura Nagashi but the next song be having lyrics like “hunnies if you’re gay”
did kaworu really die for this
@@bonelessmice6828yes he did RIP Gay Space Angel.
@@heathermontrose1084 Gay space angel 💀
@@bonelessmice6828 he burned it up like a gay parade
@@slaypika frfr
"What a day, young boy next door passed away! 😍"
"Can you and i start mixing gene pools? ☺️"
But...
he's dead right???
@@afteritsallsaidanddoneisti9285 Oh god.
@@afteritsallsaidanddoneisti9285 but your body’s so jaw dropping
@@afteritsallsaidanddoneisti9285 bitch what- 😀🔪
Me living next to a Swiftie😍
“During my 9 to 5, I’m thinking 6 and 9s” 😩
Dirty Desire is a bop though! 😩🤌
no cus same
That's real fr
They just like me fr.
Edited for pronouns 😘💅🏿
kinda goes hard tho ngl
I love Hikaru Utada. If she's not writing some goofy ahh song. she's writing the most heart wrenching song you'll ever heard
exodus 04' is so emo 😭
You forgot a few:
“All along, I was searching more ‘my Lenore’, in the words of Mr Edgar Allan Poe.”
“I wish that I could photoshop all our bad memories.”
“Like Captain Picard, I’m chilling and flossing.”
she's an icon, she's a legend, and she is the moment
12yo poe-obsessed me ate that shit UP
She's made several comments in English language interviews about feeling more lyrically free in English than she does in japanese, so it is unsurprising that we find her being more playful and sexual than we would in japanese, where it feels a bit more restrictive to do so, and where her audience knew her as a 15 or 16 year old when she debuted. To me it makes sense. And I actually really enjoy these lyrics. And on top of that, her English language albums were definitely more of a liberation movement and experiment for her musically. In one interview she said that Exodus was like a pile of laundry that had piled up over several years and that she was aching to write.
This reminds me of a Taiwanese singer that I love. He's famous for writing /singing sappy love songs in Chinese, and then he produced an English album which has songs about getting drunk and grinding it with an one night stand 💀
@@ESC_jackqulen who is this help
@@ESC_jackqulen ARTIST NAME????
@@_pankop_ ruclips.net/video/oPFxHbCfqvo/видео.html
@@mashedpotatoesfan26 Weibird 韋禮安
Utada when they write in Japanese:
"Wishing for my own happiness isn't selfish, right? If so, I want to hold you as tightly as possible.
When my tears dry, that girl starts crying. The ground beneath us can never be dry at this rate."
"If you can't see the blue sky, just put up a blue umbrella! That's good enough, right? The canvas is yours. ... A white flag is something you only wave when you've given up. Now I am a color that you don't know."
"The window is painted a nostalgic color. ... Can we meet again if we cut out what came before? Beneath those big billboards, the future seemed to stretch on forever."
Utada when they write in English:
EDIT for those wondering - song 1 is Dareka no negai ga kanau koro (When someone's wish comes true,) song 2 is Colors, song 3 is Passion
Burn it up, like a gay parade 😍😍
Fr tho 😭💀
“What a day, a young boy next door passed away”💀💀💀
What song is that ?
@@pluf8751 the second is colors idk about the rest lol
AYO BURN IT UP LIKE A GAY PARADE
the real mother of japan
Alongside Ayumi Hamasaki and Koda Kumi.
@@Anna-zr1tk The holy trinity of Jpop
ayo don't leave namie amuro behind man
she carried
the range between their japanese song’s “If you can’t see the blue sky, open up a blue umbrella” and everything in this video is insane
"Hunnies if you're straight-"
*ends video*
lmao
When I watch this, it just ends on hunnies. 😭
This new kingdom hearts trailer look a lil funky 💀💀
Bye🤣
Finally, a Kingdom Hearts comment
I actually prefer more of her songs sung in Japanese, Hikaru Utada's English songs always got some very confusing lyrics to me, even I know she's growing up in US 💀
But I still love 'Come back to me' though
@MapleMasubi agreed! 😂 it’s iconic though
💯
@MapleMasubi she said in interviews that she has much more lyrical freedom in english, so really you're seeing a very real/authentic side of her that she does not expose often in her Japanese lyrics. Arguably more sexy and playful.
@@utada_boy Is it still like that? Or has Japan lessen up??
@@drkchoco6061 It's better than it used to be. Part of it was also self imposed mental barrier perhaps, as she debuted as a young teen and people see her a certain way. Her newer songs have expletives (in English though) and also a bit more sexual innuendo. I think she feels more comfortable now than before.
"Tight jeans no panties on"?
Girl, that's how yeast infections start hahahhaha
Her American crossover in the 2000s was underappreciated. She was singing about MySpace and Blackberries with so much emotion.
USED TO BE A VIRGIN NOW I'M WITH ISLAND DEF JAM
The shade she threw to her old label
can you explain it more to detail pls ?
@@takochan796 It’s a cheeky way of saying her old music label, Island Def Jam, screwed her over. She’s not a virgin anymore because she got “f*cked” by Island Def Jam. Hope this helps!
@@takochan796 the lyric is literally referencing Virgin Records, a now-defunct record label.
@@takochan796 the comment above and also i assume that maybe her old label wanted to project a very clean "good girl" image of innocence who expressed no sexual desire, since she debuted very young with cute teenage love songs with sweeter more innocent lyrics
@@TornaitSuperBird I thought it meant she was a virgin and now she lives in the luxurious Virgin Islands lol
okay but we need the audience to stream Utada's Japanese albums because they fed the gays with that discography 😌
Truly. The gays (myself included) are living. Their shit is iconique
@@emmarie2930 that's on periodt
fr i grew up on their work
Distance is that bitch!
Too many gays are sleeping on Find Love and Somewhere Near Marseilles
Kingdom Hearts 4's new opening song be sounding wild 🔥
Sora when he burns it up like a gay parade
"used to be virgin, now i'm with island def jam" LMAOOOOOOOO that can be interpreted in two ways 💀
What is it
The illuminati took her virginity for a record deal
@@ReginaCarder x2
@@ReginaCarderI think it could reference virgin records idk
@@donnastan101 correct, Virgin records used to be EMI/Universal
This is unironically the type of shit i'd do if I was a song writer lol
Lol.
“You’re easy breezy and I’m Japanese-y” has the same vibes of "Jesus Jesus japanesus"
"You're easy breezy and I'm Rapanese-y"
Jeඞ Jeඞ Japaneඞ
dont insult my goddess utada
That’s an insulting comparison. Don’t compare that Texan to Hikaru Utada.
Lmao i knew i will find a comment like this
their lyrics are wild 😭
Wasn't it her? Idk if she had specified her pronounce lol. Imagine a woman writing a song which include burning gay parade💀 would care about that
(Yes I intentionally uses as many gendered nouns as possible)
@@estroayeUh..why though? Kinda weird of you. Why not make life simpler instead of purposely going out of your way to do this 😭😭
@@hazyhope._.
I accept the gays but not the activist and the woke culture in general. I just wanna mock that person(furries?) for being overly cautious about something so obvious
@@estroayeUtada did come out as non binary in 2021 tho. Having time to mock the people who uses Utada preferred pronouns but can't do a fucking simple google search. So pathetic 🤷♀️
@@estroayeHikaru Utada actually has come out as non-binary though…. So it’s not like op is being “overly cautious” or something lol that’s literally just their pronouns
Honestly, Hikaru Utada’s a master at writing lyrics, like rhyming “easy breezy” with “Japanese-y” is clever af!
thank you toy freddy
@@bbyazul4k I love your profile picture.
@@aquastartv1895 thank you AquaStar TV
mori calliope ass lyrics
Can she make a orange rhyme with a banana tho?
“Should I go Wynona Ryder?”
She was so real for that verse
the way she took a sec to promote her myspace and newsletter
ISLAND DEF JAM 💀💀💀💀
What wdoes this mean
@@ihaveakirbyobessesion2617 I think that she was referencing her label in Japan, EMI(or their label Virgin), and her label in America, Island Def Jam
"during my 9 to 5 im thinking 6 and 9s" goes so hard
THEY’RE WRONG FOR THE “ BURN IT UP LIKE A GAY PARADE “
They're non binary 💀
@@rosedavesLover4Lyfe LMFAO IM SO SORRY😭😭😭
@LUNARIS I know that 💀 Also how TF was I being rude?
@@AVALON-02 You don't need to be sorry, you didn't do anything wrong.
@@rosedavesLover4Lyfe the "💀" in the end probably looked like you were giving them attitude for not knowing
“Honey i got your ringtone on my, *_✨B L A C K B E R R Y✨”_*
A lot of people note seeing the brilliance here like she definitely wrote this for hot girls ONLY
Why didn't she write her lyrics for ugly girls too 😣😣😣😖😖😖😖😫😫😫😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
I cant stop going back to this specific video
Who at square thought this gal would be perfect material for a children’s video game intro
These lyrics are from her 2004 and 2009 albums and KH1 came out in 2002
@@lcs-1 oh
Are you going to sit there and tell me Simple and Clean is not beautiful??
Also, their lyrics were definitely cleaner in Japanese before 2004 when they released Exodus, the album where a bunch of these lyrics came from. XD
But even then, not 💯% :
I'm looking at you, "DRAMA* by Utada Hikaru!
XD
But it was a bit more subtle than this stuff lol.
I still love their music, have for twenty years now. But yeah, Utada has definitely lyrically altered over the years. She went the route of Mariah Carey.
XD
They're non-binary, so, "gal" might not be the best descriptor.
@@lcs-1 which is funny cuz that’s when she made Sanctuary.
0:30 I felt this one kinda hard
Damn also notice it's jpeg files like imagine how many of those tiny small files are there to fill the whole hard drive 🤯🥵
what type of music? i love these 2000s beats
These songs are mainstream R&B but she's a J-Pop superstar
people being disrespectful as fuck to parent in these comments… we need to start gatekeeping utada
oh it’s a bunch of incels and gamers in the comments that only know about simple and clean bc of kingdom hearts and their other weeb activities… nvm 😭
@@miammiammiamuh….? I knew her because of KH :c I feel like a lot of the disrespect are the meme tik tok kids. The people that grew up with KH and knew of Utada would never disrespect like that.
"should I go Wynona Ryder" is a crazy sentence when you remember she got in trouble for Shoplifting
She probably meant like . . when she killed people in movies.
That’s what it’s referencing haha
Hikaru Utada: A SANCTUARYYYY MY SANCTUARYYYYYYYYY WHERE FEEAAARRS AND LIEEEESS MELT AWAYYYYYYY
Also Hikaru Utada:
SANCTUARY MENTIONED RAHHHHH👑🔑🗝❤️
I'M DYING SHE'S TOO ICONIC FOR ME 😭☠️
ME TOO😭😭
this is the most 2000s music I've ever heard
she literally refers to Blackberrys and MySpace
why are we forgetting “used to be a virgin, now i’m with island def jam” IT’S LYRICAL GENIUS
“You’re Easy Breezy and I’m Japanese-y” is still a better lyric than “Jesus Jesus Japanesus”
Oh my god do NOT bring up Demondice in this household 💀
Oh god oh no Jesus Japonese Is so Sus LMAO 🤣🤣
never heard of them but this makes me wanna listen😭 i think rina sawayama talked ab her before edit: im obsessed with the 9 to 5 6 to 9 song😍
Definitely give the rest of their music a listen! We love an artist who can go from this to Sakura Nagashi, First Kiss, and Hatsukoi 🙏 but fr their Japanese discog is sublime. Utada Hikaru is my favorite nepo baby lmao
she’s an icon, she’s a legend and she is the moment.
More than a decade later its really easy to see just how difficult it was for Asian solo artists, to enter the U.S. market. Utada and BoA both had trouble doing it in 2009, which doesn’t make sense their production and ideas all aligned with club music trends. What’s interesting though is that a group like wondergirls was able to breakthrough and continue the hallyu wave, for Gen 2 Kpop. Was being in a group much more appealing for a western audience.
Unfortunately it is. U can see even now, westerners prefer groups in general. K soloists can’t even hold a candle to just how much of a “demand” there is for groups. As someone who grew up on Boa, it stings bcuz u can tell this is a woman who cares about her craft but the western world wasn’t very accepting of foreign talent at the time. Not saying they were completely against it, just that they rarely ever had a big break
Jpop atually had a chance to go global during the 2000's...
@@Anna-zr1tk definitely some idols like Crystal Kay and Namie Amuro really brought forward that western sound!
She’s so real
"Used to be a virgin now I'm with Island Def Jam" and "during my 9 to 5s I'm thinking about 6s and 9s" are BARS though
MOTHER
edit: wait i meant PARENT, hikaru is nonbinary
HELP THIS IS SO FUNNY
She is both mother and they are also parent. I shall call them Mx adult guardian of younger humans. *Respectfully.*
FAMILIAR UNIT 😤
Omg she was my middle school playlist 😭😂
0:54 rina sawayama writing This Hell:
it's the transition from "what a day, young boy next door passed away" to "can you and i start mixing gene pools" IN THE SAME SONG
Her song about being easy breezy is actually really cool in a feminist fashion. She’s talking about how Japanese women are treated like they’re “easy” to get.
Who up mixing their gene pools???
It really sucks that America wasn’t ready for an Asian pop star at the time. Utada could have been pretty big here if the market wasn’t stereotypical. Back then only White female pop stars could be cute and pretty and then came the time for famous Black female pop stars to model a more sensual idol. At the time Asian people were typecasted as intellectual beings or undocumented people with bad English, sometimes some sort of martial artist. What I can recall watching as a kid. So when Utada debuted in America they understood that they had a big disadvantage and you could see how uncomfortable it made them. If times were different they could have been a staple before the Kpop industry influenced the expectations of what Asian pop artists should look like and do.
Jpop's adoption in the west was always tied to being a fan of Anime/wider japanese culture. Its intresting that Kpop can just kinda do their own thing and instead of being a product to be consumed down the line for alot of people its the first media they consume from korea.
Well, she's been well known and enjoyed in America for most of my life at least so at least we have the fact that she has only been moving forward. Hell there's people that can drink now whom have probably remembered her stuff being super popular back before they were ten.
Yah idk why you bothered commenting of your uneducated and stupid. Beyonce? Rihanna? Mary J Blige? Selena? There are plenty of non whites became pop stars in the US. The problem with Utada Hikaru is she didn't have an "it" factor. You can't be modest and timid and expect to become a pop icon in the west.
from my understanding she did not too bad over here, she was just way hotter overseas in japan, and also moved back after living in the states for years so it kinda makes sense that she'd focus her efforts where she lived.
that said: had she come around in the last ten years she'd be one of the biggest pop acts on earth easy--collaborating with the likes of rhianna and swift.
You're stereotyping more than the people you're talking about
This is the same person that made the credit songs of the Evangelion Rebuild films.
"What a day, young boy next door passed away" being on the same song as "Can you and I start mixing gene pools" takes me OUT kjdfjkhcxvjkhddsflkaw
She doesn’t hold back😍😍
Its funny as hell cause she knows exactly what shes saying, shes just having fun with her lyrics
I’m Japanese but I’ve only listened to her Japanese songs!
Swear I did not know she could make such freaky songs😂
0:03 in the wise words of demon dice, Jesus Jesus Japanese-us
POV: its pride month in 2024 and this is recommended to you
"Can you and I start mixing gene pools" I'M SCREAMING
Honestly, sincerely, lyrical mastermind ❤
I can't believe this is the same person who sung "first love"
And im not even disappointed with that
A perfect mix between cringe and hilarious... c'mon Hikki, we need another English album with gems like these!!
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE
'you and i start mixing gene pools' LMAOOO 😭😭
i love when at the end of the easy breezy song she just goes "she's got a new microphone" on and on lol
I randomly sing “she got a new microphone” all the time cuz of this 😆 it lives in my head fr
Hikaru has starred in a DS commercial as well as the same song playing. The DS also had a microphone feature so the lyrics fit
@@takochan796 wowww I didn’t think about that, of course, I’ve even seen those ads and didn’t put that together 🙏🙏🙏
I still quote that part of the song every once in a while lol
"She's got a new microphone. She doesn't need you anymore." should be here
Bro I have been waiting for her “This is the One” album to get more recognition for it’s fantastic songs with absolutely bonkers lyrics that….for some reason just work, you can’t even question it coz you’re too busy vibing to her absolute truths, who doesn’t think about 6s and 9s during their nine to five??
They're an icon and this makes me love them even more lmao
They really didn't think twice about some of these lyrics.
I need to seek sanctuary after all that.
This has spawned fears that I'll never be able to face.
UNHINGED 😭✋🏽
hunnies if you're gay!
we declared hikaru utada should be a bigger artist
the workout in particular is funny because what the fuck is that beat. who produced that shit. i need answers
update: i listened to the song in full. it is quite literally just this specific bit that's bad
shout out to Hikaru Utada gotta be one of my fav lyrical🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🗣🗣
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT ‘depression starts to settle in should i go winona ryder’ 😭😭
FR
ironic considering Winona Ryder played Veronica Sawyer in the film
She's not wrong tho.
THE LAST ONE CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD OMG
“You're easy breezy and I'm Japanese-y” has a similar vibe to “Jesus, Jesus, Japanesus”
Their English work is criminally under rated
Her*
@@Patrick3183 either they/them or she/her is fine
@@Patrick3183 gonna cry
@@unofficialmajima617 "As if!"
@@sillycreatureI don't get it, did the artist state that she belongs to some 'non-standard identity'? Outside of neologisms, the known, particular 'they' doesn't exist.
SIMPLE AND CLEAN IS THEY WAY THAT YOURE MAKING ME FEEEEEEEEL TONIGHT ITS HAAARD TO LET IT GOOOOOOO
The range of Hikaru to have the most best selling japanese album with heart aching lyrics, to this iconic immaculate cringe bops.
Stan versatility.