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Making of Mine or Yours MV - Eng Sub

Production team discussion PD Miyamori: The vertical supports are all close to 5000 other than here. It’ll be thinner in the end. As for the door, we’re going to add one here. We’ll make sure it opens and closes properly. Add some stairs too. Miyamori discussing with director Yamada

PD Miyamori: We could use that putty that they use often overseas to cover over the frame. [Utada] is very specific about [wanting the room to look more western].

As for the color, it sounded like a white scheme was best.

Director Yamada: Hmm, if we go with white, it’ll be crucial to do some weathering…

Utada seeing the set for the first time

Staff: It turned out great, didn’t it.

Utada: So cute! I want so many things in this room.

Shooting Utada in the chair

Director Yamada: It might be a bit unnatural, but could you hang your head a little more? That’s great.

Utada rehearsing with Choreographer Aoi

Utada: It’s better if I move like this?

Aoi: Yeah, but it’s best if you’re still relaxed in that position. Hm, more like this..?

Utada: I sit down, then do this…

Director: Yeah! That was great.

Aoi: That looked nice and natural.

Director: The ceiling is going to come down and it’ll get pretty narrow. Like, by a lot, so [you’ll want to mirror that feeling in your movement]. Ah yeah, that looks nice. All right, start the ceiling! (action)

At the wrap

Utada: That was my ~washing machine debut~! (Lol)

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Zane Lowe is such a great interviewer! We’re so lucky to get this HOUR long discussion with Hikaru. I think Hikki’s interviews in English feel more genuine and introspective. I really want to translate this into JP so perhaps the Japanese speaking fans can get to know this side of Hikaru more. 🩵🩵🩵

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Mine or Yours official music video is out! We finally have another Hikki in the kitchen doing chores singing and dancing like in the 光 (Simple and clean) video

Love to see this mature version but keeping the playfulness of her younger self.

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Hikaru is also wearing Acne Studios Distressed relaxed fit jeans!! I love Acne too, nice to see them wearing lots of the brands pieces. I think the wide fit grey jeans they wore at the encore performance during SCIENCE FICTION Tokyo show was also Acne Studios.

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Hikaru wears Acne Studios runway yellow button up cardigan in THE FIRST TAKE debut one-take performance of new single,” Mine or Yours”

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Surprise release of new Ayataka green tea CM featuring Hikaru-paisen and a new track, Mine or Yours.

Lots of picturesque shots of them in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal plus some shots in their home studio!!

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Been a while since we got to see Hikaru-paisen’s home studio setup!

I loved the segment showing her working on music at home in 仕事の流儀’s (Japanese documentary show) episode on her from several years back. I’m still hunting for a recording of that episode but haven’t found it since…

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Music video for ELECTRICITY is out!

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Wonderful intimate interview 🩵

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Being a creator is about discovery, not invention

Hikaru Utada: When I make music, there isn't any sort of message I'm trying to communicate. Zero.

Naoki Urasawa: I'm the same. At the start of something new, I just imagine what the teaser would look like. Once I get a glimpse of a visual that feels good to me, I take that and continue exploring from there. Eventually, I'll find my way to that visual from my imagination. For example, some scene that would show up around chapter 20 could be an idea I had doodled in my notebook before starting anything. But when I did that drawing at the time, I didn't have an plan for where it would show up in the story. In the end, the story is being lived out by the characters in it, and it's got nothing to do with me.

As the characters' thoughts and actions unravel the story, the place for that initial doodle will reveal itself, to even my own surprise. It's precisely this process that makes me think it is impossible to create a story that revolves around a preexisting message. HU: It's the same for me, but with sound. I often begin the process with a chord, and I'll continue trying different sounds until I find one that makes me go, "This is it!"

The only thing I'm doing is making decisions whether this sound is "it" or "not it." I don't really know what the criteria is either, I just know if it is the sound I want or not. I keep making decision after decision, and when I get to the last spurt it's like I've established a connection with, like, some "god."

It's like finally opening a box that has been shut tight on humanity, whether interstellar or on earth. Like, "Yeeess! I've got it!" There is always this radical moment when I finish a song. From there, I proceed with writing lyrics to fit the music in a practical way.

NU: We're pretty similar. At the beginning of my process I will envision that prologue, and I'll start working through a story that practically fits that image in my head. People often ask, Why think about a prologue? To me, it's all about supporting the characters and going along with them for the ride. It's kind of like that feeling of trying to decipher a dream.

-translated excerpt from Utada Hikaru x Urasawa Naoki discussion Invitation magazine, May 2006

To be continued

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KUMA POWER HOUR tracklist, october 15 2013. this episode was the first after hikaru's mother, Keiko Fuji, passed away.

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text: In bed it's the best (isn't it for everyone?) the happiness of rolling around in bed with someone you love the happiness of rolling around in bed by yourself (next to drawing: i love my pillow)

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KUMA POWER HOUR tracklist, july 13 2013

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hikaru for NYLON japan 20th anniversary.

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hikaru for NYLON japan 20th anniversary. forgot to mention in previous post, but this edition is special because hikaru was the cover of japan's very first issue of NYLON, 20 years ago. text: the park leaning against trees, sitting and rolling around on the ground, smelling the scent of grass