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DEEP RIVER (Hikaru Utada album) (Music)
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DEEP RIVER is the 3rd Japanese studio album by Hikaru Utada, released in 2002. This album was yet another massive success for the still-teenaged Utada, as it became their 3rd #1 album and the top selling Japanese album of the year the third time in a row, as well as the #8 best-selling album of all time in Japan, selling around 3.6 million copies in the country.This album is cited by many fans and critics as Utada's best work, for a few reasons. While their previous two albums both had a distinctly R&B-pop sound with an American influence, DEEP RIVER shows more experimentation and marked the beginning of their transition into more electronically-oriented pop music. The album showcases a diverse range of styles that can generally be considered "pop" but incorporate elements of not only R&B but electronic, dance, Latin, rock and orchestral music as well. Utada also held more creative control over this album - they had always been the primary or sole writer and composer of their songs, but on this album they were also involved in the arrangements of all but 2 of the tracks. they worked mostly with one arranger (Kei Kawano) for this album rather than the wide range of producers involved in Distance.Four singles were released for the album: "Final Distance", "Traveling", "Sakura Drops / Letters", and "Hikari", all of which were major hits, with the last one providing the theme song for Square’s then-latest RPG blockbuster, Kingdom Hearts. A music video was also made for the title track, "DEEP RIVER", though it was not a single. The music videos from this album were the first to be directed by the director Kiriya Kazuaki, whom they would later marry, and show markedly more elaborate visuals and concepts than their previous videos... except for the "Hikari" video, for which the original concept had to be scrapped due to scheduling issues, and instead showed a single-camera shot of Utada washing dishes for 4 minutes.Utada also recorded an English version of "Hikari", titled "Simple & Clean", which was not included on this album, but was used as the theme song to the international port of Kingdom Hearts, becoming the series’ Signature Song among English-speaking audiences.Not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō, or its film adaptation. | |
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Genre Shift: This album can be seen as a transition point between their earlier R&B music and their later more electronic sound. A few songs are still bascially pure R&B ("Shiawase ni Narou", "A.S.A.P") while other songs, like "Traveling" (pure dance-pop) and "DEEP RIVER" (acoustic guitar ballad with a prominent sitar) are new territory. | |
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Face on the Cover: A close-up, as with almost all their albums. | |
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New Sound Album: Compared to their previous albums, this has a lot less R&B and more of...basically everything, but particularly electronic music, which would carry on into their later albums. | |
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Title Track: "DEEP RIVER", though the title doesn't appear in the song. | |
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Driving Song | |
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Driving Song: "Traveling" is ostensibly about this, though it's actually a metaphor for something else: | |
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Scenery Porn: The music videos for "Final Distance", "Traveling" and "Sakura Drops" are all very elaborate and fantastical, and very beautiful, compared to their previous music videos. | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: Jumps from a fusion of electronica and acoustic guitar, to a pure dance track, to mid-tempo R&B, to an world-infused acoustic ballad, to uptempo Latin-influenced pop, in the first 5 tracks. | |
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Minimalism | |
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Minimalism: The music video for "Hikari". Utada washes dishes, drinks water, while sometimes lipsyncing along to the song. That's it. Done in one take and with one camera, with no editing. | |
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Melismatic Vocals | |
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Melismatic Vocals: Mostly downplayed or averted, in contrast to their previous albums. | |
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Location Song | |
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Location Song: "Tokyo Nights" is one, for Tokyo. The lyrics deal with loneliness and seeking fulfillment, which they finds in the city lights. | |
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Translated Cover Version | |
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Translated Cover Version: "Simple & Clean" is the English version of "Hikari". It wasn't included on the album, but was used as the theme song to Kingdom Hearts and is probably their invokedmost famous song in English-speaking countries.note The other contender would be "Sanctuary", which was also used for Kingdom Hearts II, and was itself an English translation of "Passion". | |
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Softer and Slower Cover: "Final Distance" is one of "Distance", from their album of the same name. It was going to be released as a single from that album, but after the Osaka school massacre they decided to re-record the song as a sombre ballad in commemoration of one of the victims who was a fan of Utada. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover and liner notes. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Traveling" is a rare example from their Japanese music. It's not very obvious but there is plenty of subtext making it clear: | |
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Shoulders-Up Nudity | |
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Shoulders-Up Nudity: The album cover art. You can't quite see their shoulders on the front cover, but they're shown on the back cover. Several photos in the album booklet also show their this way, though in others she's wearing a white dress. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Utada is the only vocalist credited on the album, so they does this a lot. It's most noticeable on "Traveling" and "Play Ball". | |
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The Oner: The music video for "Hikari" was done in one take with no editing. | |
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