First Love (Utada Hikaru)
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| First Love | |||||
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| Missing image UtadaHikaruFirstLove.jpg Album cover | |||||
| CD by Utada Hikaru | |||||
| Released | March 10, 1999 | ||||
| Recorded | N/A | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 54:17 | ||||
| Record Label | Toshiba-EMI | ||||
| Manufacturer | Toshiba-EMI | ||||
| Utada Hikaru Chronology | |||||
| Precious (1998) | First Love (1999) | Distance (2001) | Deep River (2002) | Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 1 (2004) | Exodus (2004) |
First Love is an album by Utada Hikaru, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). It has sold well over ten million copies to date, making it the best-selling album in Japanese history. All songs are written by Utada Hikaru except "Amai Wana ~Paint It, Black~" ("Paint It, Black" is written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards).
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Track listing
- "Automatic" [album version] - 5:28
- "Movin' on Without You" - 4:37
- "In My Room" - 4:19
- "First Love" - 4:17
- "Amai Wana ~Paint It, Black~" - 5:02 (Amai Wana — Sweet Trap)
- "Time Will Tell" - 5:26
- "Never Let Go" - 3:57
- "B&C" [album version] - 4:20
- "Another Chance" - 5:21
- "Interlude" - 0:16
- "Give Me a Reason" - 6:22
- "Automatic" [Johnny Vicious Remix] - 4:37
Singles
- "Automatic/Time Will Tell" (December 9 1998)
- "Movin' on Without You" (February 17 1999)
- "First Love" (April 28 1999)
Personnel
All Japanese names are in Western order (given name before family name) except for Utada Hikaru's name (family name before given name)
- Utada Hikaru (vocals)
- Akira Nishihira (arrangement, keyboards & programming)
- Kei Kawano (arrangement, additional keyboards)
- Shinichiro Murayama (arrangement, keyboards & programming)
- Toshiyuki Mori (arrangement, keyboards & programming)
- Jun Isomura (arrangement)
- Tsuyoshi Kon (guitar)
- Yoshiaki Kusaka (guitar)
- Hironori Akiyama (guitar)
- Yuji Toriyama (guitar)
- Masayoshi Furukawa (guitar)
- Yuichiro Honda (guitar)
- Yuichiro Goto (strings)
- Jullian Hernandez (additional chorus)
- Nobuhiko Nakayama (synthesizer programming)
- Takahiro Iida (synthesizer programming)
- Masayuki Momo (synthesizer programming)
- Taka & Speedy (rhythm arrangement, rhythm programming)
- Akira Miyake (producer)
- Teruzane Sking Utada (producer)
- Hidenobu Okita (director)
- Masaaki Ugajin (all vocals' recording)
- Masaaki Ugajin, Masashi Kudo, Seiji Motoyama, Takehiko Kamata, Bob Allecca, Mike Brown (back track recording)
- Hotoda Goh (mixing)
- Ted Jensen (mastering)
First Love facts
- Hikaru wrote all of the lyrics on the CD.
- She was only 15 when she recorded the album.
- "Interlude" was made into a song called "Kotoba ni Naranai Kimochi" on her Distance album.
- The line "I see a red door and I want to paint it black" from "Amai Wana ~Paint it Black~" was originally sung by The Rolling Stones.
- The song "Never Let Go" features the same beat used in one of Monica's songs, and was originally used in Sting's "Shape of My Heart."
- Hikaru said that Monica so inspired her with her R&B that she decided to use that beat.
- "Time Will Tell" was made into English and released on one of her singles. This version is known as "Time Will Tell - Dub Mix."
- "First Love" was featured in a popular Japanese soap opera, "Majo no Jouken".