{"id":12577,"date":"2010-07-11T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2011-11-01T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:08:16","slug":"best-of-jq-the-hikaru-utada-interview-spring-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/11\/best-of-jq-the-hikaru-utada-interview-spring-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of JQ: The Hikaru Utada Interview (Spring 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Utada-2-TEST1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22267\" title=\"Style: &quot;u-ai-01&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Utada-2-TEST1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Utada-2-TEST1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Utada-2-TEST1-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>By <\/em><a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.examiner.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>, Editor (Kobe-shi CIR, 2001-02) for<\/em> <\/strong><a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JQ Magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>It was perfect timing. Back in January, Hikaru Utada, the New York-born recording phenomenon who before she was out of her teens notched three of Japan\u2019s top ten bestselling albums (including Number One), was back in town working on a new album for the U.S., and <\/em><strong>JQ<em> <\/em><\/strong><em>spent a full hour with Hikki to talk of many things, including her new disc <\/em>This is the One<em>, which hit stores in May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I know you want to talk about the new album and the single.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The song\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>I heard it about two and half weeks ago, as I think I was already on the e-mail list from when your last English album came out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, right, right, right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So we go way back. Ten years ago I found out about <em>First Love<\/em> when I studying Japanese as an undergraduate\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, wow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s amazing to be here now talking about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m humbled [<em>laughs<\/em>].<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow link here:<\/em> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/08\/jq-interview-with-hikaru-utada-by-justin-tedaldi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/08\/jq-interview-with-hikaru-utada-by-justin-tedaldi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Justin Tedaldi, Editor (Kobe-shi CIR, 2001-02) for JQ Magazine \u00a0It was perfect timing. Back in January, Hikaru Utada, the New York-born recording phenomenon who before she was out of her teens notched three of Japan\u2019s top ten bestselling albums (including Number One), was back in town working on a new album for the U.S., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-jq-magazine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3gR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12583,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions\/12583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}