{"id":13024,"date":"2010-08-10T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13024"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:30:57","slug":"singer-hikaru-utada-announces-%e2%80%98artistic-activity%e2%80%99-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/10\/singer-hikaru-utada-announces-%e2%80%98artistic-activity%e2%80%99-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Hikaru Utada Announces \u2018Artistic Activity\u2019 Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By JQ Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> here<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada is going from exodus to hiatus.<\/p>\n

According to a message on her homepage<\/a> from Aug. 9, Hikki (as she as known to her army of fans worldwide) has wrote that following the release of this fall\u2019s Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2<\/em> album, she will take time off from her musical career effective next year.<\/p>\n

The message finds the musician in a reflective mood, recalling the music video from her single \u201cAutomatic<\/a>,\u201d released 12 years ago when the singer was just 15 years old. She commented that since then, \u201cpart of my growth has stopped\u2026as a person.\u201d Hikki now intends to focus on \u201chuman activity\u201d over \u201cartistic activity\u201d in the next year for an indeterminate period.<\/p>\n

Read the full\u00a0story <\/em>here<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada is going from exodus to hiatus. According to a message on her homepage from Aug. 9, Hikki (as she as known to her army of fans worldwide) has wrote that following […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-celebrity","category-interviewprofile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t