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Hikaru Utada’s First Best-Of Album ‘SCIENCE FICTION’ Explained: How the Fluid Artist’s Works Transcend Boundaries
Pop hitmaker Hikaru Utada recently dropped the first best-of collection of their career entitled SCIENCE FICTION.
It’s still hard to say that Hikaru Utada’s recent works — with origins in R&B and magically transformed over the years by their absorption of other genres including electronica — have been widely embraced outside of Asia. Utada’s words indicate that they pursue balance with an extremely objective perspective, and their approach of expanding their sound by introducing a sense of discomfort into something universal can be said to be somewhat science fiction-like. The way the mechanicalness and physicality are precariously assembled under a tense sense of equilibrium, combined with their distinctive musical prosody through bilingual lyrics, prick our emotions every time we listen to their works.
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