Can You Keep a Secret

CD Art

Artist

Utada Hikaru

Single

Can You Keep A Secret?

Released

2001.02.16

Catalog Number

TOCT-4301

Price

¥1,100

Tracklist

1. Can You Keep A Secret?
2. Kettobase! (蹴っ飛ばせ!; Kick it Away!)
3. Can You Keep A Secret? (Original Karaoke)

Information

Can You Keep A Secret? is Utada Hikaru's seventh single. Can You Keep A Secret? was used as the theme song for the dorama HERO. It reached #1 in Oricon charts and charted for 11 weeks. This single became the #1 single of 2001 in Japan. In the World Charts, Can You Keep A Secret? reached #37 for single airplay and #9 for sales. The most recent figures (May 26, 2006) show that the single sold 1,485,000 units in total.

Song Information

Lyrics

Utada Hikaru

Music

Utada Hikaru

Other Information

Arrangement: Nishihira Akira

Pre-Production Arrangement: Honda Yuichiro

Keyboards and Programming: Nishihira Akira

Synthesizer Programming: Nakayama Nobuhiko

Guitar: Toriyama Yuji (by the courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)

Finger Snap: Utada Skingg Teruzane

Additional Keyboards: Honda Yuichiro, Philipe Saisse

Additional Programming: Nakamura Yutaka

Recording: Goh Hotoda, Kudo Masahi and Ugajin Masaaki at The Hit Factory, NY, Bunkamura Studio

A special robot called PINO featured in the music video for this song.

Utada Quotes

• "I never have like an image that I really wanna portray when I start making a song, but when I wrote it, I was a completely normal college girl (freshman). I think anyone can relate to the song part of it. I guess it's a pretty normal, everyday life song." --Utada Hikaru

• "(On the PV) It took a long time, as usual. I don't thik I'll ever forget is, as my birthday's on Janurary 19th. We began shooting it on the morning of the 18th, but it ended on the morning of the 19th, so everyone just gave me like a huge bouquet of flowers, The video has scenes where I am still 17 and scenes where I've already turned 18, so it's really cool. And the sets were beautiful, thanks to the staff. The robot was so...the robot is called Pino; he's really cute. He's cuter than me!" --Utada Hikaru

Lyrics

In many of Utada's songs you are able to hear English lyrics that are not in the booklet or official lyrics. For Can You Keep A Secret?, they are: "Hey, can you take a time out too? I'll tell you something: but see; can you keep it a secret? Cause this guitar and this...it makes me wanna..."

Disambiguation

There are five versions of Can You Keep A Secret? to be found in Utada's discography (listed chronologically). These different versions are:

Can You Keep A Secret?

Found on Can You Keep A Secret? single as track one, Distance album as track two and Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.1 as track nine.

Can You Keep A Secret? (Original Karaoke)

Found on Can You Keep A Secret? single as track three. This version is the standard version except without the main vocals for the song.

Can You Keep A Secret? (Budokan Live)

Found on Utada Hikaru in Budokan 2004 - Hikaru no 5 DVD as track six. This version is more minimalistic than the original version.

Can You Keep A Secret? (Harmony Orchestra)

Found twice on the HARMONY~J-pop Meets Classics~for slow life collection; once as track #6 on the Utada Hikaru CD on the original boxed set and once again as track #9 of the 3rd CD (Dinner Time) on the second boxed set. This has no vocals, and is performed by The Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra.

Can You Keep A Secret? (Utada United Live)

Found on UTADA UNITED 2006 DVD as track #15.

External Links

• Oricon Profile