Letters

SAKURA Drops / Letters Cover

Artist

Utada Hikaru

Song

Letters

Lyrics

Utada Hikaru

Music

Utada Hikaru

Other Information

Arrangement: Utada Hikaru and Kawano Kei

Basic Programming: Utada Hikaru

Keyboards and Programming: Kawano Kei

Synthesizer Programming: Tsunemi Kazuhide

Acoustic Guitar: Char, Yoriyama Yuji, HISASHI (GLAY), Akiyama Hironori, Utada Skingg Teruzane and Honda Larry

Recording: Ugajin Masaaki at Bunkamura Studio.

Letters was used as the NTT DoCoMo FOMA CM song. Letters, despite being the second track on a double a-side single, never had a promotional video to go with it. Utada herself said that it was because the DoCoMo ads featuring her and having Letters as the background music was the cause for this; that it compensated for not having a PV. This song was an effort between four major record labels, as several famous guitarists appeared on behalf of their record companies: Toshiba EMI, UNIVERSAL J, Sony Music Records and UNLIMITED RECORDS.

Utada Quotes

• "To tell the truth, now this is my most favorite song. It's rare case that I love my own song objectively; it must be the first time for me. It was a little turning point in my life when I made this song; by writing the lyrics of Letters, I have been vitalized in writing lyrics since then. I've came to think, 'Do I want to write much better songs?' The greatest part of this song is, of course, the guitars. Many famous and skillful guitarists came together for me, so please listen to it. Guitars are included generously in this song." --Utada Hikaru

• "...and 'Letters', this belongs to my new genre and I'm happy to name the genre 'Kouha Roman (die-hard romanticism)' (lol). The lyrics make me imagine something like that." --Utada Hikaru

• "Letters is the coupling song for SAKURA Drops and actually I prefer this one. It's worth a *check* - it may sound a bit strange I myself say this, though." --Utada Hikaru

Disambiguation

There are four versions of Letters to be found in Utada's discography (listed chronologically). These different versions are:

Letters

Found on SAKURA Drops / Letters single as track two, DEEP RIVER album as track five and Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.1 as track 14.

Letters -Original Karaoke-

Found on SAKURA Drops / Letters single as track four. This version is the same as the standard except without the main vocals.

Letters (Budokan Live)

Found on Utada Hikaru in Budokan 2004 - Hikaru no 5 DVD as track five. This live version stays true to the original instrumental accompinament.

Letters (Utada United Live)

Found on Utada United 2006 DVD as track #18.