Traveling (Utada Hikaru)
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- traveling
- Released
- 2001.11.28
- Catalog Number
- TOCT-4351
- Price
- ¥1,100
- Tracklist
- traveling
- traveling -PLANITb remix-
- traveling -Bahiatronic Mix-
- traveling -Original Karaoke-
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- DVD Single
- traveling
- Released
- 2002.01.30
- Catalog Number
- TOBF-5126
- Price
- ¥1,500
- Tracklist
- Making of traveling
- traveling (PV)
- Information
traveling is Utada Hikaru's ninth single. traveling was used as the NTT DoCoMo FOMA CM song. The PV for traveling was directed by Kiriya Kazuaki (who also shot the photography and helped with the art direction), and is the second of the famous Kiriya Trilogy of Utada promotional videos. This is the second of Utada's singles to have a DVD Single. The single reached #1 on Oricon Singles charts and charted for 21 weeks. This single sold 856,000 units in Japan and became her fourth single to chart two weeks at #1 on the Oricon Singles charts. This single became the #2 single of 2002 in Japan. An interesting fact about traveling is that Utada never performed it live on TV (except for in the SMAP x SMAP medley) for unknown reasons. The pronunciation guide on the single gives 'traveling' as 'Toraveringu (トラヴェリング)', and will be pronounced this way by the average Japanese speaker. This single, as well as FINAL DISTANCE, Hikari and SAKURA Drops / Letters, strangely did not chart in the world charts airplay charts; though it did reach #51 on the sales charts. Makihara Noriyuki covered traveling on his Listen To The Music 2 album. The most recent figures (May 26, 2006) show that the singe sold 856,140 units in total.
Song Information
- Lyrics
- Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Utada Hikaru
- Other Information
- Production: Miyake Akira, Utada Hikaru and Utada Skingg Teruzane
- Arrangement: Kawano Kei and Utada Hikaru
- Keyboards, Programming, and Guitar Sample: Kawano Kei
- Synthesizer Programming: Tsunemi Kazuhide
- Bass: Saito Mitsutaka
- All Vocals: Utada Hikaru
- Recording: Ugajin Masaaki and Matsui Atsushi at Bunkamura Studio, Tokyo
- Mixing: Goh Hotoda (assisted by Matsui Atsushi) at Bunkamura Studio, Tokyo
Utada Quotes
- "I finished the photo shooting for the jacket a couple of days ago and we are now putting the final touch on it! Huh? 'Then tell us now what the photo looks like!' 'Is it a sort of close-up shots again?' No no no guys, don't sell me short, you'll see a new Utada you've never seen before on the single cover this time! The director, Okita-san, was saying like 'but...say this is so Hikaru, isn't it?' so it is, in a sense, more close to the ordinary me. You know what, this time Hikki is putting on the custom-made plastic. (it's a little weird to say 'Hikki' myself even if it's intentional!) Well, that's all I can tell you now...heh. (I'd like to give myself airs once in a while, you know) I'm 'traveling' OK!" --Utada Hikaru
- "Next month I can let you listen to traveling, which will be the first stop station. You can get the ticket by...purchasing the single of course, but the moment you listen to the song, strangely enough a one-way ticket appears in your heart! (Woow isn't it beautiful!) Every time I send each song off to the world people get on this train little by little at each station; the number of passengers increases steadily, and finally we altogether manage to arrive the better, wonderful world I have yet to see - I'm now heading for 'traveling' station, hoping that to be true!" --Utada Hikaru
- "When I made this song, I fully concentrated on making it. I believe that I came to love this song several times as much, after I had made this song's PV. I think that this is such an important song of mine, as I could seize an opportunity. I was given a lot of courage by this song. After this, the other songs on this album just poured out of 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 traveling, these lyrics are, "Come on yeah", "What you doing tonight, let's go for a ride!", "Can you take me up, you look quite good. Can you keep it up? I would like to".
Disambiguation
There are seven versions of traveling to be found in Utada's discography (listed chronologically). These different versions are:
- traveling
- Found on traveling single as track one, the DEEP RIVER album as track #2 and Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.1 as track #11. This is the version set to the PV.
- traveling -PLANITb remix-
- Found on traveling single as track two. This is a strong, dance remix of traveling. It was produced and remixed by Russel McNamara for UnderCover Inc. and was coordinated by Michael T. Martin.
- traveling -Bahiatronic Mix-
- Found on traveling single as track three. This remix is more guitar-driven and layed back then the standard version. It was remixed by Tomita Yuzuru for MINTMANIA, and had Kawakami "T-kay" Tatsuya as its track down engineer.
- traveling -Original Karaoke-
- Found on traveling single as track four. This is the standard version without Utada's singing.
- traveling (Budokan Live)
- Found on Utada Hikaru in Budokan 2004 - Hikaru no 5 DVD as track two.
- traveling (Harmony Orchestra)
- Found twice on the HARMONY~J-pop Meets Classics~for slow life collection; once as track #7 on the Utada Hikaru CD on the original boxed set and once again as track #4 of the 3rd CD (Dinner Time) on the second boxed set. This has no vocals, and is performed by The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.
- traveling (Utada United Live)
- Found on UTADA UNITED 2006 DVD as track #4.
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