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Beautiful World (Utada Hikaru)
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Song
- Beautiful World
- Lyrics
- Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Utada Hikaru
- Other Information
- Arrangement: Utada Hikaru
- Keyboards and Programming: Utada Hikaru
- Additional Programming: Tomita Yuzuru and Alexis Smith
- All Vocals: Utada Hikaru
- Recording: Matsui Atsushi
- Mixing: Goetz B. for 365 Artists
- Produced by Utada Hikaru, Miyake Akira and Utada Skingg Teruzane
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix-
- Released
- 2009.06.27
- Price
- ¥200
- Tracklist
- Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix-
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Song
- Beautiful World (Da Capo Version)
- Released
- 2021.03.09
- Other Information
- Arrangement: Utada Hikaru, Obukuro Nariaki, Bandoh Yuta
- Strings: Ensemble Fove
- Acoustic Guitar: Ben Parker
- Strings Arrangement, Conductor:Bandoh Yuta
- Bass: Jodi Milliner
- Edited By: Yuya Saito
- Keyboards, Programmed By: Obukuro Nariaki
- Piano: Reuben James
- Programmed By [Additional Programming]: Nobuaki Tanaka (4)
- Recorded By [Strings]: Masahito Komori
- Recorded By, Mixed By: Steve Fitzmaurice
- Keyboards [Additional], Programmed By: Utada Hikaru
"Beautiful World" is a song recorded by Utada Hikaru, first released as an A-side on her "Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry" single. The song was used as the theme song for the movie Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, and has been described as an uptempo song with sad lyrics. It debuted on radio stations in Japan on July 23rd, 2007. "Beautiful World" recieved both a double platinum Chaku Uta and a platinum Chaku Uta full certification from RIAJ, and ranked #32 on Recochoku top 100 most downloaded songs of 2007 list.
An arranged version titled "Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix-" was used as Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance and was released digitally on June 27th, 2009.
Music Video
The music video for "Beautiful World" was directed by Anno Hideaki (the director of the Evangelion movie). It solely features clips from the movie, and has no scene featuring Utada or an anime depiction of Utada at all.
Disambiguation
There are four known versions of "Beautiful World" to be found in Utada's discography. These include:
- Beautiful World
- Found on the "Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry" single as track #1 and HEART STATION studio album as track #3.
- Beautiful World (Original Karaoke)
- Found on the "Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry" single as track #4. This is the standard version except without the main vocals.
- Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix-
- Found on the "Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix-" digital single. This is an acoustic re-arranged version of the original mix.
- Beautiful World (Da Capo Version)
- Found on the One Last Kiss mini-album as track #2. This is a self cover with new vocals and arrangement.
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