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Can You Keep a Secret
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- Can You Keep A Secret?
- Released
- 2001.02.16
- Catalog Number
- TOCT-4301
- Price
- ¥1,100
- Tracklist
- Can You Keep A Secret?
- Kettobase! (蹴っ飛ばせ!; Kick it Away!)
- 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. The 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. In total the single sold over 1,485,000 units in total, and was Utada's last million-selling single.
The PV features a robot called PINO. Some of the filming took place on Utada's birthday.
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
- 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
Lyrics
"Can You Keep A Secret" contains English lyrics that are not listed the booklet. 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 four versions of "Can You Keep A Secret?" to be found in Utada's discography. These different versions are:
- Can You Keep A Secret?
- Found on the "Can You Keep A Secret?" single as track #1, Distance as track #2 and Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.1 as track #9.
- Can You Keep A Secret? (Original Karaoke)
- Found on the "Can You Keep A Secret?" single as track #3. This version is the standard version except without the main vocals for the song.
- Can You Keep A Secret? (Budokan Live)
- Found on the Utada Hikaru in Budokan 2004 - Hikaru no 5 DVD as track #6. This version is more minimalistic than the original version.
- Can You Keep A Secret? (Utada United Live)
- Found on the UTADA UNITED 2006 DVD as track #15. This version is similar to the standard version.
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