[Polyrhythm]

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Interviewer: Right. But at the same time, [annual Japanese New Year's Eve program] Kohaku Uta Gassen is pretty much dedicated to music, and you’ve never done it.

Utada: Yeah.

Interviewer: Is there any one reason why you wouldn’t want to, or is it something you might do in the future at some point?

Utada: It’s…I do choose my jobs very carefully and consciously. And Kohaku, it just doesn’t… [Long pause] I don’t feel like I belong there.

Interviewer: Why?

Utada: I don’t know, I just feel so alien from that culture. It’s a different culture all of its own. It’s like a heritage-a Japanese heritage, and I have had no part of it in my own life, and I just don’t relate to it. [Pause] Bottom line, I just don’t want to be in it, I would hate to see myself in it; I just don’t think I could take it.

Interviewer: The big dresses and all that, it’s not for you.

Utada: The chaos and the partying all night…

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