[Not Fade Away]

^This. The live arrangements of Utada’s songs are simply amazing. I would point to Sakura Drops, Colors, and Devil Inside (UU 2006) as particular highlights for me.

Granted I’m very biased because Utada is my favorite J-pop artist, but I don’t recall any lives where she has been truly horrible. Even one of her most unstable lives, UU 2006, was pretty damn good all things considered with what she was dealing with at the time (vocal nodules and nearly losing her voice). I will admit that songs towards the end were very strained, but I still think she held out pretty well overall. She hit those ad-libbed vocal rifts in Hikari at the end smoothly when her voice was practically dead from nodules.