An English interview is up on
Dazed!
She talks a little about the inspiration for One Last Kiss / Pink Blood, about becoming famous at a young age, and a little about her feelings when she debuted in the US.
To be honest, this part of the interview made me tear up:
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Utada compares the period of grieving with the death of her mother, the esteemed enka (Japanese ballad) singer Keiko Fuji. “My whole life I was grieving for my mother, losing her slowly to mental illness, and since her death eight years ago, it became a conscious grief, a loss I didn’t know how to move on from,” she explains. “When I began working on ‘One Last Kiss’ I finally understood that the point was not to try to leave that behind, but to accept that I will carry it with me always. It still hurts, and that’s alright. What was a loss became a gift.”
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