J-pop megastar Hikaru Utada on teen fame, discrimination, and grief
In a rare English interview, the pop sensation reflects on her ‘traumatic’ rise to fame, working on Hideaki Anno’s Evangelion franchise, and her crush on Megan Thee StallionTextGünseli Yalcinkaya When Hikaru Utada first released her debut album First Love in 1999, the Japanese public had never heard anything like it. Aged 16, the American-Japanese artist ripped up the J-pop rulebook with genre-hop
