宇多田超愛【小美人魚】

[edisonsimba]

About 20 years after?
文/宇多田

Look she's grown up a lot~.

I took this one in the best-lighted area of my home since people always point out that my images are very dark.

It does look quite well-lit. Maybe too bright? Aww I have no idea. What's the standard~. But at least now I realized how dark my past own pictures looked !! I'll be more careful from now on !

Well then. Please draw your attention to this DVD~!! It's Disney-san's The Little Mermaid!

It was released in 1989 in America, and it seems like the 6-year-old me thought "This is it ! ! !" and got hooked on the little mermaid in sleep or wake for a while. As I have this habit of keeping drawing exactly the same thing for a couple of months when I go nuts over something, and at this time I drew heaps of pictures of Ariel sitting on a rock~. (Before that one I drew Nippontsuru. Maybe I loved its having a red part only on the top of its head.)

What thrilled me much was the sense of color rather than the story, and on top of that, I really really really really loved the title tune "Part Of Your World" more than anything else ! !

When I hum a tune this is the song that comes up even now. I had a huge huge crush on its melody, lyrics and everything. So this is what's called "yearning" - I don't if I thought that way, but anyway it was such an eureka moment to me.

A while ago I found this DVD at a convenience store, which brought back my memories, so I bought it, went back home and watched it while taking a bath. I dropped tears into the bathtub at the scene that Ariel sang the title tune ! I was in the state of "OMG my eyes are watering so I can't see the tiny screen of my waterproof DVD player well !".

And you know, after that, no matter how many times I watch the DVD I always start crying in that scene. I guess her way of singing would be pretty good. Her skill to control waves of vocal inflection is just amazing. I mimicked and practiced her singing thousand times. Oh, I just remembered I have the sheet music also.

I watched the Japanese-dubbed version for the first time and got shocked to find that the singing was fairly plain. I have no idea if it is because of the interpretation of either voice actor san or staff people, but anyways I'm disappointed with it a bit since I cannot feel the vibe of building up excitement which the original version has ! I'd say it is quite rare I review someone else's song, but please allow me to comment on this single one ! I'm just an another snappy fan !

Its the song of my soul . . . I thought back to the lyrics of this song when I became famous and unable to go out casually. The part of the lyrics that Ariel shows longing for walking on the ground. Ooohh! Ariel - ! ! ! (T 0 T )

I'm not good with seawater, by the way . . .

宇多田還說她每次看【小美人魚】必哭，談到她最愛的歌曲"Part Of Your World"，歌詞完全道出她成名後的心聲，另外她似乎也注意到了小美人魚日版配唱的問題，沒辦法像原音版那樣的的令人激昂。

PS. 宇多田買的可是重發版的【小美人魚】DVDㄟ

●retrieved from 宇多田官方網站


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這篇文章也提到了宇多田真的很喜歡【小美人魚】的音樂呢!
【CD でーた4月號〈宇多田特集-Roots ＆ Favorite 篇〉】


Roots
「不考慮自己的事，就是目前生活方式的重心吧」。
於感受性極強的15歲出道，迄今10年，
創作出許多膾炙人口的暢銷作品。
以〝Artist．宇多田光〞不斷前進的她，
其音樂性成長過程的〝根源〞究竟是──。


「其實我沒什麼音樂性的根源或根基呢。因為實在太多了，所以也稱不上是根源。不過，當我還是小寶寶時，父母就讓我聽了很多The Beatles。總之就是The Beatles、The Rolling Stones、T-REX等等。至於自己主動喜歡上的音樂，應該是在8歲或9歲時喜歡上的迪士尼電影『小美人魚』原聲帶。讓我覺得〝這個超讚的～！〞而買了錄音帶。之後，最常聽的就是Janet Jackson和TLC吧。還有Dr Dre等等。大概是在我唸完小學的時候。不過我也聽了很多搖滾樂。也喜歡GUNS N' ROSES、METALLICA、LED ZEPPELIN。但我也喜歡2PAC，真的聽了很多呢。



●retrieved from 金牌大風 EMI東洋音樂官方部落格

[edisonsimba]

說起宇多田和迪士尼的淵源也不小，

她的歌曲"Simple and Clean"與"Passion"先後都被迪士尼開發的PS2遊戲《王國之心1》與《王國之心2》拿來當主題曲呢!

[edisonsimba]

發行英文新專輯的宇多田，在美國的歌迷見面會上大唱"Part of Your World"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vIrv6c3Lw

想直接聽的朋友可以快轉到4:12