Utada Hikaru interviewed by Ningin

With Utada Hikaru‘s new US album release quickly approaching, Ningin was able to sit down with her and chat about everything from her nickname (Hikki) to why she would rather not work with big name producers at the moment.

This time the reason why I decided to work with Stargate and Tricky was because I didn’t want to have any big producers on the album like Timbaland-type producers that have their own color coming out

Read the rest at Ningin! Parts 1 & 2.

It’s not the smoothest read but there are some interesting tidbits in there.