Hikaru Utada performing "Passion" and "Sanctuary" on her In the flesh tour.

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I will continually hold a grudge against Ticketmaster for fucking up so royally with my ticket to see Hikaru Utada on her In the flesh tour 3 years ago until the day I die. This marks a pain which has continually been stewed with no surfacing of professional footage of this tour or a DVD of it. But a video of the tour is now finally available to fans on iTunes Japan. I want to be optimistic about this eventually being made available internationally, but it took us 4 years to just get this.

For the time being, here's footage of  Hikaru's performance of "Passion" and "Sanctuary".


Much like a fine wine, "Passion" just gets better with time. Even now I find myself falling more and more in love with this song each time I hear it. It still sounds fresh on my ears to this day.

The crimped untamed hair in the face is a look I approve of. I can even get on board with the sequinned top and leopard print skirt. Hikaru's style game is usually a bit of a mess, but this get-up was quite hot. I call this look '80's fuck it'. For obvious reasons.

Let's all bow our heads to the instrumental of "Colors" and pray that the In the flesh tour is made available internationally. I'm not one for tour videos, but I want this one. I WANT IT SO BAD.

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