🎶 2022-04-18 22:08:49 – Paris/France.
The past few years have brought quite a few blessings to Kingdom Hearts: Sora fans in Super Smash Bros Ultimatea new Kingdom Hearts main game, and now, pop artist Hikaru Utada has honored Coachella 2022 attendees with a live performance of two tracks from the Kingdom Hearts series: “Simple and Clean” and “Face My Fears.”
Coachella is an arts and music festival held annually in California. It's known for regularly featuring a lineup of star artists, with major artists like Doja Cat arriving this year. Hikaru Utada opened his set at the event with Kingdom Hearts' emotional pop hit "Simple and Clean." Later in the set, Utada sang another fan favorite from the game series, "Face My Fears," which was premiered with dubstep artist Skrillex.
Utada was a guest on 88rising's Head in the Clouds Forever. At the time of publication, archived Coachella footage is no longer available in some countries. However, the band will return to the Coachella stage the following weekend, so there's a chance fans can catch the performance live on April 23. Otherwise, you can see her in the embedded clips below.
Here's Utada performing "Face My Fears" below.
It was a nostalgic and compelling performance, even though Mickey and Sora were nowhere to be found. Utada's work was widely popularized in the early 2000s, in part because their music was in Kingdom Hearts, but the singer continues to release new music. More recently, their music has been part of the Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Once Upon a Time soundtrack.
This event is part of a series of great Kingdom Hearts news. Last year, series protagonist Sora was announced as the latest fighter to join the Super Smash Bros. lineup. and the series got a cloud re-release on the Nintendo Switch. The biggest news being kingdom hearts 4, the next main installment in the baffling crossover franchise, has been announced. But now we can all shout out to Utada as we bring this live performance of these iconic game tracks to the stage.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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