Today’s session of Music Video of the Day features the multi-talented Utada Hikaru and her beatifully directed music video FINAL DISTANCE straight off of her DEEP RIVER album. Here’s a little background to the song: Originally titled Distance, Utada rearranged the song into ballad form after hearing about a stabbing incident involving eight elementary students’ deaths. One of the eight was a little girl named Rena Yamashita who won an essay competition writing about how she wanted to grow up to be like Utada. And so, Utada rushed to create the song to put it on her album DEEP RIVER. And that’s how FINAL DISTANCE came to be. To simply summarize the song in one word: beautiful. From the piano and orchestra to Utada’s voice, I can feel a lot of emotion pouring into the song. Even the music video is full of emotion with Utada’s two characters desperately trying to reach each other. The music video may not make much sense, but I like the creativity and effort put into the video. In my opinion, I would call this video a work of art.