"Time Limit" | ||||
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Single by Utada Hikaru | ||||
from the album Distance | ||||
Released | June 30, 2000 | |||
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Recorded | 2000 | |||
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Length | 4:55 | |||
Label | Toshiba EMI | |||
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Producer(s) | Rodney Jerkins | |||
Utada Hikaru singles chronology | ||||
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"Time Limit" (Japanese: タイム・リミット Hepburn: Taimu Rimitto?) is a song by Japanese musician Hikaru Utada. It was released as a double A-side single with the song "For You" on June 30, 2000.
In 1999, Utada released her debut album First Love, which was the most commercially successful album of all time in Japan. After this success, she released two follow-up singles, "Addicted to You" (1999) and "Wait & See (Risk)" (2000), which were both produced by American production team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. For "Time Limit", Utada enlisted the help of American producer Rodney Jerkins, and recorded the song at Darkchild Studios in New Jersey.
The song was co-composed with Takuro of the band Glay, the first time Utada had shared the role of songwriter since her 1998 pre-debut album Precious as Cubic U. For Utada's second album Distance (2001), she worked together with Takuro again on the song "Drama".
The "For You" / "Time Limit" single was released right before Bohemian Summer 2000, her first wide-scale tour of Japan, and on the same day as the DVD single release of her previous single, "Wait & See (Risk)".