Love, Day After Tomorrow

"Love, Day After Tomorrow" is a song recorded by Japanese singer Mai Kuraki, taken as the lead single of her debut studio album Delicious Way (2000).

The conception of the song started after the commercial failure of her English language single "Baby I Like", which led her American label Bip!

An accompanying music video was directed and released in December 1999; it features the singer in a white-black room and shares intercut scenes with various locations in New York City and Japan.

In 1999, Kuraki sent Japanese label Giza Studio a demo tape of various compositions she had recorded, in order to secure a contract with them.

Furthermore, it was composed by Aika Ohno and arranged by American music team Cybersound (Michael Africk, Perry Geyer, Miguel Pessoa).

A member of CD Journal praised the singers vocals and the tracks production, but compared its sound and commercial appeal to the works of another rising Japanese artist at the time, Hikaru Utada.

[16] An accompanying music video was directed and produced for the singers DVD compilation First Cut (2000), as her management had no prior plans to create a visual for the single.

[18] To celebrate the artist's third greatest hits album, Kuraki uploaded a new version of the video that featured numerous scenes that were taken by 15 different directors.

[19] Japanese musician Aika Ohno, who served as the composer to the track, covered the song in English language and appeared on her debut record Shadows of Dreams (2002).

[25][26][27][28] On January 14, 2017, the singer, alongside vocalists Shizuka, Ami and Reina Washio from Japanese band E-girls, performed a new rendition of the track on Music Fair.