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Secret & Lies

album by U-ka Saegusa in dB

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ11245746 ↗
Source-derived summary

Secret & Lies is the debut extended play (EP) by Japanese pop band U-ka Saegusa in dB, released on 5 February 2003 by Giza Studio. The album peaked at number twenty on the Oricon weekly albums chart and has sold over 30,111 copies nationwide.

Singles

"Whenever I Think of You" was released on 12 June 2002 as the lead single. The single reached number forty-one in Japan and has sold over 6,580 copies nationwide. The song served as the theme songs to the Japanese anime television series, Cheeky Angel. "Whenever I Think of You" was covered and recorded by the song's writer, Akihito Tokunaga for his first studio album, Route 109 (2020).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Secret & Lies” is album by U-ka Saegusa in dB. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Secret, Lies and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2002, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Secret, Lies and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by U-ka Saegusa in dB” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q11245746. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2002 and 2020.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Secret & Lies”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Secret & Lies primary sources, Secret & Lies archive and Secret research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Secret & Lies”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Secret & Lies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.