I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

In 1995 Sweet appeared on an episode of the series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. In 1991 Sweet released Girlfriend the retitled pop-rock album which was widely considered an artistic breakthrough and quickly garnered impressive U. In 2001 Sweet and Darius Rucker performed The Beach Boys song "Sail On Sailor" on the special A Tribute to Brian Wilson and both the musicians later performed the same song with Brian Wilson himself on Late Show with David Letterman.

He was part of the burgeoning Athens Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s. Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6 1964 in Lincoln Nebraska) is an American alternative rock/power pop musician.