The video premiered on October 19 , 2005 on UK MTV and Japanese music television channels , and premiered a week later worldwide . It received positive reviews from most music critics . Tamar Anitai from MTV discussed how the video related to the original MTV reality television series '' Made '' but failed to express gender reassignment . Anitai commented , " But the one amazing transformation we ’ve never seen on Made ? Gender reassignment ! Come on , Made ! There 's got ta be some girl out there who does n't want to wear a bra anymore ! And , believe it or not , we dug around in the MTV video vault and found a video buried in the WTF File that perfect embraces this sentiment : it 's Japanese pop star Utada 's clip , earnestly entitled , ' You Make Me Want to Be a Man . ' " You Make Me Want to Be a Man " has been included in numerous tours conducted by Utada , such as her Utada United 2006 tour and her Utada : In the Flesh 2010 concert tour . Her performance on the Utada United 2006 tour received mixed reviews , with many feeling that the performance and the visual aesthetics on stage were " mediocre " . " You Make Me Want to Be a Man " was included on Utada 's 2010 greatest hits album , '' Utada the Best ''
Utada United 2006
Utada United 2006
You Make Me Want to Be a Man