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Hibi, Ikiteireba
"Hibi, Ikiteireba" (日々、生きていれば, ) is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Ai Otsuka. The song was released as a digital single on July 6, 2016, through Avex Trax. Background and release "Hibi, Ikiteireba" was performed live for the first time as a piano-accompanied solo during the encore of Otsuka’s anniversary concert ''Love Is Born: 12th Anniversary 2015'' held on September 13, 2015, at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall. It became her first song publicly revealed since '' Love Tricky'', Otsuka's seventh studio album released approximately four and a half months prior. Before beginning the song, the artist addressed the audience, sharing the personal and societal context that inspired its creation. She introduced the song by saying, “There have been so many heartbreaking events lately. Each time... I often find myself at a loss for words. Even we, in our daily lives -while struggling, trying our best, slacking off, getting into arguments- we choose to keep on livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Otsuka
is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit " Sakuranbo", which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks. A piano player since age four, Otsuka composes and co-produces her own songs, as well as writes her own lyrics. Her music ranges from upbeat pop/rock music to ballads. Every year, Otsuka also has her own ''Love is Born'' tour to mark the anniversary of being in the music industry and her birthday in September. All of the ''Love is Born'' concerts take place in Japan, ending in her hometown of Osaka. On ''Love is Born 5th Anniversary'' in 2008, Otsuka held a leg of the concert in Taiwan, where she performed a Chinese version of her song "Planetarium". In 2009, Otsuka held 3 ''Love is Born 6th Anniversary'' concerts in Japan, as well as two concerts in Taiwan. In 2012, Otsuka debuted as the vocalist of the band Rabbit. She sold 7 million copies in Japan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Honey
''Love Honey'' is the eighth studio album by Japanese singer-songwritter Ai Otsuka. It was released on April 12, 2017, through Avex Trax. Development and concept For her eighth studio album, Otsuka aimed to create a record that blended the approach of her previous release, ''Love Tricky'' (i.e. creating mainly electronic music songs), with the essence of her earlier musical identity (i.e., using her own compositions, as opposed to co-writing). Reflecting on the creative direction, Otsuka explained that she wanted the album to feel “like a nice mix of who I was before and what came out of ''Love Tricky''.” She reunited again with Noboru Abe of Studio Apartment (band), Studio Apartment -who had produced ''Love Tricky''- to explore how his sensibilities would influence her music in the role of arranger. “I was curious,” she said, “to see what would happen if I used him as the arranger for my own songs.” The collaboration proved both experimental and fruitful, with Otsuka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s in music, 1960s pop music, pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avex Trax
is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Inc. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group. History Two years after Max Matsuura began a career distributing studio albums from other countries, he and his two Avex co-founders, Tom Yoda and Ken Suzuki, decided to found their own label. Aiming to compete with more established labels such as Nippon Columbia, Nippon Crown, BMG Victor, Victor Musical Industries, Toshiba-EMI, CBS/Sony, Teichiku Records, King Records, Nippon Phonogram and PolyGram K.K., they created the Avex Trax label. The first artist to sign to the label was the band TRF, which became a success. This led to Avex Trax becoming a "house of refuge" for artists who had left their former labels (e.g. Ayumi Hamasaki from Nippon Columbia, Namie Amuro from Toshiba-EMI, Ami Suzuki from Sony Music Japan). It also appealed to artists not content with their current labels (e.g. Gackt from Nippon Crown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
More More (song)
is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Ai Otsuka, released as her 24th single on May 21, 2014, through Avex Trax is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Inc. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group. History Two years after Max Matsuura began a career distributing studio albums from othe .... Background and release "More More" was released as the second single in Otsuka's tenth Anniversary project, following her major debut commemoration in 2013. The song was described as a "refreshing and exhilarating pop tune," with lyrics that repeatedly emphasize desires prefixed by the word "tappuri" (meaning "plenty" or "more"), such as wanting to be loved, embraced, or to travel extensively. The single was released in two formats: a standard CD-only edition and a CD+DVD edition. The single’s cover artwork features Otsuka posing alongside 47 life-sized cutouts of herself, arranged to resemble a large group photo re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watashi (song)
"Watashi" (私, ) is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Ai Otsuka. The song was released as a digital single on February 8, 2017, and later as a physical single on February 15, 2017, through Avex Trax. Background and release "Watashi" was written specifically for the Fuji TV drama series ''Kirawareru Yūki'' (The Courage to be Disliked), a detective drama inspired by the 2013 best-selling book of the same name. This marked Otsuka's first providing a theme song for a television drama in approximately nine years, since her song "Peach" was used in the 2007 series '' Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise''. The TV drama featuring the song premiered on January 12, 2017. The single was released on digital platforms on February 8, 2017. The physical single, which became her first single release on physical formats in approximately two years and nine months since " More More", was released on February 15 of the same year. Apart from the title track, the single included the song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Tricky
''Love Tricky'' is the seventh studio album by Japanese singer-songwritter Ai Otsuka. It was released on April 22, 2015, through Avex Trax. Released following a nine-month gap after her previous album, ''Love Fantastic'', this record was officialy described as a "reset of everything you knew about Ai Otsuka", as it became her first studio album to be primarily based on electronic music, marking a complete departure from the pop-rock sound that had characterized Otsuka's music since her debut. Development and concept In the early stages of her career, Otsuka made a conscious decision to focus on commercially viable music, prioritizing what she described as sing-along songs suited for karaoke culture—a major measure of popularity in Japan at the time. Although her personal taste leaned toward more "stylish" or fashion-forward music, she believed that such sounds were not considered mainstream in the Japanese pop landscape of the early 2000s. At the time, audiences largely gravita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanabata
, also known as the , is a Japanese festival originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival. It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively). According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. The date of Tanabata varies by region of the country, but the first festivities begin on 7 July of the Gregorian calendar. The celebration is held at various days between July and August. History The festival was introduced to Japan by the Empress Kōken in 755. It originated from , an alternative name for Qixi which is celebrated in China and also was adopted in the Kyoto Imperial Palace from the Heian period. The festival gained widespread popularity amongst the general public by the early Edo period, when it became mixed with various Obon or Bon traditions (because Bon was held on 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Singles
Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number) *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''Sixteen'' (2013 Indian film), a 2013 Hindi film * ''Sixteen'' (2013 British film), a 2013 British film by director Rob Brown Music * The Sixteen, an English choir * 16 (band), a sludge metal band * Sixteen (Polish band), a Polish band Albums * ''16'' (Robin album), a 2014 album by Robin * 16 (Madhouse album), a 1987 album by Madhouse * ''Sixteen'' (album), a 1983 album by Stacy Lattisaw *''Sixteen'' , a 2005 album by Shook Ones * ''16'', a 2020 album by Wejdene Songs * "16" (Sneaky Sound System song), 2009 * "Sixteen" (Thomas Rhett song), 2017 * "Sixteen" (Ellie Goulding song), 2019 *" Six7een", by Hori7on, 2023 *"16", by Craig David from ''Following My Intuition'', 2016 *"16", by Green Day from ''39/Smooth'', 1990 *"16", by Highly Suspect fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Otsuka Songs
AI most frequently refers to artificial intelligence, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, AI or A.I. may also refer to: Animals * Ai (chimpanzee), an individual experimental subject in Japan * Ai (sloth) or the pale-throated sloth, a northern Amazonian mammal species Arts, entertainment and media Works * ''Ai'' (album), a 2004 release by Seraphim * "A.I." (song), by OneRepublic, 2016 * ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence'', a 2001 American film * '' A.I. Rising'', a 2018 Serbian film * '' AI: The Somnium Files'', a 2019 video game * ''American Idol'', a televised singing contest * ''The American Interest'', a bimonthly magazine (2005–2020) * ''I'' (2015 film), an Indian Tamil film (initial title: ''Ai'') Other uses in arts and media * A.i. (band), a Californian rock–electroclash group * All in (poker), wagering one's entire stake * Appreciation Index, a British measure of broadcast programme approval * Non-player character, in gaming (colloquially, ''an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
