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Ringo Sheena , known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician. She is also the founder and lead vocalist of the band Tokyo Jihen. She describes herself as "". She was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians compiled ...

's 5th single and it was released on January 26, 2000, by

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. The single was certified double platinum by the

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for 800,000 copies shipped to stores and later gold for 100,000 downloads to cellphones in 2010.

Background

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". is taken from Sheena's second album ''

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''. Sheena was compelled to release two songs at the same time after all, she was going to release this song and Tsumi to Batsu separately first, though. Hisako Tabuchi, the guitarist of

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, plays the guitar on Σ. The song was covered as a part of a medley by

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on the television show ''The Yoru mo Hippare'' on September 9, 2000. It was also performed by Mino Kabasawa on her piano cover album ''Piano Pure: Memory of 2000'' and by

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on the TBS music program ''Christmas no Yakusoku 2002'' on December 25, 2001. In 2009, it was covered by

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on her album ''Second Home'' and by Juju on her cover album '' Request''. In 2012, it was released as a single by Ms. Ooja, and appeared on her album ''Woman: Love Song Covers''.

Track listing

Chart rankings

Sales and certifications

Credits and personnel

Gips *

Vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

: Ringo Sheena *

Guitars The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

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Bass guitars The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

Seiji Kameda is a Japanese music producer, arranger and bass guitarist. He has worked extensively with Ringo Shiina, serving as her producer and touring bassist for many years, including his tenure with their band Tokyo Jihen. Biography He was born in ...

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

: Yuta Saito *

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

and

Tambourines The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

: Noriyasu "Kāsuke" Kawamura *

Synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

programming: Nobuhiko Nakayama, Hiroshi Kitashiro Tokyo no Hito * Vocals, Electric guitars: Ringo Sheena * Electric guitars: Susumu Nishikawa * Bass guitars: Seiji Kameda * Drums: Masayuki Muraishi *

Organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

: Yuta Saito Σ * Vocals, Electric guitars: Ringo Sheena * Electric guitars: Hisako Tabuchi * Bass guitars: Seiji Kameda * Synthesizer programming: Nobuhiko Nakayama *

Turntables A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration Waveform, waveforms are recorded as correspond ...

: moOog yamamOTO (from

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)

Music video cast

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Vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

: Ringo Sheena * Electric guitar: Makoto Totani (from Milk Crown, Thinners) *

Electric bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

: Eikichi Iwai (from Chirinuruwowaka) *

Keyboard instrument A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital piano ...

: Makoto Minagawa (from Thinners, Sparky) *

: Hisashi Nishikawa (he is Sheena 's friend and is an amateur) Σ * Takeshi Hara * Yuka Yoshimura * Hisako Tabuchi * Seiji Kameda

Notes

{{authority control Ringo Sheena songs 2000 songs 2000 singles Songs written by Ringo Sheena Song recordings produced by Seiji Kameda