tokyo street lights

1. Tokyo Street Lights

2. Emergency

After stopping my music activities in Japan at the end of 2015, at first it was hard to go back to making music as I had no stage name and I thought no one would listen to my new songs, but once I found some creativity I was able to create "Tokyo Street Lights", a song that highlights Tokyo as a place I love and as a source of inspiration. It was the perfect way to kick off my new music career under a brand new stage name, going for a modern EDM sound while including traditional Japanese instruments such as koto and shamisen, reminiscing of Japan and being such a homage to my previous music career as a J-pop singer for years.

Part of the inspiration for this song also came from the fact that I was planning a trip to Japan with friends during the summer of 2016, and I was acting as a tour guide, showing them what I loved the most from my previous trips. We all filmed lots of videos to create a fun documentary with our experiences from the trip, and since I was the one in charge of editing everything I thought making a theme song for those videos would be cool, so I wanted to create a song that had a Japanese feel to it.

Then there's the b-side track, called "Emergency", which doesn't have that much of a backstory. It's a pop song with a catchy bass line and sultry lyrics, and some people who listened to it after releasing this single said this song reminded them of Britney Spears quite a bit, so I took that as a nice compliment.