Song of the Week! 23 April 2022

 

Alongside last Wednesday's arcade update, there was an extra licensed song debut that made its debut the day after. A few days later and it sits here, as our latest SotW candidate!

Time for us to drift, UP AND...

 

AWAY

Game	Genre
AC Nijiiro		★2 (72)	★4 (126)	★4 (208)	★6 (268)	-

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And here we are with another Greater-Asia-friendly feature, as this song is available even to non-Japanese Nijiiro cabinets since its launch day! We do owe you some form of Pops feature compensation anyway, as we realized a little bit late in the party that we actually treated Dry Flower's arcade debut as an overall debut despite appearing months earlier in Nintendo Switch Version/Drum 'n' Fun beforehand... whoopsie daisy!

 
What we have at hand today is the Taiko-playable debut of the discography of the Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M., acronym for "Get Everybody Moving", or Tang Tsz-kei (鄧紫棋), both referencing her birth name of Gloria Tang Sze-wing. Born August 16th, 1991 in Shanghai and moved to HK at age 4, she's part of a family with a keen interest on the musical world, starring both instrument performers, vocal coaches and her own mother being an alumnae from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Ever since her teenager years, G.E.M. has scored an important victory in the 2006 singing competition Spice It Up, which had landed her first label record contract with Hummingbird Music and paved the way of her recognition in Greater China as well as the rest of the world, being the only Asian artist to appear in Forbes's "Top30 Under 30" in 2015, year of her first Mandipop album release Heartbeat (新的心跳).

It's inside this very same album that we find today's spotlighted song, although with its more-commonly-referred-to Japanese title of 'The Devil From Heaven' (來自天堂的魔鬼). Like all the other songs in the album, it was arranged by G.E.M.'s Singaporean producer Lupo Groinig and its MV on YouTube became notorious for being the first of four female-Chinese-singing-lead song to exceed over 100 million views online... let alone inside the G.E.M. discography!

It's another Don-dominant chart where Kat notes love lurking either at the end or in the middle of 3-note clusters, so it's not that much of a diversion from the 6-star Pops norm.