Regrettably, I realized that we forgot to offer coverage for the one Taiko debut of this ending week from the licensed song pool... so you know what? That's going to be our next Song of the Week instead!
Kirari Fujii Kaze
きらり / 藤井 風
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kirari (Kirari)Released just two days ago as one of the ongoing Nintendo Switch game's stand-alone DLC tracks, this is the 8th single from the Internet-spawn Japanese pop singer Fujii Kaze (藤井 風), born the second in a houseold of two brothers and sisters on June 14th, 1997.
Coming from Satosho, in Okayama, he started listening to many different genres of music in his early age and started uploading piano and vocal covers of his own over YouTube, halting only in his busiest music school years to then come back. After moving out to Tokyo in 2019, he began composing original songs under the HEHN Records label, with his first two works getting releases a little over a month from each other and nowadays garnering further accolades under a different (and ongoing) label partnership with Universal Sigma.
Released digitally online on May 3rd, 2021, Kirari was a commissioned song for the car brand Honda's commercials of the VEZEL model, where it was credited as "GOOD GROOVE" instead. This electronic dance piece is said by the singer himself to have its chorus part being inspired during an everyday shopping outing at a Don Quijote convenience store and its main melody was drastically modified by the same Fujii due to it sounding to similar to the insert song Kaze no Totoro (from Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro), as the direction he wanted to take Kirari in was completely different from the animation flick's laid-back and wonderous tone. Ultimately, the song is Fujii Kaze's greatest success story to date, going Gold and Platinum on sales and streaming respectively as well as charting with quite high peaks in both Oricon (5th) and Hot Billboard (2nd) charts.
A lot of repeating stanzas await for this song's Oni chart, but you can also be sure to have most of its 3-note clusters with a Kat note spliced in somewhere in the triplet, paving way to a rookie-friendly approach to repeated handswitching execution.
