[miwa] The 5th Thread ~ The 5th Year ~ Road to 5th Anniversary

[mellody]

miwa who?

miwa is the first singer-songwriter got no 1 position on first album, plus the first one -any gender- for someone got #1 which born in Heisei Era. (1989-current)
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/86509/full/

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PROFILE

Spoiler:

Birthday: June 15th, 1990
Birthplace: Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Raised: Tokyo, Japan
Blood Type: A
Height: 149 cm
Instrument: Guitar & Piano
Favorite Sayng:
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
"千里の道も一歩から - senri no michi mo ippo kara"
Cherished Things: Friends & Family

Miwa (stylised as miwa) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "don't cry anymore," used as the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi's theme song. miwa currently DJs a monthly radio show on All Night Nippon, miwa no All Night Nippon R (miwaのオールナイトニッポンR), every third Monday from 3:00am to 5:00am. But now, miwa currently DJs a weekly radio show replacing the monthly show since 2011 on All Night Nippon, miwa no All Night Nippon (miwaのオールナイトニッポン), every Tuesday from 1:00am to 3:00am.

miwa was born in Hayama, Kanagawa, however moved to Tokyo at a young age. Since her father had a great love for a music, miwa naturally began to enjoy music as she grew up. She began writing songs at 15. She started self-learning how to play the guitar after she entered high school, but gave up and paid for professional lessons after finding she could not make a lot of progress learning by herself. Her High School had a ban on students having part-time jobs. Despite this, she secretly worked, and eventually used these savings by her second year of high school to buy a Gibson J-45 guitar. After this, she played live concerts mostly around Shimokitazawa in Tokyo and in Okinawa in the summer (her parents had a house there). Due to her high school also having a ban on students working in the entertainment business, she had to do these lives in secret (without even telling her school friends). In this time, Miwa released two self-published independent singles, "Song for You/Today" and "Soba ni Itai Kara" in 2007 and 2008.

miwa was signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan during her third year of high school. She debuted as an artist in 2010, while attending Keio University. Her debut single, "don't cry anymore" was chosen to be used for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi starring Eikura Nana. The single was a minor commercial success, breaking the top 20 on Oricon's single charts and being certified by the RIAJ as selling 100,000 full length cellphone downloads a month after its release. In April 2010, the song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th The Television Drama Academy Awards, beating out songs such as Arashi's "Troublemaker" and Mr. Children's "Hanabi."

miwa considers her favourite Western musicians to be Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Carole King, Avril Lavigne and Taylor Swift. Her favourite Japanese musicians are aiko, Angela Aki, Radwimps and YUKI.

LATEST RELEASE

Spoiler:

19th single (21st overall) - Anata ga Koko ni Ite Dakishimeru Koto ga Dekiru Nara (あなたがここにいて抱きしめることができるなら) (2015.11.11)
The title track was used as the theme for the drama Kounodori.

Spoiler:

Limited Edition Cover


Regular Edition Cover

UPCOMING RELEASE

Spoiler:

First Best Album, miwa ballad collection ~graduation~ (2016.01.20)

Previous (4th Thread): http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112664

Last discussion:

Originally Posted by Ryusei

YUI's best albums didn't have ANY new content so.. We'll see how this comes out. By this time I'm just waiting for ieiri leo's first best album as she has 4 albums now lol Avex and Sony both seem to do a lot of those unnecessary releases to get cash in or whatever the purpose of those releases are

Originally Posted by mellody

YUI's B-side album compilation (MY SHORT STORIES) has a new song in it. (Sony)
Superfly BEST album has 2 new songs in each disc respectively. (Warner Music Japan)
Kalafina 2 BEST albums have 2 new songs. (Technically only one, since one of them is just a freaking less-than-a-minute intro). Sony.
Morning Musume... okay, so many other to list.

Other than avex and Sony, who is releasing a compilation album with some bonus material?

EDIT:
500th POST!

[Ryusei]

I meant Green and Orange garden pop,

So the release is limited to 50'000 copies which should all sell judging by the sales of ONENESS and the blu-ray (!!!) will include a concert from the ONENESS tour at yokohama arena + there will be goods. That completely changed my view of this release actually. I now think that it's pretty cool haha I love when they include live footage (let alone an entire concert) on the DVDs or Blu Rays.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by mellody

YUI's B-side album compilation (MY SHORT STORIES) has a new song in it. (Sony)
Superfly BEST album has 2 new songs in each disc respectively. (Warner Music Japan)
Kalafina 2 BEST albums have 2 new songs. (Technically only one, since one of them is just a freaking less-than-a-minute intro). Sony.
Morning Musume... okay, so many other to list.

Other than avex and Sony, who is releasing a compilation album with some bonus material?

Don't know. So, who knows if we're going to have a new miwa song in that album... Maybe it could be...

[mellody]

Tracklist is out!

DISC1 【CD】
1.あなたがここにいて抱きしめることができるなら
2.夜空。feat.ハジ→
3.月食 ～winter moon～
4. friend ～君が笑えば～
5.つよくなりたい
6. HiKARiE English×piano version
7.オトシモノ
8.めぐろ川 <strings version>
9.片想い
10.ホイッスル ～君と過ごした日々～
11.またね
12. Delight feat. Orianthi

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Well... one new song? Who is Orianthi?

[Ryusei]

I think she's a guitarist she once made a song with kylee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7m7Xo_k4CA
Didn't expect the 2 new songs on there

[mellody]

2 new songs? Which is the other one other than.. Delight?

[Yoake]

As she already has a song called Delight it could be a new version of this song.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by Yoake

As she already has a song called Delight it could be a new version of this song.

Probably. "Delight feat. Orianthi" - I bolded it because it features a distinctive performer or something...almost certain we might have a new version here.

[Ryusei]

By new songs I meant Yozora and Anata ga koko ni ite dakishimeru koto ga dekiru nara, the ones that haven't been on an album before. Delight is already on Delight so.. that's just a new version

[Sunrise]

Orianthi is an Australian singer-songwriter, her debut single According to You was a moderate hit in some countries back in 2009 (#3 on the Japan Hot 100, #8 in Australia, #17 in the US...) and her second single Shut Up and Kiss Me peaked at #11 on the Japan Hot 100 but didn't really make an impact anywhere else. She's played guitar for some big names like Michel Jackson, Carrie Underwood and Alice Cooper. Since then she's kind of faded away but she has a nice pop-rock style so she should sound nice with miwa!

edit: Oh! It turns out Orianthi played lead guitar on super heroine on ONENESS! Here's a pic of them together on instagram -> https://www.instagram.com/p/zOENxJTMeT/ Here's another recent post of them together (2 weeks ago) -> https://www.instagram.com/p/_FtU6pTMSB/

[Bigtop]

Cutting and pasting from Karen's post on the Music Station thread:

Originally Posted by KarenPang

2016/01/15

Gesu no Kiwami Otome.
NEWS
back number
Hirai Ken
Makihara Noriyuki
miwa
Yuzu

I wonder will Gesu no Kiwami Otome. still appear on next week / 1st episode for 2016 ? After what happened the past few days surrounding the frontman :x

Anyway , looking forward to see NEWS & Ken perform

[Ryusei]

looking forward to her performance also to add to karen's comment about gesu the singer also badmouthed miwa on twitter so this is double-interesting. Ugly dude wishes he was miwa

[mellody]

Originally Posted by Ryusei

looking forward to her performance also to add to karen's comment about gesu the singer also badmouthed miwa on twitter so this is double-interesting. Ugly dude wishes he was miwa

Wait what? The singer of that new Gesu band is badmouthing miwa on Twitter? What happened? I missed something

EDIT:
Ok, I found out what happened, so a certain netizen recently has found out that in 2011, Gesu no Kiwami Otome vocalist, Enon, tweeted about how untalented miwa is. Well, speaking about timing...

I can't deny the fact that Gesu band have better skills than miwa though. But, then again, taste matters to their own.

[adantatu2]

miwa is untalented, hahahaha, she writes, composes and sings her own songs, lol. He has tons of idols in Japan, but no, he has to choose miwa who is full of talent.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by Ryusei

looking forward to her performance also to add to karen's comment about gesu the singer also badmouthed miwa on twitter so this is double-interesting. Ugly dude wishes he was miwa

Originally Posted by mellody

Wait what? The singer of that new Gesu band is badmouthing miwa on Twitter? What happened? I missed something

EDIT:
Ok, I found out what happened, so a certain netizen recently has found out that in 2011, Gesu no Kiwami Otome vocalist, Enon, tweeted about how untalented miwa is. Well, speaking about timing...

I can't deny the fact that Gesu band have better skills than miwa though. But, then again, taste matters to their own.

Originally Posted by adantatu2

miwa is untalented, hahahaha, she writes, composes and sings her own songs, lol. He has tons of idols in Japan, but no, he has to choose miwa who is full of talent.

Whoa, I did not know that Enon spoke harsh words about miwa (negatively) in the first place. Just plain old rude. Though that was five years ago...

That happened around the time (or after) that miwa got her first album #1 then Enon spoke harshly...?

Any link to the tweet in question?

[mellody]

^ Just search for Gesu band name in actual Japanese name and miwa, find a random thread, and you should find it.

Anyway, a quick update for the new upcoming ballad compilation album, they put this title instead of the original one:
HiKARiE English×piano version
めぐろ川 <strings version>

Well, HiKARiE English×piano version is new I guess? The version in Whistle single is just the short one..

[Ryusei]

the strings version of megurugawa is on guitarissimo right?
wonder why they chose the english x piano version i mean it's 3:11 long so idk if they shortened it on purpose or if it's supposed to be like that and there is no long version

[mellody]

Yep!
Hopefully this one is five minutes long? I don't think it will become like that though.

What a weird choice.

EDIT:
Newspaper promotion? Haven't seen that before for a music release.

Spoiler:

[Ryusei]

Haha the more promotion the better. What already stunned me about this release is that it only comes as CD+Blu Ray. I like it though blu ray is love.

[Bigtop]

Blu-ray is much better than DVD, that's why I'd consider buying it if I was a miwa fan, but then again for some it's duplicates (compilation, other than a new song and a new "Delight" version)...