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SpeciAlisa
''SpeciAlisa'' is the sixth studio album by Japanese recording artist Alisa Mizuki, released through Avex Tune on May 25, 2011. It is Mizuki's second studio album with Avex and first in twelve years, since ''Innocence'' (1999). The title is a portmanteau of the words "special" and "Alisa." The album was released in commemoration of Mizuki's twenty-year anniversary. Background Mizuki began planning the release of her sixth studio album in 2010. The theme for the album being bonds, Mizuki invited her musician friends and favorite artists to collaborate with her on the record. Miwa Yoshida and Masato Nakamura of Dreams Come True, whose music has in the past been used in movies and commercials starring Mizuki, wrote "Anata ga Waraeba," one of the album's lead tracks. Nakamura commented, "we wanted the song to have that obvious DoriKamu sound that even we haven't done in a while." Frequent collaborator Tetsuya Komuro, who wrote Mizuki's greatest hit " Too Shy Shy Boy!," and Amii O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshi No Hate
is the twenty-fourth single, and first re-cut single, by Japanese recording artist Alisa Mizuki. It was released on August 17, 2011, over three years and a half since "Engaged" (2008), as the first and only single from Mizuki's sixth studio album, ''SpeciAlisa''. The single was issued in two formats: CD+DVD edition and CD-only edition. The title track was written and composed by singer-songwriter Yuka Kawamura and served as theme song for the TBS drama ''Hanawake no Yon-shimai'', starring Mizuki herself. CDJournal described "Hoshi no Hate" as a "ballad about marriage and family ties" that is "well-suited for the drama series it is used in." The B-side, "Alisa in Wonderland," was produced by Micro from Def Tech and is also featured on ''SpeciAlisa''. The CD+DVD edition of the single includes the music videos for both songs. "Hoshi no Hate" debuted and peaked at number 117 on the Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |