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Ringo Sheena , known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician. She is also the founder and lead vocalist of the band Tokyo Jihen. She describes herself as "". She was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians compiled ...

's 5th single and it was released on January 26, 2000, by

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. The single was certified double platinum by the

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for 800,000 copies shipped to stores and later gold for 100,000 downloads to cellphones in 2010.

Background

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". is taken from Sheena's second album ''

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''. Sheena was compelled to release two songs at the same time after all, she was going to release this song and

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separately first, though.

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, the guitarist of

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, plays the guitar on Σ. The song was covered as a part of a medley by

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on the television show ''The Yoru mo Hippare'' on September 9, 2000. It was also performed by Mino Kabasawa on her piano cover album ''Piano Pure: Memory of 2000'' and by

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on the TBS music program ''Christmas no Yakusoku 2002'' on December 25, 2001. In 2009, it was covered by

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on her album ''Second Home'' and by Juju on her cover album '' Request''. In 2012, it was released as a single by Ms. Ooja, and appeared on her album ''Woman: Love Song Covers''.

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Chart rankings

Sales and certifications

Credits and personnel

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Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

: Ringo Sheena *

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Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

: Yuta Saito *

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and

Tambourines The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

: Noriyasu "Kāsuke" Kawamura *

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programming: Nobuhiko Nakayama, Hiroshi Kitashiro Tokyo no Hito * Vocals, Electric guitars: Ringo Sheena * Electric guitars: Susumu Nishikawa * Bass guitars: Seiji Kameda * Drums: Masayuki Muraishi *

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: Yuta Saito Σ * Vocals, Electric guitars: Ringo Sheena * Electric guitars:

* Bass guitars: Seiji Kameda * Synthesizer programming: Nobuhiko Nakayama *

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: moOog yamamOTO (from

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)

Music video cast

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Vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production i ...

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

: Ringo Sheena * Electric guitar: Makoto Totani (from Milk Crown, Thinners) *

Electric bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

: Eikichi Iwai (from

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) *

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: Makoto Minagawa (from Thinners, Sparky) *

: Hisashi Nishikawa (he is Sheena 's friend and is an amateur) Σ * Takeshi Hara * Yuka Yoshimura * Hisako Tabuchi * Seiji Kameda

Notes

{{authority control Ringo Sheena songs 2000 songs 2000 singles Songs written by Ringo Sheena Song recordings produced by Seiji Kameda