"Spring Rain" is
MAX's 23rd single on the
Avex Trax label and their second ballad single. It was released on February 20, 2002 after the announcement of lead singer
Mina's pregnancy and marriage. It was Mina's last single with the group before she was replaced by
Aki on their next single, "
Eternal White
"Eternal White" is MAX's 24th single on the Avex Trax label. The single was their first after a brief hiatus following the departure of lead singer, Mina in March, 2002. It was also their first single with Aki who joined the group in July, 2 ...
."
Music video
A
music video
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for the single was filmed before the cancellation of MAX’s originally-planned fifth studio album. The music video intersperses the four members of MAX singing the song in a white room, with scenes of MAX walking throughout
Tokyo
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, and scenes of Japanese schoolchildren sitting under a
cherry blossom tree. The video ends with MAX witnessing a school graduation ceremony, and then fades to black. When the video fades back in after a few seconds, the track list of MAX’s second greatest hits album,
Precious Collection 1995–2002, rolls in the style of the
closing credits
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of a
feature film
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, accompanying an instrumental piano version of the song, this time with a much slower tempo than the original version.
Track list
Production
Music
Spring Rain
* Arrangement - H-Wonder
* Guitars -
Nozomi Fukukawa
* Background vocals -
Yuko Ohtani
* Recording - Kenichi Nakamura, Masayuki Nakano
* Mixing - Kenichi Nakamura
Party Tune
* Arrangement - Masato Hiraide
* Bass - Kitaro Nakamura
* Background vocals - Yuko Ohtani
* Recording - Kenichi Nakamura, Masayuki Nakano
* Mixing - Masayuki Nakano
Art direction & design
* Art direction & design - Yoshitaka Sato
* Photography - Ryu Tamagawa
* Stylish - Yasuhiro Watanabe
* Hair - Taku
* Make-up - Masaki Tanishige
* Coordinator - Taizou Yasumoto
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
References
{{MAX (band)
2002 singles
MAX (band) songs
2002 songs
Avex Trax singles