Kore ga watashi no ikiru michi
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"Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi" (これが私の生きる道) is the 2nd single released by the Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi
on October 7, 1996. It sold over 1.5 million copies and was their first #1 hit.
It is known in American releases as being titled '"That's The Way It Is"' in An Illustrated History
and the album Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
, although not a direct translation of the song title.
A Mandarin version of the song is on their compilation album The Very Best of Puffy/amiyumi Jet Fever. A remix of this version is also on their 2003 remix album PRMX Turbo.
Puffy AmiYumi
or Puffy AmiYumi is a Japanese rock duo that is currently signed with Sony Music Japan. The group continues to go by the moniker of PUFFY in Japan, but in order to avoid legal naming conflicts with Sean Combs, it has adopted the name Puffy AmiYumi outside of Japan...
on October 7, 1996. It sold over 1.5 million copies and was their first #1 hit.
It is known in American releases as being titled '"That's The Way It Is"' in An Illustrated History
An Illustrated History
An Illustrated History is the 2nd North American album release by Japanese pop group Puffy AmiYumi, released on May 21st, 2002. ....
and the album Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (album)
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is a compilation album by pop duo PUFFY, released in 2004. It was compiled to tie in with the group's animated series of the same name...
, although not a direct translation of the song title.
A Mandarin version of the song is on their compilation album The Very Best of Puffy/amiyumi Jet Fever. A remix of this version is also on their 2003 remix album PRMX Turbo.
Track listing
- "Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi" (MonauralMonauralMonaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...
) - "Yuki ga Furu Machi" (UnicornUnicorn (Japanese band)Unicorn is a Japanese rock band, formed in 1986, consisting of Koichi Kawanishi , Tamio Okuda , Isamu Teshima , Kazushi Horiuchi , and Yoshiharu Abe . They reunited in 2009....
cover) - "Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi" (StereoSTEREOSTEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth...
KaraokeKaraokeis a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...
) - "Yuki ga Furu Machi" (Original Karaoke)
In popular culture
- "Kore ga watashi no ikiru michi" was featured in the games Donkey Konga 3 and Rayman Raving Rabbids 2Rayman Raving Rabbids 2Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 is the second installment of the Rayman Raving Rabbids party franchise, in which the Rabbids attempt to invade Earth and have set up headquarters near a local shopping mall. Players have the option to play as a Rabbid or as Rayman, who has disguised himself as a Rabbid to...
- The song also featured in the pilot episode of the television series HeroesHeroes (TV series)Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
and a remix appeared in the French/Japanese action film WasabiWasabi (film)Wasabi is a 2001 movie directed by Gérard Krawczyk, written and produced by Luc Besson and starring Jean Reno, Michel Muller and Ryōko Hirosue...
. - Parts of the song were notable for being used in a 1996 commercial for Japanese brand TesseraTesseraA tessera is an individual tile in a mosaic, usually formed in the shape of a cube. It is also known as an abaciscus, abaculus, or, in Persian کاشي معرق. In antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally colored pebbles, but by 200 BC purpose-made tesserae were being used...
'Juicy-Juicy' shampoo.