Little Girl (Miwa song)
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is Japanese singer-songwriter Miwa
's second major label single, released on June 23, 2010. The B-side "Soba ni Itai Kara" is a re-recording of Miwa's second independently released single from 2008.
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"Little Girl" was written during the summer holiday of her first year of university, as a potential candidate for her debut single. She wanted "make a life-sized song they was very much her." She did not want to write a love song that applied to everyone, but one that was specific to just a certain two people.
" and a cover of Shikao Suga
's "Ai ni Tsuite."
Miwa (singer)
Miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "Don't Cry Anymore", used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi.- Biography :...
's second major label single, released on June 23, 2010. The B-side "Soba ni Itai Kara" is a re-recording of Miwa's second independently released single from 2008.
Writing and inspiration
The song is an upbeat pop-rock song. The lyrics of the song are self-referential, both to Miwa as the songwriter and the song being a love song. Miwa describes herself as a "little girl" who writes songs, plays her guitar and is sick of listening to love songs. The rest of the lyrics deal with expressing feelings to an "unusual boy" in a love song, and uses unusual metaphors to with maths/science (such as "you don't need equations in love," describing the boy as "flowing with minus ions" and saying that the boy is "the only one to receive my special frequencyFrequency
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"Little Girl" was written during the summer holiday of her first year of university, as a potential candidate for her debut single. She wanted "make a life-sized song they was very much her." She did not want to write a love song that applied to everyone, but one that was specific to just a certain two people.
Promotion
The song was used as the June 2010 opening theme song for the music television show Countdown TV. Miwa performed the song at Bokura no Ongaku on June 18, along with "Don't Cry AnymoreDon't Cry Anymore
"Don't Cry Anymore" is Japanese singer-songwriter Miwa's debut major label single, released on March 3, 2010. It was used as the Nana Eikura starring drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi's theme song. It was certified gold by the RIAJ for full-length cellphone downloads.-Writing:The song is an upbeat pop...
" and a cover of Shikao Suga
Shikao Suga
is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo. Though he uses katakana for his recording name, the kanji for his name are 菅 止戈男, but the romanization is the same. Suga is his family name and Shikao is his given name....
's "Ai ni Tsuite."
Music video
The music video was shot by director Hideyuki Tokigawa. It begins with scenes of Miwa performing the song with a band at a brightly furnished café, her dressed casually with glasses writing down song lyrics at the bar at the same café. Intersperced between these scenes are shots of Miwa and a man dressed in a rabbit suit, meeting outside in different settings (garden paths, fountains, fields). At the end of the video, she is shown walking away with the rabbit hand-in-hand.Track listing
Chart rankings
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Japan Hot 100 Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com .... |
84 |
| Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... Weekly singles |
18 |
| RIAJ Digital Track Chart RIAJ Digital Track Chart The is chart ranks the best selling digital singles in Japan, provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan since April 2009. The chart measures cellphone downloads .... Top 100 |
59 |
Reported sales
| Chart | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... physical sales |
8,200 |