Shooting Gallery Arpeggio

Shooting Gallery Arpeggio is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays a summer festival night built on nothing more than a wager, where an invitation is never confirmed and a promise is never made.
A festival notice read aloud on a shopping street, the starch of a freshly pressed yukata, bare bulbs strung along a shrine approach, the white blur of cotton candy, and five corks loaded one by one create a warm and restless setting where hope and unease share the same breath.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that will not ask whether a passing remark was meant as an invitation, and decides instead that the act of taking aim belongs to her alone.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era lyrical subtlety through images of summer nights, wooden stalls under bare light, and a distance measured in single steps.

Four corks miss the mark, a hand steadies her trembling elbow for a single moment, and the fifth shot leaves the barrel by her own decision.
It misses as well, yet the sound of that miss turns into laughter shared between two people, and she walks home in wooden sandals without letting the words next week become a promise.

Produced by nanayon music.