I am ME (feat. Minori Therrien Imai & Yajitomo) Front Cover

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I am ME (feat. Minori Therrien Imai & Yajitomo)

YUSHIO

Where are you from? 

It’s an easy question

But not for me

Here, there or nowhere, I don’t know

I come from different places

Mix of words

Mix of norms

I wonder if I’m all mixed up

Am I more like my dad 

Or more like my mom

Or maybe neither

Where do I belong?

Who am I?

Made up my mind

Won’t worry no more

I don’t have to be like anyone else

Don’t define me

Don’t confine me

I am ME

Where’s your home?

It’s an easy question

But not for me

Here, there or nowhere, I don’t know

I lived in different places

In the East

In the West

You can see that I’m all mixed up

More like him

Or More like her

Or maybe neither

Where do I belong?

Who am I?

Made up my mind

Won’t worry no more

I don’t want to be like anyone else

Don’t define me

Don’t confine me

I am ME

I ain’t your average kid

I’m hard to figure out

But I got so much more to offer the world, you will see 

I found a place where I can be who I am

I found a friend whom I can be who I am

That’s my home

Found my home

I am ME

Made up my mind

Won’t worry no more

I don’t have to be like anyone else in the world

So I just made up my mind

Won’t worry no more

I want to be just who I am, who I am

Don’t define me

Don’t confine me

I am ME

  • Lyricist

    Hiroko Nagata Bell

  • Composer

    YUSHIO

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    I am ME (feat. Minori Therrien Imai & Yajitomo)

    YUSHIO

Here's to all the misfits around the globe.

One girl questioned...I am not Japanese enough, I am not American enough. Then, who am I?
A TCK's journey to find peace with her mixed identity became a poem.

When that poem reached a musician in Tokyo, she instantly connected to the words through her own lens of having been a misfit in school. Then the poem became a song overnight.

Four artists who are also mothers, collaborated between the United States and Japan to deliver this song.

Listen.

And you may find your own story within it.

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I am ME

iTunes Store • R&B/Soul TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 29 • 10 Jun 2021

Artist Profile

  • YUSHIO

    由潮(ゆしお)/ YUSHIO 1月19日生まれ。作詞家。シンガーソングライター。 武蔵野美術大学 視覚伝達デザイン学科卒業。 ギタリストであった父親の影響から音楽をはじめ、高校生の時に本格的に音楽活動を開始。 メジャー経験の後にシンガーソングライターとして楽曲を制作し続ける。 コロナ禍では、ママアーティストチームであるオカンノオトのメンバーと共に、ミュージカル歌手とのコラボ、絵本や童謡をモチーフにした作品、学童のBGMなど、様々な楽曲制作に取り組む。 施設やカフェでのライブも行う。

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