Japanese Jargon Front Cover

Lyric

First Day of Spring (feat. YUYU & QPLO)

Rié

First day of spring, sunny vibes, cloudless sky

Brighter nights, feel alive, realize what this life has to offer

Laugh, loosen up, just lay back

Keep your focus on the love, confidence, luck will come

Raise your chin a little higher

Now the cold winter’s gone

Feel the breeze, summer’s dawn

Seasons change, gray to green

Feeling free

(Young and free, you and me)

Keep on holding on, that’s how it’s gonna be

First day of spring, birds will tell, from the south back to east

Harmony and for peace, scent of young bud awakening

You survived graciously, not it’s time to plant in

We can start a family, dig our roots a little deeper

Now the cold winter’s gone

Feel the breeze, summer’s dawn

Seasons change, gray to green

Feeling free

(Young and free, you and me)

Keep on holding on, that’s how it’s gonna be

I can’t see through all your lies

I know you just want to cry

Maybe we just lost control

So I’ll be seeing you on the other side, yeah

Now the cold winter’s gone

Feel the breeze, summer’s dawn

Seasons change, gray to green

Feeling free

(Young and free, you and me)

Keep on holding on, that’s how it’s gonna be

  • Lyricist

    Rie fu, YUYU

  • Composer

    Rie fu

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    NINGEN ROBOT (feat. Meiso) [DJ YUSKAY REMIX]

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    First Day of Spring (feat. YUYU & QPLO)

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  • 3

    Cabin Fever Carnival

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    Lyric

  • 4

    Three Black Labradors

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  • 5

    Niku Jagger

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  • 6

    FAMOUS (Theme Park Remix)

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    Lyric

  • 7

    About Time

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    Lyric

  • 8

    St.Martin (Theme Park mix)

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  • 9

    Secrets

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  • 10

    Levels (feat. Deacon)

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  • 11

    Business Trips

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  • 12

    Calling

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  • 13

    Break Away

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  • 14

    SIGN

    Rié

  • 15

    St.Martin (Molmol remix)

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Rié, a project under the alias of singer-songwriter Rie fu, has been featured in international music blogs and social media since 2017 for the hybrid eclectic sound and collaborations with Japanese and international artists. This year, the artist/painter/translator brings her unique cross-cultural perspective with the album "Japanese Jargon".

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First Day of Spring

Spotify • 春のうた • 6 Apr 2023

Artist Profile

  • Rié

    Rié (pronounced ree-ay) Funakoshi - known simply as Rié - is a singer-songwriter of rare melodic grace whose music resonates with the lush splendour of Karen Carpenter and the acoustic intimacy of Suzanne Vega. But there are signs in her sound of an artist teetering on the edge between MOR and the avant-garde. Listening to her reminds you that, from Kate Bush and Björk to Bat For Lash-es, some of the most interesting, experimental pop has one ear attuned to the mainstream. She came to music via painting, having studied Fine Art at London's Central Saint Martin's. When speaking about her art-based background: "I never thought I'd be a singer because I was shy and wanted to create and paint rather than have people look at me onstage," admits Rié, who was born in Japan and grew up in Tokyo in a family of medics ("I didn't get any of their doctor DNA," she laughs). A Rié song might be about anything - she even has one about eyelash extensions - but these are merely the launchpad for a series of thrillingly inventive meditations on the human condition. "There's nothing I wouldn't write about," she says. "I'd welcome the challenge of writing about the most unexpected thing. " "Japanese poetry and writing are all about saying something through something else, implying obliquely," she muses. "In a Japanese poem, if something is beautiful, you never use the word 'beautiful'; you refer to it without spelling it out." Paul Lester, September 2016 Artist logo by Airside Studios Japan

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