[Kana Nishino] the 5th thread

[ストロボ・EdGE]

★　Profile

Born on March 18, 1989, Kana Nishino debuted February 20, 2008 with the single "I" after being selected out of 40,000 people in a Sony Music audition. After coming to America on two occasions, she discovered Western music such as Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, and Ciara and became absorbed with hip hop, R&B, and reggae, along with other various types of music while also having an interest for the musical culture of Japan, such as learning traditional Japanese music.

Her first album, "LOVE one.", debuted at #4 on the Oricon Charts on July 24, 2009 and within the first month its release, broke through 200,000 copies. Since then she has released several successful singles starting with "Motto...", which attained the number one spot on both the Chaku-Uta and Chaku-Uta Full charts followed by her first double a-side single, "Dear.../Maybe" and "Best Friend" which along with "Motto..." are two of the few songs to have spent 2 weeks at #1 spot on the RIAJ Digital Track chart. Single "Aitakute aitakute" reached 1,000,000 digital downloads across Chaku-uta and Chaku-uta Full. Her sophomore album, "to LOVE" went on sale June 23 and has since become one of the best selling albums of the year, selling more than 500,000 physical copies in less than a month and still charting.

Following in August will be her 11th single, "if", a middle ballad tied up as the theme song to the upcoming anime movie, "NARUTO Shippuuden -The Lost Tower-".

Sources: official website, Goo artist profile, RIAJ

★　Discography

NEW
if
11th single 8/04/2010
Covers and promo pic; provided by kakumei.

Spoiler:

NEW
to LOVE
2nd album 6/23/2010

会いたくて 会いたくて (Aitakute aitakute; I miss you, I miss you)
10th single 5/19/2010

Best Friend
9th single 2/24/2010

Dear.../MAYBE
8th single 12/2/2009

もっと… (Motto...; More...)
7th single 10/21/2009

LOVE one.
1st album 6/24/2009

君に会いたくなるから (Kimi ni aitaku naru kara; Because I want to see you)
6th single 6/3/2009

遠くても feat.WISE (Tookutemo feat.WISE; Even if you're far away)
5th single 3/18/2009

MAKE UP
4th single 1/28/2009

Style.
3rd single 8/13/2008

glowly days
2nd single 4/23/2008

I
debut single 2/20/2008

★　News & updates

Official lyrics for "if": http://music.goo.ne.jp/lyric/LYRUTND97152/index.html

Translation by tenshi_no_hane: http://verduistering.livejournal.com/52097.html

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"if" full download provided by ngagang:
http://www.mediafire.com/?o3ui8lulzatm7d7

YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr5INDOBc8M

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RecoChoku "if" CM provided by kakumei (full PV to air on the 2nd of August):
http://link.brightcove.co.jp/service...=tvcm100728_01

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Full PV; thanks to kakumei:


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Full if single leak! See below under AHS Downloads.

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if's B-sides translated by tenshi_no_hane:
http://verduistering.livejournal.com/53697.html

★　Links

Official website: http://www.nishinokana.com/
Mobile fanclub: http://www.kanayans.jp/
Official blog: http://ameblo.jp/nishino-kana/

★　AHS downloads

to LOVE provided by Yoake
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...t=kana+nishino

if full single provided by Ayumi 626
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...52#post2444352

★　Misc

Oricon Special Interview

Spoiler:

NISHINO KANA SPECIAL INTERVIEW
Oricon Style June 23, 2010
(http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/interv...shinokana0623/)
Translated by ストロボ・EdGE


I think I've really grown, and my values and philosophy on love has also changed.

----A year has passed since your first album; do you see any changes in yourself?
[Nishino] This album has the same main theme of LOVE, but in this year I’ve written many love songs, and also among the songs I’ve gone on to dedicate to my friends, I think it became a moment to face myself anew. I think I’ve really grown, and my values and philosophy on love has also changed, so this past year has been packed into this second album.


----The beginning, “*Prologue*~What a nice~*” and the ending, “*Epilogue*~to LOVE~” each stand on their own but they give the feeling of a story, don’t they?
[Nishino] I started this album in the spring, and I imagine it as the four seasons of a year. My first album started out with a first love, and ended with a broken heart. It’s a loop so that “In the end, is the answer of love reached?” sort of feeling was in the first album, and this time too it starts with harboring feelings for the first time, then ends with the unrequited love song “Aitakute aitakute”, but after that another included song, “You are the one” serves as it’s answer. This ending is different than the first album’s.


----You mean it became that “I’m glad we met” feeling.
[Nishino] I think so. Or rather, having been able to take a step forward from those lonely and painful feelings. It’s having the feeling that you’ve reached that point in yourself. From having met each other somehow or another you think it had good effect, and because you can feel you had good times, having met in itself was a good thing.


----Was there an occasion that led you to begin thinking that way?
[Nishino] There was no specific occasion, but I guess it was just time? It’s a feeling from the passing of time. And of love, friends and family, and other things too.


----As far as you can hear the songs, the feelings of gratitude are really shown.
[Nishino] It certainly is.


----This time you also had a collaboration with MINMI, “Summer Girl feat. MINMI”. In working with other artists, don’t you feel you’ve met another side of yourself?
[Nishino] Yes. MINMI-san is a person I’ve admired and listened to since middle school, so it’s a dream come true (smiles). She’s powerful but she also has her cute sides, and she’s kind and open-minded. Again, I think she’s a wonderful person. When our voices overlapped each other I got goose bumps, and it was all very fun.


----Speaking of something new, “Hey Boy” is very rockish. The subject seems to be of a girl’s “attack” against a boy.
[Nishino] I wanted this song to be like a crowd of girls talking. Like “Isn’t he so uncool?”, “Just go away!” etc.


----So it’s like many people are in one song. I really liked the line “I won’t let this year go to waste.”
[Nishino] (Laugh.) I wrote this song three years ago when working on my debut single. My teenaged self wrote it, but now my present self sings it… Personally, it’s a bit funny. Because of the time it was, I was kind of acting cute and charged up, and airy, so it was something I could write. Each year passing I feel something is definitely off about me.




I’m able to see myself objectively when writing lyrics.

----By the way Kana-chan, are you the type that can communicate their feelings?
[Nishino] I’m a chicken until I say it but when I decide to confess my feelings it’s simple. Until I decide that I’m very fidgety.


----In the beginning you said that your philosophy on love has changed, but what did you mean by that specifically?
[Nishino] The feelings I bear are, and things like my interactions with the other person; one by one I’ve increased the importance, like in the song “Kono mama de” and the last song “You are the one” but I also feel that my outlook has expanded a bit…


----What is your ideal love?
[Nishino] I want us to mutually understand each other, and to respect each other… As for love, “forgiveness” becomes an important topic. That has a close nuance to recognition and acceptance. I want to become a person with those big feelings, and I think that sort of romantic relationship is nice.


----On top of a relationship of equality, what other things does Kana-chan seek in a partner?
[Nishino] Now it’s gentleness and affection… Sturdy like the back of a chair I guess.


----It’s said that with love, the same mistakes are repeated, but Kana-chan grows from it right?
[Nishino] Hahaa. I think that’s definitely because of the lyrics I write.


----For you, is that facing yourself?
[Nishino] Yeah. I think I’m able to see myself objectively, and if I couldn’t write my lyrics, I think I wouldn’t be able to look back upon myself… Having a thorough understanding of my past loves, I’ve got the feeling that I grow through gazing upon them again and writing my feelings. And then this time around, I had influence in the sound and I enjoyed the music, and I think I was able to put all together in my own way things about loving and how to love in this album.


----It’s the Love Bible for teenage and girls in their twenties, isn’t it?
[Nishino] I’d be happy if it was (smile.)

[waterballoon]

I realize how just how concise & clear this is, compared to whatever we've had.

so anyway... about "if", I hope the PV would be something nice! I really want the scenery with the CD covers to be in the PV; they're really beautiful~

[ストロボ・EdGE]

^ Do you think it's too long and everything should be replaced in a respective spoiler tags?

Oh and sorry for the ugly banner guys... xD I'll do a request for one and replace it.

[NintendoHTF1242]

Beautiful first post <3 YAY for the 2nd/3rd Kana thread to NOT be trashed? Well, I presume anyway.

[Beauty4123]

the banner is beautiful! :hear so does the first post! thanks for the thread.

...still waiting for the if PV

[waterballoon]

Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE

^ Do you think it's too long and everything should be replaced in a respective spoiler tags?

Oh and sorry for the ugly banner guys... xD I'll do a request for one and replace it.

the banner isn't ugly!

and oh I don't think it's too long currently but it's definitely gonna get longer as the days go by so~

[Yum!Fruit_Salad!]

All I want for now is an eye pleasing PV

[happiholic★]

^Yes, me too!

Also, amazing first post, Strobe :3

[Mirrorcle Monster]

The covers are AMAZING!!!She looks really great!!

[FIRSTKLAS]

Excellent first post.

Much, much better than "will fix later" and "discuss! discuss!"

[Yum!Fruit_Salad!]

if romaji

Spoiler:

Moshi ano hi no ame ga
Tonde ita nara
Kitto surechigatte ita dake kamo
Itsumo toori no jikan ni
BASU ga kiteta nara
Kimi to wa deau koto ga nakattanda ne

Moshi mo sukoshi demo
Ano shunkan ga zuretetara
Futari wa chigatta unmei wo tadotte shimatteta

Kimi to onaji mirai wo
Zutto issho ni mite itai
Onaji hoshi wo onaji basho de
Mitsumete iyou yo
Kimi no egaku mirai ni
Watashi wa iru no kana
Onaji sora wo onaji omoide
Miagete itai yo

Kuchiguse ya shigusa mo
Yoku nite kita futari
Marude zutto mukashi kara *******u mitai da ne
Douji ni MEERU shitari
Onaji koto omottari
Akai ito de hikiyoserareteru no kamo

Guuzen wa saishou kara
Mou kimatteta mitai ni
Kasanatta futari wa unmei tte shinjite iru yo

Kimi no egaku mirai ni
Watashi wa iru no kana
Onaji sora wo onaji omoide
Miagete itai yo

Kimi to onaji mirai wo
Zutto issho ni mite itai
Onaji hoshi wo onaji basho de
Mitsumete iyou yo
Kimi no egaku mirai ni
Watashi wa iru no kana
Onaji sora wo onaji omoide
Miagete itai yo

Tatoeba namida no hi mo
Hare no hi mo futari de
Onaji michi wo itsumade mo
Te wo tsunaide arukemasu you ni

Kimi to onaji mirai wo
Zutto issho ni mite itai
Onaji hoshi wo onaji basho de
Mitsumete iyou yo
Kimi no egaku mirai ni
Watashi wa iru no kana
Onaji sora wo onaji omoide
Miagete itai yo

The astericked part is 知ってる. It's too close to **** that it's bleeped.

[AyuGAME]

just realize that the preview of if already out...
the song is promising, but i thought i can hear more oriental and rockish song...because naruto usually has song like that...
but still looking forward to the full version...

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Thanks guys! I'm glad to have done it and I will follow up with it.

[Michan]

where's the preview? =D

[taskinillusion]

Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242

Beautiful first post <3 YAY for the 2nd/3rd Kana thread to NOT be trashed? Well, I presume anyway.

Oh, well I just love trashing Kana threads for the fun of it you know...

Congrats, Strobe!

[tenshi no hane]

Nice first post ^-^


The official lyrics of 'if' have already been released, so I translated the song --> here
The title makes more sense now XD

[waterballoon]

thank u tenshi! i love the lyrics!

[ngagang]

Wow, thanks for the translation!

The lyrics for if is really different from what she had previously written for other songs

[ngagang]

Oh god! This girl went up to #3 today!!

[y_nathz]

Nice first post
And wow #3 ? Go Kana !! XD