Free Way Explained

Free Way
Cover:Rain_single_freeway.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Rain
Album:Eternal Rain
B-Side:Feels So Right
Released:June 7, 2006
Recorded:2006
Genre:J-pop
Length:4:05
Label:King Records
Producer:Ryosuke Imai, UTA
Prev Title:Sad Tango
Prev Year:2006
Next Title:Move On
Next Year:2006

"Free Way" was the second Japanese single taken from the forthcoming debut Eternal Rain, from Korean singer, Rain. The single was released on June 7, 2006 throughout Japan, it peaked at the 15th position on the Oricon Charts. Free Way is often compared to the single, Rock Your Body by American singer Justin Timberlake. Many reasons for this are the music video similarities and the disco/funk melodies featured in the song.

Music video

In the video for Free Way, we see singer Rain dancing in a dark black room with what appears to be television screens displaying an assorted collection of colorful holograms. The screens continue to change while Rain and his dancers dance around the area. Throughout the video a total of two outfit changes take place, the first outfit being of all white and the second being of all black.

Track listing

CD Single

  1. Free Way
  2. Feel So Right
  3. Free Way [Instrumental Version]
  4. Feel So Right [Instrumental Version]

DVD Single Disc 1

  1. Free Way - Music Video
  2. Making of Free Way

DVD Single Disc 2

  1. Free Way
  2. Feel So Right
  3. Free Way [Instrumental Version]
  4. Feel So Right [Instrumental Version]

Charts

Chart (2006)Peak
position
Oricon Top 200 Weekly15
Oricon Year-End Singles Chart478[1]

Sales: 17,005[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Oricon Entertainment . Orikon Nenkan 2007 Nenban オリコン年鑑2007年版 (Oricon Yearbook 2007) . March 2007 . Oricon Entertainment . Tokyo . Japanese . 978-4-87131-082-6 . 18, p. 228, p. 232, p. 239, p. 243 .