Little Girl (Miwa song) explained

Little Girl
Cover:Miwa_littlegirl.jpg
Type:single
Artist:miwa
Album:Guitarissimo
Caption:CD only/digital download editions' cover
B-Side:"Anata ga Inai to Sekai wa Konna ni Tsumaranai," "Soba ni Itai Kara"
Genre:Pop rock
Length:4:20
Label:Sony
Producer:Daishi Kataoka
Prev Title:Don't Cry Anymore
Prev Year:2010
Next Title:Change
Next Year:2010

is Japanese singer-songwriter miwa's second major label single, released on June 23, 2010.[1] The B-side "Soba ni Itai Kara" is a re-recording of miwa's second independently released single from 2008.[2]

Writing and inspiration

The song is an upbeat pop-rock song. The lyrics of the song are self-referential, both to miwa as the songwriter and the song being a love song. miwa describes herself as a "little girl" who writes songs, plays her guitar and is sick of listening to love songs. The rest of the lyrics deal with expressing feelings to an "unusual boy" in a love song, and uses unusual metaphors to with maths/science (such as "you don't need equations in love," describing the boy as "flowing with minus ions" and saying that the boy is "the only one to receive my special frequency").[3]

"Little Girl" was written during the summer holiday of her first year at university, as a potential candidate for her debut single.[4] She wanted to "make a life-sized song that was very much her." She did not want to write a love song that applied to everyone, but one that was specific to just a certain two people.[5]

Promotion

The song was used as the June 2010 opening theme song for the music television show Countdown TV.[6] miwa performed the song at Bokura no Ongaku on June 18, along with "Don't Cry Anymore" and a cover of Shikao Suga's "Ai ni Tsuite."[7]

Music video

The music video was shot by director Hideyuki Tokigawa.[8] It begins with scenes of miwa performing the song with a band at a brightly furnished café, her dressed casually with glasses writing down song lyrics at the bar at the same café. Interspersed between these scenes are shots of miwa and a man dressed in a rabbit suit, meeting outside in different settings (garden paths, fountains, fields). At the end of the video, she is shown walking away with the rabbit hand-in-hand.

Chart rankings

Chart Peak
position
Billboard Japan Hot 100[9] 84
Oricon Weekly singles[10] 18
RIAJ Digital Track Chart Top 100[11] 59

Reported sales

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: miwa : リトルガール【初回生産限定盤】 . . Japanese . 2010-07-22.
  2. Web site: MOD'S SHOP. Miwa. Japanese. 2010-04-30. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090804011746/http://modsshop.jp/miwa.html. 2009-08-04.
  3. Web site: リトルガール 歌詞情報 - goo 音楽. Goo Ongaku. Japanese. 2010-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20110614122734/http://music.goo.ne.jp/lyric/LYRUTND94387/index.html. 2011-06-14. dead.
  4. Web site: Excite. クローズアップ『miwa』. 2010-06-25. 2010-07-22.
  5. Web site: Oricon. 【編集長の目っ!】"まんまmiwa"な新曲「リトルガール」 . 2010-06-23. 2010-07-22.
  6. Web site: JBook. リトルガール:miwa. 2010-07-22.
  7. Web site: Bokura no Ongaku . Fuji Terebi.
    1. 311(10/06/18)miwa×榮倉奈々
    . 2010-06-18. 2010-07-22.
  8. Web site: Space Shower. miwa 楽曲名 リトルガール2. Japanese. 2010-07-22.
  9. Web site: Japan Billboard Hot 100 . Billboard Japan . July 5, 2010 . July 22, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110523143443/http://www.billboard-japan.com/system/jp_charts/hot100/51-100/page:4 . May 23, 2011 . dead .
  10. Web site: リトルガール - miwa / オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」. Oricon. July 22, 2010. Japanese.
  11. Web site: RIAJ Digital Track Chart: Chart issue June 29, 2010 . . July 22, 2010 . Japanese . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141001045856/http://satsuki.musicdb.gr.jp/all_info/ranking_weekly/WeeklyRankingAction.do?term=2010f&weeklyCd=20100629&rankKbn=100 . October 1, 2014 .
  12. Web site: オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」 . . 2010-07-22. (subscription only)