Little Girl (Miwa song)

"Little Girl"
Single by miwa
from the album Guitarissimo
B-side "Anata ga Inai to Sekai wa Konna ni Tsumaranai," "Soba ni Itai Kara"
Released June 23, 2010
Format CD Single, digital download
Genre Pop rock
Length 4:20
Label Sony
Writer(s) miwa
Producer(s) Daishi Kataoka
miwa singles chronology
"Don't Cry Anymore"
(2010)		 "Little Girl"
(2010)		 "Change"
(2010)
CD+DVD edition cover.

"Little Girl" (リトルガール Ritoru Gāru) 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 of university, as a potential candidate for her debut single.[4] She wanted "make a life-sized song they 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

miwa in the 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. Intersperced 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.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by miwa. 

No. TitleArranger Length
1. "Little Girl"  Daishi Kataoka 4:20
2. "Anata ga Inai to Sekai wa Konna ni Tsumaranai" (あなたがいないと世界はこんなにつまらない "Without You, The World Is So Dull")Naoki-T 4:22
3. "Soba ni Itai Kara" (そばにいたいから "Because I Want to Be Near You")miwa 4:31
4. "Little Girl (Instrumental)"  Kataoka 4:20
Total length:
 17:33

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

Chart Amount
Oricon physical sales[12] 8,200

References

  1. ↑ "miwa : リトルガール【初回生産限定盤】" (in Japanese). Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  2. ↑ MOD'S SHOP. "Miwa" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  3. ↑ "リトルガール 歌詞情報 - goo 音楽" (in Japanese). Goo Ongaku. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  4. ↑ Excite (2010-06-25). "クローズアップ『miwa』". Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  5. ↑ Oricon (2010-06-23). "【編集長の目っ！】“まんまmiwa”な新曲「リトルガール」". Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  6. ↑ "リトルガール：ｍｉｗａ". JBook. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  7. ↑ "#311（10/06/18）miwa×榮倉奈々". Bokura no Ongaku. Fuji Terebi. 2010-06-18. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  8. ↑ Space Shower. "miwa 楽曲名 リトルガール2" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  9. ↑ "Japan Billboard Hot 100". Billboard Japan. July 5, 2010. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
  10. ↑ "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」" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
  11. ↑ "RIAJ Digital Track Chart: Chart issue June 29, 2010" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
  12. ↑ "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」". Oricon. Retrieved 2010-07-22. (subscription only)

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