Sweet Song

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"Sweet Song"
Sweet Song by Lady Bird and Wei Son.jpg
Single by Lady Bird feat. Son'i (from Popteen)
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2009[1]
GenreDance[1]
J-pop[2]
Length30 min[1]
LabelBMG Japan[1]
Songwriter(s)DJ Ten & Kazuhisa Hirota[3]

"Sweet Song" is a single released in early 2009 by "Lady Bird feat. Son'i (from Popteen)"; Lady Bird, a dance music duo consisting of DJ Ten and producer Kazuhisa Hirota, and fashion model Wei Son.[4]

Background[]

The main track "Sweet Song" had been a popular song in the Shibuya club scene and originally performed by another singer in Club Atom, a disco where DJ Ten had been scratching.[4] DJ Ten and Kazuhisa Hirota formed Lady Bird in late 2007[5] and auditioned many female vocalists for "Sweet Song"'s major release, before meeting Wei Son, a fashion model who had appeared on the Popteen magazine.[4]

Releases[]

Lady Bird and Wei Son first released "Sweet Song" as a chaku-uta (ringtone song) on December 1, 2008[6] with the name "Sweet Song feat. XXX (from Popteen)". "Sweet Song feat. XXX (from Popteen)" reached the top-20 on the Dwango chaku-uta chart by December 26, 2008, before the singer's name was revealed to be Son'i (Wei Son).[4]

The CD, "Sweet Song", was released on February 25, 2009, with six tracks; "Sweet Song", "Bitter Chocolate", "Sweet Song (DJ Kaya Remix)", "Sweet Song (Lady Bird Club Mix)", "Sweet Song (Inst)", and "Bitter Chocolate (Inst)". "Sweet Song" appeared on the Oricon singles chart 3 times, peaking at #47.[7]

Tracks[]

"Sweet Song"[8]
No.TitleLength
1."Sweet Song"4:56
2."Bitter Chocolate"3:54
3."Sweet Song (DJ Kaya Remix)"5:27
4."Sweet Song (Lady Bird Club Mix)"6:13
5."Sweet Song (Inst)"4:56
6."Bitter Chocolate (Inst)"3:55

"Sweet Song" was later included in Lady Bird's first album STYLiST,[9] and track #3, "Sweet Song (DJ Kaya Remix)", was featured in Dancemania's Hime Trance 4.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Sweet Song", Amazon.co.jp (in Japanese)
  2. ^ "Sweet Song feat. Son'i (from Popteen) - Lady Bird", HMV (in Japanese)
  3. ^ "Sweet Song, Lady Bird X Son'i", Goo Lyrics (in Japanese)
  4. ^ a b c d "That Mysterious Popular Singer Was In Fact, 'Wei Son'", December 26, 2008, Barks (in Japanese)
  5. ^ History of Lady Bird, Oricon (in Japanese)
  6. ^ "Popular model 'Wei Son' debuts as a singer", December 25, 2008, Oricon (in Japanese)
  7. ^ "Sweet Song", Oricon (in Japanese)
  8. ^ Lady Bird X Son'i / Sweet Song (First Limited Edition), Yahoo! Shopping (in Japanese)
  9. ^ "Lady Bird's first full-album!", July 15, 2010, HMV News (in Japanese)
  10. ^ "'Hime Trance 4', Trance Paradise, Dancemania", EMI Music Japan (in Japanese)
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