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Splash Lily
Mar. 1st, 2007 01:06 pmMy music career as Momus has pretty much chugged along forever at the same level of... hum, what shall we say, "confidentiality"? ("Best Kept Secret" was the title I suggested for one Creation compilation so secret it was never released.) But I did, about ten years back, enjoy some notable success in the "music industry" as a songwriter in the Japanese market. Several songs I wrote for Kahimi Karie went Top 10 in Japan. On the back of that songwriting success I signed a publishing deal with Sony Music Japan. They still represent me, although I don't hear from them much... which is hardly surprising, since their initial advance to me remains far from recouped, and the records I'm making these days sound like pop music held underwater in a bucket.
Well, the other day I was surprised and pleased to get a mail from Sony Music Japan asking if I'd like to pitch some songs for an 18 year old Japanese singer who's just been signed to Epic Japan. Haneyuri -- Hane9uri, as she punningly spells it; "Splash Lily" is a literal translation -- is looking for music only, "jangly guitar songs or pop guitar songs with positive feel" in the style of Scots Fairground Attraction or Swedes The Cardigans.
"Splash Lily" has been writing her own lyrics since she was a junior high school student. Her blog reveals that she's also worked as a model, and Sony Music clearly have in mind a typically Japanese cross-marketed campaign, where she's appearing in magazines and TV commercials and shows and releasing records too. Splash that lily everywhere!
After immersing myself in all the online stuff I could find about Splash Lily -- and finding her considerably cuter in her own self-mediated keitai shots than the official promo pictures -- I sat down and wrote a song called "Slide To Me", which is now in the hands of Sony, Haneyuri and her management company.
Because Lily herself will write the lyrics, I just sang and rapped a lot of nonsense about caipirinas and daiquiris which she can overlay with her own poetry. The kind of stuff she might want to sing about is revealed by the two tracks she's already released. They're both available as free downloads here.
My News has a sweet message. The media is too full of bad news, says Splash Lily. But most people are more interested in the smaller, happier stuff going on in their own lives. So Lily concocts a news bulletin of unremarkable -- yet happy and magical -- events. She wakes up, yawns, stands on tiptoe, reads her horoscope and gets a bit doki doki on hearing that she's due to meet with some kind of destiny. Her hair feels fluffy, she sees a nice dog, the cleaning lady is carrying too much baggage, the traffic lights change and a bicycle starts to move. It seems like it's going to be a good day.
Or, to paraphrase: Good morning world, it's so nice to be a beautiful girl! (Again.)
Well, the other day I was surprised and pleased to get a mail from Sony Music Japan asking if I'd like to pitch some songs for an 18 year old Japanese singer who's just been signed to Epic Japan. Haneyuri -- Hane9uri, as she punningly spells it; "Splash Lily" is a literal translation -- is looking for music only, "jangly guitar songs or pop guitar songs with positive feel" in the style of Scots Fairground Attraction or Swedes The Cardigans.
"Splash Lily" has been writing her own lyrics since she was a junior high school student. Her blog reveals that she's also worked as a model, and Sony Music clearly have in mind a typically Japanese cross-marketed campaign, where she's appearing in magazines and TV commercials and shows and releasing records too. Splash that lily everywhere!
After immersing myself in all the online stuff I could find about Splash Lily -- and finding her considerably cuter in her own self-mediated keitai shots than the official promo pictures -- I sat down and wrote a song called "Slide To Me", which is now in the hands of Sony, Haneyuri and her management company.
Because Lily herself will write the lyrics, I just sang and rapped a lot of nonsense about caipirinas and daiquiris which she can overlay with her own poetry. The kind of stuff she might want to sing about is revealed by the two tracks she's already released. They're both available as free downloads here.
My News has a sweet message. The media is too full of bad news, says Splash Lily. But most people are more interested in the smaller, happier stuff going on in their own lives. So Lily concocts a news bulletin of unremarkable -- yet happy and magical -- events. She wakes up, yawns, stands on tiptoe, reads her horoscope and gets a bit doki doki on hearing that she's due to meet with some kind of destiny. Her hair feels fluffy, she sees a nice dog, the cleaning lady is carrying too much baggage, the traffic lights change and a bicycle starts to move. It seems like it's going to be a good day.
Or, to paraphrase: Good morning world, it's so nice to be a beautiful girl! (Again.)