Fujii Kaze (藤井風) - Workin’ Hard Reaction (Official MV) | FIRST TIME HEARING WORKIN HARD

[@beansx21]

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[@vspirit]

This song was written as a broadcast theme for FIBA basketball world championship so it was originally about the players and how it's their hard work that matters and not the results but he sort of expanded it to include working people and gave the song a much wider purpose than it was originally intended. He's always been a musician so even before debuting he was uploading covers on KZbin and going around playing music (mostly covers). But like I said above, he didn't come up with the theme/idea of the song on his own. He was commissioned to write it so it was written for that purpose and he simply expanded upon it. Dunno about the bit that resembles RtB but it's hard to say whether it's actually sampling or if he was inspired by the beat or it could simply be plain coincidence coincidence because Kaze came up with the song through watching live basketball games and developed the song based on the rhythm of the ball bouncing on the court as being it's dribbled. Judging from that, it's not farfetched to think he might have heard that same rhythm from the experience, and not directly from RtB, because the rhythm itself isn't really all that unique. It can be heard in plenty of other songs (e.g. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head being one of them and I've played that rhythm plenty on classical piano pieces) but because WH more or less shares the same genre as RtB, the melodic resemblance with it is stronger. But seeing as the producer, Dahi, would've picked up on the similarity, and the song was released on the 22nd anniversary of Aaliyah's death, I'm guessing it's safe to assume that, even if Kaze hadn't known about it before, he definitely knows about it now so the release date could be a form of official recognition given. But nothing has been disclosed about it so what the truth is is anyone's guess. The translation has vague parts but really, so do the Japanese lyrics. They're both written and translated by the guy himself anyway. I feel when parts of a song is especially unclear, they are basically for listeners to fill on their own based on their individual perspective. :)

[@sadiecantabile]

It’s time to watch his live performance. he is solo singer songwriter and great pianist. You can see his awesome piano with “Shinunoga-E-Wa” at Nippon Budokan. You can hear how to pronounce his name with “Nan Nan” at the same venue. And never miss “Matsuri” at Panasonic Stadium