Masayuki Suzuki - 鈴木雅之 - ランナウェイ / REAL TIME THE FIRST TAKE🍂Reaction

[@Ninia_mk]

♡ Someone please tell Rats & Star that if I will ever get married I want them to perform on my Wedding 🥺I'm gonna say it real quick: they are my biggest discoveries of 2024. I said what I said 😎

[@Ninia_mk]

Ps > Japanese subs will be up in several hours

[@lilly4127]

Hi Ninia🎉seeing u this in love with them also makes me to be in love with them😂I'm also not familiar with their songs and will be more thank happy to discover it with u❤

[@Ninia_mk]

Hey Lilly. I'm so happy to hear it🧡🤍

[@genchan1224able]

懐かしい曲をリアクションしてくれてうれしいです♬

[@Ninia_mk]

I'm so happy too cuz I feel like I discovered treasure🥺💛

[@ささ-k3i1h]

このファーストテイク観るまで興味なかったのですが、興味が好きになって地元でやる半年後のライブに参加することになりました^_^45年のプロの生歌声楽しみです。

[@ピッポ-p5f]

Ninia arigato😊

[@Ninia_mk]

🤍💛🤍💛🤍💛

[@アルコール64才]

素敵🎉🎉…YOASOBIのリメイクで、「怪物」お願いしたいですぅ〜🙏

[@Ninia_mk]

Hii💛I'm taking song requests from my Patreon members only☺️

[@Mark-Elf]

It's an original song that they released in 1980 as The Chanels, before they changed their name to Rats & Star, with lyrics by Reiko Yukawa and music by Tadao Inoue.😊 However, the title was borrowed from Del Shannon's 1961 album "Runaway." The Chanels were a popular amateur group who had performed several commercial songs, and "Runaway" was originally recorded as just one chorus for Pioneer's radio cassette player "Runaway." However, when it was later decided to release it on record, lyrics and melody were added and it was made into a single record, which resulted in a commercial song that included Pioneer's product name directly in the lyrics being released by a record company affiliated with Sony. Sugiyama Yumi, a music director who was asked by Kimura Toshishi, who was in charge of producing the commercial video for the radio cassette player "Runaway," to compose a song, associated the product name "Runaway" with an oldies-style song, and asked Inoue Tadao to compose the song because he was "someone who could write oldies-style songs." Sugiyama also asked Yukawa Reiko to write the lyrics, based on Inoue's recommendation that "the lyrics should be written by Yukawa Reiko, who has a strong American feel." Yukawa was shown a video of "an Amtrak train, the passenger railroad that connects all over the US, pulling into a station under a midsummer sky, and in front of the train there is a blond boy with a large radio cassette player playing "Runaway" on his shoulder," and was asked to "write a poem to fit this scene for a 30-second and 1-minute commercial." On the demo tape he was given, composer Inoue's voice started singing "Runaway," then moved on to "La la laa," and ended with "Runaway." "Runaway" reminds Yukawa of Del Shannon's "Runaway," and at the same time, it is a story of a time when Yukawa was a young girl and her boyfriend's father was angry that his son went out every day, so he locked him in a room on the second floor and made him study. However, her boyfriend managed to slip out of the room without his father noticing, and came to Yukawa, who was waiting for him at the station, where he told her, "I'll take you to a faraway world just for the two of you." Yukawa wrote the lyrics while recalling such memories. When this song was played on a commercial, it caused a big stir and was later released as a single, and despite it being her debut song, it became a million-seller and a huge hit, so Yukawa began to receive requests to write lyrics one after another. Yukawa Reiko is now a leading figure in the Japanese music industry.🤭

[@Ninia_mk]

Hii Mark💛Thanks for sharing this interesting story. Honestly even though this was their debut track it absolutely deserved recognition and love it got so I'm happy to hear that Runaway was success from the start.🧡

[@Mark-Elf]

Masayuki Suzuki mentions here that his family home is a small factory, but the Ota ward in Tokyo where they were born and raised is an industrial area created by reclamation along the coast of Tokyo Bay. The remains of shell mounds, where people lived by fishing thousands of years ago, were first discovered here in the 19th century by the British scientist Morse. Seaweed farming was popular here from the 17th century, but with modern industrialization, the coast was reclaimed and expanded to become the largest of Tokyo's 23 wards, with Haneda Airport at its tip, making it the gateway to Tokyo. While most of the factories are family-run, there is also a factory here that once exclusively received orders from NASA for heat-resistant panels for the space shuttle, and one that is trusted by Apple for its world-class precision mirror finishing of iPhone cases.