Imase

View moreBrowse piano sheets by Imase on Zen Virtual Piano. imase is a singer-songwriter from Gifu, introduced by Oricon as a new-generation artist. Oricon reports that imase's songs spread on social media before a year of making music had passed, and a major debut followed in quick succession. In school years imase loved soccer and long wanted to become a soccer player, and told WIRED.jp that singing and listening to songs were always liked but becoming an artist was not a particular wish. A wish to play soccer, beside songs that spread online, may suggest a route into music that began outside any early artist's aim. imase first practiced guitar, then searched for how to compose and bought equipment such as composing software to begin. TikTok was chosen as the place to release songs because short clips were easier to post than full-length ones. In May 2021 imase posted a first short video on TikTok titled “An amateur with zero music experience tries making an original song (4 months of DTM)”. Short clips on TikTok, beside a first upload titled with four months of DTM, may hint at a close tie between brief posts and how imase's music reached listeners. A video of imase singing along to a drum pad later went viral, and Universal Music Japan then gave imase a major debut. The turning point came in autumn 2021, when imase applied to the TikTok singing-and-playing drama theme song audition on TV Tokyo's Dreamer Z. The debut work was Have a nice day, a song about what imase felt during the pandemic, performed in that audition's first round. In August 2022 NIGHT DANCER was released digitally, and Oricon calls it an important song that defined the career. A first-round audition song, beside a digital release in August 2022, may point to TikTok as a thread through both. imase's way of working is to post shorts on TikTok and finish the ones that get a good reaction as full-length songs, starting those posts in May 2022. imase told entax that ESME MORI was asked to arrange a song, handed over with the full length and lyrics done, and that the arrangement left room for imase's own ideas in each part. imase is strongly influenced by R&B and thought about how to bring that taste into songs. A fondness for R&B, beside an arranger asked to leave room for imase's own ideas, may suggest a taste that shapes the finished sound. Oricon also notes that imase wrote the theme song Utopia for the film SAND LAND and supplied the song Jewelry (Prod. imase) to LE SSERAFIM's Japanese second single UNFORGIVEN, writing the words and music and producing it. Does a first TikTok video titled with four months of DTM, beside a song supplied to LE SSERAFIM, point to music that began small and reached other artists?

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