Young Girl A by Siinamota
Young Girl A, known in Japanese as 少女A (Shōjo A), is a Vocaloid song written and composed by siinamota, who also used the name Powapowa-P. The vocal is by the Vocaloid voice Kagamine Rin. siinamota published it on Niconico and YouTube on 17 October 2013, when the producer was 18 years old, and its words and music are credited to siinamota alone. An arrangement-changed version appears on siinamota's third album Ikiru, released on 4 March 2015. siinamota died on 23 July 2015 at the age of 20. The song found a much larger audience years later. By 2023 it was already being shared on TikTok and in fan remixes outside Japan, and on 9 March 2023 the singer-songwriter sasanomaly released a remix titled Shōjo A, one day After Another Remix, as a tribute in the VRUSH UP! series. The song reached No. 8 on Billboard Japan's Global Japan Songs Excl. Japan chart in September 2023. By March 2024 it had passed 100 million streams on Spotify, the second Vocaloid song to do so. Young Girl A is the English title used for the song. Because the original is a Vocaloid recording, a piano version is an arrangement of it, and the sheet music does not change who sang the original.
О Young Girl A
Young Girl A, known in Japanese as 少女A (Shōjo A), is a Vocaloid song written and composed by siinamota, who also used the name Powapowa-P. The vocal is by the Vocaloid voice Kagamine Rin. siinamota published it on Niconico and YouTube on 17 October 2013, when the producer was 18 years old, and its words and music are credited to siinamota alone.
An arrangement-changed version appears on siinamota's third album Ikiru, released on 4 March 2015. siinamota died on 23 July 2015 at the age of 20.
The song found a much larger audience years later. By 2023 it was already being shared on TikTok and in fan remixes outside Japan, and on 9 March 2023 the singer-songwriter sasanomaly released a remix titled Shōjo A, one day After Another Remix, as a tribute in the VRUSH UP! series. The song reached No. 8 on Billboard Japan's Global Japan Songs Excl. Japan chart in September 2023. By March 2024 it had passed 100 million streams on Spotify, the second Vocaloid song to do so.
Young Girl A is the English title used for the song. Because the original is a Vocaloid recording, a piano version is an arrangement of it, and the sheet music does not change who sang the original.