It's the Year of the Palmtop Tiger and our blog kicks it off with a very special Philippine general election edition of The Goddess' Playlist! We're picking something from the 46g this time and choosing "Silent Majority" by Keyakizaka46, now known as Sakurazaka46.
Centered by Yurina Hirate and written by the legendary Yasushi Akimoto, the song was released on April 6, 2016 as the group's debut single. Meanwhile the choreography was done by Takehiro Ueno, and the music video for it was directed by Kazuma Ikeda and taken at the construction site near the Shibuya Station.
The single became number one on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart with 261,580 copies sold, which was also the debut top spot for Keyaki. It was also on the number one spot on the Billboard Japan weekly chart and has spent 149 weeks in it, making the sixth to do so.
The song tells about people and their perspectives on politicos, blind fanaticism and allegiances to the latter, and being stand back and fight for an almost godforesaken country, which is very making obvious and suiting to our current situation that we're facing right now. The chorus is one of these parts that take the bullet because it realizes us that we shouldn't always agree on the things that can harm our sanity and well being as humans, including our rights and the right to have a normal life.
The first and second verse are calling out people who're swearing on and following the corrupt with the old "eye-to-eye, teeth-to-teeth" rule and becoming blind followers of said evil creatures, and a ruler who deceives the citizentry with lies.
I'm not gonna force you to like Japanese idol groups or JPop itself, but have an open mind, "Silent Majority" is also meaningful but powerful song so you have to listen even with the translated lyrics regardless of your stance. Yet, I do hope you'll realize about what kind of people are we and country it is if we pick the wrong, questionable side of people, then there'll be a lot of consequences and worse, these also will be our downfall.
What do you think about Keyaki's debut song? Comment down below, on my FB page or my Twitter @goddessyk13!
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