Embracing Youthful Moments As Summer Is Nearly Approaching

Frian Amran
3 min readMay 3, 2021

Japan's newest superstar Fujii Kaze, bringing cheerful, peppy, catchy pop song as the latest car commercial song embracing the summery vibe that’s just around the corner.

Fujii Kaze latest single cover Kirari (credit: Genius)

Kirari or Sparkled featured in Honda’s latest electric SUV. The commercial was released two weeks ago. The song describe the happiness and moments while riding the car, embracing their inner youth as the participant in the commercial are some of Japan’s biggest celebrities and influencer (probably)

The music itself it’s very groovy, peppy and cheerful. Perfect to embracing the summer which is just around the corner. The heavy beats of the drum accompanied with soulful guitars and melodic snyth, completed with melodious voice by Kaze, this song is basically tells you that summer is about to come and enjoy the season with joy

Lyrics? Well, it’s not as poetic as Fushigi whereas the song describing the sweet and bitter part of spring which is perfect for the romantic season. But the lyric in Kiragi is basically tells a story of nostalgic youthful moments of summer that will last forever.

Young and Nostalgic, those are the perfect words to describe both the music and the lyrics itself. The lyrics starts with the memory of two love birds awaiting sunset in the blazing hot summer until the night arrives. The nostalgia of waiting sunset with loved ones is a perfect description of summer os all about, creating a memorable nostalgia that will last through generation.

In the rough season, The two are alone, watch the sun set at dawn It’s also late tonight

The second verse tells about the passion toward someone who he/she adored that even though everything will be gone but as long we fight for it, they will enjoyed it until the last drop of their souls. Love is the best motivation to keep moving forward.

Everything is about to decay, I want to laugh at the end, no matter what you fight for, motivation is love.

Third and fourth verse basically describing the person who he/she loves. The third verse tells about the person itself that makes them fall in love and no matter what the situation, they’re always stays in the persons heart. In the fourth verse, the lyric tells about the person feeling towards his/her lover, even though that there are many good-looking person out there but once they found their true love, everything is like the dream.

Without looking for new days, she is always here, i’ve seen a lot, these eyes are her glitter forever

I’ve lived that much, everything is like a dream, even if that and this are attractive, i like you.

The last two verses it’s very obvious that the lyrics tells about confession and longing to be together. That the feeling of losing someone that we loved is scared them and willing to go anywhere as long they we’re together. Rain, sunshine, good days, bad days, no matter what the situation we experienced in present, past and future, as long going it through with loved ones, everything is like a brand new day.

Where were you I was looking for, take me take me, i’ll throw everything away, everywhere, everywhere

In the raging season and in the crowd, even more with you, new days and poor past, everything is shining.

As i stated previously, Kirari basically a straight-forward love song that everyone knew. It embodied the feeling of young love and complemented with peppy cheerful groovy music completes the whole thing and makes a perfect anthem for summer. The nostalgic moments when spending summer with loved ones creating one unforgettable memories that will last forever makes this song a perfect definition of what summer is.

Kaze bringing youth and nostalgia through Kirari and with the song that will easily hooked anyone who listened to it. It’s a perfect song to enjoy in the morning or just want to dance along with it.

You can stream Kirari on Spotify and Apple Music.

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Frian Amran

Randomly writing about anything that interested me at the moment.. Most of the writing are in English