'Chosen Family' was never a SAWAYAMA favourite for me but I'm much preferring the new version :o has a lot more oomph!

She is just amazing, that tiny desk performance!! i bought tickets to see her which I'm buzzing about (if it goes ahead x) :lol:

Chosen Family seems to be doing quite well on Spotify, she has increased her monthly listeners with around 600K since it's release and it's at the moment her most streamed song on the platform as well. I rarely care about charts these days but I just really really want Rina to do well.

I don't remember any of the individual songs lmao because I listen to too much different music xo and also because I only listened to this once so far, but I remember this was a really intriguing album!

 

Also I was amused by this from Wikipedia: "Musically, Sawayama is produced, performed and recorded in a wide variety of genres. Primarily influenced by 2000s mainstream pop, nu metal, rock, R&B, and dance-pop, it also was noted by critics to include elements of arena rock, EDM, avant-pop, hyperpop, electro, house, hair metal, hip-hop, experimental, synth-pop, bubblegum pop, emo pop, grunge, industrial, dubstep, country pop, pop rock, gospel, glam rock, trap, trip hop, folk, J-pop and electro-dub."

 

I'd call that "over-genrefying" :D

She just announced her first, small, European tour including dates in France, Belgium and The Netherlands! It feels a bit surreal to get tickets for a liveshow right now, but I'll definitely try to get my hands on them.

#24 in the mids, the first ever appearance in the charts! Will probably drop quite a bit this week but hope it can stay top 75!

 

She also kicked off her tour in Dublin yesterday. Anyone got tickets to see her?