Hina Maeda - THE ELECTRONIC SAMURAI

電子サムライ(electronic samurai)
Lançamento: 30 de junho de 2028
Duração: 32m18s
Gênero: j-pop, j-rock, kawaii metal, pop punk, experimental
Compositores: Hina Maeda, Yukari Konosuke
Produtores: Yukari Konosuke
BLACK CAT / ARCADE RECORDS

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TRACKLIST
1. Seppuku - 3:57
2. Suki Suki Daisuki - 3:16
3. Tomino's Hell - 1:57
4. The Nowhere Girl - 3:58
5. She - 4:18
6. BORDERLAND (ft. X and Miroslava Tsukumo) - 3:11
7. Cockroach - 3:02
8. Broken Hard Drive - 3:14
9. Electronic Inquisition (Act I & II) - 5:25

PLAYLIST AQUI  

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Seppuku
Sendo o primeiro single do álbum, Seppuku fala sobre o ritual de honra e sacrifício dos samurais antigos. Hina utiliza da prática militar japonesa para comparar com o suicídio de sua reputação, onde ela perdeu muito público e respeito na indústria porém nunca abaixou sua cabeça.

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INSTRUMENTAL


LETRA
When I was a child, my mother always said
“You can lost everything, but your honor must stand”
I mustn't give to my enemies any taste
I can lose the war but they won't have my head

And any price for honor must be paid
It must surpass even the worst pain
I always think what my ancestors would say
When there's nowhere to run, I must stand with my head up

I won't give the taste for they to destroy me, I was not raised like this
And I just know what my ancestors would say

Doing the seppuku, for not being quiet
Social suicide, the suicide of my persona on fame
Fame and money, they're really good, but there's more important things
Seppuku, things are not the same from the start
But my honor stills intact
Social suicide, suicide of reputation
I'm bleeding but my ancestors are proud

When there's nowhere to run and the war is lost, you must make a sacrifice
And that's so tasteful dying so proudly

Seppuku, things are not the same from the start
But my honor stills intact
Social suicide, suicide of reputation
I'm bleeding but my ancestors are proud

Doing the seppuku, for not being quiet
Social suicide, the suicide of my persona on fame
Fame and money, they're really good, but there's more important things
Seppuku, things are not the same from the start
But my honor stills intact
Social suicide, suicide of reputation
I'm bleeding but I'm still proud

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Suki Suki Daisuki
Suki Suki Daisuki é uma música que foi originalmente interpreatada por Jun Togawa, e foi lançada em 1985. Na música original, Jun conta sobre um amor que é violentamente obsessivo, de forma que extrapola qualquer limite da normalidade. Em Electronic Samurai, essa é uma música que Hina usa para descrever sua dependência emocional em Sky White, e como faria de tudo para tê-la de volta mesmo que a Sky a houvesse machucado. Em tradução literal, Suki Suki Daisuki significa "gosto, gosto e amo" em japonês.

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INSTRUMENTAL

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LETRA
Suki suki daisuki
I like you, please stay with me
Until the end we'll be together, just until we are enemies

I don't trust anyone no more, opening yourself is just for fools
So I'll put my armor again, and beat the guts of love
Mayday, mayday, mayday
We're sinking on this sea of shit
But if you come back someday
I'll be yours again
And I'll just say to your face

Suki suki daisuki
I like you, please stay with me
Until the end we'll be together, just until you vanish like you did

Suki suki daisuki
You wake the beast inside of me
Until the end we'll be together, just until we are enemies

After one year you don't have the guts
To look in my face and say it's over
What the fuck is this? Breaking up by a message in my phone
Just like I am your stupid whore

Mayday, mayday, mayday
We're sinking on this sea of shit
But if you come back someday…

Ding Dong, the stupid hoe it's me
Ding Dong, if you say you're back I will be coming back like a loyal dog
If you beat me I'll be just thankful
You made me just your stupid little bitch

And if you come back
I'll say, I'll say

Suki suki daisuki
You wake the beast inside of me
Until the end we'll be together, just until we are enemies

Suki suki daisuki
I'm the winter season biggest failure
23 years being just stupid
Because I never learn
And I'm humiliating myself on this song
But suki suki daisuki

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Tomino’s Hell
"O Inferno de Tomino" é um poema japonês, escrito em 1929, que segundo a lenda se trata de um poema amaldiçoado. A lenda japonesa diz que qualquer pessoa que leia esse poema em voz alta, está fadado a morrer logo e ser arrastado para o Inferno de Tomino. Hina utiliza essa metáfora para dizer como sua reputação negativa, às vezes afeta as pessoas próximas dela, que podem passar a serem atacadas também. Provavelmente, essa música também é sobre sua relação com Sky White, e como tudo isso acabou desgastando o relacionamento.

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INSTRUMENTAL


LETRA
If you know me, you are going to hell
I push everyone, to the misery I made to myself
Oh, don't get too close, just say you don't want to
They'll throw stones

If you know me keep it unspoken
It's worse when you're in love
The hell I raised it's too long
I'm the Tomino's Hell of modern world

Rejection, it's everywhere
I'm a poem, straight to hell

Let me be inside my shell
Don't you ever try to read me, if you do, make it your head
Because if the words are spoken
You're going to hell with me

If you know me keep it unspoken
It's worse when you're in love
The hell I raised it's too long
I'm the Tomino's Hell of modern world

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The Nowhere Girl
The Nowhere Girl fala sobre questões de dupla nacionalidade da Hina. Ela fala como sua vida toda sempre achou que não pertencia a Irlanda, que na verdade a sua verdade estava na sua ascendência japonesa, e que ela não deveria estar ali. Porém, após passar um tempo morrendo no Japão, Hina percebe que ainda não se sente pertencente a cultura, pois ela ainda tem muitos costumes europeus. Na música, Hina reflete sobre essa dualidade.

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INSTRUMENTAL



LETRA
(Where do I belong?)
Why does it feel so strange?
Why does it always feel like I shouldn't be there?
You don't know how it feels like
To grow up without any place

I was born somewhere, but I don't feel connected with it anymore
Everything I know about myself
It's from the view
Of Europe, Europe, Europe, ooh
Europe, Europe, Europe, ooh

The nowhere girl, everything I do is fake
I fake to be european and I fake to be nippon
The nowhere girl, a girl with no place
Need somebody to tell me from where I am

I've born a nomad, I don't have a home
Grown up in a place where I don't feel that I belong
Inside my house the culture is other, the language is other, it's not what I learned on school from my Irish teachers
I felt all my life that my european side was the wrong, because sometimes, I don't fit in what they say
But now I'm in my hometown, but I still feel I'm not enough, tell me where the fuck I am
Because I need to know, I'm going insane

The nowhere girl, everything I do is fake
I fake to be european and I fake to be nippon
The nowhere girl, a girl with no place
Need somebody to tell me from where I am

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She
Em She, Hina refelte sobre sua relação com outra mulher na indústria, e reflete se está certo essa rivalidade ou se isso foi apenas algo criado por pressão da própria indústria. Hina diz que apesar de serem diferentes e uma não gostar da outra, não precisam necessariamente se odiar.

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INSTRUMENTAL

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LETRA
She's not an evil, I see that, she's not a bitch
She's just white and sometimes she's mean
But sometimes I am so mean like her, and I don't know why
They said we must be enemies
Because she looks different of me

So
Don't get me wrong I'm still hating her face, oh
And I'm still hating the universe she's inserted in
I'm still hating everything that she represents
But I can see that isn't always her fault
I don't wanna be her friend, no
But I don't want to be forced, to hate her
Girls don't need to be, put against others this way

She says on her childhood, she was called strange
But all that she says, looks like just a brainless cheerleader
Her ex, is just a stupid rat, with an ass full of Bubonic Plague
So I totally trashed her blonde ass because of him, and that's not right

So
She never did anything wrong, oh
I'm just mean with her because it's funny
Even if she's literally the face of white privilege
I believe in women unity
I don't wanna be her friend, no
But I don't want to be forced, to hate her
Girls don't need to be, put against others this way, ay

So I'll not start liking she
I'll just tolerate that she exists
I just want a little peace
She's different of me
That's not enough motive
I'll focus to hate my real enemies
Not a random dumb blonde that just happens to be here
She's the American Dream, even if I think that dream is bullshit
It's not always her fault for being stupid like this

So
I totally blame the jerk who said she's different
I totally blame the influence of the porn addict boyfriend
I blame her baby Karens fans
For all the engagement
I don't wanna be her friend, no
But I don't want to be forced, to hate her
Girls don't need to be put against others this way

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BORDERLAND (ft. X and Miroslava Tsukumo)
Sendo a única música com featurings no álbum, o título da música faz referência ao mangá Alice in Borderland, lançado em 2010. A música, em si, é mais uma metáfora para a indústria, pois a música é sobre não ser uma pessoa fácil abater, e assim como um final boss de um jogo, se o seu nível não for bom você não pode bater de frente. A música conta com colaboração de X e Miroslava Tsukumo. 

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INSTRUMENTAL


X Miroslava Hina

LETRA
I'm not too easy to find
If I say, I may be the level hard
To know me it's not the easiest track
My power is out of mind
I'm the boss, in your game
You won't even have time to attack

I'm the electronic Samurai
While you are on the ground
I'm the character hidden on the dark
With a black silhouette
The hardest boss to fight, I'm not kind

[X]
Call me DLC, your level is easy
If you wanna hit me, you have to use cheats
Unable to download, unable to your hacks
You can't unlock it, I'm the goddess your supreme idol

[Hina]
On this game I'm the lord, you can't ignore
You can't run from me, baby
If you want to win, you have to surpass me

[X]
ELECTRONIC SAMURAI

[Hina]
I'm the queen of Borderland, I'm the master on all the games
Your hardest enemy to fight
I'm the electronic samurai
I'm the one who makes you cry
You can just try

[Miroslava Tsukumo]
I'm hiding in the dark, just waiting
The right moment to attack
I'm the heartless witch, ready to eat your heart

If you wanna win that shit, bitch you better fight
My power comes from your pain
I'll just enter in your head
And make you insane

[Hina]
Yeah!
You're not ready yet, I'll be the cause of your nightmares at night
I'll be the boss you'll want to get far

I'm the queen of Borderland, I'm the master on all the games
Your hardest enemy to fight
I'm the electronic samurai
I'm the one who makes you cry
You can just try
Try to fight (2x)

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Cockroach
Continuando o raciocínio da música anterior, Hina enssa música se compara com uma barata. Pequena, suja, resistente, assusta um pouco as pessoas quando chega em algum lugar e obviamente, está em todo lugar.

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INSTRUMENTAL


LETRA
I'm soft when I fall I float
Sometimes I feel I don't have any bones
Anyone affects me anymore, they don't

Traditional and modernist, future samurai
I smell like a medieval bathroom but my mind is in 2045
I know I'm silly, and my music is just some shit

I'm just here to be mean and kawaii
I know that I'm some shit, but I'm cool with it
Everytime I jump out of a edge I float on the sky
And I don't make effort I just fly

I'm doing the shit that I want there's no more rage, no
I'm an individual, I'm resistant like a cockroach (no cages)
Sometimes I get scared, sometimes I'm edgy as fuck
Sometimes I'm just a japanese superstar, sometimes I'm your apocalypse

Cockroach!
Cockroach!
Cockroach!

I make delicate girls scary
When I'm stepping people look at me with distaste
I'm in every house, in every place, you can't escape
So you can drop all your nuclear bombs
Don't you know I resist atomic exposure?
I'm small but I do still making a grown man cry, oh well

Cockroach, cockroach
Cockroach, cockroach
Fly right on your face
Making you scream, you scream

I'm just here to be mean and kawaii
I know that I'm some shit, but I'm cool with it
Everytime I jump out of a edge I float on the sky
And I don't make effort I just fly

I'm doing the shit that I want there's no more rage, no
I'm an individual, I'm resistant like a cockroach (no cages)
Sometimes I get scared, sometimes I'm edgy as fuck
Sometimes I'm just an japanese superstar, sometimes I'm your apocalypse

Cockroach!
Cockroach!
Cockroach!
Na na na na na

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Broken Hard Drive
Após em várias músicas do álbum reafirmar sua força, Hina apresenta sua fraqueza em Broken Hard Drive; Hina conta como Sky é a única pessoa que a consegue afetar, e que o restante do mundo pode jogar pedras nela que ela não se importará, porém no momento que Sky deixou Hina, foi o único momento que ela se viu sem chão. 

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INSTRUMENTAL

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LETRA
My heart is made of iron, it's hard to bug my wires
But you did it only with a smile
And now that you gone too far
I feel like I'm starting to crash

They had thrown stones on me, and none of that hurts my pride
But now that you're out of sight
I feel

You did it, you're really the only one
Your love invaded my heart like a drone
My hard drive is broken, the bugs are inside my chest
You didn't programed me to love anyone else but you
Disconfigured, I'm going to crash

I try to go to the Tokyo bars, I try to go have fun
But there's no funny without you
My friends say I need to stop crying
Because my iron skin is gonna rust

Remember those nights of September? Because they're in my Memory SD
And I watch it on repeat
I feel

You did it, you're really the only one
Your love invaded my heart like a drone
My hard drive is broken, the bugs are inside my chest
You didn't programed me to love anyone else
Disconfigured, I'm going to crash
I'm going to crash
I'm going to crash…

I would say I'm strong from the world's words, but you're my weak point
My kryptonite, your absence makes me defeated
I feel

You did it, you're really the only one
You entered in my heart like a drone
My hard drive is broken, the bugs are inside my chest
You didn't programed me to love anyone else
Disconfigured, I'm ready to crash

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Electronic Inquisition (ACT I & II)
Após se ver enfraquecida em sua última música, Electronic Inquisition fala sobre morrer para ressuscitar. A música é dividida em ato I e ato II, onde o primeiro ato retrata a inquisição, onde o personagem que dá nome ao álbum é caçado e executado em uma caça às bruxas eletrônica, porém sempre se mantém com a cabeça erguida. O segundo ato trata da ressurreição do personagem, possuindo o corpo de uma garota nos dias atuais.

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INSTRUMENTAL


LETRA
(Ding dong, ding dong)
(Ding dong, ding dong)
(Ding dong, ding dong)
(Ding dong, ding dong)
(The wicked bitch is dead, the wicked bitch is dead)
(Burned her alive, this is the electronic inquisition)

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

(Burn Hina Maeda alive)
(She's the wicked bitch we've searched for)

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Welcome, it's the electronic inquisition
Everything that is not human must be burned
They searched so much that they had found out
That I'm not an human, I'm a Japanese Android

Brain made of wires, skin made of iron
The witches hunt had started, paint your skin a natural pale
Now I'll be nothing but a concept
Living on the set of a DJ

I'll be the ghost on the pill you take on the rave
Possessing your body, letting you go to the drum and bass
The electronic demon, they'll exorcize your shit up
It's the electronic samurai but you'll put the blame on the drugs

(Hunt Hina Maeda, she's not human at all)
(She doesn't have feelings, she's just an android little whore)

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear
Bury me on a set of DJ
I'll give them the notes they'll never hear

ACT II: The Resurrection
The prophecy was right
Sing Hallelujah
The samurai
Has died to save her

She was lost then
But now she found
The samurai
Spirit inside her

Raise up your hearts
Sing Hallelujah
The samurai
Has come to spread love

The glory and honor
Of past old days
Has made her
a modern nostalgic

After the fights
After the tears
The samurai has come
To save her

The samurai
He has no face
But she knows how
Recognize him