Name: We Wrote a J-Pop Song!! 曲を作りました♡ Sayulee x Sharla「LIFE〜桜のように〜」
Uploaded: 2020-03-24T10:04:26.000Z
Duration: 5 min 54 s
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and we are going to talk to you about an awesome project that we are working on together!

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I'm so excited, this is something that I've never done before

and I'm really happy to be able to share it with you guys in video form!

So, first introduce yourself! Tell these guys who you are!

Well, I am a singer/songwriter based in Tokyo

I grew up most of my life in New Zealand, so that's why I sound funny

We've been friends for a while now, we met through the whole YouTube thing

and I've just launched a new project called "Your Song"

Which is basically, collaborative music creation

Which is basically getting the audience to write the lyrics, and I create the melody to it

But for this one, I really wanted at least one YouTube creator that I collaborate with

And I was like, I really wanna do this with Sharla! So...

I approached her and was like, can you be part of this Your Song project?

So basically that's where it all started and we decided to collaborate on writing a song together

Yeah we just sat down in a coffee shop, it was really casual

and kind of, what themes I wanted to be included in the song

Yeah it was an experience for me, because I SUCK at writing

So luckily Sayulee is really good at that...

So I gave her the ideas, and she wrote the whole thing

and she did a wonderful job, so I'm sooo excited to share this with you guys

Yeah it was fun! Because I had to think about you the whole time as I was writing

It was really interesting, because you know she's actually got a very interesting life

I mean, it already looks very interesting but there's so much more to it that I found out as I was interviewing you!

Yeah I don't really talk about anything other than Japan on my channel, so...

If you guys wanna get to know a little bit more about me, check out the song

and we just did a video on her channel explaining kind of what the 1st verse is all about & the meanings behind it

But now we're gonna go a little bit into the second verse

and what I wanted to say, what my message was for the second verse

What was the main image of the second verse?

As I was interviewing her, I realized that in order to come to Japan and do what you wanna do

there's actually a lot that you had to give up in order to do that

So it's kinda talking about that, when you want to gain something you have to let go of something as well

and I saw that mainly as like, in terms of you, like your family!

You know, how you don't get to see your family while you're here

and you mentioned that that's really hard for you, so I really wanted to put that part in the lyrics

Well that's a big thing, I find that that's one thing that holds people back from moving out of their hometown

or coming to Japan, I'm sure lots of you guys are interested in coming to Japan

That was always a big thing for me, like holy crap... I'm not gonna be able to see my family for years!

Maybe once a year if I have the time I can go visit them, but that's about it

And of course that's hard, but I don't think you should let missing someone hold you back from doing something that you're really passionate about

There are ways to talk to people, I talk to my family on Skype and email every day

We're separated physically, but we can still talk to each other

And my family is happy that I'm doing what I wanna be doing

Yeah I don't want you guys to be too worried about that

Of course you're gonna miss your family and it's gonna be sad, and it's gonna be hard but

you know it's worth it! And your family will be proud of you :)

I'll add a clip of that at the end, and definitely check that out!

Let me know what you think! We worked really hard on it

It's turned out being a really cool song! I'm really excited about it!

It's catchy, and I hope it inspires some of you!

And I'm hoping it's really encouraging and inspiring for people too

Yeah, we talk about that on your channel, but I get lots of comments about people that wanna do what I'm doing

and they wanna come to Japan, but they feel that they can't

I'm just someone that really liked Japan, and studied and put a lot of work into coming here

I'm not super rich or anything, so if I can do it, you guys can do it too! It just takes a lot of work.

So definitely check out the video, and the song!

Thank you so much for including me in your project, this has been so much fun

Thank you! For being part of it! It's been so much fun!

Alright guys, well check that out! And make sure to subscribe to Sayulee's channel!

She shares all her music on there, it's wonderful

Thanks for watching, and see you soon! Bye!!

Spent my high school days working part time jobs

Spent my days daydreaming, didn't have a boyfriend

But then I realized that it's all about your environment

and I realized that it's all up to yourself